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LYF: Love Your Father (2025)
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Original name: LYF - Love Your Father
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
A beautiful father-son duo navigates love, betrayal, and redemption amidst a betting mafia and police chase, unveiling a heartfelt journey of debts and dreams.
Style:
emotional, dramatic, sentimental, crime thriller, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
father son relationship, family drama, grief, redemption, male protagonist, family honor, betrayal, forgiveness, responsibility, loyalty, moral dilemma, police chase, mourning, revenge, investigation, justice, corruption, rehabilitation, urban, small town, coming of age, general
Time:
2020s, contemporary
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