Ugly

Plot synopsis:
Spoiler text There are many events throughout the whole movie which included search and suspicion of characters around story but they are not narrated here Kali is a 10 year old daughter out of the divorced couple Shalini Bose (Tejswini Kolhapure) and Rahul Kapoor (Rahul Bhat). Rahul pickup Kali on Saturday - the only day on which he is allowed to take out his daughter. Between their way towards a cartoon movie they stop for awhile to meet Chaitnya Mishra (Vineeth Kumar), Rahul's best friend for a quick audition of struggling actor Rahul. Kali rejects to come with him and she sits in the car on a crowded Mumbai street and ask Rahul to come back soon. Rahul waits for his friend Chaitnya at his home leaving car parked with Kali in the street.While waiting Kali sees a mask-vendor who is trying to sell animal masks and Kali is attracted (but does not get out of car,presumably) Chaitnya comes after few minutes to meet Rahul and says Kali is not in the car and the door was open. Rahul runs to find and Chaitnya follows him. They ask everyone on street if they saw any little girl but nobody answer. Chaitnya spots the mask vendor Shrilal (Murari Kumar) and ask him but Srilal do not answer and stare instead. Chaitnya sees that Shrilal is having iPhone of Kali and ask him how did he had that phone. Shrilal runs and both Rahul and chaitnya follows. In a long chase, Shrilal gets hit by a car/truck and dies instantly.Rahul and Chaitnya goes to police station to meet Inspector Rane (Sandesh Jadhav) to file missing report of Kali and death of Shrilal. While the continues unwanted, not-so-funny questions by Rane and his team to Rahul, Rane ask Rahul's home number to call. Rane realise after dialing that the number belongs to his Head and Senior Inspector Shoumik Bose [nm0747172] who is a very rough, rude but yet respected and honest police officer. Thus concluding that Shoumik is step-father of Kali. Rane calls Shoumik and he arrives instantly at police station. Police goes to Shrilal's house to see if he has kept Kali there but there is only Shrilal's aged aunt who denies having kidnapped any kid. Police search arounds but do not found Kali. Shoumik hits Rahul and Chaitnya very much and we see in flashback that all Shoumik, Rahul and Shalini were in same college where Shoumik and Rahul both wanted Shalini but Shalini was attracted to much handsome Rahul and Shoumik was teased a lot. In today, Shoumik blams Rahul for the kidnapping of Kali because he can't meet her daily and Shalini keeps her away from him because of his drinking habit. But later it is revealed that Kali is not kidnapped by Rahul.Chaitnya, who is having lots of pending dues to pay make a fake call to the Rahul asking for a ransom amount of Rs. 10 Lacs but before Rahul can arrange money Chaintnya's call is traced and Rane catches and again hits Chaitnya very much to find out if he has Kali. Shoumik ask Rahul to talk with Chaitnya to find out where is Kali but it is revealed again after few scenes that Chaitnya is also not behind the kidnapping. Between we again see a flashback that after marrying Rahul, Shalini was not happy since Rahul didn't had any job as actor and they lived in a very small room without money for very long. Kali was born and aged 5 years around. Chaitnya visits Shalini and Shalini who is angry and bored from money-less dull life and fighting life mixes a very little amount of sleeping powder in Kali's milk for her own greed of satisfaction and spends night with Chaitnya. Shoumik married Shalini when once Shalini was beaten cruelly by Rahul but Shoumik never loved Shalini the way a husband do.We are introduced by Rakhi Malhotra who is best friend of Shalini but is having affair with Shalini's first husband Rahul leaving her own husband aside. Rakhi is a struggling actor like Rahul and is out of money. She also takes advantage of Kali's kidnapping by calling for ransom and asking sum of Rupees 20 Lacs. To arrange this money Rahul goes to loot a jewelry store but is failed. Other than this, Shalini's brother Siddhant (Siddharth Kapoor) who is a local smuggler and is out of money also tries to dig gold by calling Shalini for ransom and asks 50 lacs. Shalini, again, greedy for money and bored from husband adds her own amount and ask from her father total of 65 lacs for ransom and says that kidnapper has strictly said not to tell Shoumik about this. Her Father arranges money and Shalini after deducting her own amount and gives rest to Siddhant not knowing that it is him who is asking and not any kidnapper. Shoumik comes to know this and goes to Shalini shouting that she cheated her father - and ask where is