Kadak Singh review: Pankaj Tripathi is immensely watchable in Anirudh Roy Chaudhary’s new thriller.
Director: Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury
Writer: Ritesh Shah
Cast: Pankaj Tripathi, Sanjana Sanghi, Parvathy
Thiruvothu, Jaya Ahsan, Paresh Pahuja, Dilip
Shankar
Streaming on: Zee5
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Kadak Singh review: Pankaj Tripathi plays an amnesiac man in the film.
Kadak Singh isn’t the story of a strict father who is harsh on his children and in turn, gets this name from them. Neither is the story of a moralistic officer who is declared corrupt and is now trying to clear his name. It’s a human story and a thriller of how people in power use you for their vested interests and if need be, fabricate stories to frame you, trap you, or even push you to take your life. Directed by Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury (who has earlier helmed Pink and Lost, besides Bengali films), Kadak Singh is real, and relatable and doesn’t make you feel you’re transported to a fictional world where characters seem made up just to prove a point.
Kadak Singh review: The story
story begins with AK Shrivastav aka Kadak Singh (Pankaj Tripathi), an officer with the Department of Financial Crimes who is hospitalised after being diagnosed with retrograde amnesia. While he can’t seem to remember anything about what happened to him, and how he landed here, his daughter Sakshi (Sanjana Sanghi), girlfriend Naina (Jaya Ahsan), colleague Arjun (Paresh Pahuja) and boss Tyagi (Dilip Shankar) take turns to tell him their respective stories of who he is and what place they hold in his life. Not sure who to believe, AK continues to listen to these stories and trying to solve a chit-fund scam. Meanwhile, the head nurse (Parvathy Thiruvothu) stays as his support system as AK is tries to recollect and rejoin the scattered dots from his past. Will he recover all his memories and unearth the corrupt realities of the department? Or will he start life afresh, and make new memories?