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Starring: Kay Kay Menon,
Sonali Kulkarni, Parvin Dabbas, Sandhya Mridul, Prashant
Narayanan, Rajat Kapoor, Simone Singh, Vinay Pathak
Director: Arindam Nandy
In Kolkata, there is an age old Bengali tradition called
'adda' where friends get together in the rains, &
exchange stories & gossip, over drinks & dinner.
One rainy evening, idling over drinks and dinner,
Inspector Robin Datt (Vinay Pathak) narrates to his
friends, a curious story of about two years back from
his police files -
Perhaps Rimli was in love with the stranger and the two
had schemed to kill Ankur.
Or maybe Ankur was planning to bump off Rimli with help of
the stranger?
Maybe, the stranger wanted to murder Rimli as she had
ditched him and married Ankur.
Or perhaps the story narrated by Robin was fabricated ?
It has host of brilliant performers like Kay Kay Menon,
Rajat Kapoor, the wild looking Sandhya Mridul, Sonali
Kulkarni and especially Vinay Pathak who, with each
movie makes you think that this has to be his best
performance, but then he comes up with another good one.
The pretty Sonali Kulkarni a good actress she is,
portrays the same role from different points of view and
her performance is very good every time. Simone Singh is
such a fine actress!
Very impressive is how we can observe for the first half
of Via Darjeeling, quite interesting too and then
suspense element arrives on the right time. Then… slowly
things start falling apart and then onwards the audience
begin to feel not much into the movie.
CAST:
Ankur Sharma - Kay Kay Menon
Rimli Sharma / Sangeeta - Sonali Kulkarni
Bonny / Rahul - Parvin Dabas
Inspector Robin Dutt - Vinay Pathak
Ronodeep Sen - Rajat Kapoor
Mallika Tiwari - Sandhya Mridul
Preeti Sen - Simone Singh
Kaushik Chatterjee - Prashant Narayanan
Pratap - Arindam Sil
Guitarist - Prabuddha Banerjee
Singer at the pub - Rupam Islam
Singer at the pub - Varsha Krishnani
Mahinder Rai - the driver - Rahul Mishra
Flute player - Sweety Singh
Maid servant - Rupali Kundu
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Newly married couple Ankur (Kay Kay Menon) and Rimli (Sonali
Kulkarni) were on a honeymoon in Darjeeling. One day,
Ankur had a squabble with the taxi driver for reckless
driving. On the eve of their return to Kolkata, Ankur
suddenly went missing. Investigations by Inspector Robin
revealed that Ankur was short tempered too. To make the
matter complex, Rimli felt that some stranger Bonny (Parvin
Dabbas) was stalking her. Ankur could not be located and
some days later, the case was closed abruptly...
It’s a rainy night, chit-chating
& discussing the mystery of the missing husband amongst
them, each one tries to give their own versions where
personalities of Ankur and Rimli change, professions and
motif change. Each one trying to blend in to the 'story'
themselves giving it a new turn, every time.
This incomplete and a vague story excites the group of
friends (Rajat Kapoor, Simone Singh, Sandhya Mridul and
Prashant Narayanan). Each one tries to interpret what
could have occurred subsequently, clearly giving a glimpse
of their inner selves.
What this movie lacks is a
good climax. How can you leave a movie or a reading a
novel in the middle and then leave it to viewers and
readers respectively to interpret the finale. Initial
attempt of bringing out a tale of twists and turns was
good but then it is not woven with a concrete subject and
the lack of a tight script. It is an off-beat experimental
flick, recommended only for those who love this genre of
cinema.
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Aniz Filmvala
CREDITS
Banner: Moxie Entertainments P Ltd
Produced by Joy Ganguly, Soumo Ganguly
Directed by Arindam Nandy
Screenplay - Ranjan Das, Arindam Nandy, Siladitya Sanyal
Dialogues - Atul Sabharwal
Cinematography: Abhik Mukherjee
Music: Prabuddha Banerjee
OTHER CREDITS
Executive Producers - Kumud
Shahi, Arindam Sil
Film Editing by Arghakamal Mitra
Art Direction by Indranil Ghosh
Production Manager - Dinesh Raut
First Assistant Director - Shibnath Dey
ADR Recordist - Amit Ahire
Sound Designer - Bishwadeep Chatterjee
Sound Re-recording mixer - Leslie Fernandes
Visual Effects by Shamsher Walia
Line producer: PIXION
Costumes - Shonali Gaekwad, Agnimitra Paul
Assistant Editor - Montu Das |
