Via Darjeeling Movie Review Kay Kay Menon Flick
The movie Via Darjeeling dishes out a mystery in which interpreters roll out their own versions of a missing link, to an extent even the viewer has to chance his own interpretation. The director Arindam Nandy has tried experimenting with a plot which gives a feel of being best suited the small screen, in episodes.
The plot begins with a newly wed couple Ankur (Kay Kay Menon) and Rimli (Sonali Kulkarni) on their honeymoon in Darjeeling. On the way back to Calcutta, Ankur happens to disappear. Rimli frantically asks the hotel authorities to call in for the cops, the inspector Robin Dutt (Vinay Pathak) starts off investigating. He figures out from Rimli that Ankur had a fight with the rash hotel taxi driver and also came in heavily on the hotel manager as well. She also states of being stalked by a stranger Bonny (Pravin Dabbas) throughout their trip.
The scene moves two years post the incident wherein Inspector Dutt’s alongwith group of friends Ronodeep Sen (Rajat Kapoor), Preeti Sen (Simone Singh), Mallika Tiwari (Sandhya Mridul), Kaushik Chatterjee (Proshant Narayanan) are having gup-shup on a rainy day with drinks and dinner. Dutt narrates the story and everyone is keen to know what happened to Ankur, but Dutt responds of being unaware as he was told by his superiors not to investigate further. Now, each one of them comes up with their own versions indicating individual personality perceptions.
The director Arindam Nandy does catch attention quite a few times in the duration of 2 hours. The dialogues by Atul Sabharwal rightly fit the bill. The music is okay and doesn’t seem detached. The story should have had the final factual inputs from Inspector Dutt, about Ankur.
Kay Kay the perfectionist, as is always. Sonali Kulkarni has been a revelation with wide array emotion display. Vinay Pathak, Pravin Dabbas, Rajat Kapoor, Simone Singh, Sandhya Mridul and Proshant Narayanan complement each other very well. The star cast has been well chosen for the flick.
Via Darjeeling is more of a experimental cinema, which does not give you an answer but leaves you to have your own interpretation…………
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