#Kahaani

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Every "kabhi sunn toh zara jo main keh na saka" deserves a "tune jo na kaha main woh sunta raha"

[k-star-holic]

What if it wasn't for Suzy?

[bollywoodisforlovers]

Episode 149 - Sujoy (Ghosh) Division: Kahaani and Jaane Jaan

To celebrate Noirvember this year, we delve into the catalogue of Sujoy Ghosh with the (not exactly noir) thrillers Kahaani and this year's Netflix release Jaane Jaan. 

Show notes:

Noirvember and our Noirvember playlist

Sujoy Ghosh

Adventures in the Public Domain: Aladin and Arjun: The Warrior Prince

Kahaani

Kolkata as asphalt jungle

The effectiveness of a pregnant detective

INTERVAL ("Jaane Jaan" from Jaane Jaan)

Jaane Jaan

The Devotion of Suspect X and Keigo Higashino

Comparisons to Drishyam

"Aa Jane Jaan" from Intaquam

The Kalimpong atmosphere

NEXT TIME: Detective Balan

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[cinemapremi]

Top 10 Must-Watch Suspense Thriller Indian Movies

Top 5 Hindi Thriller movies to watch

1. Andhadhun (2018)

Release Year: 2018 IMDb Rating: 8.3/10 Star Cast: Ayushmann Khurrana, Tabu, Radhika Apte Director: Sriram Raghavan Description: A blind pianist becomes embroiled in a series of mysterious events, blurring the lines between reality and deception. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iVYI99VGaw&ab_channel=Viacom18Studios

2. Drishyam (2015)

Release Year: 2015 IMDb Rating: 8.2/10 Star Cast: Ajay Devgn, Tabu, Shriya Saran Director: Nishikant Kamat Description: A common man's ingenious efforts to cover up a crime take unexpected turns in this gripping thriller. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuuX2j14NBg&ab_channel=Viacom18Studios

3. Kahaani (2012)

Release Year: 2012 IMDb Rating: 8.1/10 Star Cast: Vidya Balan, Parambrata Chattopadhyay, Nawazuddin Siddiqui Director: Sujoy Ghosh Description: A pregnant woman's quest to find her missing husband unveils a web of secrets in the bustling city of Kolkata. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsjamVgPoI8&ab_channel=T-Series

4. Talaash (2012)

Release Year: 2012 IMDb Rating: 7.2/10 Star Cast: Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Rani Mukerji Director: Reema Kagti Description: A police officer's investigation into an accident leads him to unearth haunting truths about his own life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMkKSyd8ieo&ab_channel=T-Series

5. Ek Hasina Thi (2004)

Release Year: 2004 IMDb Rating: 7.6/10 Star Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Urmila Matondkar Director: Sriram Raghavan Description: A woman's life takes a dark turn after an encounter with a charismatic but dangerous man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovKi412VMj4&ab_channel=UltraMovieWorld

6. Badla (2019)

Release Year: 2019 IMDb Rating: 7.8/10 Star Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Taapsee Pannu Director: Sujoy Ghosh Description: A successful businesswoman seeks retribution when accused of a crime she claims she didn't commit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHWQiok-ei0&ab_channel=NetflixIndia

7. Gupt: The Hidden Truth (1997)

Release Year: 1997 IMDb Rating: 7.3/10 Star Cast: Bobby Deol, Manisha Koirala, Kajol Director: Rajiv Rai Description: A murder mystery intertwined with betrayal, deception, and a hidden truth that shocks all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsl2U855nH0&ab_channel=KajolsWorld

8. Talaash: The Hunt Begins (2003)

Release Year: 2003 IMDb Rating: 4.8/10 Star Cast: Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor, Rakhee Gulzar Director: Suneel Darshan Description: A man's quest for justice becomes a labyrinth of mysteries, leading him into a dangerous game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urvoAjFMHMI&ab_channel=ShemarooMovies