remaining amount and Kali is not coming home this way. We see in flashback that Shalini has asked Rakhi to keep 15 lacs secure. but Rakhi runs away with money including team of Chaitnya and Rahul. Shoumik tells this to Shalini and an outraged Shalini shoots Shoumik with gun and Shoumik is injured on shoulder. Siddhanth is caught red-handded with money.Later, Shalini runs away from home without saying any thing. Shoumik, after not finding his daughter seating alone attends a call from Rahul where Rahul tease Shoumik but he is not affected by any of it and says whether or not Rahul is having Kali with him; just answer yes or no. Rahul puts the phone down and hits Chaitnya shouting that Chaitnya ensured Rahul that Shoumik is behind Kali's kidnapping but he does not have her and Chaitnya did all of these for money and Rahul (assumably) kills Chaitnya in that fight. While this, Rakhi runs away with all money alone.Next day we see that police department gets a call complaining about Shrilal's old-aged aunt from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh police station for child-kidnapping. A police detective meets the aunt and tells her if she knows anything about Kali then speak. She does not say anything but later she approaches the same deserted market area from where Kali was missing very early morning and police detective follows her. Later, police detective call Shoumik to come with team at same place as Kali is found. In the last scene of movie, Shoumik and his team comes to that discarded area of market, where Kali was kept bounded from hand and mouth and she is dead. Her whole body is fungus-ed. due to being dead from last so many days. police detective tells Shoumik that she was here the whole time and we could have saved her. She was drugged and kidnapped by Shrilal.The story tells us a reality of the cruel world by depicting money-greed friend, outraged first husband, senseless brother, money derived and betraying friend and wife and rude police officer. All of them wanted more than what they already had and while all of this - they all lost a little innocent girl. It is seen that even though none of them can be blamed - all of them were murderer.

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Review:
Writers/Directors like Kashyap do not have audience in their mind when they create movies, they cater their work for themselves, which in my opinion brings the best out of any creator of art.Ugly is a tale of ordinary lives involved in extraordinary circumstances.
It is one taut, dark, intense and disturbing tale of wretched nature of the human motives and how the grand plan has it's own way of laughing at those.Interestingly Ugly through each of it's elements will take you back to Kashyap's previous works and remind you why he is truly the king.
You do not know what to appreciate more, the courage with which the director is bluntly showing the depraved complexion of human nature or the ease with which that has been knit in a story.The non linear nature of the storytelling in the first half brings the necessary variation which adds to the build up.Rahul Bhat who is seen on screen after a long gap tells you why there is no dearth of excellent character actors in the country, it's just that there are not enough roles for them.
The best Kashyap's movie??I would say it shows how great Anurag Kashyak is as a film maker.
Ugly, undoubtedly the best movie of Anurag kashyap till date, he manages to keep the suspense alive and bring across crucial twists.
I would recommend this movie to anyone who is a fan of dark thrillers, I am sure you wont get disappointed with Ugly though the movie is not at all ugly, in fact its a beautiful film with good message to society.
Anurag Kashyap delivers a disturbing & unsettling tale with 'Ugly', a film that's raw & realistic.
'Ugly' Synopsis: A terrible tale of corruption, indifference, and systemic violence starts when 10 year old daughter of an aspiring actor disappears.Throughly engaging & interesting, Kashyap creates a world of deception & cruelty, with absolutely no inhibitions.
The year 2014 has its last release on its last Friday, named Ugly, a suspense thriller movie by Anurag Kashyap.
whole story and all the charterers have their own dark side except the little girl, Anurag Kashyap at his best, absolutely gripping physiological thriller the height of creativity is timing of background soundtrack Asaf Avidan - One day / Reckoning Song (Wankelmut Remix).
You know I have always believed that films which are for everybody are for nobody in particular, that being said Anurag Kashyap's Ugly isn't for everybody unlike PK or other big releases.
