Talaash (2012) on Netflix
The film opens with a late-night car accident on a deserted road. Well-known actor Armaan Khan (Vivan Bhatena) loses control of his car for no apparent reason and drives into the river. Inspector Surjan Shekhawat (Aamir Khan) begins an investigation into Armaan's death.
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Plot summary
The film opens with a late-night car accident on a deserted road. Well-known actor Armaan Khan (Vivan Bhatena) loses control of his car for no apparent reason and drives into the river. Inspector Surjan Shekhawat (Aamir Khan) begins an investigation into Armaan's death. Surjan's personal life is in turmoil since his 8-year-old son, Karan, drowned during a family outing. His wife, Roshni (Rani Mukerji), is still grieving and Surjan has developed a guilt complex.
Surjan focuses all his energy in the investigation. He learns that on the night of Armaan's accident, Armaan was travelling with Rs. 2 million in cash, which is missing from the car. Surjan suspects that Armaan had given the money to a blackmailer a little while before the accident.
In fact, the blackmailer is a pimp named Sashi (Subrat Dutta). Three years back, Sashi had performed a cover-up for Armaan and his friend Sanjay Kejriwal (Suhas Ahuja). Once he learns of Armaan's death, Sashi takes off with the cash, leaving behind a mistress, Mallika (Aditi Vasudev). However, Sashi's friend, Taimur (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), steals Sashi's discarded sim card.
Sashi begins sending blackmailing calls to Armaan's friend, Sanjay. In panic, Sanjay employs some thugs to murder Sashi. Hearing nothing more from Sashi, Taimur surmises that he has been killed and begins to use Sashi's old sim card to blackmail Sanjay with Sashi's murder.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Talaash (2012)
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- Shahrukh Khan, Saif Ali Khan and Salman Khan were reportedly approached to play the male lead of Talaash but opted out for differing reasons; Reema Kagti then approached Aamir Khan, who agreed to produce and star in the film in November 2010.
- Aamir Khan, who never knew how to swim, trained for three months under a specialist for Talaash's underwater sequence, but the shot was cancelled due to visibility problems and later filmed at an undisclosed water studio in London.
- Several men's rights activists campaigned against Talaash after taking offence at Aamir Khan's TV show Satyamev Jayate, accusing it of projecting men in a bad light.
- A scene for Aamir Khan and Kareena Kapoor was reported to be shot in a red-light district, but director Reema Kagti said that would not be safe, and it was shot at the Leopold Cafe on Colaba Causeway instead.
- Talaash was released in 520 screens overseas, a new record for an Aamir Khan starrer; his 3 Idiots (2009) had gone out in 415 screens overseas.
