Mehta’s next film, Aligarh, which will premiere at the Mumbai Film Festival next week, is also based on a true story, of a professor who was suspended because he was gay. Mehta also said he found Talvar be a riveting and focused film that provides a lesson in scripting and storytelling. It is a very uncomfortable film and in that discomfort there is this very uncomfortable humour. “It (Talvar) is very honest to its intentions. The unexpected comic scene in the middle of the macabre tale underlined the case for the Talwars and for sure worked with the audience as they were shown loopholes big as craters in the investigations.ĭirector Hansal Mehta who made Shahid was particularly impressed by the manner in which humour found a place in the middle of the ultimate tale of misery. “It’s time to start crying,” suggests Sen to her on-screen husband as they rush towards their daughter’s room after rearranging the furniture. He adroitly exposes the buffoonery of the police and the apparently flawed CBI closure report filed by a team that replaces his.īhardwaj who acknowledged Kurosawa’s Rashomon as his inspiration even penned a scene wherein Kabi and Konkona Sen Sharma (who played Nupur Talwar) play “murderers” and enact the police version of events which involve the parents detachedly covering up the crime scene after murdering their daughter. The film explores these theories through Irrfan Khan who plays the role of Ashwin Kumar, the first lead investigator in the case. The police and sections of the media had floated several theories connecting the parents with the murders and some had even suggested wife-swapping and incest as possible causes. As was the case in real life - until the discovery of the second body - everything is in the straight and narrow: they are parents whose daughter has been murdered.īut then the film attempts to untangle the knots around what is perhaps the most complicated case ever.
This was a murder case and it became about character assassination.” Talvar begins with the events of the day Aarushi’s body was found and the subsequent finding of Hemraj’s body. What will you be accused of, you will not even know. The story is not just about the murders and the injustice meted out to the Talwars but also about the system, he says. He adds that scene where Ramesh Tandon’s daughter’s body is cremated in Haridwar was the most difficult one. Sometimes I was thanking God that I am not really in their situation.” If by just performing the role I had to go through this, you can imagine what they might have undergone. “I would be wailing through the day in private. Given that he had to soak up grief in all its intensity and yet not get to perform it at length, Kabi says it was difficult to rein himself in at times. The idea was to highlight the apparent flaws in investigations that led to their conviction.
Surely, the situation would lend itself to an exploration of the emotional turmoil of the parents, about their having to deal with the double whammy of grief and the accusations at the same time.īut then Kabi found out that he would also be shackled by the fact that he does not get many avenues to convey those emotions at length because the scheme of the script has its anchor rooted elsewhere - for good reasons.ĭirector Meghna Gulzar and scriptwriter Vishal Bhardwaj had decided to keep the focus on the loopholes in the investigations conducted by the Noida police and the contradictions in the reports submitted by two teams of the Central Bureau of Investigation ( CBI).
The suggestion is that the couple could have been falsely implicated, which makes it a tale of ultimate human tragedy. The story is told from the point of view that there are many gaping holes in the investigations conducted by the police as well as the premier investigation agency of the country. Kabi played the role of Ramesh Tandon, the character who represented Rajesh Talwar who, along with his wife Nupur Talwar, was convicted of murdering their only child Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj. Neeraj Kabi says he faced one of the toughest challenges an actor could face in Talvar.
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