TRAPPED presented by Reliance Entertainment and produced by Madhu Mantena, Vikas Bahl, Anurag Kashyap is director Vikramaditya Motwane's third film after a four year of hiatus since LOOTERA (2013) and it's worth a wait. Undeniably the most masterly crafted modern Bollywood thriller TRAPPED sharpens Vikramaditya Motwane's arc as a story teller and in the simplest way it can be. Continuing the UDAAN (journey, fly, rise) with such wings and feathers that amazingly had never flocked together - all of Motwane's work as a helmer UDAAN, LOOTERA & TRAPPED are different in genres making him a true ingenious filmmaker.

Shaurya (Rajkummar Rao) secretly admires his office colleague Noorie (Geetanjali Thapa). At first shy, Shaurya takes baby steps to try and woo his lady until he finally lands up on a dinner date with her. The duo strike a chord in no time and friendship starts to turn into love. Noorie is engaged to someone else and when the time for her marriage nears, Shaurya asks her to move in with him. She agrees on a condition that he finds a place for them to stay.

This is probably the first film since Delhi Belly (2011) to release in theatres without an interval. Here's why that makes sense. As you can tell from the self-explanatory title, and the promo, there is a man trapped in this film. He needs to be evacuated from the most normal situation anyone can ever find themselves in-being at home, on any given day. The building, as it were, is desolate. The house door is metallic. The cell-phone doesn't work. Neither do the water-supply, and the electricity connection. Almost all through the movie, there's merely one actor on the screen.

Trapped. The word is onomatopoeic. You know what it means. You know the feeling. You know the helplessness. So when a man is trapped in his own house, without food, water or electricity, how does he survive? Because survive he must. On the other side of this ordeal lies his version of the Promised Land. At least what he has promised to himself: Noorie and he will have many babies. While he is haunted by the pessimistic What ifs.

A young man in the city of Mumbai, played by Rajkummar Rao, stays with a couple of stoned guys as roommates. Due to certain urgent pressing matters, he begins to look for a flat on rent on an immediate basis, but with his limited financial resources, it proves to be a difficult hunt. But help comes from a shady agent who arranges a flat for him in a high rise building (funnily named Swarg Apartments) where no one stays, equipped with a tone deaf watchman. In a freaky twist, he gets trapped in his own flat thanks to a jammed door.

When a film stars such a phenomenal actor as Rajkummar Rao, expectations rise automatically and there is no doubt that he shines bright in Trapped. Director Vikramaditya Motwane gives a sixer yet again after Lootera. Shaurya (Rajkummar Rao) secretly admires his colleague Noorie (Geetanjali Thapa) and confesses his love for her just two days before her marriage. Noorie agrees to marry Shaurya and meanwhile, Shaurya hunts a flat to stay post marriage. He finds an empty flat in an isolated building situated in the heart of the city.

At one point during Vikramaditya Motwane's Trapped, much to my embarrassment, I started in my seat and shook an imagined rat off my foot, only to realise that what I mistook for a rodent was in fact my handbag which I had placed there when I sat down. Having recovered from a fright, I surreptitiously looked around shame-faced, to check that no one in the audience had noticed the disturbance I thought I had caused. Thankfully they had not.

Something that blew my mind when I first moved to Bombay over a dozen years ago was the fact that alcohol is home-delivered. Everything, in fact, is delivered to the doorstep, at all times of day and night, and you can go months on end without leaving the house - if that's what you want. Man might not be an island, but this particular island city specialises in letting you create your own self-sufficient bubble.Vikramaditya Motwane's ingenuous new film, Trapped, exploits this detachedness the city gets off on, simply by taking the island metaphor further.

What would you do if you are stuck in an empty high rise without food, water and electricity, your cellphone juiced out, no one in the know, and no way out? The premise of Trapped is instantly gripping. Being trapped, without a single vestige of hope or help, is one of our primal fears. And many brilliant films have been made on the subject: the one that has the maximum recall is Danny Boyle's harrowing '127 Hours', about a mountaineer trapped in a cave.

'Shaurya' (Rajkummar Rao) must pluck up the 'courage' (pun intended) to stay alive after he accidentally locks himself up in his new rented apartment in a desolate Mumbai high-rise, for almost a week. To make things worse, his phone battery dies and since the building is devoid of residents, electricity and water or food supply, Shaurya must take extreme measures to survive this unexpected nightmare.

Big cities can turn into a dystopian reality at will. It can squeeze, bruise and leave you scarred for life if you don't act on time. Fortunately, in Trapped the gritty survivor shows the willingness to rise and shine. A strict vegetarian Shaurya (Rajkummar Rao) is fighting many demons together. Like many others in Mumbai, his hand to mouth existence is preventing him from marrying his girlfriend. He lives in a shared apartment with almost no connection with other flatmates.