The impact that i got after coming out of the cinema - Solid direction, Solid acting & Solid story.
Kahani starts with a story of Vidya Balan playing the helpless Mrs Bagchi, who has arrived from London in search of her missing husband Arnab. With a good-hearted rookie cop helping her in her search, Vidya walks through all corners of Kolkata. But all leads go cold – the guesthouse he was staying at, the National Data Center where he'd been assigned, even the Indian immigration authorities have no records of Arnab Bagchi. Giving out any more of the story would be letting out spoilers and it needs to be enjoyed while watching it.
The whole movie is shrouded in mystery and everytime it seems like you figured it out, the plot thickens. Sometimes the movie crawls at a casual pace but the twists and turns in the story keep the mystery alive right till the last scene. The story is so refreshingly original and shooting in real locations in Kolkatta adds a lot of character to the movie. The camera captures kolkatta so passionately that you fall in love with it.The movie wasn't about Kolkatta but it sure gave us a flavor of Bengali life. The cameraman deserves a pat on the back for paying attention to little details in portraying the story and capturing each moment vividly. The scene where Vidya falls off the platform to the approaching train was spectacularly captured. The movie is woven so well together that most times, i cant put my finger on what was better - the performance, the story or the art direction.
The star of the show was Vidya Balan who displays a quiet elegance about her acting and yet is instantly likeable as a character. But the real hero of the movie is the script/story (and the writer) which managed to be completely original and edge-of-the-seat gripping. Its very rare to find such good scripts on celluloid and great characters which add the real weight to the story. Each character in the movie stood out on their own whether it was creepy smiling assassin Bob Biswas or the simple good hearted rookie policeman Rana or even the chotu who does odd jobs at Vidya's hotel. Its amazing how little things from the movie like - daak naam & Bhalo naam and characters style of Bob Biswas have already become a part of Indian parlance after the movie.
Double thumbs up for the director, story-writer and Vidya (not bidya ;)), watch it for a superb story and a solid movie-making style.
Rating: 8/10
Kahani starts with a story of Vidya Balan playing the helpless Mrs Bagchi, who has arrived from London in search of her missing husband Arnab. With a good-hearted rookie cop helping her in her search, Vidya walks through all corners of Kolkata. But all leads go cold – the guesthouse he was staying at, the National Data Center where he'd been assigned, even the Indian immigration authorities have no records of Arnab Bagchi. Giving out any more of the story would be letting out spoilers and it needs to be enjoyed while watching it.
The whole movie is shrouded in mystery and everytime it seems like you figured it out, the plot thickens. Sometimes the movie crawls at a casual pace but the twists and turns in the story keep the mystery alive right till the last scene. The story is so refreshingly original and shooting in real locations in Kolkatta adds a lot of character to the movie. The camera captures kolkatta so passionately that you fall in love with it.The movie wasn't about Kolkatta but it sure gave us a flavor of Bengali life. The cameraman deserves a pat on the back for paying attention to little details in portraying the story and capturing each moment vividly. The scene where Vidya falls off the platform to the approaching train was spectacularly captured. The movie is woven so well together that most times, i cant put my finger on what was better - the performance, the story or the art direction.
The star of the show was Vidya Balan who displays a quiet elegance about her acting and yet is instantly likeable as a character. But the real hero of the movie is the script/story (and the writer) which managed to be completely original and edge-of-the-seat gripping. Its very rare to find such good scripts on celluloid and great characters which add the real weight to the story. Each character in the movie stood out on their own whether it was creepy smiling assassin Bob Biswas or the simple good hearted rookie policeman Rana or even the chotu who does odd jobs at Vidya's hotel. Its amazing how little things from the movie like - daak naam & Bhalo naam and characters style of Bob Biswas have already become a part of Indian parlance after the movie.
Double thumbs up for the director, story-writer and Vidya (not bidya ;)), watch it for a superb story and a solid movie-making style.
Rating: 8/10
