There is a Diwali party going on in Sunil’s (Ranvir Shorey) house when an uncle played by Manoj Pahwa and an aunt (Yamini Das) walk in the house unannounced with a pollution mask on their faces. They are wearing the mask not due to the current situation but for reasons like keeping germs away, for a nose that can smell malodorous and their highly evolved sense of smell.
A lot is happening at Sunil’s home and party. The food served to the guests has become rotten. A french reader Francoise Marie or Kalki Koechlin can sense something unusual when she visits Sunil and Malti’s (Mansi Multani) home. When the movie starts, we notice a stranger Raghav featuring Chandrachoor Rai walking in the house when things are being arranged at the party. Raghav’s entry makes things upside down.
There is an interpersonal fluidity as the screenplay moves from ravelry to skirmishes to drunken brawls. The actors are in individually great form in their bonds, arguments and fights. The actors are at ease and sync in their give and take with each other. The twists and turns in the film sets its tone.
From the very first interaction between Sunil and Raghav things go from soft and courteous to slightly eerie and totally edgy. Kadakh has some mad friendly fun to dark exploration of guilt and betrayal and downright macabre like a Hitchcockian thriller Rope. The film shows how fortunes can change in minutes. The moral compass of people also changes with that. In life nothing is holy or pure, everything has amorality.
