He had been avoiding this for weeks. Mithai Wali was the most anticipated horror-comedy of the year—a film about a mysterious sweet seller in a sleepy north Indian town whose jalebis made people see their darkest fears. Theatrical release was still two months away, but 10xflix had leaked a "director’s cut."
At 3:47 AM, the film reached its climax. The sweet seller walked out of the screen’s frame. Then a knock came from inside his laptop speakers. Knock. Knock. Knock.
He never closed his laptop again. And 10xflix? The site vanished the next morning. But if you type it after midnight, some say you don’t get a movie.
The download finished at 3:00 AM. File name: mithai_wali_2025_hd.mp4 . He plugged in earphones, dimmed the screen, and pressed play. Download - Mithai Wali -2025- www.10xflix.com ...
Silence. Then a WhatsApp message from an unknown number. No text. Just a photo: his living room, taken from the corner near the TV, timestamped just now . He turned. No one was there.
End of story.
The film continued. But strange things happened. Every time the sweet seller offered a customer a gulab jamun , Rohan’s own phone gallery would open briefly on screen—photos of his mother, his ex, his old dog. Then back to the film. He told himself it was a glitch. He had been avoiding this for weeks
And beneath it, written in what looked like sugar syrup on the wall:
But on his wall, where a framed photo of his grandmother used to hang, there was now a small, warm jalebi —coiled and glistening—pinned by a rusty nail.
Rohan slammed the lid shut.
You get a menu.
Rohan’s finger hovered over the blue DOWNLOAD button. His roommate, Aarav, a film student, had warned him: “Don’t. Leaks destroy the craft. Plus, 10xflix is shady. They put trackers in files.”
But the craving won. He tapped.
The film opened with a wide shot of a dusty square. A woman in a mustard-yellow dupatta stirred a giant kadhai of bubbling oil. No dialogue. Just the hiss of frying. Then she looked directly at the camera—at Rohan—and whispered: “Pehle mithai khilaaun, ya seedha maut?”