E05: Kahaani Screenwriting Breakdown

Breakdown Besties | Bollywood Screenwriting Podcast · Apr 2, 2026 · 1h 2m · transcript

Welcome to the screenwriting breakdown and analysis of Bollywood film Kahaani!

This 2012 genre-defining thriller starring Vidya Balan, written by Sujoy Ghosh, Advaita Kala, Suresh Nair, Ritesh Shah, Sutapa Sikdar, and Nikhil Vyas, set the stage for thrillers to take Bollywood by a storm.

In this episode of the Breakdown Besties, your film-school level screenwriting class experience, we analyze the techniques used in the script, to make the film come alive on the screen.

Here’s what we cover:

0:00 Introduction

01:15 Logline

08: 01 Hero's Journey

22:03 Scene construction techniques

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