History Film / MonicaOMyDarling

** When she is stoned, Nikki thinks her car is flying like Film/BackToTheFuture.

** When she is stoned, Nikki thinks her car is flying like Film/BackToTheFuture.

* HisNameIs: [[spoiler:Monica]] says that they might have an idea as to [[spoiler:who killed Nishikant and Arvind]], but is killed by [[spoiler:snake venom in her wine before she can say it]]. Unusually, this scene subverts the expected stretching out due to the victim talking in circles before revealing the important information -- [[spoiler:a character's excessive verbosity ''is'' responsible for Jay not being able to know Monica's guess about the killer, but that character is Nikki, not Monica, who seems to be stoned enough that .]]

* BolivianArmyEnding: [[spoiler:At the end, Jay goes to Gaurav's house to find and destroy the contract. As he finds and burns it, the last proof of his ever having been involved in the plot to murder Monica, he is surrounded by Gaurav's snakes. He drops the burning contract. SmashToBlack. This may also count as a KarmaHoudiniWarranty for Jay, given his involvement in the plan.]]

** When Arvind asks Jay if he can help him dispose the body, Jay sarcastically asks if he has [[Film//{{Dhoom}} John Abraham's motorcycle]].

* TheCameo: Supri and (presumably) Surya from Vasan Bala's previous film ''MardKoDardNahiHota'' show up here as the wildlife tourists who discover [[spoiler:Nishikant's corpse]].

* HisNameIs: [[spoiler:Monica]] says that they might have an idea as to [[spoiler:who killed Nishikant and Arvind]], but is killed by [[spoiler:snake venom in her wine before she can say it]]. Unusually, this scene subverts the expected stretching out due to the victim talking in circles before revealing the important information -- [[spoiler:a character's excessive verbosity ''is'' responsible for Jay not being able to know Monica's guess about the killer, but that character is Nikki, not Monica.]]
* ReallyGetsAround: Monica seems to be the company bicycle, having had confirmed affairs with Jay, Arvind, Shrikant and [[spoiler:Satyanarayana]]. Possibly [[spoiler:Tamang Rana]] as well, if [[spoiler:him being able to get close enough to her to poison her wine is any indication.]]

*** A TV in the background is playing Film/JohnnyGaddaar when [[spoiler:Jay receives the cobra in the post]].

** Nikki refers to [[Film/MyCousinVinny her cousin Vinny]] having been cheated on.
* SocialClimber: One thing that makes Jay and Monica NotSoDifferent, which she brings up in conversation with him. Monica is committed to [[SleepingTheirWayToTheTop sleeping her way to the top]], but while this is less socially acceptable than Jay's approach, it is doubtful whether Jay's utter ruthlessness, including his willingness to murder, makes him a better person than her.

* BolivianArmyEnding: [[spoiler:At the end, Jay goes to Gaurav's house to find and destroy the contract. As he finds and burns it, the last proof of his ever having been involved in the plot to murder Monica, he is surrounded by Gaurav's snakes. He drops the burning contract and SmashToBlack. This may also count as a KarmaHoudiniWarranty for Jay, given his involvement in the plan.]]

* ReallyGetsAround: Monica seems to be the company bicycle, having had confirmed affairs with Jay, Arvind, Shrikant and [[spoiler:Satyanarayana]].

*** Naidu visits the Bank of Film/{{Badlapur}}.
** Monica stands outside the [[Film/{{Psycho}} Bates ]][[Series/BatesMotel Motel]].
** Nikki refers to [[Film/MyCousinVinny her cousin Vinny]].
* SocialClimber: One thing that makes Jay and Monica NotSoDifferent, which she brings up in conversation with him. Monica is committed to [[SleepingTheirWayToTheTop sleeping her way to the top]], but while this is less socially acceptable than Jay's approach, it is doubtful whether Jay's utter ruthlessness makes him a better person than her.

* FemmeFatale: Monica, the SexySecretary who seems to prefer red dresses and who has been blackmailing three men, telling each of them that they are the father of her unborn child, escalating even further when [[spoiler:she survives Nishikant's attempt to kill her, and it seems like she was the one who sent the snakes which killed Arvind and almost killed Jay.]] Things get really interesting when [[spoiler:it turns out that Monica is in fact, a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]], if not an outright [[DefiedTrope defiance]] of the archetype -- she never intended to blackmail anyone, she never met Nishikant in Mumbai, and she didn't kill Nishikant or Arvind. She only indicates that she might have a hint as to who killed them, before dying a complete innocent, killed by Rana on Satyanarayana's orders throgh snake venom mixed in her wine.]]

