Of course, there are no prizes for guessing whether he succumbs to temptation or if the other robbers are going to take a dim view: some of the plot points clunk a bit, but Barr does a workmanlike job putting it all together and there is some great location work, particularly the rather amazing icy cave where Jim hides the cash and then has to hide out himself, facing a tough decision as to what he can burn to keep warm.īlood and Money is available on digital platforms from 16 October. Blood Money is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Vishal Mahadkar and produced by Mahesh Bhatt. Jim isn’t tempted by the bulging bag of cash by her corpse and grimly drives away without reporting anything, but later realises that the cigarette butts from the distinctive brand he prefers (and has been noticed buying in a local convenience store) could link him to the crime, so he must drive back into this vast trackless woodland, clean up the incriminating cigarette ends, and then … well … have another long thoughtful look at that huge amount of discarded money that no one else seems to know about. Jim is slowing up these days and one morning, angry with himself for earlier letting a deer get away, he glimpses some movement in the distant underbrush, fires immediately and to his horror realises that he has fatally shot a woman – one of a fugitive gang of armed robbers he’d heard about the night before. At its core the film is a pretty basic thriller that riffs on the first act of Sam Raimi’s A Simple Plan without any of the meat that follows.