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Best of luck to VB and the team!

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I am looking forward to this one.

Vidya & Sarkar both can't go wrong.

High expectations!!

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MOVIE REVIEW: Kahaani 2

BY LOKESH DHARMANI Thursday, 01 December 2016

Here's City 1016's Lokesh Dharmani's verdict on the film

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STARRING: Vidya Balan and Arjun Rampal
DIRECTOR: Sujoy Ghosh
RATING: 2.5

I have questions. Many, many questions.

Why would a kidnapping case be suddenly reported after eight long years? Why would an uncle report that case when he himself wants to settle a score with the kidnapper? Why would they forcefully insert a love story when there was no need? And, most importantly, why would anyone cast Arjun Rampal as a cop? It's like Fendi just walked into Fab India. Though Arjun is extremely earnest, alas his character is hardly fleshed out.

Kahaani 2 starts on a very promising note. It's pacy, gripping and engaging. The flashback in the first half deals with child abuse and is written and enacted so well that you genuinely root for the leading lady and her brave ways. You are emotionally invested in the little child's story. There are no disturbing visuals in the movie yet the danger looms large. And it breaks for the interval, just at the right time. You go and fetch yourself that big bucket of popcorn (damn those 35 dirhams) anticipating an edge-of-the-seat, bite-your-nails kind of a climax.

Alas, it's a bummer. Surprisingly the film resorts to such Hindi film clichs that I found myself Googling to check who really the director of the movie was: Sujoy Ghosh or Rohit Shetty.

Sample this: The leading lady is in coma. The villain wants to kill her. So kill her. No, there is full, I will spare you now, will later give you a painful death' bull crap that happens for no rhyme or reason. At this point, I wanted to become Bob Biswas from Kahaani, look at the writer and say, "Nomoshkaar...ek minute...BANG!" Oh how much I missed Bob and his menace!!

Then our leading lady wakes up from coma, her wounds are fresh, her stitches still intact. A normal person in that condition won't be able to move a muscle. Our dearest Durga pulls out the drip and bandages and marches out to save her daughter. Wait, is she Vidya Sinha of Kahaani 2 or Sunny Deol of Ghayal?

It's this improbability that makes you lose interest in the film. I mean we all know, she will bleed, she will sweat, she will run, she will fight, she will outshine the professionals and the police...short of standing on two bikes like Ajay Devgn, she will do everything and come out unscathed and we will have to believe it. Yawn!

Even the surprise at the climax is so underwhelming that the Sherlock Holmes in you has already cracked it much before it's shown. Sadly, the climax is also devoid of any logic. Some people are caught in a house on fire. No one cares to check. It's assumed they are dead. No dead bodies recovered, no postmortem, nothing. Everyone shakes head, Oh ho, they are dead!?!? Come, let's go back home and watch a film on Netflix.' I mean your uniform suggests you are the Army, the Police. Your actions reveal you are some extras in an Ekta Kapoor show.

Vidya Balan ditches layers of makeup to prove what a fab actor she is. Anyway the equation in Hindi films is simple: no makeup makes it meaningful cinema. I don't have any problem with that. In fact, it's heartwarming to see such simple women as desirable in the movie...but what's the point, bro? Vidya is a fine actor, no doubt, but she doesn't surprise us with anything extraordinary.

I really wanted to like this film. But sorry, it left me a bit underwhelmed!!

THE RATINGS MEAN:

5 stars: Loved it. (This could make to top ten movies you must watch before you die!)
4 stars: Liked it. Recommend it. (This will help you sound intellectual and give you stuff to add at water cooler conversations.)
3 stars: Didn't hurt. Watch it once.
2 stars: It put me to sleep. Watch it if you are an insomniac or a newly wedded couple. Winks!
1 star: Do I even need to explain this?

http://www.masala.com/movie-review-kahaani-2-228756.html

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Vineeta Kumar @aslivineeta

Just watched #Kahaani2. Everything aside, let's all just take a moment to appreciate the performer @vidya_balan is... Stunner this woman is!

