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Khaad
Khaad
Directed by	Kaushik Ganguly
Screenplay by	Kaushik Ganguly
Story by	Prasen (Prasenjit Mukherjee), Srijato
Produced by	Shrikant Mohta and Mahendra Soni
Starring	Pallavi Chatterjee; Ardhendu Banerjee; Lily Chakravarty; Rudranil Ghosh; Gargi Roy Choudhury
Cinematography	Soumik Haldar
Edited by	Bodhaditya Banerjee
Music by	Indraadip Dasgupta
Production; company	Shree Venkatesh Films & Surinder Films
Release date	7 November 2014;
Running time	140 minutes
Country	India
Language	Bengali

Khaad (Bengali: খাদ; English: The Abyss) is a 2014 Indian Bengali film directed by Kaushik Ganguly. It's about a story of a group of people trying to make-out alive of a situation that tests their strength, patience and resilience.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9] The plot is partly inspired by the plot of the Italian film, Perfect Strangers.

Story

Because of a taxi strike, a group of tourists, mostly unrelated to each other, get stuck in New Mal Junction. These people are honeymooners (Saheb and Mimi), family vacationers (Pallavi Chatterjee, Koushik Banerjee, Tridha Choudhury), an ailing mother and her son (Lily Chakraborty, Kaushik Ganguly), a priest (Ardhendu Banerjee), an actress and her mentally challenged brother (Gargi Roy Choudhury, Rajdeep Ghosh), one trekker (Kamaleshwar Mukherjee), a bus conductor (Rudranil), and a retired teacher (Maasud Akthar). One of the tourists, the priest manages to arrange a bus from the church for them to reach North Bengal. The other tourists also join him in the bus trip, but unfortunately the bus meets with a terrible accident. It falls off a cliff into an abyss, but the tourists survive with minor injuries. Injured and traumatized, they realize that they have become completely detached from any form of human contact. It was also not possible to climb 400–500 ft so easily during the daylight hours that were remaining that day. So they decide to spend that night there and think they will try to find another way out the next day. While spending that night, they decide to play a game. The priest suggests a game which is to reveal everyone's secret or anything that the person wants to confess to the world but never gathered courage. This secret is to be left behind in the abyss and from the next day, they could begin afresh. Everyone agrees. Gradually, the situation starts to change while the game progresses. Everyone's darkest secrets are revealed one by one. This goes on until the wee hours of the night.

At the end of the film, it is revealed that all the tourists had died in the tragic accident, and the game that has been shown throughout the movie, had actually not happened at all. All of them lie dead on a truck. Finally, all the characters walk across the forested area in the abyss-- towards the path of peace, as the credits start to roll.

Cast

Pallavi Chatterjee as Shiuli Jana, Meghna's mother
Ardhendu Banerjee as Church Father
Lily Chakravarty as Sabita, Khokan's mother
Rudranil Ghosh as Paltan
Gargi Roychowdhury as Aparna Banerjee
Kaushik Ganguly as Khokan
Bharat Kaul as Sidhartha, Doctor
Saheb Bhattacharya as Jeet, Punam's husband
Mimi Chakraborty as Punam
Tanushree Chakraborty as Moumita Paul
Tridha Choudhury as Meghna
Kamaleswar Mukherjee as Rajib, Trekker
Kaushik Banerjee as Mohan Jana, Shiuli's Husband
Rajdeep Ghosh as Avik, Aparna's Brother
Maasud Akthar as Tiwari Ji
Ankita Mazumder
Praytay Basu as Tito, Meghna's brother

Soundtrack

Track listing
No.	Title	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Ami Achi"	Arijit Singh	6:14
2.	"Asatoma Sadgamaya"	Arijit Singh	5:18
3.	"Mutho Aaj"	Indraadip Dasgupta	3:45
4.	"Mutho Aaj (Reprise)"	Arnob	4:38
5.	"Khaad Theme"	Instrumental