Ahalya
Time and again, we keep complaining about how Indian cinema gives us no-brainer movies which are mindless. Sujoy Ghosh shuts us up with this 14-minute short film, once and for all. Ahalya , Sujoy’s mastermind, starts off with a policeman, Indra Sen (Tota Roy Chowdhary) entering Ahalya’s house (Radhika Apte) to question her husband Goutam Sadu, an artist (Soumitra Chatterjee) in connection with the disappearance of a young man. The plot takes a twist when a doll falls down from a side table in the hall as soon as Indra enters the house and Ahalya exclaims how strange it is that the dolls fall whenever someone new enters the house. What is spooky is the fact that the doll is precisely modeled on the man who is missing. From thereon, Sujoy takes you for a ride in this wonderful thriller where there are twists and turns every other minute, leaving you no time to even dissect or comprehend what is happening. The climax is quite shocking and involves some amount of thinking (at lea