Name: Khamosh
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Released: 1986-03-14
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Amol Palekar, Shabana Azmi, Soni Razdan, Sushma Seth

Khamosh

Classic whodunit

A young actress is found to have committed suicide at the filming location. Things take a different turn when further investigation reveals it to be a cold-blooded murder and the killer is someone within the film crew.

MysteryThriller

DirectorVidhu Vinod Chopra

WritersVidhu Vinod Chopra, Ranjit Kapoor

StatusReleased

LanguageHindi

Release DateMarch 14, 1986

Runtime1h 42m

anshumanoz

@anshumanoz

April 26, 20137.5/10

Khamosh (silent) is a murder mystery which tells the story of a film-unit shooting in Pahalgaam (Kashmir). The movie that the film-unit is shooting is titled as Aakhri Khoon (the last murder). The treatment of the murder-based plot is impressive and at place, quite spine-chilling for the viewer. The movie is slow in the beginning but once the first murder takes place, it picks up speed and proves to be thoroughly engrossing for the spectator. Technically, the movie is not superior. The film and the colours used in shooting and developing the shot stuff seem to be of not-so-good quality because the colours have faded in the print available now. Production value is not high. Editing is OK. Performances are good. Almost all the artistes have done well. Seasoned actors like Shabana Aazmi, Amol Palekar, Nasiruddin Shah etc. have rocked the screen with their admirable performances. Supporting ones viz. Soni Raazdaan, Sushma Seth, Ajit Vachchhani, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Nony Ganguly,Virendra Saxena, Deepak Qazir, Avtar Gill, Sudhir Mishra (who later became film director) etc. are all perfectly fit in their respective roles. I personally liked the performance of Pankaj Kapoor the most.