After making rounds at various film festivals, actor Tisca Chopra’s directorial debut Saali Mohabbat, featuring Radhika Apte in the lead, will be landing on ZEE5. While no official release date has been announced as of now, the film will start streaming on the OTT platform sometime later this year.

Saali Mohabbat premiered at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) last year and was screened at the Chicago South Asian Film Festival this year.

Apart from Radhika, who is collaborating with ZEE5 again after Mrs Undercover (2023), the film also stars Divyendu Sharma, Anurag Kashyap, Anshumaan Pushkar, Sauraseni Maitra and Sharat Saxena.

As per a press note shared by the makers, “The film follows Smita (Radhika), a small-town housewife whose seemingly ordinary life descends into a labyrinth of infidelity, deceit, and moral ambiguity. What begins as a tale of domestic routine soon unfolds into a gripping exploration of betrayal, revenge, and the thin, treacherous line between truth and illusion.”

Talking about the film, director Tisca said, “With Saali Mohabbat, I wanted to tell a story that feels both intimate and unsettling — one that captures a woman’s gaze in a world full of hidden fractures and polite façades. I have always been fascinated by the quiet tensions that exist beneath the surface of relationships — the invisible power struggles, the unspoken expectations, the ways in which love can transform into something darker.”

“This film explores those fragile boundaries — of trust, betrayal, and identity — but through a deeply female perspective. It’s about what happens when a woman stops conforming to the emotional roles expected of her and begins to own her truth, no matter how uncomfortable that truth might be,” she added.

Saali Mohabbat has been produced by Jio Studios in association with celebrity designer Manish Malhotra’s Stage5 Production.