Ugly (film)

Ugly
Directed by	Anurag Kashyap
Produced by	Phantom Films and DAR Motion Pictures
Starring	Rahul Bhat Ronit Roy Girish Kulkarni Siddhanth Kapoor Tejaswini Kolhapure Vinit Kumar Singh Vipin Sharma Surveen Chawla
Music by	Brian McOmber and G. V. Prakash Kumar
Release dates	2014
Running time	128 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Ugly is an upcoming Hindi psychological thriller and an emotional drama film written and directed by Anurag Kashyap.^[1] The film was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.^[2][3] The film stars Girish Kulkarni, Ronit Roy, Tejaswini Kolhapure, Vinit Kumar Singh, Surveen Chawla and Vipin Sharma in pivotal roles. The film will also feature model turned TV actor Rahul Bhat in an important role. This will be his first onscreen appearance after nine years. The film is produced by Phantom Films and DAR Motion Pictures and marks Anurag's^[4] return as a director after Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 2. The digital poster of the film was released on May 8.^[5] The film is set to release in 2014.^[6]

Cast

• Rahul Bhat ^[7]
• Ronit Roy
• Girish Kulkarni
• Siddhanth Kapoor
• Tejaswini Kolhapure
• Vipin Sharma
• Vinit Kumar Singh
• Anshika Shrivastava
• Surveen Chawla
• Alia Bhatt

Plot

Shalini (Tejaswini Kolhapure) is a middle-class housewife forced to stay at home by her second husband, police-chief Bose Shoumik (Ronit Roy). She considers suicide, and is about to shoot herself in the head with her husband’s gun when she is interrupted by her daughter, Kali (Anishika Shrivastava). Unaware of her mother’s activities moments earlier, Kali asks her mother to call her estranged father, Shalini’s ex-husband, Rahul (Rahul Bhatt). It’s a Saturday, and Kali’s day with her father as decided in the custody agreement from the divorce. Rahul, an aspiring actor struggling to make it big, comes to take her for a drive but ignores her in favor of phone calls made to try to further his career. Finally, Rahul leaves Kali alone in the car to go to an audition and to check in with his agent, Chaitanya (Vineet Kumar Singh). When he returns to the car, Kali is missing.

Rahul first searches for Kali through the police, Chaitanya in tow. The local police-captain, Jadhav (Girish Kulkarni), does not take Rahul seriously until he realizes that Kali is the stepdaughter of the police-chief. Bose, out of hatred for Rahul, orders Jadhav to accuse Rahul of the kidnapping and to torture both Rahul and Chaitanya to interrogate and punish them. A game of one-upmanship follows as Rahul and Bose search for Kali while simultaneously attempting to upstage the other.

Reception

The film was premiered at the Cannes film festival and received positive mentions for the exceptional work.^[8]

References

External links

• Ugly at the Internet Movie Database