Rahasya (2014-2015)


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The Great Kay Kay Menon

Text below written 2016-03-19


Rahasya
is one of 2 films that in 2014-2015 has been made about the in India very famous Aarushi Talwar double
murder case in 2008 where a young girl was found murdered at home in her bed with her throat cut, and close by
also the servant Hemraj. The Case it's known as The Noida Double Murder Case and it took place near Delhi.
The "Other" film about this famous murder case is Talvar, but this Rahasya takes some liberties and add some murders
to the pot and tells a slightly different story. Even though this, the relatives to Aarushi Talwar tried to stop the film
Rahasya due to similarities and the Court decided the film could be shown first in January 2016.
Also Talvar is Very Good and also has a Bollywood Super Actor in it, the amazing Irrfan Khan.

The Story of Rahasya:

The Mahayan Family, that's Doctor Sachin (Ashish Vidyarthi) and his surgeon wife, Aarti (Tisca Chopra) and their
teenage daughter Ayesha (Sakshi Sem), the latter mostly seen dead with the exception of some flashbacks.
One morning the family's servant Remi (Ashwini Kalsekar) find Ayesha dead in her bed with her throat cut and
first the male servant Chetan, who has disappeared, is suspected, but is later found dead with his throat cut in some
locked room in the vicinities. A neighbour boy Riyaz (Kunal Sharma) is suspected as he's been seen with blood on
his clothes and then disappeared but finally the police arrest the father Dr. Sachin for a suspected honor killing

And now the CBI (The Central Bureau of Investigation) steps in to re-do the CSI work, and what's the difference
really between CID (The Crime Investigation Department) and CBI, i don't know ? In the other Talwar film Irrfan
Khan is a CID inspector. But here CBI man Sunil Paraskar is played by Kay Kay Menon (see pic above) and
Kay Kay, he's one of the King Actors in Bollywood film, one of the Great ones (with Irrfan, Nawazuddin, Nasee-
ruddin etc.) and he's eating walnuts (good for the brain) and he's sleuthing and sniffing around like a bloodhound

Who Dunnit ?

This film starts out depicting the Talwar murder case just like the Talvar film, but then stretch out the story with
some gruesome murders and the bodies are piling up. It plays out more like a Who Dunnit Murder Mystery
and almost everyone in the film has got a motive. As maybe the neighbours, the Chhabria's, with the surgeon
Doctor Hansal (MJ Bikramjeet Kanwarpal) and his unfaithfully horny and hot wife Brinda (Mita Vashist).
It's very entertaining, murders en masse, well made with great acting and nice visuals from Faroukh Mistry's
camera. anamorphic widescreen, hindi 5.1 or 2.0 audio, 2 hours 4 minutes.
Extra: Director's note, storyboards and press articles about the real Aarushi Talwar murder case.
Director Gupta once wrote the script to crime drama Sarkar and this was his 4th directed film, and he also
used Kay Kay Menon in his The Stoneman Murders (which i haven't seen, but it's supposed to be good)


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