KHAUF : Season One

Khauf (transl. Fear) is an 2025 Indian horror television series written by Smita Singh and directed by Pankaj Kumar and Surya Balakrishnan.^[1][2] Produced under Matchbox Shots, starring Monika Panwar, Rajat Kapoor, Abhishek Chauhan, Geetanjali Kulkarni and Shilpa Shukla.^[3] The series premiered on Amazon Prime Video on 18 April 2025.^[4]

The series begins with a woman named Madhu moving to Delhi from Gwalior. She has come to Delhi to be with her boyfriend and to get a fresh start after getting sexually assaulted at her college annual day by unknown masked men. She is helped by her friend Bella and her boyfriend Nakul. She moves to a run down working women’s hostel where she is allotted the room 333 and is met with extreme hostility from the other girls in the same wing, who never leave the hostel to go out. They warn her to not move and leave while she can, she feels the presence of something supernatural and brushes it off while suspecting Nakul of being one of the men who assaulted her. Madhu starts to doubt her own sanity.^{[AI-generated?]}