Kahaani (Story, Hindi; 2012)
It is a kind of a stereotyping. Whenever a film is done with Calcutta as the backdrop, invariably Durga Pooja procession is in the background. In Satyajit’s film the statue of Durga and Navarathri celebrations were in the background of a few of his movies. Talking about Satyajit Ray’s movies, there is a striking similarity between this one and many of Ray’s masterpieces. The common theme here the presence strong female role and the empowerment of women. The theme of Durga’s prayer only re-emphasises the formidable strength of feminine powers to combat evil. The fairer sex is by no means the weaker sex. Their ability to strength to withdraw labour is testimony to this effect.
Vidya Bagchi (Vidya Balan) is a visibly pregnant lady from London who arrives in Calcutta in search of her missing husband, Arnab Bagchi. Arnab, who accepted a post at the National Data Centre in a small town in Bengal failed to contact his wife. Hence, the worried wife arrived there in search of her other half.
Things get complicated when nobody has records of her husband. The police officer, Rana, who helps Vidya also gets puzzled when his station is visited by an abusive officer from the Intelligence Bureau and people helping him to locate the missing start dying like flies.
With the preparations for Durga Pooja in full gear, Vidya has to fight against time to locate Arnab Bakshi or at least Milan Damji who has a striking resemblance to him. It ends in an unexpected twist.
At the end of the movie, you have the feeling that everybody seem to have their own justification to take away something as precious as life. The police (the state) feels it is all right to gun down one individual not so much as revenge but as to curtail more unnecessary lives lost. The perpetrator allegedly masterminded a subway release of biological weapon. The accused feels justified to kill to make his statement. The dead are collateral damage in the wind of change which would benefit humanity on the whole. Their death is a drop of evil that would alter the path of civilisation just as people have died in the annals of our history and time. Then there is another who falls for blood for revenge. All these goes on under the watchful eyes on the Protector, quite aware, maybe perpetrating the whole cat-and-mouse game.
It is a kind of a stereotyping. Whenever a film is done with Calcutta as the backdrop, invariably Durga Pooja procession is in the background. In Satyajit’s film the statue of Durga and Navarathri celebrations were in the background of a few of his movies. Talking about Satyajit Ray’s movies, there is a striking similarity between this one and many of Ray’s masterpieces. The common theme here the presence strong female role and the empowerment of women. The theme of Durga’s prayer only re-emphasises the formidable strength of feminine powers to combat evil. The fairer sex is by no means the weaker sex. Their ability to strength to withdraw labour is testimony to this effect.Vidya Bagchi (Vidya Balan) is a visibly pregnant lady from London who arrives in Calcutta in search of her missing husband, Arnab Bagchi. Arnab, who accepted a post at the National Data Centre in a small town in Bengal failed to contact his wife. Hence, the worried wife arrived there in search of her other half.
Things get complicated when nobody has records of her husband. The police officer, Rana, who helps Vidya also gets puzzled when his station is visited by an abusive officer from the Intelligence Bureau and people helping him to locate the missing start dying like flies.
With the preparations for Durga Pooja in full gear, Vidya has to fight against time to locate Arnab Bakshi or at least Milan Damji who has a striking resemblance to him. It ends in an unexpected twist.
At the end of the movie, you have the feeling that everybody seem to have their own justification to take away something as precious as life. The police (the state) feels it is all right to gun down one individual not so much as revenge but as to curtail more unnecessary lives lost. The perpetrator allegedly masterminded a subway release of biological weapon. The accused feels justified to kill to make his statement. The dead are collateral damage in the wind of change which would benefit humanity on the whole. Their death is a drop of evil that would alter the path of civilisation just as people have died in the annals of our history and time. Then there is another who falls for blood for revenge. All these goes on under the watchful eyes on the Protector, quite aware, maybe perpetrating the whole cat-and-mouse game.
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