Priya Adivarekar @priyaadivarekar

#Kahaani2 Tweet Review | Edge of the seat, gripping first half. @vidya_balan fabulously holds your attention in every scene!

Aniruddha Guha @AniGuha

KAHAANI 2. Creepier, moodier and darker than Kahaani. Vidya Balan remains captivating as ever. Nice hat-tips to the predecessor too.

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Kahaani 2 movie review: Vidya Balan fleshed-out performance felled by a predictable end

Kahaani 2 movie review: This Vidya Balan film starts well but starts telegraphing its punches around interval. It becomes predictable and there can be nothing worse for a thriller.

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Written by Shubhra Gupta | New Delhi | Updated: December 1, 2016 11:59 pm

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Kahaani 2 movie review: Vidya Balan gives us a well-defined character with motivations she makes us see, and feel as she interacts with a troubled young girl.

Kahaani 2 movie cast: Vidya Balan, Arjun Rampal, Jugal Hansraj, Naisha Singh, Tota Roychoudhary, Amba Sanyal
Kahaani 2 movie director: Sujoy Ghosh

Vidya Balan is back. As Durga Rani Singh, the protagonist of Kahaani 2, which is not a sequel to the first part, but a stand-alone second instalment of a series that director Sujoy Ghosh is interested in fashioning. The first Kahaani had Balan play a heavily pregnant woman in search of a missing husband. It was set in Kolkata, and that was a win. Sated with the too-familiar by-ways of Dilli-Mumbai, Kolkata was refreshing.

So was Balan's playing of Vidya (pronounced, quite properly, Bidya, in good Bangla) Bagchi who quests and finds: what we got was a mostly-compelling thriller, more why-done-it than whodunit, powered by a fully rounded performance by its leading lady.

Kahaani 2 has one of the best first halves I've seen in a while. Not one frame is wasted as the set-up is introduced and teased out: a woman with a painful past encounters a young girl with whom she senses a strange bond.

There is a seamless building up of dread and tension as the woman, Durga Rani Singh (Vidya Balan) tries getting close to the unnaturally silent Mini (Naisha Singh), and finds herself drawn into an ugly situation featuring the latter's unctuous uncle (Jugal Hansraj) and creepy grandmother (Amba Sanyal).

Up until this point, we are spell-bound. There is a clear sense of the trauma Durga, whom we see struggling to sustain a romantic relationship, must have faced when she herself was a child; to be little and defenceless and in the clutches of all-powerful, abusive adults is a horror that is tough to imagine, let alone to live through.

Post-interval, Kahaani 2, which ranges from Kalimpong to Chandan Nagar to Kolkata, becomes a different film, reminding you in bits of the Bollywood Teen, and the Hollywood Kill Bill. There's an alleged kidnapping and murder, and dapper cop Inderjit Singh (Arjun Rampal) finds himself hot-footing after the elusive-but-familiar Durga, who seems to have changed names and towns. Is she is a sinner or a saint?

The pace slackens. The action becomes clunky, and some glaring contrivances crop up, and the meant-to-be-humorous bits between Rampal and his rotund boss become less and less funny.

A stealthy female harridan shows up, brandishing a razor blade. The subtle notes are dispensed with, and things start getting underlined. And then the film starts telegraphing its punches: you know, well before it is a wrap, how it will end. There can be nothing worse for a thriller.

The one who keeps you watching is Balan. She puts behind her over-wrought turn in Hamari Adhuri Kahani and gets back to doing what's she's done well in the past " giving us a solid, fleshed-out character with motivations she makes us see, and feel.

After Kahaani, which took us into a fresh space, this one disappoints. If Ghosh does plan on making a third, he'll have to up his game considerably.

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Rohini Ramnathan @rotalks

Phat ke dil haath mein. #Kahaani2 kept my heart racing. @vidya_balan, welcome back. Total surprise? #ArjunRampal @sujoy_g you did it again!