The story starts with the kidnapping of a little girl which sets into motion a chain of events where her new step father and her biological father engage in a game of upmanship and try to be the "hero" as the movie likes to put it by finding their daughter but they care more about satisfaction of their egos and their history dating back to college than about the girl herself.
In between the movie throws in a suicidal wife who has been loved by both the men, an item girl whose claim to fame is a song called mujhko nichodley jhinnjhodley, technologically challenged cops, some really dark but really funny scenes and this film is already brimming with top notch quality.
Before moving into the review, I would like to give you the story behind this latest Anurag Kashyap film UGLY, post the mediocre UNGLI and FUGLY having confusingly rhyming names.
For instance, discuss it with a viewer or read any review in the media, they all would emphasize on three major points of the movie unarguably in the exact sequence mentioned below.First, it has to be the 8-10 minutes long sequence of Police Station when a puzzled father and his friend is there reporting a missing girl child conversing with the station officer.
And the way his attitude changes knowing that its about the step daughter of his own senior officer, simply points towards the questionable functioning of our police and their rude behavior.Second comes the final shot of the film, revealing the cruel ugliness behind the mystery shaking you real hard as it has never been so brutal on the Indian screen before, in any 'crime thriller' or 'who done it' movie to be straight.
In fact such is the jaw dropping impact of this particular aerial shot that it doesn't let you ponder back on the entire film catching its various flaws and one comes out of theater pretty impressed recovering from the unexpected shock received all of a sudden.The third common point in any view or review would be the worth praising realistic performances by almost the entire cast led by Tejasvini Kolhapure from the front along with Ronit Roy and Rahul Bhatt.
Still despite Ronit's flawless portrayal, he plays nothing fresh and now sadly is being offered the same roles of an angry father/officer one after another by our talented film-makers following the sick, ages-old pattern of Bollywood.Revolving around all ugly but truthful characters that evidently are an unwanted part of our social structure, UGLY takes no time to come to its basic storyline dragging you in.
The camera-work gives the desired eerie feel to the film perfectly depicting the poor locales of Mumbai and Background score/Soundtrack is as raw as required with a fine mix of pop and rock both designed and used efficiently.Hence UGLY stays an above average dark thriller mainly because it keeps exploring the cunning, greedy characters throughout missing that emotional touch one should feel thinking about the kidnap of that helpless kid girl.
In short watching all its twists and turns revealing the hidden nasty side of its various characters, the one person you forget to think about completely in those two hours is the poor girl kidnapped in the beginning.Sharing honestly, I always see a bit of AK's first film PAANCH, hiding somewhere in his every attempt intentionally or unintentionally.
And that makes me think that had PAANCH released normally more than a decade before, we would have had an entirely different Anurag Kashyap as a director, coming out of his own gritty shell of dark realism with more love, warmth and meaning in his exceptional films..
Well served by very fine (and often hilarious) performances, "Ugly" is a modern film noir of the type you wouldn't expect from an Indian director, except if you keep in mind that India has much more to offer than Bollywood sickly sweet romances..
Girish Kulkarni, national winning actor, is a well known face in Marathi movies, has given every reason in Ugly to believe why he is considered one of the best.
Ohh this is one of most dark movies, it just shows how much ugly every character is in the movie.The girl is missing and all they care is money and every way they can get a profit from it.
Must see if u want goosebumps and keep yourself gripped throughout the whole movie...Acting was fantabulous by all and direction by Anurag Kashyap is best as usual...Screenplay and dialogues are hard hitting which was a requirement of the film and it has been done with whole conviction alongside hope to see such good work from this director for ages...Don't neglect it as an underrated ones are pure diamonds else comes a commercial cinema which people prefer the most but missing this kind of excellence is the mistake which would take no time to convert into regret...For me it's at the same level as RGV's Kaun or Anurag's own Paanch....
Anurag Kashyap is my favorite Indian director of this day and age so I'm always a bit biased towards his movies but Ugly has got to be his finest work till date.
Mr. Kashyap succeeds completely in bringing out the ugliness of his characters, who could easily be breathing and walking human beings amongst us, which makes it all the more chilling.The acting by entire cast was superb.
