Stolen follows two brothers who witness a baby being kidnapped from her mother at a remote railway station. As they set out to help, they’re thrust into a dangerous journey through rural India — confronting crime, conscience, and the cost of doing what’s right.
Amongst the hottest OTT releases this week, there is one called Stolen, which is a dark and gritty thriller that peels off layers of India's socio-political subtext. Stolen is directed by newcomer Karan Tejpal featuring Abhishek Banerjee at the head of the cast. The film unfolds a cliff-hanger story of two city-bred brothers whose world gets turned upside down as they witness a baby being stolen from her unarmed mother at a remote railway platform.
What starts as a moment of moral conscience quickly becomes a compelling odyssey of rural Australia's heartland, confronting them with institutionalized injustice, human slavery, and their own repressed terrors. With an unsettling performance, atmospheric tension, and unflinching realism, Stolen doesn't merely entertain — it jolts, stirs, and lingers long after the last credits have expired.
Tracks of Truth: A Journey That Wasn’t Theirs to Take
On a otherwise drab day in an empty, dusty train station, two brothers Gautam and Raman are unwittingly caught up in a premeditated act of criminality: stealing away a baby girl from her oblivious mother, Jhumpa. Gautam stays away from it, but Raman's moral compass drives them both into a quest for justice they can't keep up with.
Along the way on unfamiliar villages, irate villagers, and a merciless system, their journey in search of the kidnapped child is a heartbreaking trek along India's forgotten periphery.
It is not just a manhunt that ensues next but a fight against poverty, cruelty, and systemic injustice. Stolen is not a tale of rescuing a missing child — it is a tale of reclaiming lost humanity in all of us.
From Festival Favorite to Your Screen: Stolen Now Streaming
Having done its job with international film festivals such as Venice, Zurich, and MAMI, Stolen (2025) has now come to the comfort of your living room. This hard-hitting socio-political thriller has finally come digitally on Amazon Prime Video on June 4, 2025, as an invitation to audience to a world black, emotionally charged, where witness and participant, justice and survival get inextricably knotted together.
One of the summer's biggest indie hype babies, Stolen intertangles tension, reality, and heartbreak into a narrative that's all too real. With incendiary performances from Abhishek Banerjee and Shubham, and boundary-pushing from Karan Tejpal, it's little wonder that the film sits atop the list of OTT releases to watch this summer.
So if you're streaming Prime Video to watch a movie that will turn your world around and will have your conscience in a vice grip, Stolen has to be your movie.
Faces Behind the Silence: The Cast that Carries the Chaos
Stolen (2025) boasts an A-list cast headlined by the always-mercurial Abhishek Banerjee, who gives a nuanced performance as Gautam, a middleman of action-apathy. His equally well-meaning brother Raman is played by Shubham Vyas, who adds the heart of the film with his silence.
Mia Maelzer plays Jhumpa, the grieving mother whose missing child propels the unrelenting trajectory of the film. Complementing the cast are Harish Khanna and Sahidur Rahaman, who bring a realism to their roles, making the gritty portrayal of rural India in the film even more believable. As a cast ensemble, they turn a typical crime into an agonizing human experience that lingers in the viewer's mind.
Conclusion
Stolen is more than a movie — it is a mirror held to society's behind-the-scenes injustices and the razor's edge of disinterest and engagement. In its unapologetic storytelling, performances, and elegiac cinematography, it dismantles the formula of the crime thriller genre to offer audiences a powerfully human experience.
As one of the most challenging OTT releases of the year, it compels the viewer to ask not merely what they see, but what they would rather turn a blind eye to. Now streaming on Amazon Prime Video, Stolen is a must-view for viewers who crave cinema with conscience — timely, unflinching, and indelible.