Michael (2011 Indian film)

Michael is a 2011 Indian psychological thriller film directed by Ribhu Dasgupta and produced by Anurag Kashyap.

It is a large rally, several hundred people packed into a square, the largest protest against the current government, yet it is wholly peaceful.

Michael is always harangued by his landlord, the drunk and bitter Mr. DCosta, for overdue rent and continues to receive progressively threatening calls from the dead boy's father.

Amid this turmoil, he finds a quiet comfort in Mrs DCosta, who generally sympathizes with him and occasionally warns him about her husband.

His assistant Makkhan shows up, badly beaten up, and discloses that the rival gang members took the DVD and beat him up and gave him no money.

Michael, slowly unspooling into insanity, moves Roy to Rwitika's place and subsequently beseeches her to send him away.

It is revealed that Michael had been hearing voices all along (there was no father of the dead boy) since his guilt over the rally slowly drove him insane.