From Tejaswini Kolhapure's impressively acted Shalini, as the mother of a 10-year old girl who goes missing, and whose disappearance forms the backdrop of the entire story, to her dour and taciturn husband Shoumik Bose (again impressively, albeit a tad one-dimensionally, portrayed by Ronit Roy), to her ex-husband and father of the missing girl, Rahul (Rahul Bhat), to his wily friend Chaitanya (Vineet Kumar Singh), to the mercurial police inspector Jadhav (superbly portrayed by Girish Kulkarni, a highly regarded performer in Marathi cinema), they are all inherently repulsive characters, one way or the other.
Which is why, as I said, the entire philosophy of the film has been condensed, by Anurag, into the last 5 words spoken in it, which remain etched in the memory much after the end credits have rolled by, and have to regarded as the movie's apotheosis.'Ugly' is, therefore, uncompromising - if not really uncomfortable - viewing.
OK, if I have to decipher the film department by department I would rate Background Music, Cinematography and Screenplay as the best and a cut above the rest of the departments.Vineet Kumar Singh as Chaitanya stands out for me amidst superlative performances by each and every actor.This is a thriller that is too real to believe and it disturbs a lot of our corrupt minds that are filled with conventional wisdom and it puts a question straight to that very wisdom.
There is still a hope to look at cinema as a means of story telling and not as an industry that makes money.A 5/5 for a near perfect film, I watched from Kashyap I since "Black Friday" and a hugely debatable and surreal"No Smoking".
Ugly - A 'perfect and beautiful' neo-noir thriller film comprising of some of the most 'imperfect and ugly' characters ever written for a Bollywood movie smile emoticon The movie is 'gripping' right from the start to end, rarely deviates from the main plot and culminates with a terrific climax.
The movie hits the right note in all departments- be it the screenplay, the dialogues, the way the characters are portrayed, the background score and almost everything you could ask for in a thriller.
Ugly is a 2014 Indian drama thriller film written and directed by Anurag Kashyap.The film stars Girish Kulkarni, Ronit Roy, Tejaswini Kolhapure, Vineet Kumar Singh and Surveen Chawla in pivotal roles.
It also feature model turned TV actor Rahul Bhat in an important role and TV actor Abir Goswami in his last film appearance before his death in 2013.Shalini (Tejaswini Kolhapure) is a middle-class housewife forced to stay at home by her second husband, police-chief Shoumik Bose (Ronit Roy).
All the actors in Ugly have given fine performance and the background music also adds depth and character to the movie.
If we can have even five more film makers like Anurag Kashyap we can feel proud of our film industry which is currently borrowing most of its ideas and stories from Hollywood movies....
With such a good story they even had some great actors who might not be in the list of stars but some are really old and very good at their job.Rahul Bhatt and Ronit Roy did an awesome job and the suspense is just too good.Movie even shows a dark side to the life of the characters which is very real and the language used in the may seem very rough but suits the scenes most of the time.Movie even ends in a very great style.Anurag Kashyap has again successfully given a tremendous movie to the Indian public..
His direction and script are, as usual, spot-on, and instantaneously draw us into a terrible tale of corruption, indifference, and systemic violence that starts when the ten year old daughter of an aspiring actor disappears.Elevating the film further are the measured performances by Rahul Bhat, Tejaswini Kolhapure, Vineet Singh, and above all Ronit Roy, who completely steals the show in every frame he's in.
In his best work so far Anurag Khashyap tells us a story about greed and the cruelty of the human mind.It is one of the landmarks in Indian cinema,the directing,screenplay,story in simple words it is amazing in very aspect of film making.What will really get you going is the way the story is being told,Anurag Kashyap does it in a very non linear way and yet in a very understandable way,his way of cutting scenes in between and jumping to another makes the movie one of its kind.The use of camera angles to portray extremely dark minded people and their emotions is what gives this movie life and coming to the thrills it gives one cannot be more thrilled by any another movie in the recent past than this movie.
But what makes UGLY probably Anurag's Best movie is that it makes us think about our own way of seeing things, people & our priorities , which like any character of UGLY is biased by the our own weakness for selfishness ,hatred ,revenge & destruction.
