Kahaani is an
Indian Bollywood drama-thriller film directed and co-produced by
Sujoy Ghosh. It stars
Vidya Balan and
Parambrata Chatterjee
in lead roles. Balan plays a pregnant woman in search of her husband
and the father of the child. The film will be Vidya's fourth
female-centric film after
Ishqiya,
No One Killed Jessica &
The Dirty Picture. The film released on 9 March 2012 and was well received by the critics.
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he 1st scene shows a person in mask experimenting with 3 rats. He
pours some liquid in their cage. The rats die immediately. In the next
scene, in a running metro a milk bottle from a ladies bag accidentally
falls and the same liquid comes out, which leads to the death of over
100 passengers in the metro.
2 years pass. Pregnant Vidya Bagchi (
Vidya Balan) arrives in
Kolkata from
London
to find her missing husband Arnab Bagchi. She goes directly to at
Kalighat police station to report a missing person FIR. Kharaj and Rana
are the 2 inspectors available there who question her. She shows a
picture of her and her husband to them. Parambroto then takes Vidya to
the Monalisa Guest House, where Vidya's husband stayed when he came to
Kolkata, but the person in the guest house claims person with such name
was never there. Vidya becomes and angry and decides to stay back in
the guest house and solve the mystery herself. She then goes to the
National data center where her husband was working. There she meets a
lady from HR who tells her that this person never worked there. But,
when the HR lady see the photograph of her husband she thinks of other
similar looking person and tells Vidya to meet her later.
Meanwhile, Vidya befriends Rana, local inspector. He helps her in
every way to find the husband. Vidya finds that the terrorist
responsible for the metro killings has got a similar face as her
husband.So she sets out to find the terrorist hoping that when she
finds the terrorist her husband will also be found. Due to the
sensetive nature of the blast, IB officer Khan from Delhi is sent to
look into the case. Rana is asked to help Khan. Before HR lady could
help Vidya, she is killed. And, then starts the suspense thriller....
After this 3 more deaths occur and attampt is made to kill Vidya. But,
ultimately Vidya meets the man she was searching and the reality is
exposed.... The end is very unexpected........
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Reception
Critical Reception
Upon release, the film received highly positive reviews from
critics. According to review aggregator ReviewGang this movie received
8 out of 10 rating by professional critics.
Taran Adarsh
of Bollywwod Hungama gave 4 out of 5 stars and wrote "Post THE DIRTY
PICTURE, the admiration for the National Award winning actress Vidya
has scaled woozy altitudes and let me affirm, the supremely talented
actress delivers a performance that's at par with her former
accomplishments."
Madhureeta Mukherjee of
Times Of India
gave 4 out of 5 stars and said "Once again, a 'pregnant' Vidya,
ironically displays more 'male ornaments' (excuse the watering down)
than most heroes."
[ Sukanya Verma of
Rediff.com gave 4 out of 5 stars and said "Vidya Balan excels in Kahaani, a film which is much too enjoyable to find flaws.