9. Ugly (2013)

Release Year: 2013 IMDb Rating: 8.1/10 Star Cast: Ronit Roy, Rahul Bhat, Tejaswini Kolhapure Director: Anurag Kashyap Description: A missing child case reveals the dark underbelly of human relationships and the lengths people go to protect their secrets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ougQY2-zpk&ab_channel=DarMovies

10. Johnny Gaddaar (2007)

Release Year: 2007 IMDb Rating: 7.9/10 Star Cast: Dharmendra, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Rimi Sen Director: Sriram Raghavan Description: A heist goes awry, leading to a web of betrayal, deceit, and unexpected twists in this neo-noir thriller. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZCxKgD5yiw&ab_channel=EntertainmentFactory In conclusion, these must-watch suspense thriller Indian movies offer a gripping cinematic journey, blending intense narratives with stellar performances. Whether you crave edge-of-your-seat suspense or intricate plot twists, these films cater to diverse tastes. Dive into the world of Indian cinema's finest thrillers, where every frame is a masterpiece of intrigue and excitement. Elevate your movie nights with these suspenseful gems and let the cinematic magic unfold! 🎥✨ #IndianThrillers #MustWatchMovies #SuspenseCinema #BollywoodThrillers Top 5 movies of Ayushmann Khurrana: must watch Also checkout: Read the full article

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Jin se aik baar dhutkaar milay unk pas palat kar janay ka jurm nahi karna chahiyay.

Yaram by Sumera Hameed

[suchananewsblog]

Looking back at why Sujoy Ghosh felt 'hurt' after Kahaani - Times of India

Kahaani is one of those rare films that can easily lay claims to being a game-changer. And yet the narrative makes no claims. The destiny of the protagonist is charted in a breathless sweep of urgently persuasive episodes that tumble out as though God wrote Vidya Bagchi’s screenplay.Vidya Balan is so flawlessly resplendent. Playing Vidya Bagchi, an NRI who lands in Kolkata heavily pregnant and…

[waeziverse]

Royal Punch: The Apple Festival(part 2)

Connie's mouth felt dry. All she could say was; "Sid..."

Atsidas the Orc held out his bag with bread. "Walnut is still your favorite, right?"

Connie looked at the orc. Then she looked at the paperbag. She then took the bag out of his hands, placed it at her feet, then she wrapped her arms around Atsidas and buried her face in his chest.

Atsidas ran a hand through her hair. "Connie, I-"

"Don't say anything." Connie tightened her hug around the orc. "Just let me have this."

"Connie, I need to pee."

Connie was still happy. But now she was also very annoyed. She let go of Atsidas and glared at him. "We have been apart for more than a year... and you didn't think to use a bathroom before our reunion?!"

"I did. Really!" Atsidas blushed. "But I need to pee again. Real bad."

Connie rolled her eyes and groaned. "... My bathroom is to the left."

"Sorry..." Atsidas went in through the front door. He paused and turned, smiling at Connie. "I missed you so much."

"I missed you like crazy." As Connie heard him close the door to the bathroom, she was unsure if she wanted to kiss him or kick him. She then turned to Santiago the Grindylow who looked very awkward.

"Soooo..." Santiago's tail tapped the ground. "That's your boyfriend? He is... well..."

Connie sighed. "Yes, he is an orc. I don't expect you to understand."

"Oh, no. It's not that. It's just..." Santiago lowered his voice in case the orc could hear him. "... He is so damn hot."

Connie couldn't help it but smirk. "Yeah, I know."

Santiago's tail tapped the ground even faster. "He got any siblings?"

"Yes, five. And they are all pricks."

"Aww, man!" Santiago then heard the sound of the toilet flushing, so he coughed. "I will just, you know... piss off."

As the sea-creature left, Connie closed the door and went to her stove, activating the heat crystal under her kettle with water that had been boiling not long ago. While she waited for the weather to boil once again, she prepared a teapot with some oolong tea that Andreas and Edward had sent her with their last letter.

