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The Girl on the Train (2021 film)
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Wikipedia article
'The Girl on the Train' is a 2021 Indian Hindi-language mystery thriller film directed by Ribhu Dasgupta and produced by Reliance Entertainment, based on British author Paula Hawkins's 2015 novel of the same name. The film stars Parineeti Chopra, Avinash Tiwary, Aditi Rao Hydari and Kirti Kulhari and was released worldwide on 26 February 2021 on Netflix.
Premise
The film revolves around Mira Kapoor (Parineeti Chopra), an alcoholic and troubled divorcee who gets embroiled in a big murder investigation.
Plot
The film begins with Nusrat being chased by someone in the forest and Mira is standing at the station. in flashback its shows that Mira met her husband Shekhar at a wedding where they fell in love. They both get married and Mira is pregnant. Mira is fighting a case against Jimmy Bhagga where she successfully wins and Jimmy has to go to jail. A few days later she is hit by a car. Mira suffers from anterograde amnesia caused by a car accident. She is also an alcoholic, which doesnt exactly help the memory loss either. She and Shekhar have separated and Shekhar married someone else.
Obsessed with a seemingly perfect couple she sees from the train window on her commute to London, one drunken night Mira follows the young woman into the forest but doesnt recall what happens next.
Mira is actually a bit of a badass. The police have a decent amount of circumstantial evidence against her and even move to make an arrest but Mira escapes out the window and calls in a favour from the family member of a former client. Get me a phone, cash, and a gun, she says.
Mira discovers that the missing girl Nusrat wasnt as happily married as she looked and that she was having an affair. Its entirely plausible that Mira is the killer in a drunken rage which she accidentally records on her phone, Mira fantasizes about smashing Nusrats head in, angry that she is ruining her own marriage.
There are plenty of other suspects too, though, including Nusrats sex pest dance teacher, a blackmailing private eye, and more than one aggressive and abusive husband.
In the story, we learn that Miras philandering ex-husband Shehkar has been gaslighting her for years. Shes a blackout drunk but she isnt the violent, offensive brute that hes been claiming, and she isnt responsible for him losing his job.
Though Nusrat was unhappy in her marriage to abusive Anand and was pregnant by someone else, Anand didnt kill her. Nor did the kindly therapist who was trying to help Nusrat. It turns out the Nusrats baby was Shehkars, and the night Mira followed Nusrat into Greenwich Forest Shehkar was there too and it was him who bashed Mira over the head with a rock and left her there. Nusrat told him of the pregnancy, they fought, and Shehkar strangled Nusrat, leaving her for dead.
But, she wasnt dead, and heres where the film diverts. It turns out there were two other people in Greenwich Forest that night. These are the police woman in charge of the case, Inspector Dalbir, and a private detective named Walter, who was hired by Anand to follow Nusrat.
Walters pictures from the night reveal that, unbelievably, Dalbir killed Nusrat. The daughter of an organized crime boss Mira had sent down and who had killed himself in jail(Jimmy Bhagga), Dalbir had a vendetta against Mira. It was she who crashed the jeep into Mira and Shekhar, causing Mira to lose her baby and get amnesia. Its Dalbir who later mows down and kills Walter.
Dalbir had been tailing Mira for a time, and followed her into the forest. Finding her unconscious having been hit by Shekhar, Dalbir saw an opportunity to murder her in revenge. But Nusrat, who had just woken up, caught Dalbir trying to off Mira. Dalbir cant leave a witness, so instead she decides to kill Nusrat and frame Mira for the murder.
Following the trail to Walters house, Mira solves the crime, and when Dalbir turns up to kill her and destroy the evidence ,a fight ensues and badass Mira ends up shooting Dalbir.
Then theres a musical montage, a voiceover about a train where Mira decides to quit alcohol and begin a new life.
Cast
* Parineeti Chopra as Mira Kapoor
* Aditi Rao Hydari as Nusrat John Joshi
* Kirti Kulhari as Inspector Dalbir Kaur Bagga
* Avinash Tiwary as Dr. Shekhar Kapoor, Mira's ex-husband
* Tota Roy Chowdhury as Dr. Hamid, the psychiatrist
* Suresh Sippy (Mira's Doctor)
* Nisha Aaliya as Piya, Mira's friend
* Sharik Khan as Wasim, Piya's friend
* Diljohn Singh as Rajiv
* Shamaun Ahmed as Anand Joshi, Nusrat's husband
* Monisha Hassen as Zehra, Shekhar's boss
* Vaunisha Kapoor as Party Guest
* Nina Kumar as Zehra's friend
* Krishan Tandon as Jimmy Bagga, Dalbir's father
* Persephone Hulewicz as Pri
* Vishakh Vadgama as Officer Kunal
* Natasha Benton as Anjali Kapoor, Shekhar's second wife
* Richie Lawrie as Walter
* Matthew Park as actor
Production
The film was announced on 24 April 2019. In May 2019 it was revealed that first schedule will be in England. Kirti Kulhari was roped in to play a British cop.
Principal photography began in early August 2019 in London. Railway scenes were shot on location on the Mid-Norfolk Railway.[https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/bollywood-film-shot-in-norfolk-awaits-netflix-release-6915830 Bollywood film shot in Norfolk to be released on Netflix]
Release
'The Girl on The Train' was scheduled for release on 8 May 2020. The release was delayed due to COVID-19 pandemic. The film was released on 26 February 2021 on Netflix.
Soundtrack
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The film's music was composed by Sunny and Inder Bawra and Vipin Patwa while lyrics written by Kumaar.
Reception
The film received mixed reviews from critics.
Umesh Punwani of 'Koimoi' rated it 3.5 out of 5 stars, calling it "A Mysterious Journey With No Stops Led By A Deadly Kohl-Eyed Parineeti Chopra!". Bollywood Hungama rated it 2.5/5 stars saying "The Girl On the Train is an average fare".
Saibal Chatterjee of 'NDTV' gave 1.5 out of 5 stars. Anna M. M. Vetticad of 'Firstpost' rated 2 out of 5 praising Parineeti Chopra 's sincere performance and saying rest of the cast a mixed bag. 'The Times of India' rated the film 3 stars out of 5 praising Chopra's and Kulhari's performances
Accolades
References
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