Synopsis
Krishna Mehra is an operative at Indian spy agency known as R&AW. She is assigned to track down the mole selling India's defense secrets, while all along grappling with her dual identity as a spy and a lover.
Cast
Khufiya
2023 Hindi Movie
Action Thriller Crime Mystery Biography Drama
My big complaint with Khufiya is the disbalance between its promise and littlelittle things the film gets almost lazy on. With loving attention to detail, Vishal Bhardwaj slowly expands his universe. Two operatives don’t just set up a spy operation across the street from Ravi, its INSIDE a Mother Dairy booth, a uniquely Delhi offering. Azmeri Haque Badhon as Heena is not just a femme fatale eager to put herself in danger, she also is an only child taking care of an old and possibly disabled father when not actively seducing men AND women. Ravi’s mother isn’t just your bahu hating mother-in-law, she is more aware of the things going on around her, than she lets on, a role a scene stealing Navnindra Behl is simply fantastic in. I dare say its her and Tabu that kept Khufiya from becoming completely uninteresting to watch. And yet when contrived dialogue like “aakhir hamara shak sahi nikla” appears, you cant help but wonder where the QC is, and why is a moment like this allowed in this film. An even bigger offender is KM’s relationship with her teenage son being written with the nuance and elegance of a….well a teenager trying to sound cool to his friends. At a fancy Delhi restaurant, the kid, mad at his mother for missing his school play performance where he played Brutus, suddenly comments on how beautiful his mother is, asking his father “dad how could you let go of such a beauty” is too painfully a deliberate attempt to underline how “cool” this modern family dynamic is.
Stellar performance by Wamiqa Gabbi, Tabu, and Ali Fazal, let down by a weakersecond half. But a nice slow burner typical of a Vishal Bhardwaj directed film.
Khufiya is an espionage thriller that explores the dark and dangerous world ofIndian espionage. The film is based on the true story of RandAW agent Krishna Mehra (Tabu), who is...
An excellent movie from Vishal Bharadwaj .A solid 3.5 stars . Tabu is good as usual but it is the performances by Wamiqa Gabbi and Ali Fazal that steal the show. The direction...
Tabu 🤌🏻
An operative of the Indian spy agency known as R&AW is assigned to track down amole who is selling defense secrets while grappling with her dual identity as a spy and a lover
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Khufiya is Theek-hein-yaaaaa
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Vishal Bharadwaj's journey with human emotions in the disguise of espionagethriller.
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It was soooooo good but still remained only good but didn't bring in theflavour of its genre for me much. Another one from Netflix after Jane Jaan which had everything-...
For me personally Khufiya by Vishal Bhardwaj works as a solid, slow burnthriller. I congratulate everyone involved from me it is a recommendation