Stolen Movie Review: Backed by Kiran Rao & Vikramaditya Motwane, Abhishek Banerjee’s film is a thriller but has a restrained way of storytelling6

Language: Hindi and some Bengali

Director: Karan Tejpal

Cast: Abhishek Banerjee, Shubham Vardhan and Mia Maelzer

No unnecessary melodrama, Stolen shows how powerplay is real in our society. There is a constant conflict between two brothers, Raman (Shubham Vardhan) and Gautam (Abhishek Banerjee)  who love each other dearly, but they think differently. Stolen will steal your heart to see the plight of a mother in search of her baby Champa. This crime thriller tells the story of two brothers who are entangled in a scary search for a baby that has been kidnapped.

Despite their differences, both the brothers come together to find the child. Directed by Karan Tejpal and produced by Anurag Kashyap and Kiran Rao, the movie begins with Gautam ( Abhishek Banerjee) waiting to pick up his brother, Raman (Shubham Vardhan) from the railway station. Gautam comes to pick his brother up, because he misses a flight to their mother’s wedding.

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Raman (Shubham Vardhan) comes across a woman, Jhumpa who is fanatically looking for her five-month-old daughter. The baby is abducted from Jhumpa’s arms, (Mia Maelzer), when she was sleeping at a desolate railway station. What follows is a relentless search of the two brothers to find the child who unknowingly gets entangled in this case. The missing child is just a tool, the film’s main highlight is our broken system, where only money talks and those who are below the poverty line are hardly given any chance to stand up for their rights.

_Stolen_ has already made waves at multiple national and international film festivals for its brilliant, yet simple storyline and equally brilliant performances by the entire cast of the film. There is more to this thriller and it also touches upon the misuse of surrogacy rights and the incompetence of the cops. The best thing about this film is that you will be glued to the screen from the beginning to the end. In fact, Stolen is gripping from the very frame to the very end.

The film moves at a pace where there is no moment to question the drawbacks of filmmaking. But the one who steals the show is definitely Jhumpa (Mia Maelzer) with her expressive eyes doing all the talking. She is terrified yet determined to find her daughter. And nothing can stop her from this. The way Gautam (Abhishek Banerjee) transforms her chracter from not so interested in helping Jhumpa, to be the man who actually found the baby and handed it over to her mother is what brings a smile. The earnest performances are the selling points of Karan Tejpal’s Stolen.

Stolen though is filled with action, but not an edge-of-the-seat thriller and that’s what makes it different from other films. But action doesn’t overpower the real message of the film. Despite class power being a reality in our society, the movie makes us believe that there are selfless people in this world and that human goodness still exists. Produced by Gaurav Dhingra, backed by Anurag Kashyap, Kiran Rao, Vikramaditya Motwane and Nikkhil Advani, this film truly deserves every bit of your time.

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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