A man. A wedding. A toaster worth Rs 5,000. And somehow, a murder. Rajkummar Rao’s latest Netflix drop is the chaotic comedy you did not know you needed.
- Toaster dropped on Netflix on April 15, 2026, starring Rajkummar Rao
- The plot hinges entirely on one miser’s obsession with reclaiming a toaster
- Sanya Malhotra plays the long-suffering wife holding everything together
- Vivek Daschaudhary directs with sharp first-half energy that somewhat deflates later
The Toaster Netflix movie begins with a premise so gloriously absurd that you have to respect it on principle. A man buys a toaster worth Rs 5,000 as a wedding gift. The wedding gets called off. The man wants his toaster back. What follows is a chain of events involving a murder, a blackmail scheme, an erotic video, a dead landlady and the kind of escalating chaos that makes you wonder how we ever got here from a kitchen appliance. The answer is Rajkummar Rao, and if you know his filmography, that answer makes complete sense.
Toaster is a 2026 Indian Hindi-language black comedy thriller directed by Vivek Daschaudhary, produced under Rajkummar Rao and Patralekha’s KAMPA Films banner, and follows a stingy man who becomes irrationally obsessed with a toaster he gifted to a newlywed couple, getting entangled in a chain of mishaps involving murder and mayhem. It is, on paper, one of the more unhinged loglines of the year. In practice it is frequently very funny, occasionally brilliant, and just a little too long for its own good.
Rajkummar Rao has a proven talent for playing characters who clumsily but also self-righteously dodge life’s curveballs. Right from the start, Ramakant is annoying, familiar and endearing, compensating for his pennypinching ways with wide smiles and a salesman’s charm. He is the kind of man who genuinely cannot comprehend why the universe will not simply return his toaster. The audacity is the comedy. And for the first half, it lands with real consistency.
Sanya Malhotra as Shilpa is the quiet anchor of the whole thing, a woman who has clearly been married to this man long enough to have accepted the particular flavour of nonsense he brings into her life while still, occasionally, wanting to scream. Their chemistry is easy and natural, which makes the domestic chaos feel lived in rather than performed. Abhishek Banerjee, Seema Pahwa and the rest of the supporting cast fill in the world with enough personality that the apartment complex feels like a genuine ecosystem of bad decisions and worse luck.
The crisp premise is overstretched but the buffoonery is consistent, set in a world where cops investigate missing toasters and broken flowerpots, bland-looking apartments are vice dens and outward appearances are no guarantee of good behaviour. That world is genuinely entertaining to spend time in. The problem is that the film knows it too and lingers a beat longer than it should in almost every scene of the second half. The first half delivers good comedy and humour, but the movie drags in the second half as the plot loses some of its momentum.
Here is the honest verdict for UAE viewers who will be streaming this on a Thursday evening with dinner: Toaster is the kind of film you watch while actually watching it, which is rarer than it sounds for a Netflix comedy. It does not ask too much of you. It delivers genuine laughs. It has two of Bollywood’s most watchable actors doing exactly what they are good at. And it is built on a premise so lovably stupid that there is a version of this film being discussed appreciatively in South Asian households across Dubai, Sharjah and Abu Dhabi right now.
Will it win awards? Absolutely not. Will it make you laugh out loud at least four times? Almost certainly yes.
Hit play. Just maybe keep your expectations somewhere around Rs 5,000!
Director: Vivek Daschaudhary
Starring: Rajkummar Rao, Sanya Malhotra, Abhishek Banerjee, Seema Pahwa, Archana Puran Singh
Streaming: Netflix
Language: Hindi
Release Date: April 15, 2026
