Kahani 2: Durga Rani Singh

"Kahani 2: Durga Rani Singh".

Watched Hindi movie "Kahani 2: Durga Rani Singh". 

This movie is directed by Sujoy Ghosh. Written by Sujoy Ghosh, Suresh Nair. Produced by Sujoy Ghosh, Kushal Gada. Music by Clinton Serejo. Cinematography by Tapan Basu. It starts Vidya Balan, Arjun Rampal, Jugal Hansraj, Nisha Khanna, Tunisha Sharma, Manini Chadha, Amba Sanyal. Film runs for about 2 hour and 10 minutes and was released in 2016. I watched it with Aditi on 8th Jan 2022 on Zee5.

This movie is is a spiritual sequel to original Kahani. It basically means although director and lead actress are same, there is no relation between the two stories. Is a gimmick to capitalize on success of first movie. 

Vidya lives with her handicapped daughter (Mini) and saves every rupee possible to treat her in America. Her daughter is kidnapped. Vidya is injured in an accident. Police investigate. Kolkata police are also looking for Durga on the charge of murder and kidnapping. Investigating officer is Arjun who was once married to Vidya.

Did Durga kill and kidnap? Are Durga and Vidya same person? Will Arjun get his long awaited promotion? Who kidnapped Mini?

The story is good. The flow is decent. But a lot of scenes are in dark. It was not really required. Some more light would have helped. Director captures soul of Kolkata very well. 

Vidya does well. She deserves credit for  looking unglamorous. She doesn't look wow even in one shot. Arjun plays the sub inspector well. He looks the part. Nisha and Tunisha are very sweet. They play six year old and fourteen year old Mini respectively. Casting director deserves credit for casting these two to play the character. You really think that second is a grown up version of first. 

Music and Cinematography is ok.

Movie ends with a twist that was almost expected and movie goers would have no problem in guessing it. 

Watch if you have spare time. Don't make time for it.