Calcutta News

Calcutta News 2008 is a Malayalam romantic drama thriller film written and directed by Blessy. The film stars Dileep, Meera Jasmine, Indrajith and Vimala Raman. The music is by Debojyoti Mishra. The film deals with the issue of trafficking in women and how a middleclass girl from Kerala gets caught in it. It showcased Blessys yet another different genre film and successfully provided Dileep a different character unlike his usual comic characters.

Ajits investigative nature comes into the fore as he goes about finding the mystery behind the brutal murder of the guy. The guy was Hari Indrajith, who had married an orphan Krishnapriya Meera Jasmine from Pattambi and brought her to Kolkata, before his brutal murder. Krishnapriya is unaware of her husbands job or what he does for a living and is shattered to know about his death. However, just before Hari is killed, Krishnapriya had come to known that Hari had only married her with the intention of delivering her, a young virgin, to his boss. Krishnapriya is both relieved that she is safe from sex racket she almost fell into, as well as desperate and sad because Hari had been the only person she knew or could go to. She couldnt return home and had nowhere to go. She attempts suicide but fails. Hope floats into her life after Ajit sort of becomes her protector and also gets attracted to her for her innocence and their mutual love for music.Krishnapriya moves in with Aruna and Sheela but cannot forget her past. When she comes across a psychic at Ajiths office she decides to approach him to know the exact cause of Haris death. The psychic communicates with Haris spirit and Krishnapriya come to know of who killed Hari. Ajit becomes concerned about Krishnapriyas obsession with the details of Haris murder and the strange behaviour she exhibits sometimes. He takes the help of a psychologist to help her forget the painful memories, and she begins to live a normal life teaching music to children. The henchmen of the racket are meanwhile on the hunt for her, as they had already paid Hari for a new girl. The onearmed bearded guy Kathal Krishnamoorthy who operates from Sonagachi, the largest redlight area in eastern India, looking for Krishnapriya also wants to settle a score with her, because it was in the fight with Hari to get her that Hari had cut off his arm. On a tip off they trace her to the music school and kidnap her. Ajit tries to get the help of the police but the

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