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This 'kidnap' movie has two endings - a Hollywood style and a new rebellious Bollywood style.
The Home Minister's young son is kidnapped by a poor man and the entire team of police officers and other members of the government and media are trying to track him down. Yet this is not a ransom movie. All the kidnapper wants is his son back who, we initially assume, must have been kidnapped by someone. After display of lot of anger and screaming and sophisticated gadgetry ,include Apple tablets, the team cannot track him down because the kidnapper and his victim keep moving in Indian buses and trains.
Finally, we discover that the kidnapper's only son was killed in the collapse of bridge caused by faulty construction. It is in the scenes displaying father's shock when he first hears the news of his son's death in the hospital that Irrfan shines as an actor !! [ It is obvious that his mind is finding it difficult to believe that his son is gone when we see him looking around and calling his son's name even after hearing the news of his death while holding his son's shoes and school bag..]
The kidnapped child develops sympathy for his kidnapper, which is not the classic Stockholm syndrome but real empathy for a grieving father.
Towards the end , like in a Hollywood Denzel Washington movie, the kidnapper is shot by the police at a bus stop. But this is not a Hollywood movie and therefore there is an alternate ending : the kidnapper asks that the home minister and the bridge construction team appear in his small residence along with a TV person or he will blow up the child and himself. They are forced to oblige. So on live TV the kidnapper makes the responsible people confess that the bridge collapsed due to the endemic corrupt practices of the contractor as well as the responsible government people. Then the kidnapper releases everyone and turns himself in.
This 'kidnap' movie has two endings - a Hollywood style and a new rebellious Bollywood style.
The Home Minister's young son is kidnapped by a poor man and the entire team of police officers and other members of the government and media are trying to track him down. Yet this is not a ransom movie. All the kidnapper wants is his son back who, we initially assume, must have been kidnapped by someone. After display of lot of anger and screaming and sophisticated gadgetry ,include Apple tablets, the team cannot track him down because the kidnapper and his victim keep moving in Indian buses and trains.
Finally, we discover that the kidnapper's only son was killed in the collapse of bridge caused by faulty construction. It is in the scenes displaying father's shock when he first hears the news of his son's death in the hospital that Irrfan shines as an actor !! [ It is obvious that his mind is finding it difficult to believe that his son is gone when we see him looking around and calling his son's name even after hearing the news of his death while holding his son's shoes and school bag..]
The kidnapped child develops sympathy for his kidnapper, which is not the classic Stockholm syndrome but real empathy for a grieving father.
Towards the end , like in a Hollywood Denzel Washington movie, the kidnapper is shot by the police at a bus stop. But this is not a Hollywood movie and therefore there is an alternate ending : the kidnapper asks that the home minister and the bridge construction team appear in his small residence along with a TV person or he will blow up the child and himself. They are forced to oblige. So on live TV the kidnapper makes the responsible people confess that the bridge collapsed due to the endemic corrupt practices of the contractor as well as the responsible government people. Then the kidnapper releases everyone and turns himself in.
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