India, July 3 -- One Friday, two Hindi films about female assassins. One arrives with the muscle of the YRF SpyVerse and a passport full of international locations. The other doesn't bother with the fireworks, choosing instead to keep its mission grounded. We are talking about the latter in this review.

Directed by Nachiket Samant, (whose Single Salma also released this year with Huma Qureshi in the lead), Baby Do Die Do follows Baby Karmarkar (the film's title is a literal English translation of her name). She's a woman shaped by childhood trauma into a contract killer. After her twin sister's murder, she is brought up by Papa (Chunky Panday), who trains her as an assassin and puts her to work for Zafar (Sikandar Kher). Her unsuspecting...