Gajab Raat stars Manoj Bajpayee, Divya Dutta and Akshay Oberoi, with Saqib Saleem, Nushrratt Bharuccha and Kiku Sharda among the ensemble. The film is available on Netflix, whose official announcement set its premiere for 23 October 2026. Ritesh Shah directs the suspense thriller, and Neeraj Pandey's Friday Film Works produces it. Its published premise follows a police officer whose response to an injured woman pulls him into a conspiracy over one night.
| Detail | Official information |
|---|---|
| Streaming service | Netflix |
| Announced premiere | 23 October 2026 |
| Director | Ritesh Shah |
| Production banner | Friday Film Works |
| Original audio | Hindi |
Gajab Raat cast: who is in the film?
The official Netflix title page puts Bajpayee, Dutta and Oberoi in its opening credits line. The expanded cast section adds Saqib Saleem, Rajiv Gupta, Shraddha Das, Aditi Sandhya Sharma, Nushrratt Bharuccha and Kiku Sharda. This gives viewers a broader cast list than the three names displayed at the top of the page.
Netflix's newsroom announcement independently names Bajpayee, Saleem, Oberoi, Dutta, Sharda and Bharuccha. The overlap helps establish which familiar faces belong to the ensemble. Neither of the pages used for this guide supplies a complete actor to character table. Character names circulating alongside the title therefore should not be assumed from the cast list alone.
For a viewer searching specifically for Manoj Bajpayee's new Netflix film, the identification is straightforward: this is the single-night police thriller directed by Shah. It should not be confused with other projects mentioned in the announcement as part of Pandey's wider association with the platform. Those references provide context about the filmmaker, rather than a shared story or a viewing order.
Who directed Gajab Raat and who produced it?
The 14 October official announcement credits Ritesh Shah as director and Friday Film Works as producer, identifying the banner with Neeraj Pandey. It also describes the film as Shah's directorial debut. Pandey and Shah have different credited responsibilities here, a useful distinction when a search result foregrounds the better known producer's name.
The announcement frames the project around moral choices, accountability and the consequences of decisions made under pressure. Those are the filmmakers' stated ideas for the story. They do not establish how successfully the film delivers them. This viewing guide draws on the official synopsis and credits and does not offer a rating or a verdict on an unwatched film.
Netflix also presents the film as a reunion between Pandey and Bajpayee. That creative association explains part of the release's publicity, but it is not necessary background for following the premise. The published setup describes a police officer facing a new situation, without asking the audience to know characters from another Netflix production.
What is Gajab Raat about?
The public title page describes a cop whose reluctant compassion for an injured woman exposes a conspiracy reaching powerful people. He becomes trapped in a dangerous sequence of events over a single night. The newsroom version adds that he is caught between personal gain and what he considers the right course of action. Together, those descriptions establish the central dilemma without revealing its resolution.
The one-night setting concerns the period over which the plot unfolds. It does not describe the film's running time. No feature runtime is stated here because the official pages opened for this guide did not provide one clearly enough to verify. The page does separately identify an official trailer, with a listed duration of 1 minute 58 seconds.
Netflix places the film in thriller and drama categories and also describes it as a social issue drama. Its descriptive tags include corruption and a rogue cop. These labels can help readers distinguish the film from a straightforward police procedural or a comedy, but they are platform descriptions rather than an independent assessment of tone, pace or realism.
Where to watch Gajab Raat and check Hindi audio
Netflix is the officially identified streaming destination. The dated announcement says the film premieres on 23 October, and the public page lists the title and its viewing details. Availability was checked on 09 November 2026 23:14 IST. Readers can open that official page to confirm the title in their own location and account before planning a watch.
The page lists Hindi as the original audio, alongside Hindi audio description. Tamil and Telugu are also among the listed audio choices, as is English. English and Hindi appear in the subtitle list. Language menus can differ by location and profile, so the playback menu is the final check for the exact combination a viewer needs.
The listing also identifies offline downloading as available. That is a platform feature attached to the title, rather than a separate source for a film file. Follow Netflix's own viewing options for availability. The official pages used here do not establish a free viewing offer, so this guide does not promise one or point to unofficial copies.
For related viewing information, see Watch and audio price guide, Sector 36 OTT platform: Netflix cast, story and Hindi audio guide and Jaane Jaan cast: Kareena Kapoor, Jaideep Ahlawat and Vijay Varma. Those guides can help compare official casts and language options across separate films. For Gajab Raat, the verified essentials are the Netflix destination, Shah's director credit, the Friday Film Works production credit and the ensemble led by Bajpayee.
