Kahaani comes to Colombo ‘K

ahaani’ Bollywood dramathriller film starring Vidya Balan as a pregnant woman in search of her husband and the father of the child, released on March 9 simultaneous to worldwide release at Majestic Cineplex, Colombo.

Directed and co-produced by Sujoy Ghosh, ‘Kahaani’ is Vidya’s fifth femalecentric film after ‘Paa’, ‘Ishqiya’, ‘No One Killed Jessica’ and ‘The Dirty Picture’.

Vidya Bagchi , a pretty, intelligent, urbane woman, seven months pregnant, in an emotionally fragile state, but with extreme reserves of determination and resolve, arrives in Kolkata from London, looking for her missing husband…

Arnab Bagchi, Vidya’s husband and in her words, “Her reason for being”, had come to Kolkata on a software consultancy project with the National Data Centre (NDC).

The first two weeks of his visit, pass by smoothly. Arnab and Vidya would chat daily and anxiously await the passing of the few remaining days apart. Suddenly, one day…all communication with Arnab ceases. Arnab all of a sudden is untraceable.

Worried about her husband, Vidya arrives in Kolkata. Alone in an unknown

city Vidya begins her search as Kolkata prepares herself for its biggest festival, Durga Puja. Vidya goes to the hotel where Arnab had stayed and is shocked to see that the hotel is actually a very down market guesthouse. The manager insists that no Arnab Bagchi ever stayed with them. Vidya is at her wits end, but chooses to stay in the guesthouse.

Next morning Vidya goes to the NDC but the HR manager, Agnes, tells her the same thing in person as she said on the phone to Vidya in London. Agnes had not sanctioned any assignment for any Arnab Bagchi, and neither did he arrive in Kolkata.

She goes to the police station and files a missing person report. The police are slightly baffled when she tells them that both the NDC and the hotel where Arnab was staying, claim that no one named Arnab ever arrived! But Vidya of course knows he had come to Kolkata.

The next few days are equally harrowing for Vidya. Everywhere her search reaches a dead end. The final blow is when the police inform Vidya that both London and Kolkata immigration have no records of anyone by the name of Arnab Bagchi leaving London or arriving in Kolkata.

Released by CEL, the film is an Event Concept presen

tation.