Mar 11, 2012 10:20 PM
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Making a film such as Kahaaniis a huge task. Not for the script or the technicalities, but for a reason that one will only understand after watching the film and correlating the impact with which you leave the audi to the picture that was painted to us since the first time you came to know that a film named 'Kahaani' exists!
If the above analogy seems shocking, well then, that is just a teaser of what shocking can be. Kahaani easily lives up to the under-hype that it smartly built around itself over the duration of its publicity. Don't think how and why, else I might end up the culprit then, just go watch this one.
The film boasts of one of the best ever ensemble casts. Also, Kolkata makes a solid debut in Bollywood. It is perhaps a new taste on screen for most Hindi film buffs, which they are surely going to relish. Splendid cinematography is what it implies. Well, that has become an almost in-the-box feature for a better part of our better films.
Coming to Vidya, she is as good as we know she can get and a little beyond that at times, but never less. The guys around her who played Rana, Khan and Bobare just superb. One or more of them must and will take home the trophies next year. The kids and all others are simply jigsaw pieces put perfectly.
The pace is what the rule-books would define for an ideal thriller. The screenplay does complete justice to the short, crisp and racy plot and forces one to have more than one line of thought all through. By the time the climax builds up, you just stop doing that because you have decided to trust the director for the way he wants us to read his 'Kahaani'!
Director Sujoy Ghosh deserves to taste success, at last, with this outing of his. He surely seems to have learnt a lot from his previous debacles in Aladin and Home Delivery. Yes, he is the same guy! An example of his control and victory over the viewer would be that he misses no chance to play with our instincts, be it the intermission point or the way characters are introduced. Full points to him for that .
All in all, Kahaani makes for a highly engaging affair that is bound to grow on you by the first half and bowl you over by the time the suspense unwinds.
4.5 on 5 for this honest, humble yet distinctively powerful attempt at creating what we know as good cinema.
