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Moral of the Kahani is… Kahani, directed by Sujoy Ghosh and starring the sensation of 2012 generation Vidya Balan is undoubtedly an arresting thriller. Mind boggling twists and turns, Kahani is definitely a roller coaster experience. The film was complete experience for me except three things in the film. 1: As the story of Mrs Vidya Bagchi searching for her husband unfolds, there are many instances when Mrs Bagchi remembers various kinds of incidences and moments, which she had spent with her husband, Arnab Bagchi. On screen during her flashbacks the person who appears her husband finally turns out to be Milan Damji who is actually the killer of her husband. Mrs Bagchi can stage a make-believe phenomena for others but why would she have false memory of her own husband? 2: Bob Biswas tries to kill Mrs Bagchi and becomes quite successful in petrifying and intimidating her. But in her next meet with Rana she just doesn’t share anything about this shocking incident. 3: At the end ...

Sairat... dissolving reel and real life boundaries In our democratic set up, caste invariably holds the key to any poll outcomes but the recent phenomenon called 'Sairat' substantiates that the caste factor can even drive the box office results. It seems no one has understood it better than the maveric director Nagraj Manjule, whose epic love story, Sairat has put myriads of Bollywood flicks to shame by winning critical as well commercial accolades. The movie without being preachy about the issue of honour killing and inter-caste hatred, unfolds with all the essentials of a typical filmy love-saga. All the ingredients of done-to-death tragic romance formulae viz. archetypal lovers, melodious tunes, suave visuals, slo-mo shots (establishing larger than life existence of the protagonists), chase sequences and engaging humour, the film gives away everything generously to its escapist audience till the conflict point in the story arrives. From the conflict onward,...