'Dobaaraa' starring Taapsee Pannu has a slow-with-intense-burn-feel thriller charm of the pre-internet, mobile phone era of the 90s.

This Anurag Kashyap directorial opens with a sense of foreboding with classic thunderstorm sounds.

Taapsee plays a surgeon, Antara Vashishth who has moved into a new house with her husband and 6 y/o daughter.

The first 20 minutes of the film flow at an exceptional pace, frame by frame revealing a new connection.

The music acts as a great narrative device that propels action forward and highlights it into an edge-of-a-seat-thriller.

Zooming out of memory lanes, and interesting camera movements is again a good narrative differentiator and establisher.

'Dobaaraa' closes for interval at the most unlikely places, challenging our understanding of a pre and post interval film.

Pavail Gulati as investigating officer Anand is so organically weaved and revealed as a character, that it's worth mentioning.

The post-interval film begins with a song, another change in convention to have in this kind of thriller.

As two parallel timelines of two different years (1996 and 2021) happen, gradual unfolding of motives is revealed.

Interesting use of props like a local best-selling book 'Dobaaraa' help make the plot clearer and further the narrative.

Taapsee brings an unwritten emotional depth to Antara and her confusion, urgency make the portrayal of her character realistic.

For a film like 'Dobaaraa', you have to have a kind of mathematical exactitude.

We give the Anurag Kashyap directorial a 4/5 rating.