In the present timeline, Inderjit has taken the responsibilities of the investigation into his own hands while the past events chronicled in the diary keeps unfolding from his perspective as he spends all of his free time devouring the pages.
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Quick to arrive at the scene of crime is Sub-inspector Inderjit Singh (Arjun Rampal), a meticulous, dedicated, laconic and dapper cop who stumbles upon an old diary carrying details of a series of dark events that happened in the faraway town of Kalimpong eight years ago involving the sexual abuse of a little girl and also possibly the real identity of Vidya, currently lying in coma in a local nursing home.įew nicely written and well-crafted scenes put things into motion with an easy yet steady pace and within about fifteen minutes of the film, the narrative modes are firmly established. However, the sudden disappearance of the daughter, a mysterious phone call and Vidya’s immediate hit and run accident hint towards a far more complicated network of events. The film opens with Vidya Sinha (Vidya Balan), settled in the subaltern town of Chandannagar whose apparent mission in life is the betterment and general well-being of her teenage daughter Mini, whose entire lower body is paralysed. As a film, Kahaani 2 builds its strength upon certain key aspects of detective narration and when it fails, the failure can be attributed to its inability to understand and execute certain other essential aspects of the same. It might come across as an indulgent and erudite exercise but often a precise evaluation of a film might call for such an effort instead of the usual broad lined discussion about the plot, performances and a summarized analysis of the technical departments. But simply because of the fact that certain observations and resultant discussions about it might lead to a better understanding of the generic nuances and the narrative functioning of a detective story. Making an attempt to review Sujoy Ghosh’s Kahaani 2: Durga Rani Singh, it might be a more fruitful exercise and an interesting idea to draw attention to the film’s screenplay not because it is flawless or path breaking in any sense.