Ranked #50 of 100
Kahaani
कहानी · 2012
A pregnant woman lands in Kolkata during Durga Puja to find a husband nobody remembers meeting.
- Director
- Sujoy Ghosh
- Year
- 2012
- Genre
- Thriller
- Cast
- Vidya Balan, Parambrata Chatterjee, Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Why it's at number 50
Vidya Balan carrying a mainstream thriller alone, and a final act that re-reads every earlier frame.
A pregnant woman lands in Kolkata during Durga Puja to find a husband nobody remembers meeting.
Kahaani sits in the 2010s alongside Gangs of Wasseypur and Masaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Sujoy Ghosh.
- Released in 2012, in the 2010s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Thriller.
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