Cast: Kay Kay Menon, Parvin Dabbas, Prashant Narayanan, Rajat Kapoor, Simone Singh, Sandhya Mridul, Sonali Kulkarni, Vinay Pathak and others
Director:Arindam Nandy
Producer:Joy Ganguly
Music:Prabuddha Banerjee
Date of Released:June 27th, 2008
'Via Darjeeling' is Directed by Arindam Nandy. The director wanted to come out with a suspense kind of story but then he failed on the narration aspect though the presentation was neat. But the idea of bringing out a tale of twists and turns was good.
A tale with multiple endings, the story begins on a backdrop of typical 'Adda' concept prominent in Bengal and a group of friends (Rajat, Simone, Sandhya, Prashant) along with their cop friend inspector Robin Datt (Vinay Pathak) get together. Robin starts off with a tale that happened two years ago when a newly married couple Ankur (Kay Kay Menon) and Rimli (Sonali) come to the beautiful hill station of Darjeeling for their honeymoon. After spending few good days, life takes a turn for Rimli when suddenly Ankur goes missing.
Despite her best efforts, she is unable to trace him and in comes inspector Robin who starts investigating the case and ends up with no results, the only suspects in hand is a possible taxi driver with whom Ankur has a tiff and then there is the shady looking man Bonny (Parvin) who according to Rimli is stalking her ever since she arrived in Darjeeling. The friends are now intrigued by the whole happenings and what follows from there is the different interpretations of the situation from each of them. What happens in the end. And what happens hereafter is to be seen on the screen.
Performances:
Not much help was given to Director Arindam Nandy due to the shoddy camerawork, rough editing, the story itself with lot of loose ends. The script was having a lot of loopholes and the screenplay was okay. The music has come out with some real good tunes this time and suited the mood of the film. The cast has come out with some real good performance. Kay Kay Menon as always scored hundred points while Sonali was a real show stealer, Vinay Pathak was excellent, Rajat was super, Sandhya Mridul looked wild and attractive and equally good was her performance, Prashant was perfect, Simone was sweet. The others did their bit as required.
Verdict:Average |  |
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