![]() But he is like a man possessed on the job because of a sensitive incident in his life. It’s also revealed that Surjan is married to Roshni (Rani Mukerji). The clues lead him to Mumbai’s red-light area where he jostles between pimps and prostitutes looking for answers. Aamir Khan (Surjan Singh Shekhawat) is the cop in charge of the case. The trouble is, it doesn’t stay with you much longer.The plot revolves around a bizarre high profile death of a movie star Armaan Kapoor (Vivaan Bhatena). Kareena Kapoor pouts, smiles and plays the mysterious girl on the street to the hilt, sometimes overdoing her act.ĭespite its glitches and slow pace, “Talaash” is likely to keep you engaged for the 140 minutes you spend watching it. Rani Mukerji, sans make-up and dressed rather shabbily, plays the part of the melancholy wife with restraint. It’s a credit to Aamir Khan though that he carries off even these heavy bits flawlessly. ![]() What is wrong with making a murder mystery just about the murder? Does it have to have an “emotional” angle? Kagti dwells on Shekhawat’s personal tragedy far too long, with songs and flashbacks, taking away from the urgency of the mystery at hand. The red herrings are obvious, and so are the motives, and the director has a tendency to over-state its plot points. What should have been a taut thriller about a murder that doesn’t seem like a murder becomes a film that isn’t here nor there. Like many whodunits before, Kagti puts an “emotional core” at the heart of “Talaash”, but it doesn’t serve much purpose except to slow the film down. Wracked by guilt, he roams the streets of the city that never sleeps at night, leaving his wife Roshni (Rani Mukerji) to deal with the tragedy on her own. Kagti makes a stylised film, a murder mystery that also has an emotional undercurrent and borrows strongly from well-known Hollywood films of the genre (I won’t say which ones for fear of revealing the plot).Īamir Khan plays troubled police inspector Surjan Singh Shekhawat, who moves to Mumbai after his son’s death in a freak boating accident. ![]() After that it was just a matter of waiting to see how it plays out. ![]() The second-worst thing is when you figure out the twist yourself, halfway through the film.Ĭall it a result of watching too many whodunits as a kid, but the twist in Reema Kagti’s “Talaash” was apparent an hour before it ended. The worst thing to happen while watching a murder mystery is someone telling you the twist in the tale even before the movie began. ![]()
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