Rahasya (Secret, Hindi; 2015)
After watching the 'Mousetrap' in London, my interest in murders suddenly had a resurgence of sorts. I was pleasantly surprised when this Hindi whodunit came along. In the same vein as Agatha Christie's mystery murders, this film is mind boggling in its storyline. This story is, however, based on the real-life murder that took place in a middle-class household of the Talwars in New Delhi in May 2008.
Aarushi Talwar, a 14year old only child of Dr Rajesh and Dr Nupur, dentists, was found dead in her bedroom. Before long it became a national scandal when their male servant was found murdered too. Pretty soon, the media had a field day conducting trial-by-media and practising yellow journalism. After much sensationalism with shoddy police work, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) moved in. Even though CBI could not conclusively implicate anyone for the double murders, the courts decided to pass life imprisonment for both parents along the line of honour killing.
Rahasya has many elements similar to the Aarushi Talwar's murder. Many of the plots were altered garnishing it with more masala to tickle the fancy of Bollywood moviegoers. Blatant abuse of power and police brutality is accepted as the norm. Everyone in the story has something stacked in their closet. Illicit affairs seem like an accepted practice. After much twisting and stretching of the imagination, the story sadly ends with a somewhat unbelievable ending.
A laudable effort, I should say, as the film-makers were bold enough to come out with a movie that broke the mould of a typical Bollywood film layout - no love scenes, no comedy, no songs and, of course, running around the park. It is all pure whodunit murder mystery!
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After watching the 'Mousetrap' in London, my interest in murders suddenly had a resurgence of sorts. I was pleasantly surprised when this Hindi whodunit came along. In the same vein as Agatha Christie's mystery murders, this film is mind boggling in its storyline. This story is, however, based on the real-life murder that took place in a middle-class household of the Talwars in New Delhi in May 2008.
Aarushi Talwar, a 14year old only child of Dr Rajesh and Dr Nupur, dentists, was found dead in her bedroom. Before long it became a national scandal when their male servant was found murdered too. Pretty soon, the media had a field day conducting trial-by-media and practising yellow journalism. After much sensationalism with shoddy police work, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) moved in. Even though CBI could not conclusively implicate anyone for the double murders, the courts decided to pass life imprisonment for both parents along the line of honour killing.
Rahasya has many elements similar to the Aarushi Talwar's murder. Many of the plots were altered garnishing it with more masala to tickle the fancy of Bollywood moviegoers. Blatant abuse of power and police brutality is accepted as the norm. Everyone in the story has something stacked in their closet. Illicit affairs seem like an accepted practice. After much twisting and stretching of the imagination, the story sadly ends with a somewhat unbelievable ending.
A laudable effort, I should say, as the film-makers were bold enough to come out with a movie that broke the mould of a typical Bollywood film layout - no love scenes, no comedy, no songs and, of course, running around the park. It is all pure whodunit murder mystery!
http://asok22.wix.com/rifle-range-boy
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