After finishing his business in the bathroom, Atsidas entered the living room of Connie’s small house and took a look around. There was a round table placed in the middle of the room. One of the table’s legs had been a little bit broken, so a book had been placed under it to keep the table balanced. Two woven chairs were at the table. The window had curtains made of green fabric with a flower pattern sewn into it. A small bookshelf was placed next to the window. It had two shelves, on one was five books and on the other was a stack of letters. Traces of flour were left around the room.

Connie entered the room with a teapot in one hand and two cups in the other that she placed on the table. She looked at Atsidas and waved a hand towards the chair at the opposite side of the table while taking a seat herself. “Sit.”

“Connie, I-”

“I said; sit.” Connie raised an eyebrow at the orc as she then poured tea to both of them.

“Um, okay.” Atsidas did as he was told, then accepted the cup with steaming hot tea that Connie pushed toward him. “Am I in trouble?”

“No. Now…” Connie took a sip from her own cup. “Tell me everything.”

Atsidas blinked. “Everything what?”

“Everything since…” Connie couldn’t help but bit her lower lip as she recalled a very unpleasant memory. “... Since I left you at the hospital.”

“Well…” The young orc scratched the back of his left pointy ear as his eyes looked up at the ceiling, as if he looked for his memories. “Ah… I was in bed for a… week, maybe? Yeah, a week. You know, till they were sure I didn’t have brain damage. The healer and the hospital staff were not very nice to me.” He frowned. “Actually, I don’t think anyone in town was very nice to me. And when I got out of bed and went back to my apartment, I found out I had been kicked out of it for not paying rent.”

Connie bit her lower lip again.

Atsidas went on. “I tried to find out where I could live and where I could get a job. But I couldn’t get either of those things because everyone had heard about…” He shrugged. “Well, about you and me. And a lot of orcs pushed me around, calling me disintegrate or something.”

Connie narrowed her eyes. “Degenerate.”

“Yeah, that thing. I don’t know what it means, but I guess it is not a very nice thing.”

Connie sighed. “You don’t wanna know…”

“Anyways, I knew I had to get out of town, get a job and somehow get to Mino so I could find you. So I figured I could do sort of all of it by working on a boat.”

“Huh…” Connie took another sip from her tea. “That’s kind of smart for you.”

“Thanks.” Atsidas smiled. “So, I couldn’t get a job on a ship to Mino, but I went to another ship because I thought I might get halfway to Mino or something. My captain is a really nice guy, he said I’m a genius!”

Connie stopped herself from snorting, then raised an eyebrow. “Ah… really?”

“Yeah, but being on a ship is super easy. I don’t have to think, someone is always telling me what to do. Cleaning the deck, tying different sorts of knots, hold and not let go of a rope during a storm, I have not been thinking a single thought by myself as long as I have been at sea.” Atsidas snickered. “I don’t get what everyone else was so impressed about, it’s easy to be a sailor.”

Connie squinted her eyes, unsure if Atsidas was kidding or if he was too dumb to realize that he was apparently a prodigy when it came to sailing.

“Actually, when my ship was going to Mino and moments before that octopus attacked us, the captain asked me if I wanted to be his first mate.” Atsidas finished his tea. “I didn’t get to ask him what that means, but it sounds nice.”

Connie dropped her jaw.

“Oh, so it is a promotion? Neat! Could I have another cup?” Atsidas reached his cup towards Connie. “Well, it doesn’t matter, I wouldn’t have said yes.”

Connie poured him a fresh cup of tea. “Why not?”

The orc shrugged. “Well, if it was a promotion, then I probably had to tell others what to do, I would not be okay with that. Also… Being on that ship was always gonna be a temporary thing, I wanted to get to you.”

Connie raised an eyebrow. “If you quit being a sailor, what will you do now?”

Atsidas shrugged. “I don’t know. But the important thing is that we are together again.” Atsidas stopped smiling and looked worried. “You, ah, you still wanna be with me… right?”

Connie stood up. “What kind of stupid stupid question is that?!” She then grabbed the orc by his collar with her very firm arm, pulling him so he stood up and kissed him hard. Atsidas wrapped his arms around her and lifted her up so he didn’t have to crouch.

