The film makes you realise that mothers aren’t always selfless – Firstpost

Language: Hindi

Director: Ananyabrata Chakravorty

Cast: Sukant Goel, Sadhana Singh, and Rajit Kapoor

Set in Kalimpong,writer-director Ananyabrata Chakravorty’s debut feature Kaisi Ye Paheli is about a mother-son relationship which  is strained and beyond repair. The story starts with a lonely mother who has come to stay with his policeman son. The son is hugely disrespectful to his mother and doesn’t like her sight at all. He believes she is the reason for his father’s death and the mundane life that he has.

Kaisi Ye Paheli had its world premiere at the New York Indian Film Festival 2025 in the compétition section and was nominated for Best Screenplay and Best Debut Film**.** The film also was officially selected in Indian Film Festival of Melbourne 2025 and was the opening film at the upcoming edition of Yellowstone International Film Festival in Mumbai.

The story of the film will shake you to the core. In fact, you will realise how deceptive looks can get. Most importantly, the movie is a must watch because it has brilliant craftsmen who are known for their craft and not star status. The characters are close to reality and it is a reflection of the society in a much darker way. It makes you realise that mothers are not always right and how layered characters can be.

Independent films have a style of their own and don’t blame the technical glitches which we can easily ignore because we need to understand that the budget must have been very low. In Ananyabrata Chakravorty’s film there are a series of deaths happening in the misty hill town and strangely nobody really knows how it is happening. A senior police man played by Rajat Kapoor is called from Kolkata to solve the case.

Sukant Goel, the actor who was also seen in
Netflix’s _Kaala Paani_ plays the lead role of a cop, Uttam  who dislikes his mother to the extent that he cannot tolerate her sight for even once. The mother’s role played by Sadhana Singh who makes a comeback with this film plays her role effortlessly. She loves the Bengali language and enjoys reading Satyajit Ray’s Feluda, but she wishes that his son also should love reading what she likes. But unfortunately, his son’s interests are very different.

The performances of each of the actors are very strong and so is the story which deals with complex relationships. When the story of Ishita’s murder is being investigated. Uttam’s mother (Sadhana Singh) impresses the other cop Tenzing and tells him his theory and how the case needs to be solved. As the film focuses on the broken mother-son relationship, the end makes you realise the games some parents play to control their children! Kaisi Ye Paheli has a strange twist which will shake you.

Rating: 3 and half out of 5

WATCH the trailer of Kaisi Ye Paheli movie here: