Posham Pa

{{short description|2019 film by Suman Mukhopadhyay}}

{{Use Indian English|date=May 2020}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Posham Pa

| image = Posham Pa poster.jpg

| caption = Film poster

| director = Suman Mukhopadhyay

| producer = Dhirajj Vinodd Kapoor

| writer = Nimisha Misra

| starring = {{plainlist|

• Mahie Gill
• Sayani Gupta
• Ragini Khanna

}}

| music = Prabuddha Banerjee

| cinematography =

| editing =

| studio = Ten Years Younger Productions
Amber Entertainment

| distributor = ZEE5

| released = {{Film date|df=y|2019|08|23}}

| runtime = 75 minutes

| country = India

| language = Hindi

}}

Posham Pa is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language psychological thriller film directed by Suman Mukhopadhyay. The film stars Mahie Gill, Sayani Gupta, Ragini Khanna in the main lead roles.{{Cite news|title=Mahie Gill, Sayani Gupta team up for all-female thriller Posham Pa|url=https://www.cinemaexpress.com/stories/news/2019/jul/16/mahie-gill-sayani-gupta-team-up-for-all-female-thriller-posham-pa-13002.html|website=Cinema Express|date=16 July 2019|access-date=2021-01-26}}{{Cite news|last=Khan|first=Atif|date=2019-09-19|title=Ragini Khanna on her new Zee5 original 'Posham Pa'|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/ragini-khanna-independent-streak/article29457475.ece|access-date=2020-05-15|issn=0971-751X}} The title generally refers to a children's rhyme but the film theme depicts the mass murder of children by serial killers.{{cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/mail-today/story/what-s-the-story-behind-posham-pa-ask-sayani-1590630-2019-08-23|title=What's the story behind Posham Pa? Ask Sayani - Mail Today News|website=India Today | date=2019-08-23 | author=Suhani Singh|accessdate=2020-12-20}} The plot of the film based on a real true story of serial killers Anjana, and her two daughters Seema Gavit and Renuka Shinde who kidnapped more than 40 children and murdered around 12 children on 19 November 1996. Seema and Renuka received death penalty in 2014 for committing the mass murder of 12 children while their mother Anjana died in 1997 while serving her punishment at prison.{{Cite web|title=Zee5's Posham Pa Wilts Under The Weight Of Its Own Psychology|url=https://www.filmcompanion.in/posham-pa-zee-5-review-sayani-gupta/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190914115043/https://www.filmcompanion.in/posham-pa-zee-5-review-sayani-gupta|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 September 2019|date=2019-08-21|website=Film Companion|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-15}} The film was released via the ZEE5 platform on 23 August 2019 and received generally positive reviews from the audience and critics.{{Cite web|title=Posham Pa movie review: Zee5 film about serial killer sisters plods under the weight of its ambition|url=https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/posham-pa-movie-review-zee5-film-about-serial-killer-sisters-plods-under-the-weight-of-its-ambition-7206611.html|date=2019-08-23|website=Firstpost|language=en|access-date=2020-05-15}}{{Cite web|title='Posham Pa' review: More fiction than fact in film based on real-life serial killers|url=https://scroll.in/reel/934718/posham-pa-review-more-fiction-than-fact-in-film-based-on-real-life-serial-killers|last=Ramnath|first=Nandini|website=Scroll.in|date=23 August 2019 |language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-15}}