Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
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Rahul Bhatt | ... | Rahul Kapoor |
Ronit Roy | ... | Shoumik Bose | |
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Tejaswini Kolhapure | ... | Shalini Bose |
Vineet Kumar Singh | ... | Chaitanya Mishra | |
Surveen Chawla | ... | Rakhi Malhotra | |
Siddhant Kapoor | ... | Siddhant | |
Sandesh Jadhav | ... | Rane | |
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Anshikaa Shrivastava | ... | Kali Varshney (as Anshika Shrivastava) |
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Murari Kumar | ... | Shrilal The Baloon Guy |
Abir Goswami | ... | A.C.P. Gupta | |
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Madhavi Singh | ... | ACP Upadhyay |
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Manoj Kolhatkar | ... | ACP Khanwilkar |
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Ajay Purkar | ... | ACP Godbole |
Girish Kulkarni | ... | Inspector Jadhav | |
Jayant Gadekar | ... | Inspector Direkar |
The film portrays the kidnapping of a little girl of 10, who is out with her father for the day. Her parents are divorced and her stepfather (a cop) steps in for the investigation. The suicidal mother has an ax to grind with both her ex-husband and her current husband. As the investigation proceeds, the characters are placed in sordid scenarios that reveal their unsavory sides; the mind games between the both the fathers in particular lend the procedural its most gripping drama as everyone else is getting greedy and ugly not caring about the kidnapped girl. Written by Deepak Futela
Ugly is one of the finest works from Anurag Kashyap. It continues to depict what he started with Last Train to Mahakali...and later with Paanch... - his love (and hate) for the dark side of human mind.
Ugly at its heart is a racy thriller, intriguing, loaded with dark humor and real, gray characters, as unpredictable as only humans can be. Technically its brilliant. And its as close as you can get to original in Bollywood world.
It keeps you glued to the screen for 130 min and leaves you numb when the show is over.
P.S. Definitely not for the lovers of Dhoom-3, Kick and P-K genre, who like their cinema light, escapist and with popcorn.