On a Friday evening at work when my friends called me to ask if I wanted to join them for yet another Vidya Balan movie I was quite sceptical. Being an ardent admirer and fan of her work I must admit I was disappointed watching The Dirty Picture. Contrary to popular opinion that The Dirty Picture was her best work to date I refused to believe so. I had never heard of Kahani until Friday and decided not to look into reviews and just go with a empty mind and zero expectations.
Two hours after watching the movie I must say, this is Vidya Balan’s best work to date and this will make her a possible candidate for yet another National Award. The movie trailer gives the gist of the story but the underlying suspense that is so beautifully woven into the script by Sujoy Ghosh, Suresh Nair & Nikhil Vyas.
The movie starts with a terrorist attack on Kolkata Metro train when a gas explosion causes the death of 100 commuters. No one claims responsibility and the case loses importance as days pass by. 2 years later, Mrs.Vidya Bagchi (Vidya Balan) a software engineer arrives at Kolkata International Airport from London in search of her missing husband, Arnab Bagchi. She is pregnant and travels to the Kalighat police station to file a missing person report but her report fails to make much headway into the heaps of unsolved cases yet to be looked into. Kharaj and Rana (Parambrata Chatterjee) are the 2 inspectors available there who question her. She shows a picture of her and her husband to them. Rana then takes her to the Monalisa Guest House, where her husband stayed when he came to Kolkata, but the receptionist at the guest house claims person with such name was never there.
The movie starts with a terrorist attack on Kolkata Metro train when a gas explosion causes the death of 100 commuters. No one claims responsibility and the case loses importance as days pass by. 2 years later, Mrs.Vidya Bagchi (Vidya Balan) a software engineer arrives at Kolkata International Airport from London in search of her missing husband, Arnab Bagchi. She is pregnant and travels to the Kalighat police station to file a missing person report but her report fails to make much headway into the heaps of unsolved cases yet to be looked into. Kharaj and Rana (Parambrata Chatterjee) are the 2 inspectors available there who question her. She shows a picture of her and her husband to them. Rana then takes her to the Monalisa Guest House, where her husband stayed when he came to Kolkata, but the receptionist at the guest house claims person with such name was never there.
Meanwhile, Vidya befriends Rana, the local inspector and he helps her in every way to find the husband. She decides to find Milan Damji hoping that when she find him he will lead her Arnab. IB officer Khan from Delhi is sent to look into the case. In the mean time the movie takes an shocking twist when a simple looking Life Insurance Agent Bob Bishwas (Saswata Chatterjee) kills the HR Exec from NDC in cold blooded fashion. Turns out that Bob Bishwas is a contract killer (one of the spookiest Contract killer characters I have seen in a while).
The HR Exec’s death leads to 3 more contracts for Bob the final being Mrs Vidya Bagchi herself. Who send Bob ? Will Vidya find Arnab ? Who is Milan Damji ? Is Milan Damji and Arnab Bagchi the same person ? Is Vidya Schizophrenic ? A lot of questions arise in your mind with possible answers to none.
What happens further is the crux of the movie I classify as a MUST WATCH !!
-Chalked by Premdas Kanaran
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