A
decade
ago
when
Sujoy
Ghosh's
film
Kahaani
released
in
theatres
on
this
day
(March
9),
little
did
the
makers
know
that
it
would
eventually
go
on
to
become
one
of
the
most
effective
thrillers
of
all
time
in
Hindi
cinema.
With
two
flops
behind
him,
Ghosh
had
approached
novelist-writer
Advaita
Kala
with
an
idea.
The
latter
with
her
previous
experience
in
Kolkata,
weaved
it
into
a
story
and
the
rest
is
history!
Starting
with
the
close-up
shot
of
a
white
lab
rat
being
exposed
to
a
toxin,
Ghosh
set
the
stage
for
thrills
quite
early,
before
he
took
us
to
the
busy
streets
of
Kolkata
filled
with
yellow
taxis,
puchka
stalls
and
fish
markets.
From
there
till
the
last
shot
of
a
Durga
statue
getting
submerged
in
water,
the
director
made
his
jigsaw
puzzle
full
of
'suspense'.
While
Vidya
Balan,
Parambrata
Chatterjee
and
Nawazuddin
Siddiqui
put
their
best
foot
forward
here,
Kahaani
is
incomplete
without
the
mention
of
Indraneil
Sengupta
who
played
the
role
of
Vidya's
missing
husband
Arnab
Bagchi,
before
Ghosh
throws
in
a
twist
right
at
the
end.
On
the
completion
of
10
years
of
Kahaani
today,
Filmibeat
got
in
touch
with
Indraneil
Sengupta.
Speaking
about
how
he
bagged
the
role,
the
actor
tells
us
that
he
was
offered
Kahaani
when
he
was
shooting
for
a
Bengali
movie
in
Kolkata.
"I
was
shooting
for
a
Bengali
film
in
Kolkata
at
that
time
and
I
got
a
call
from
Sujoy's
office
for
this
role," the
actor
reveals
in
the
interaction.
Calling
working
on
Kahaani
a
breezy
experience,
Sengupta
is
all
praise
for
his
director
Sujoy
Ghosh
and
co-star
Vidya
Balan.
Indraneil
shares,
"The
experience
was
easy
breezy.
Sujoy
is
an
absolutely
stress
free
person
to
work
with
and
Vidya
is
a
dream
co-actor.
So
it
was
fun
all
the
time."
One
of
the
biggest
highlights
of
Kahaani
is
its
high-voltage
climax,
where
a
heavily
pregnant
Vidya
Bagchi
(Vidya
Balan)
confronts
the
terrorist
(Milan
Damji)
who
killed
her
husband,
and
Ghosh
drops
a
shocker
of
sorts.
On
being
asked
what
was
the
most
challenging
part
of
his
role,
Indraneil
reveals,
"The
two
characters,
Arnab
of
Vidya's
'kahaani'
and
Milan
Damji
were
diametrically
opposite.
So
to
play
the
loving
Arnab
and
the
ruthless
Milan
in
the
same
film
was
the
most
challenging
part."
While
for
Vidya
Balan's
character
Vidya
Bagchi,
her
'kahaani'
was
a
tool
to
avenge
her
husband's
murder,
for
the
audience,
it's
a
classic
example
of
a
story
well
told
with
the
right
mix
of
emotions
and
mystery!