“OUCH!” Connie pulled away and cleaned her lip for blood with the back of her hand.

“Aww, stupid tusks.” Atsidas slapped his forehead and blushed. “Every dang time!”

“It’s fine. Now…” Connie grabbed Atsidas and pulled the orc with her as she marched. “Let’s go.”

“Go where?”

“To bed, obviously.”

“Wha- Hey, hold up.” Atsidas pulled himself free. “Isn’t it… I don’t know, are we going too fast? We haven’t been together for a while.”

“Exactly.” Connie placed a hand on the orc’s chest and looked him directly in the eyes with a look that had a weird mix of stern and sad. “Sid, you are my best friend, my boyfriend, my soulmate and, not the least, my lover. And you haven’t touched me for what feels like a lifetime.” Her eyes now just looked stern. “Get in my bed and love me like there is no tomorrow!”

Atidas took his shirt off. “Yes, ma'am.”

***

Atsidas gasped, letting out a little laugh. He then started to move so he would get off Connie, but the human woman had her arms around him tightly.

“Stay like that. I like feeling your weight pressed against me.”

Atsidas did as he was told, his elbows against the mattress so he wouldn’t squeeze her.

Connie smiled. She wanted this moment to last forever.

“So…” Atsidas kissed Connie on the forehead. “What about you?”

Connie sighed as she let go of her grip around Atsidas and stroked his back. “What about me?”

“Well, I told you what I've been doing. How about you? How did the whole… well, being-pregnant thing go?”

Connie stopped smiling. The moment had been ruined. She pushed the orc away from her.

“I’m sorry.” Atsidas pouted as he took a seat at the edge of the bed. “Did I say something wrong?”

Connie had crossed her arms and turned her head away from Atsidas while still lying on her back. She groaned. “No. No, you didn’t say anything wrong, it’s just…” She sat up on the other side of the bed, her back turned to Atsidas. “You know how some mothers tell you about how wonderful it is to be pregnant?”

Atsidas shrugged, he had turned his torso as much as he could so he could look at the back of Connie. “I mean, I guess.”

“Well, I couldn’t see what was so great about it. It was the most… uncomfortable period of my life. Ever.”

“Shit, really?”

“I felt like a balloon filled with water. But the water was… alive and punished me. I was weak like an old grandmother, losing my breath over nothing.” Connie nudged her temples. “I felt so… pathetic! I don’t ever want to go through that nightmare again.”

Atsidas scratched the back of his hand while staring at his knees. “I’m so sorry…”

“I’m not sure if I could have gone through this and not lose my gods-damned mind if it hadn’t been for Andreas and Edward.” She rolled her eyes. “They must have thought I was nuts when I started eating like a pig.”

Atsidas blinked. “Who's Andreas and Edward?”

“Oh, um…” Connie blushed, unsure why she did so. “They are… They are the couple who adopted the kid.”

“Oh…” Atsidas didn’t know what else to say. He felt strange.

“They were… well, nice.” Connie shrugged. “It’s such a lame word to describe them, but they were. As soon as I got in contact with them, they insisted on living with me for the last two months, taking care of me.”

“Right.”

Connie turned to look at Atsidas who was now the one to have his back turned against her. She narrowed her eyes. “You are not… mad at me, are you? We agreed that adoption was for the best.”

“No, no. I’m not, it’s just… Does it sound stupid if I say that I don’t know how I feel about it?”

Connie stood up and walked around the bed so she could sit next to Atsidas. “Na. It’s not stupid.”

“I mean, I knew that you had found parents to adopt… Or I was pretty sure you had. But now…” He shook his head. “I feel weird about it.”

Connie rested her head against Atsidas’ left shoulder. She still hadn’t gotten used to the feeling of his thick green hide. How it made her feel… at peace.

Atsidas blinked. “Wait, I’m confused.”

