‘8 A.M. Metro’ trailer: Gulshan Devaiah and Saiyami Kher play strangers who meet on a train
Raj R’s Hindi film has music by Mark K Robin, poems by Gulzar and dialogue by Asad Hussain. In cinemas on May 19.

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