A grandfather, police officer and a priest join hands to investigate and find a missing child.
Acting
Bachchan's physicality—stooped, shuffling, devastating.
Cinematography
Kolkata as character: monsoon-grey, claustrophobic, beautiful.
Direction
Dasgupta remixes Kahaani's tension with zero glamour.
Director
Ribhu Dasgupta
Amitabh Bachchan
John Biswas
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Martin Das
Vidya Balan
Sarita Sharma
Padmavati Rao
Nancy Biswas
Mukesh Chhabra
Tariq (Estate Agent)
Prakash Belawadi
Kumar
Masood Akhtar
Imambara Official
Tota Roy Chowdhury
Peter Roy, Angela's Father
Sabyasachi Chakraborty
Manohar
Paritosh Sand
ACP
Suneel Sinha
Hari Prakash
Ardhendu Banerjee
Police Commissioner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Remake of 2013 Korean film Montage, but Dasgupta shifted focus to the grandfather's perspective instead of the mother's.
Bachchan insisted on wearing his own hearing aid on screen—rare vulnerability from a megastar who built his image on invincibility.
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