Movie Review: Last Train to Mahakali

Movie Name: Last Train to Mahakali [1999]
Star Cast: K.K.Menon, Nivedita Bhattacharya
Director: Anurag Kashyap (Debut movie in direction)
Genre: Thriller, Suspense
Duration: 45 minutes

Plot: A journalism intern (Nivedita Bhattacharya) asks a criminal & prisoner (K.K.Menon) to do an intervew. She is especially interested in doing his interview after finding out that he was a scholar (dropout) student of Medicine at AIIMS, delhi. He permits. The interview starts with Menon's life at Delhi, Medical School. He wanted to bring difference to the world. Do some ground breaking research and find out a cure which can kill any virus. And continues with Menon telling her his struggle story, about how he managed to come up with the cure and how he managed to convince strangers he met on Last local to mahakali to be test objects and how each one of them except the last girl died after being injected with his vaccine. Now, he couldn’t prove his cure because the last test object , a crazy girl who didn’t die had ran away and he is locked up in the jail. Menon gives a speech to Nivediata on what happens to researchers in this country etc. Moved by this, Nivedita manages to get Menon's solution from Police Custody and offers him to inject her with the solution and prove that his cure works. What follows her this move is [SPOILER REMOVED].

Review: Movie was technically poor, but considering the fact that it was a low budget film shot in 4 days, I would rather not criticize it on that line. Plot was good and the suspense too. Not so innovative or something but strong and good. What makes me appreciate the movie is the fact that it was a stepping stone to success for both Anurag Kashyap and K.K.Menon as well as Menon's wife Nivedita. (though she didn't become as popoular as Menon, she's made her place in theatre)

I would rate it as: 3/5