Connie placed her hand in his massive one. “I get if you need to get used to the idea-”

“Oh, no. Not that. It’s just… which one of them is the mom?”

“What?”

“Andreas and Edward, which one of them is the mom? Is Edward a girl’s name?”

There was an awkward pause as Connie didn't understand the question. But then she groaned and slapped her forehead. "There is no mom! THEY ARE GAY, STUPID!"

"... Oh. Ooooh, right." Atsidas blushed. "Got it. Duh."

“You are lucky you are cute.” Connie smirked, she couldn’t help it. “Look, they are good men, and I’m sure they will spoil the hell out of the kid. Does that make you feel less… whatever it is you are about it?”

“I mean… yeah.” Atsidas smiled. “Yeah, I think so.”

“They wrote me a couple of letters. I could read them for you if you like?”

Atsidas hugged her. “Maybe, I’m not sure.”

Connie buried her face in his chest. “So, tell me… You quit working working on that boat you came on?”

“Yeah, I told you, I just wanted to get to-”

“So my boyfriend is a jobless bum again?”

“Ah, oh… Yeah, I should probably find somewhere I could get work.”

“So once again, all you got going for you is that you are big, nice-looking, but not much else.”

Atsidas grinned. “Well, I’m VERY nice-looking.”

Connie snorted. She didn’t do that often, but Atsidas the Orc had that effect on her. “A pretty good Apple Festival after all.”

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Gadar 2 vs OMG 2 vs Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani show-sharing update: Less than 24 hours to go for release and bookings still haven’t begun in certain single screen cinemas : Bollywood News

Less than 24 hours are remaining for the release of Gadar 2 and OMG 2 and shockingly, the show-sharing issues are yet to be resolved fully. Usually, such fights have taken place even in the past. But this time, an unusual scenario has emerged as in different circuits, the distributors of each film are different. Gadar 2 vs OMG 2 vs Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani show-sharing update: Less than…

[invigoratorypoesy]

क्या गम थे , उन लबों पे छुपे हुए ,उन आँखों में बसे थे जो , अधूरी हसी बनके . कहा है वो परिंदा , कहा हैं वो फ़रिश्ता ,

एक आग सा बना है तो वो ओस कि बूंदो सा जमा हुआ ,

कहा छुपी है वो मोम सी गुड़िया इस इंसानी लिबाज़ में , ढूंढ सकता है जिसे बस वो हैवान हर अंदाज़ में . कहानी है ये अलग़ मिज़ाज कि , दो रास्ते अलग निशान के , न वो जाने है गुम कहा उसकी मंजिल, न ही पहचाने वो कहा ठहरी हैं उसकी ख्वाइश .

[questkahaniya]

एकता में बल हैं | Moral story | panchatantra ki Kahaniya | Hindi Kahani #questkahaniya #kahani

[k-star-holic]

Moon Bin sister' Moon Sua, eventually active Abortion-rights movements .. "Still missed brother"

[musiquesduciel]

It should be mandatory for all Bollywood hits to have an Epilogue or at least a reference in the director's next movie about what the characters from the previous movie are upto years after the events of the movie.

Like I wanna know how Aditya Kashyap and Geet are doing 15 years into their marriage and if they ended up buying a house in the hills. I wanna know how Prem and Jenny from Ajab Prem Ki Gazab Kahaani are doing and if Prem made her VP of the Happy Club. I wanna know if Aisha and Sid from Wake Up Sid! ended up marrying and if she published her own book with his photography on its cover. If Aditi and Jai from Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na have kids who they teach the steps of Pappu Can't Dance? If Bittu and Roshan from Delhi-6 got married and settled down in the same villa Roshan’s grandma brought him to? If Kavya and Humpty Sharma moved to the US eventually and opened their own wedding gown/lehenga shop. What country Naina and Bunny from Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani are currently in. Did Om Kapoor end up marrying Sandy after Om Shanti Om? Or does he visit the burned site to meet Shanti everyday? So many questions.

[aadhiskanmani]

[crazybollywood]