of India merry Christmas hit Netflix stateside and has fans scratching their heads with its shocking ending.
The Indian blockbuster hit theaters in its home country in January 2024, before streaming internationally.
This Hitchcockian drama combines romance, mystery and murder when a chance encounter between a man and a woman turns much more twisted.
Merry Christmas Plot explained
merry Christmas contains plenty of twists and turns that lead to its jaw-dropping conclusion. Katrina Kaif’s Maria welcomes Vijay Sethupathi’s Albert into her life as she casually crosses paths to launch the film.
Albert is an ex-convict who has spent the last seven years in prison and confessed to his wife’s murder.
After meeting Marian, Albert learns about the most important problem in the young woman’s life: she is married to a man named Jerome, who she claims is abusive towards her.
This all ends when one night, after spending time together, Albert and Maria return to their apartment to find Jerome dead.
Throughout the remainder of the film, the couple struggles with the death of their husband, Albert, suspecting the circumstances of Jerome’s supposed suicide.
These suspicions are shown on screen when Albert discovers that Maria has built a replica apartment identical to the one where her dead husband was found.
Albert sees this move as a bit of a head scratcher. However, he discovers that it was to provide Maria with an alibi as she takes her new friend to her seemingly pristine apartment several times before finally returning home to Jerome dead on the floor.
This puts it into Albert’s head (as well as the audience’s) that maybe Jerome’s death wasn’t suicide, implying that something else might be going on.
Breaking Down the Merry Christmas Movie Ending
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In the last act merry Christmasit is finally revealed who killed Maria’s husband Jerome.
His death was actually not suicide, but murder. Maria killed him.
He breaks down in front of his new friend (and potential romantic partner) Albert and admits that he was responsible for Jerome’s death when Albert realizes that there was another apartment.
Her idea was to give herself an alibi for her husband’s death while planting unassuming neighbor Ronnie’s (who has been taken into police custody) wallet on the couch to make it look like she might have been behind her husband. killing.
The pair then hatch a plan to clear his name and ensure they can ride off into the sunset innocent.
The idea is to destroy the apartment replica, hide Ronnie’s wallet in the building’s Lost & Found box and disappear.
However, things go wrong when Ronnie, being interrogated by the police, mentions Albert’s name.
Albert is then brought into police custody for questioning, and the local authorities know Vijay Sethupath’s character is in Nashik jail after his wife’s murder.
In a conversation with the police, Ronnie mentions that his wallet also went missing around the same time as Jerome’s murder, and suspects that a thief broke into the building, took his wallet, and killed Maria’s husband.
This gives the officers the idea that if they find Ronnie’s wallet, they might also find Jerome’s killer.
Forced to show the police that he had Ronnie’s wallet the whole time (because he couldn’t get to the Lost & Found box in time to get out of it), Albert ends the film by making a dramatic decision.
Knowing that Maria killed Jerome, Albert confesses his love to his new friend, exchanges the ring with her, and surrenders to the authorities. In one fell swoop, Albert takes the blame for Jerome’s death, lets the woman he loves walk free, and heads back to the prison he left moments before the movie began.
merry Christmas now streaming on Netflix.