Kanamachi (film)

Hide And Seek) is a 2013 Indian Bengali language political thriller[1] film written and directed by Raj Chakraborty.

Produced by Ashok Dhanuka under the banner of Eskay Movies,[2] it stars Ankush Hazra, Abir Chatterjee, Srabanti Chatterjee, Saayoni Ghosh, Rajatava Dutta, Supriyo Dutta, Shankar Chakraborty and Shantilal Mukherjee in lead roles.

[3][4][1] The film begins with Abir (Ankush Hazra), a young, energetic photojournalist working for the private newspaper Anandabazar Patrika (ABP), witnessing Naxalites robbing a local bank.

When he tries to escape, he is stopped by a young woman Naina (Srabanti Chatterjee) who assumes he is the culprit and helps the robbers to take his camera.

The audio recording of her interview disappears (courtesy Tarakeshwar), and she is fired from her job for falsified reporting.

Abir later risks his life to capture the pictures of Tarakeshwar who actually engages in child marriage in a temple at midnight.

Meanwhile, Abhimanyu (Abir Chatterjee), a recent graduate and engineer, strives hard to provide education and spread awareness to the poor people.

He and his team of graduates try to contest against more experienced politicians who capture the people by giving freebies and money.

Abhimanyu tells the staff that those miscreants are from the ruling party and they have been sent by the Chief Minister Surojit Sarkar (Rajatava Dutta).

Abir, photographing the event, receives a text message from Payel that states there is a bomb underneath the stage where Abhimanyu is speaking.

The Naxalite leader gets shot during the shooting and his group take hold of some people (including children) as hostage.

Abir records the confession of Shankar using his mobile phone camera sends it to Naina, who plans to publish this story in their newspaper.

Instead Naina publishes an article saying that Abhimanyu had sacrificed his life fighting the Naxalites and died as a martyr.

All lyrics are written by Priyo Chattopadhyay, Prasen; all music is composed by Indradeep Dasgupta, Rishi ChandaJaya Biswas of The Times of India reviewed "Abir as Abhimanyu is definitely the surprise package.

"[6] Writing for The Daily Star, Zia Nazmul Islam told "Minus the song-dance items and distracting change in focus at times, Kanamachi is an entertaining movie with a strong message.