Citadel: Honey Bunny

About the film

Citadel: Honey Bunny is an Indian Hindi-language spy action television series directed by Raj & DK, who co-wrote with Sita R. Menon. It is the spin-off to the American television series Citadel on Amazon Prime Video and revolves around the story of Honey and Bunny, who are related to the character Nadia Sinh (played by Priyanka Chopra in the original series). The series stars Varun Dhawan and Samantha Ruth Prabhu as the title characters with Kay Kay Menon, Simran, Sikandar Kher, Saqib Saleem, Soham Majumdar, Shivankit Singh Parihar and Thalaivasal Vijay in supporting roles.

Citadel: Honey Bunny was released on 6 November 2024. In April 2025, the series was canceled after one season with the intention to integrate some of its storylines in Citadel's second season.

Plot

Rahi "Bunny" Gambhir works as a stunt double in Bollywood, but leads a secret life as a spy for Guru alias "Baba". Bunny’s team consists of Chacko and Ludo, who are like family to him. One day, Bunny meets Hanimandakini Honey Raj, a struggling actress (flashback reveals she's the illegitimate daughter of a royal family in Andhra Pradesh). They start to get close and he eventually asks her to join him for a side gig. Honey agrees, but things go wrong when they are intercepted by Zooni's led by Shaan, and she gets shot. Honey recovers at Bunny's place and he reveals his background and secret life as a spy to her. They fall in love and Honey decides to become an agent, where Bunny trains her and eventually lets her join the team.

Their next mission takes them to Belgrade to track down Dr. Raghu Rao, who is supposed to be there to retrieve a device called Armada, from Dr. Pavel. Armada is a high-tech gadget that can track important individuals and is valuable in arms dealing, something Zooni has her eyes on. Honey finds out she is pregnant and discovers that Dr. Raghu is an innocent civilian. Bunny promises her that Raghu will not be harmed, but Baba orders him to kill Dr. Raghu anyway. Zooni is revealed to be leading Citadel. Devastated by Dr.'s death and realising she's on the wrong side, Honey leaks Baba’s location to Citadel and has him arrested. Honey reveals her pregnancy to Bunny and escapes with the Armada. However, Kedar KD, a new recruit, attacks Honey’s car, seemingly killing her. Bunny is fired by Baba believing him to be responsible for getting Honey into their lives.

Honey has survived and is now living in hiding with her daughter Nadia, in Nainital. Baba's new agents eventually track them down to retrieve the Armada. Bunny, who now works as a singer in Bucharest, finds out that Honey and his daughter are still alive through a secured online chat with Ludo. Bunny reunites with Chacko and they start looking for Honey. KD is sent to hunt Honey down, but Bunny intercepts him at Base 33 and kills his team, alerting Baba. Honey takes Nadia to the ancestral palace in Andhra Pradesh where she was born and grew up and tells her about her past.

Cast and characters

Varun Dhawan as Raahi "Bunny" Gambhir, Honey's lover and Nadia's father

Samantha as Hanimandakini "Honey" Raj, Bunny's lover and Nadia's mother / "Noorie" / "Maadhavi Kumar"

Kashvi Majmundar as Nadia, daughter of Bunny and Honey

Production

In December 2022, Anthony and Joe Russo announced the Indian spin-off of Citadel.

Varun Dhawan and Samantha Ruth Prabhu play the lead cast in the series as Bunny and Honey.

Filming of the series began in January 2023. The series was shot in Serbia and India. Filming wrapped on 13 July 2023.

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 80% of 15 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.1/10. Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV gave it 2 stars out of 5 with comments, "The series does not exactly go down in flames but neither does it have us holding our breath as its action set pieces explode on screen."

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