A thriller by the Bengali director Sujoy Ghosh starring Soumitra Chatterjee, Radhika Apte and Tota Roy Chowdhury, Ahalya is the story of a young policeman Indra Sen whose life and existence is changed, when on a missing person case, he meets a well-known artist Goutam Sadhu.
The door is opened by a beautiful
young girl whom he assumes is the daughter of the artist but turns out to be
his wife. He sees a stone statue of the missing person Arjun on the table.Goutam
Sadhu turns out to be a believer in magic and shows him a magic stone saying
that he can turn into whomever he wishes to.
He is asked to meet Ahalya
upstairs and she seduces him pretending that he is her husband. He no longer
can make sense of the world he is in. This short film of around 14 minutes duration can
stay with you for a day or two or even longer.
