This I believe is my 100th post. Can’t believe I’ve managed to write 100 posts. So the 100th post is a review of a very rare, one in a million Hindi movie- “Kahaani“.
Director:
Sujoy Gosh
Producer:
Sujay Gosh and Kushal Gada
Cast:
Vidya Balan as Vidya Bagchi
Parambrata Chatterjee as Rana/ Satyuki
Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Khan, IB Officer
Saswata Chatterjee as Bob Biswas
Indraneil Sengupta as Milan Damji
Abir Chatterjee as Vidya’s Husband.
Music:
Vishal-Shekar
The Story:
Vidya Bagchi, a young Tamilian married to a Bengali man, based in London arrives in Kolkata to search for her missing husband “Arnab Bagchi”. She is 7 months pregnant and alone in a festive city preparing for it’s annual mother of all festivals – the Durga Puja. She is helped by a young rookie cop Satyoki/Rana who goes all out to help the lady he feels very protective towards.Together they unravel the mysteries one by one, and come face to face with various characters like hardened Intelligence officer Khan, sinister contract killer Bob Biswas, sympathetic HR officer Agnes who all knowingly or unknowingly help Vidya and Rana go one step closer to finding the real truth about Arnab Bagchi, who doesn’t have any record in any papers whatsover. Does he even exist outside Vidya’s head or is she the victim of a vast conspiracy?
The Review:
The movie is brilliant. A well written script and even better acting by Vidya Balan. This is a one in a million movie, because the track record of Hindi Movies has been terrible. One in Fifteen are good. This is a very rare movie which I cannot fault in any way. Usually any good hindi movies have some or the other flaws, but this is a strangely awesome movie. This has almost no faults. And phenomenal acting by Vidya Balan, Parambrata Chatterjee and Nawazuddin Siddiqui.
Only one problem I had in the movie, and I’m only mentioning it because I am forced to. Vidya Balan is acting as a Tamilian who can’t wear a sari. Thats the only problem. Otherwise the movie is flawless. Its a master piece.
Amitabh’s rendition of Rabindranath Tagore’s song “Ekla Chalo Re” was awesome to. Its a wonderful song. And so is the first song in the movie “Ami Shotti Bolchi” by Usha Uthup and Shekar Rajivani. Another strange thing in the movie is that there aren’t very many songs in the movie. The soundtrack as 6 but only 2 of them are in the movie. And the others seem to be only instrumental.
The movie has a very simple story where nothing is as it seems. I don’t want to reveal much of the movie. The movie has a very surprising ending which was not expected by any one.
Final Verdict:
The movie was very enjoyable and I couldn’t find many flaws in the movie as i was so engrossed in the compelling story. 9/10.
Vidya Balan as Vidya Bagchi. Artwork done by my cousin.
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