Khaad
Directed byKaushik Ganguly
Screenplay byKaushik Ganguly
Story byPrasen (Prasenjit Mukherjee), Srijato
Produced byShrikant Mohta and Mahendra Soni
StarringPallavi Chatterjee
Ardhendu Banerjee
Lily Chakravarty
Rudranil Ghosh
Gargi Roy Choudhury
CinematographySoumik Haldar
Edited byBodhaditya Banerjee
Music byIndraadip Dasgupta
Production
company
Release date
  • 7 November 2014 (2014-11-07)
Running time
140 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Khaad (Bengali: খাদ; English: The Abyss) is a 2014 Indian Bengali film directed by Kaushik Ganguly. It's about a story of a group of people trying to make-out alive of a situation that tests their strength, patience and resilience.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]

Story

Because of a taxi strike, a group of tourists, mostly unrelated to each other, get stuck in New Mal Junction. These people are honeymooners (Saheb and Mimi), family vacationers (Pallavi Chatterjee, Koushik Banerjee, Tridha Choudhury), an ailing mother and her son (Lily Chakraborty, Kaushik Ganguly), a priest (Ardhendu Banerjee), an actress and her mentally challenged brother (Gargi Roy Choudhury, Rajdeep Ghosh), one trekker (Kamaleshwar Mukherjee), a bus conductor (Rudranil), and a retired teacher (Maasud Akthar). One of the tourists, the priest manages to arrange a bus from the church for them to reach North Bengal. The other tourists also join him in the bus trip, but unfortunately the bus meets with a terrible accident. It falls off a cliff into an abyss, but the tourists survive with minor injuries. Injured and traumatized, they realize that they have become completely detached from any form of human contact. It was also not possible to climb 400–500 ft so easily during the daylight hours that were remaining that day. So they decide to spend that night there and think they will try to find another way out the next day. While spending that night, they decide to play a game. The priest suggests a game which is to reveal everyone's secret or anything that the person wants to confess to the world but never gathered courage. This secret is to be left behind in the abyss and from the next day, they could begin afresh. Everyone agrees. Gradually, the situation starts to change while the game progresses. Everyone's darkest secrets are revealed one by one. This goes on until the wee hours of the night.Finally, we discover that all the tourists had died in the tragic accident.

Cast

Soundtrack

Track listing
No.TitleSinger(s)Length
1."Ami Achi"Arijit Singh6:14
2."Asatoma Sadgamaya"Arijit Singh5:18
3."Mutho Aaj"Indraadip Dasgupta3:45
4."Mutho Aaj (Reprise)"Arnob4:38
5."Khaad Theme"Instrumental 

References

  1. ↑ "'Khaad' review: Filmmaker Kaushik Ganguly's Bengali film celebrates humanity in its absolute sense". IBNLive. Archived from the original on 28 November 2014. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
  2. ↑ "Khaad's ending killed my sleep: Usha Uthup". The Times of India. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
  3. ↑ "Khaad (The Fall) – Dola Mitra". Retrieved 27 November 2014.
  4. ↑ "Khaad (Bengali) / A gripping portrayal of crisis". The Indian Express. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
  5. ↑ "Khaad: VIP screening". The Times of India. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
  6. ↑ Ganguly, Ruman (9 November 2014) My wife says, post lunch, I don't deliver my best: Kaushik Ganguly. Times of India
  7. ↑ "Khaad". The Times of India. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
  8. ↑ Kaushik Ganguly seeks to explore dark abyss of human psyche | Business Standard News. Business-standard.com. 1 November 2014.
  9. ↑ Press Trust of India (15 March 2014). "Kaushik Ganguly's 'Khad' unmasks the true self: Saheb". Retrieved 27 November 2014.
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