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Summary
Despatch (2024, Hindi) has a Filmi Score of 45 from 5 critic reviews, is rated 18+ by Filmi (CBFC: A), and streams on ZEE5 in India.
Determined to break the next big story and refashion his complicated personal life, Joy embarks on a relentless odyssey through the heart and gut of Mumbai.
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Cast & crew
Cast
Directed by Kanu Behl · written by Kanu Behl & Ishani Banerjee
Kanu BehlDirector · Writer
Ishani BanerjeeWriter
Siddharth DiwanCinematography
Manas MittalEditing
Samarth DixitEditing
Manoj BajpayeeLead
Shahana Goswami
Archita Agarwal
Anand Alkunte
Mamik Singh
Riju Bajaj
Veena Mehta
Rii Sen
Kabir Sadanand
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Summary
Determined to break the next big story and refashion his complicated personal life, Joy embarks on a relentless odyssey through the heart and gut of Mumbai.
Despatch (2024, Hindi) has a Filmi Score of 45 from 5 critic reviews, is rated 18+ by Filmi (CBFC: A), and streams on ZEE5 in India.
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What the critics said
5 reviews · the critic’s own number where they gave one
The critic’s own number where they gave one
Angel Rani · 14 Dec 2024
Rani reads Despatch as more a moral character study than a crime thriller, praising Bajpayee's raw performance and the film's dark humour even as… Read it there →
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60
Pratikshya Mishra · 11 Dec 2024
Bajpayee and Goswami's performances and striking camerawork anchor a film whose overstuffed, tedious screenplay never makes its 2G-scam stakes… Read it there →
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46
Rishabh Suri · 13 Dec 2024
Suri says Despatch works mainly on the strength of Bajpayee's performance, while the plot itself drags and grows hard to follow. He calls the… Read it there →
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45
YouTube · transcript read · 13 Dec 2024
Sucharita finds Despatch atmospheric and anchored by a strong Manoj Bajpayee performance and vivid Mumbai setting, but faults its underwritten,… Watch it there →
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45
Shubhra Gupta · 13 Dec 2024
Despatch movie review: Manoj Bajpayee doesn’t get the film he deserves Read it there →
Published · 1.5/5
Filmi’s reading 30
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How this number was made. We read every review and derive a 0–100 reading from each — including where the critic printed a number, which stays first on its row, because it’s theirs. The Filmi Score is the mean of 5 readings; 1 of those rows also carry the critic’s own rating, shown beside ours. Rubric v2.1, computed 26 Oct 2026. Any critic can ask us to remove a derived reading.
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Where can I watch Despatch?
Despatch is streaming on OTT: ZEE5 (India) and Vi Movies and TV (India). Availability comes from JustWatch and is checked every Friday.
What did critics say about Despatch?
Despatch has a Filmi Score of 45 (Mixed), the mean of 5 readings of critic reviews, one per review. Readings run from 30 (The Indian Express) to 60 (Deccan Herald). Every review and how it was scored is listed below.
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