Jayant "Jay" Arkhedkar (Rajkummar Rao) seems to have the perfect RagsToRiches story. Born in obscurity in the unknown village of Angola, he has managed to work himself up to being one of the top engineers at the Unicorn Group, a robotics firm in the city of Pune. He has just been promoted to the board of directors of the company by the CEO, Satyanarayana Adhikari, and to top it all off, is engaged to his daughter Nikki (Akansha Ranjan Kapoor). Sure, he may be a bit of an ass to his coworkers, incl

Jay, however, has a secret - he has been having an affair with the secretary, Monica Machado (Huma Qureshi). This becomes a problem when she tells him that she is pregnant with his child. Called to a secret location with blackmail photos of himself and Monica, he learns that two other members of the company - Managing Director and Satyanarayana's son Nishikant (Sikander Kher) and Chief Financial Officer Arvind Manivannan (Bagavathi "Bucks" Perumal) - find themselves in the same boat. To save their careers from scandal and jeopardy, they decide to murder Monica.

Jayant "Jay" Arkhedkar (Rajkummar Rao) seems to have the perfect RagsToRiches story. Working himself up from the unknown village of Angola, he has managed to work himself up to being one of the top engineers at ''Unicorn'', a robotics firm in the city of Pune. He has just been promoted to the board of directors of the company by the CEO, Satyanarayana Adhikari, and to top it all off, is engaged to his daughter Nikki (Akansha Ranjan Kapoor).

*** A TV in the background is playing Film/JohnnyGaddaar.

* DirtyCop: Naidu, hoo boy. [[spoiler:She is revealed to have murdered Tamang Rana on Satyanarayana's orders to cover up the latter's involvement in Monica's murder, declaring publicly that Rana was the father of Monica's child, killed her to hush it up, and committed suicide out of guilt.]]
* FreezeFrameBonus: The [[https://twitter.com/TheIncurato/status/1591376305022717953/photo/1 board]] outside Shalu's house [[BreakingTheFourthWall thanks the viewer for pausing to read the names]], and reveals that her neighbours include mostly famous directors - [[Creator/QuentinTarantino "Q. Tino"]], [[Creator/PaulThomasAnderson P.T. Anderson]], Anurag Kashyap, Singeetam Srinivasa Rao, Abbas Mastan, Sai "Paranjapee", Pankaj Advani, Guru D[utt], and Sriram Raghavan. The sole non-director name is Sarika Vartak, a ShoutOut to Raghavan - Sarika was the name of the main character of Raghavan's debut film ''Ek Hasina Thi''.

*** A TV in the background is playing [[Film/JohnnyGaddaar]].

* FreezeFrameBonus: The board outside Shalu's house [[BreakingTheFourthWall thanks the viewer for reading it]], and reveals that her neighbours include [[Creator/QuentinTarantino "Q. Tino"]], [[Creator/PaulThomasAnderson P.T. Anderson]].

''Monica, O My Darling'' is a 2022 neo-noir comedy thriller directed by Vasan Bala, It was released on Netflix on November 11, 2022.

* BolivianArmyEnding: [[spoiler:At the end, Jay goes to Gaurav's house to find and burn the contract. As he finds and burns it, he is surrounded by Gaurav's snakes. He drops the burning contract and SmashToBlack. This may also count as a KarmaHoudiniWarranty for Jay, given his involvement in the original plan to murder Monica.]]
* ReallyGetsAround: Monica seems to be the company bicycle, having had confirmed affairs with Jay, Arvind, Shrikant and [[spoiler:Suryanarayana]].
* SocialClimber: One thing that makes Jay and Monica NotSoDifferent.

[[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: ACP Naidu, Jay, Monica.]]

Jayant "Jay" Arkhedkar (Rajkummar Rao) has it all. Working himself up from the unknown village of Angola, he has managed to work himself up to being one of the top engineers at ''Unicorn'', a robotics firm in the city of Pune. He has just been promoted to the board of directors of the company by the CEO, Satyanarayana Adhikari, and to top it all off, is engaged to his daughter Nikki (Akansha Ranjan Kapoor).

Jay, however, has a secret - he has been having an affair with the secretary, Monica Machado (Huma Qureshi), which becomes complicated when she tells him that she is pregnant with his child. Called to a secret location with blackmail photos of himself and Monica, he learns that two other members of the company - Managing Director and Satyanarayana's son Nishikant (Sikander Kher) and Chief Financial Officer Arvind Manivannan (Bagavathi "Bucks" Perumal) - find themselves in the same boat. To save their careers from scandal and jeopardy, they decide to murder Monica.

To save his career, Jay must work around the police,

Things, to put it mildly, do not go as planned.