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Independent filmmaker Rohit Arora returns to the big screen this week with his boldest film yet — McGuffin, a genre-blurring detective thriller set against the backdrop of one of the most controversial conspiracy theories of our time. The film releases in theatres across India on August 8, under the Roar Picture Company banner, co-produced by Arora and Sarrah Durga.
Best known for his deeply immersive approach to storytelling, Rohit Arora doesn’t just direct his films — he writes them, edits them, and more often than not, ends up acting in them too. Not because he wants to be in front of the camera — in fact, he tried to avoid it — but because he says no one else can carry the emotional weight his stories demand over the years it takes to make them.
“These characters go through so much, and they live inside the story for so long,” Arora explains. “It’s not about performing — it’s about being completely vulnerable to the journey. That’s hard to ask of anyone else.”
McGuffin is unlike anything Indian audiences have seen. It follows a private detective hired to track down a mysterious figure named “McGuffin.” But the deeper he digs, the stranger the world becomes — blurring reality, belief, and madness. The film draws loose inspiration from Eric Dubay’s book The Flat Earth Conspiracy, but takes that premise into unexpected philosophical and psychological terrain.
The film comes after the success of Arora’s 2020 feature The Pickup Artist, which is currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video. With McGuffin, he’s taking another leap — both creatively and personally — delivering a story that’s equal parts mystery, mind-game, and cinematic experiment.
“Every time I think I’ll stay behind the camera,” he says, “the story pulls me back in.”