Sneha May Francis @antrumtantrum

Just done watching #Kahaani2 A sequel that doesnt match the brilliance of the first but holds its own. #VidyaBalan strikes again

Sneha May Francis @antrumtantrum

#Bollywood #review: #Kahaani2 Does Vidya Balan strike gold the second time? Take a listen https://youtu.be/ttDpKFwneFE @rampalarjun

Aniruddha Guha @AniGuha

KAHAANI 2. Creepier, moodier and darker than Kahaani. Vidya Balan remains captivating as ever. Nice hat-tips to the predecessor too.

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The story of Kahaani 2 is totally different from that of Kahaani and holds no relation to its first part. So, first of all, it can't be taken as a sequel. Moreover, the twists and turns in the film will bound you to remember Kahaani as you may confront few old characters turning up in this film, especially if we speak about the second inspector apart from Parambrata. But this particular film has all one could unexpectedly expect from a Sujoy Ghosh movie.

Foremost to keep it as the Direction portion, it is simply brilliant likewise Kahaani. The story has been narrated and developed beautifully until the end with each of the end of the threads adjoining from the second-half. The first half might be a bit blur and hard to retain but as the film moves towards its end who get every single plot striking in your head with all your jaws dropped and body freezes in the seats.

Kahaani 2 actors have completely justified their characters with Vidya Balan essaying dual roles will certainly blow your mind. Arjun Rampal has performed stupendously well with other supporting cast of Kharaj Mukherjee, Tota Roy Chowdhury, etc giving every part of their sequence best shot. Moreover, what add-on to the brilliant ensemble is the background score. Music has always played a great part in Bollywood films and when it comes to thriller films they can be the heart and soul, no doubt.

Well, Clinton has done a fabulous job with adding soul to Kahaani 2 thus making it more intriguing and watchable. The cinematography is remarkable with the editing of the entire film has simply poured spices thus making it look excellent on the platter. With one word in head, Kahaani 2: Durga Rani Singh is a MUST WATCH.

Link - http://fabnewz.com/2016/12/01/kahaani-2-movie-review-rating-durga-rani-will-bring-chills-spines/

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So, I am just on my keyboards straight from theatres to bring you the review of New Release Kahaani 2. I was pretty excited for this movie basically for 2 reasons, first I liked Kahaani very much and second combination of Sujoy Ghosh & "B"idya Balan. So let's jump straight to the point. Kahaani 2 is nothing like Kahaani 1 except the background which includes Kolkata, beautiful touch of language and few characters from Kahaani 1. This is a fresh story of a Lady Durga Rani who is injured and is in induced Coma. The story unveils along the investigation of Arjun Rampal who plays the role of cop.

The movie begins with simple story of Vidya Balan & her daughter living together in small town of Kolkata till the series of incidents start complicating the story and you start anticipating what's next. I really liked Sujoy Ghosh touching a very sensitive topic through this movie with seriousness and highlighting ignorance of society about the dark hidden truths.

The movie is gripping enough to hold you but if you compare the movie with Kahaani 1, you will find it a bit weaker in plot. Very soon you will be able to connect the dots and anticipate the whole story. Despite that, movie is a delight to watch because of beautiful cinematography. Sujoy Ghosh is one of the finest director who brings beauty amidst the towns and lives of towns of India. The connection between Vidya Balan & Arjun Rampal's character is unwanted coincident in the film and doesn't add to the story.

Vidya Balan fits very well in the character and she has performed as expected from her. Arjun Rampal is good in his role as cop. Jugal Hansraj fails to mark any impression in his very brief character. His role could have given story more grip but Sujoy hadn't worked much on his character.

Final Verdict & Rating:- Kahaani 2 is a must watch thriller with brilliant performances, background and of course the beautiful Kolkata which acts as a backbone to the plot. I rate movie 3.5 stars. It's a good movie to go out with your family for a sensible pure Kahaani.

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