Kahani (2012) Cast, Story,Review

Kahani (2012) Cast, Story, Review

Kahaani (2012) is a Indian -language   co-written, co-produced and directed through Sujoy Ghosh. It stars Vidya Balan as Vidya Bagchi, a pregnant woman attempting to find her lacking husband in Kolkata at some point of the festival of Durga Puja, assisted through Satyoki "Rana" Sinha (Parambrata Chatterjee) and Khan (Nawazuddin Siddiqui).

Directed by Sujoy Ghosh

Produced by Sujoy Ghosh

Kushal Kantilal Gada

Screenplay by Sujoy Ghosh

Story by Sujoy Ghosh

Advaita Kala

Music by Songs:

Vishal-Shekhar

Background score:

Clinton Cerejo

Cinematography Setu

Edited by Namrata Rao

Production Boundscript Motion Pictures

company

Starring Vidya Balan

Parambrata Chatterjee

Nawazuddin Siddiqui

Indraneil Sengupta

Saswata Chatterjee

Release date • 9 March 2012

Running time 122 minutes

Country India

Language Hindi

Made on a shoestring price range of ₹80 million (US$1.1 million), Kahaani was conceived and developed with the aid of Ghosh, who co-wrote the film with Advaita Kala. The team often employed guerrilla-filmmaking strategies on Kolkata's town streets to keep away from attracting attention. The movie was mentioned for its deft portrayal of the metropolis and for making use of many local group and cast members. Kahaani explores issues of feminism and motherhood in male-ruled Indian society. The movie also makes numerous allusions to Satyajit Ray's films such as Charulata (1964), Aranyer Din Ratri (1970) and Joi Baba Felunath (1979).

Kahaani was launched international on 9 March 2012. Critics praised the screenplay, the cinematography and the performances of the lead actors. Following crucial acclaim and word-of-mouth publicity, the film earned ₹1.04 billion (US$15 million) global in 50 days. The film won numerous awards, which includes three National Film Awards and five Filmfare Awards. The latter included trophies for Best Director (Ghosh) and Best Actress (Vidya). A sequel, titled Kahaani 2: Durga Rani Singh, turned into launched on 2 December 2016.

Plot

Poison-gasoline attack on a Kolkata Metro Rail compartment kills the passengers on board. Two years later Vidya Bagchi, a pregnant software engineer, arrives in Kolkata from London at some stage in the Durga Puja festivities in search of her lacking husband, Arnab Bagchi. A police officer, Satyoki "Rana" Sinha, offers to help. Although Vidya claims that Arnab went to Kolkata on an mission for the National Data Center (NDC), initial investigations advocate that no such person was employed by using the NDC.

Agnes D'Mello, the NDC's head of human resources, indicates to Vidya that her husband resembled former employee Milan Damji, whose file might be kept in the old NDC office. Before Agnes can offer any similarly assist she is killed by Bob Biswas, an murderer running undercover as a life coverage agent. Vidya and Rana break into the NDC office and discover Damji's file, barely escaping an come across with Bob, who is attempting to find the same information. Meanwhile, the tries to attain Damji's data have attracted the eye of Intelligence Bureau (IB) officers in Delhi—the leader Bhaskaran K. And his deputy Khan. Khan arrives in Kolkata and famous that Damji turned into a rogue IB agent chargeable for the poison-gasoline attack. In spite of Khan's warnings, Vidya maintains her search, fearing that Arnab's resemblance to Damji may additionally have led him into trouble.

The deal with on Damji's report leads Vidya and Rana to a dilapidated flat. An errand boy from the neighbourhood tea stall identifies R. Sridhar, an NDC officer, as a frequent visitor to Damji's flat. Bob tries to kill Vidya, but fails, and is run over by means of a car at some stage in a chase. Examination of Bob's mobile cellphone leads Vidya and Rana to an IP address sending commands to kill her. They damage into Sridhar's workplace to verify his IP address, but he's alerted electronically and returns to his workplace. Vidya by accident shoots Sridhar dead during a scuffle, which upsets Khan, who had desired him alive.

Sridhar's computer records famous a code, which when deciphered famous Bhaskaran's smartphone wide variety. Vidya calls Bhaskaran to tell him that she has retrieved touchy files from Sridhar's office. She asks Bhaskaran to assist locate her husband in alternate for the documents, however Bhaskaran tells her to touch the local police. Vidya soon receives a call from an unknown range however, warning her that she need to surrender the files to the caller if she wishes to see her husband alive. Khan thinks the caller is Milan Damji.

Vidya is going to satisfy Damji, observed by Rana and Khan. Damji cuts the meeting brief whilst Vidya expresses her doubt that he'll be capable of return her husband in change for the sensitive file, and he attempts to leave. Vidya attempts to prevent him, and in the ensuing battle Damji draws a gun on her. Vidya disarms him the use of the prosthetic stomach she has been the usage of to fake her pregnancy and promptly stabbing him inside the neck with her hair stick earlier than shooting him with his very own gun. She flees into the crowd earlier than the police arrive, leaving a thank you notice for Rana and a pen pressure containing records from Sridhar's computer, which leads to Bhaskaran's arrest. Rana concludes that no Vidya or Arnab Bagchi ever existed, and that Vidya had been the usage of the police and the IB to acquire her personal ends.

Vidya is discovered to be the widow of Arup Basu, an IB officer and Damji's colleague, who became killed within the poison-gas assault, which also triggered Vidya to at once fall unconscious upon seeing her husband's corpse and go through a miscarriage. In her undertaking to avenge his and their unborn kid's death, Vidya become helped through retired IB officer Pratap Bajpayee, who suspected the involvement of a top IB official

Cast

• Vidya Balan as Vidya Venkatesan Bagchi

• Parambrata Chatterjee as Satyoki "Rana" Sinha

• Nawazuddin Siddiqui as A. Khan

• Indraneil Sengupta as Milan Damji/Arnab Bagchi

• Dhritiman Chatterjee as Bhaskaran K.

• Saswata Chatterjee as Bob Biswas

• Darshan Jariwala as Colonel Pratap Bajpayee

• Abir Chatterjee as Arup Basu

• Shantilal Mukherjee as R. Shridhar, chief technical officer on the NDC

• Kharaj Mukherjee as Inspector Chatterjee, a pleasant inspector on the Kalighat Police Station.

• Colleen Blanche as Agnes D'Mello

• Nitya Ganguli as Mr. Das, the guest residence owner.

• Rwitobroto Mukherjee as Bishnu, a worker on the guest house.

• Pamela Bhuttoria as Sapna, an worker at NDC.

• Kalyan Chatterjee as Paresh Pal, a clay artist and a police informer.

• Riddhi Sen as Poltu, a worker at a tea-stall.

Massod Akhtar as Rasik Tyagi, structures supervisor at the NDC

 Movie official trailer