Movies to watch this week: Ugly

Anurag Kashyap’s much delayed cop drama will release this Friday and being a solo release has a clear shot…

Ugly

Director: Anurag Kashyap

Star cast: Rahul Bhat, Ronit Roy, Girish Kulkarni, Siddhanth Kapoor, Tejaswini Kolhapure, Vipin Sharma, Vineet Kumar Singh, Anshika Shrivastava, Surveen Chawla

Synopsis: 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 activity, 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 Kali for a drive but ignores her in favour 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 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.

Why should you watch: It is an Anurag Kashyap film and given his previous work, we have no doubts about this one. Also, it marks a comeback for Rahul Bhat to acting. Even Ronit Roy’s cop act seems very hard hitting after seeing the trailers and promos. To top it all it’s a long Christmas weekend and there are no other releases till next year.

So audiences, go ahead and enjoy Ugly this week.