

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
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.