Kahaani (2012)
9/10
One of the best!
9 March 2012
Warning: Spoilers
One of the finest thrillers I have seen in Bollywood. In fact after A Wednesday this is the best thriller in Bollywood. Among all senseless movies, such movies reinstate faith in Hindi cinema. Excellent effort by the director in both scrip and casting.

The movie starts with a terrorist trying out a gas attack on rats and when thats successful he tries it out with humans on the metro. Then the story shifts to a couple of years later. Here a heavily pregnant Vidya arrives in kolkata to search for her missing husband. All she has left with her is only a photograph of him. She directly goes to the police station from the airport and here she meets rana who instantly develops a liking for her. She lodges a complaint and the inspector of the station is also impressed as she fixes the new software in the station computers.

Now with the help of rana she begins the search for her husband with the minimal number of clues she has got. As she proceeds in her search she learns that her husband resembles a former employee in a certain company ndc. When these developments take place she unknowingly shakes up an old case with the Intelligence bureau and the second in command A.Khan enters. He is no nonsense cop whose mission is not clear in the beginning. At the same time, few people feel the heat that that triggers few killings by the normal and not so harmful looking contract killer bob. The first half finishes with the last scene being bob trying to kill vidya.

A.Khan then reveals to vidya that the former employee with whom her husbands face recemble is the dreaded terrorist who killed 100 people in the kolkata metro. and he also reveals that the terrorist was a former government agent who turned into a terrorist there is a mole in the ndc and ib who are directly helping the terrorist get away. The rest of the story revolves around how Vidya connects all the dots and help the police. And does she find her husband forms the rest of the story.

The movie has a lot of nail biting scenes. The bgm is a main ingredient as it adds to the suspense immensely. The director should be praised for preparing such a tight script. And as far as the casting, he has just got the right people for the right role.

The movie has been released just after Vidya Balan got the national award and this movie might get her another one. The woman almost singlehandedly has carries out this movie on her shoulders. She is just almost ruling the male dominated industry with her moves like nokj, dirty picture and the latest one kahaani.
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