Rahasya movie review: It has only a couple of dark moments

The story may have been deliberately muddled because the case is still on. But the result is a film that has only a couple of dark moments. The rest is an attempted mish-mash of a crime-of-coiled-passion- cum-police procedural, the confusion only serving to confound.

A doctor couple (Ashish Vidyarthi and Chopra) discover their only daughter (Sakshi Sem) murdered, her throat slashed, and a blood-stained shirt in the garbage. The needle of suspicion points to the father, and then moves to take in others : a couple which lives across the devastated parents who claim they are close friends ; the girl’s boyfriend who has since vanished ; the male house help who has also disappeared ; the old-time housekeeper (Ashwini Kalsekar) who may have a twisted motive or two, of her own.

Once the CBI inspector (Kay Kay Menon) shows up, he takes over the film. He races about, chasing suspects, interrogating them : all in all having a busy time of it. The dead girl slips off, the suspense slides, and what shows up is an inability to do a taut edge-of-the-seat murder mystery that ‘Rahasya’ set out to be.