
The writers ( Ghosh, Suresh Menon) catches a terrific insight on a victim’s mindfulness to a prospective prey. Mini has a dark secret too, which Durga assumes likeness to her own cruel past. Adding smiles to her solitary existence was the 6-year old Mini, a student at the school she works.

Cut to a flashback, she lived in this sleepy, hilly town called Kalimpong. Durga has a veiled immediate past and painful childhood for memories.

Kahaani 2 is about Durga Rani Singh, living a routine life in a small West Bengal town, Chandannagar. Decent merits notwithstanding, loose writing is the ugly antihero in this fast, vulnerable story. Helmed by the same lead actor ( Vidya Balan), Kahaani 2: Durga Rani Singh is no sequel but also no patch on the first offering in the franchise. A taut thriller that gave us no scope to spot bloopers, the film was also a benchmark in the so-called ‘heroine-centric’ realm of cinema. Sujoy Ghosh’s Kahaani was no ordinary film.
