
This tone is set early in the film and it’s clear that the film is not going to be a peppy, breezy romantic fare. Each character is fighting his or her own battle. Every character’s fabric is built from a common thread of emotional turmoil. They are strongly defined by their individual personality traits. The lead characters – Roop (Alia), Zafar (Varun), Satya (Sonakshi), Dev (Aditya), Balraj (Dutt), Begum Bahar (Madhuri) – are all distinctly different from each other. Instead, the film is about the complex relationships and the layered lives of the six lead characters and their emotions interweaved through the story set in the violent background of the partition. So, if you expect slices of your history chapters being served to you, you will be disappointed. Now let us be very clear early on – though the film’s situations are largely triggered and driven by the communal tensions simmering in the months leading up to India’s Independence and partition in 1947, the film is fictionalised and not a historical account. What Kalank is all about: The year is 1946 and the film takes place in pre-partition Husnabad, outside Lahore.
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But does it live up to the hype and the expectations? Read our full Kalank review to know! With so much to look forward to, there is obviously much excitement about Kalank. Sonakshi and Aditya make for an interesting jodi too and their glimpses together looked promising. The pairings itself generated a lot of buzz – Varun and Alia is already a hit pair, Sanjay – Madhuri is a pair reuniting on the big screen after more than two decades and so naturally is being looked forward to.
