Talaash

Bringing alive a world in itself is what director Reema Kagti manages to do with an appreciable panache.

Inspector Shekhawat Suri (Aamir Khan) investigates a case of a mysterious car accident of a filmstar. Suri is also entangled in a complicated private life after having lost his son in past. The incident leaves his wife Roshni (Rani Mukherjee) in psychological distress as the couple find it hard to forget the mishap. Rosie (Kareena Kapoor), a prostitute lures Suri while helping him in his search.

Tinged with thriller-flavor is a sequence of an unbelievably shocking car accident. A high speeding car takes off a sudden turn for no reason, cuts through the pavement and splashes down straight into water, causing an impassioned death. Here on, no looking back. Sudden high paced movements with thundering music recur with a comfortably unforgivable disposition. An ambience of local prostitutes and their dealers sets in contrasting with the A-graded filmstars’s world. Soon the police and his team get down to work as the case clumsily involves the men in brown to polish their grey cells and find link between the two.

The director seems to relish upon a non-existent but yet prevalent chemistry between her leads. Watch out for the glamorous Kapoor trying to entice a conscientious Khan in a virtual amorous encounter. Few apt dialogues and some reticence do the magical trick with near perfection.

A psychological angle that is an amalgam of Suri’s personal and professional life churns mind with curiosity and brings out the essence of the story very well. The writers do a fabulous job of balancing, amalgamating and associating.

Certain segments do seem borrowed possessing a Hollywoodish blend while others leverage upon factors that inevitably entertain. The film does not stipulate any novel message to its audience. Yet its meticulous screenplay and conviction enable it to do justice with its genre. Certain scenes deserve an applause- for instance, the one in which a disabled man jumps off a train and gets on the shutter of the platform and the one in which Inspector Suri performs the burning ceremony paying his respects.

With a suspicion inducing melodic soundtrack and some very good performances, the thriller ends up being gripping and convincing.

RATING- 4 stars