A Movie which is as polished as any great Hollywood movie in terms of sound, cinematography & editing ,Blessed with an amazing screenplay & witty yet dark Dialogues , extraordinary performances from some of the best Indian actors be it Ronit Roy or Girish Kulkarni & finally a story which makes us introspect & look into our own Ugliness.
This film is a dark emotional thriller and its real strength lies in its brilliantly penned story and state of art direction and the blend gets more with the enthralling performances by Girish Kulkarni, Teju Kolhapure, Ronit Roy, Rahul Bhat and Vineet Kumar Singh.
A gripping story with such outrageous characters virtually takes out the chances to judge the technicalities, the viewing experience is so real and the actors are so God damn natural that it feels like you are watching the entire set of events happening live in front of your eyes.
Now coming to the movie it starts off on a dark note, a theme which doesn't leave you till the end, yet audience can find humor throughout the film which fits naturally in to the film, not one frame is wasted nor one scene was out of context, and therefore no songs nor item numbers, the story is direct and dark, and the ending is, No words just watch it to find out.P.S : Watch only if you have the heart..
The brand name of Anuraag Kashyap is much bigger than the small product like'Ugly', due to which it ends up being less distressing in terms of a dark thriller..
Ugly is undoubtedly the best crime thriller film of this year.It is the story of Rahul,an aspiring actor whose daughter gets kidnapped.Shoumik,a rigid police officer comes to investigate the case as he has married Kali's mother after her divorce with Rahul.After the kidnapping a dirty game starts to unfold in which humanity is kept on hold.Where is Kali and who has kidnapped her are some of the questions which forms the rest of the story.The script is very tight and its execution is excellent.Once you get submerged in the movie then you don't even bother to blink.The movie tales a twisted story in which every character has a grey shade.No one cares for the subjugation of a person due to their greed.This is a powerful story of temptation,greed,hate,desire and helplessness.The climax of the movie makes you uneasy.It contains a killer twist.It portrays the harsh but true reality of our society.The main plus point of the film is that you can't think what will happen next.It is not an over the top thriller film where everything happens to easily for the hero.The star cast of the film is a main plus point.Ronit roy is excellent.He portrays the role of a rigid police officer in a dynamic manner.Rahul bhat is very good.Surveen chawla is also good.Every cast member is perfect in their respective roles.Dialogs are good but are adultery.Anurag kashyap is known to make true cinema and this one is no exception.His direction is flawless.It is an another masterpiece of his career.If you are a lover of true cinema then it is a must watch for you.A great crime saga which contains a killer twist in the end.A great cinematic experience.....
We see this kind of feature in his early films like Black Friday and Dev D also.The plot revolves around a ten year old kidnapped girl, and eventually as it proceeds, it gets more and more complicated, revealing the UGLY intentions of the characters and finally ends with an unexpected ending that brings the audience to a state of mixed emotions-surprise and despair.Another thing worth noting in this film is its background score, specially the music "Money" by Christopher Stanley.
Ugly is Kashyap's best film in years.
So it was good to see a movie so wonderfully done, with plenty of dark humour like Ugly.Ugly revolves around the search of a 10 year old girl who goes missing.
It looks like a simple enough tale but the director Anurag Kashyap makes it a satire on human nature, how greed can corrupt us and how ugly can we get in life when it gets desperate.
The background score and cinematography are stellar and the film has a very noir look to it.The performances by everyone in the cast are such that they feel like real characters we see in our daily lives.
For me, the character played by Girish Kulkarni, Inspector Jadhav steals the show with his dry, repulsive humour when the father and his friend come to file an FIR but later gets serious when he knows that the missing girl is related to his senior officer.Ugly is not a family movie, there are some scenes which make you uncomfortable and it never provides us comfort.
Anurag Kashyap who is known for his uncompromising and hard hitting way of making films, excels once again in his direction and story telling.
So yesterday, for the first time i watched an Anurag Kashyap movie for the First Day First Show.
And probably for the first time Music of an Anurag Kashyap movie sucked.And, i could not spot Alia Bhatt.Finally, 7 for the performance of Girish, Rahul and Vinit..