Kaanchi 2014

CBI Officer Arun Roy interrogates Inspector Bagulla, who is now in police custody, seeking answers about the enigmatic woman who jolted Mumbai’s power system. Arun promises leniency if Bagulla cooperates, and the entire story unfolds through a sprawling flashback that threads together love, ambition, corruption, and vengeance.

Kaanchi, Mishti Chakravarty, grows up as the daughter of a small village in Koshampa, tucked away in Uttarakhand among retired army men. Her childhood friend-turned-inspector Bagulla used to be part of her world, though he moved away to Mumbai seven years earlier. In the village, a hopeful and restless spirit resides in Binda, a young man who runs a fitness camp and shares a palpable spark with Kaanchi. As they interact, Kaanchi—the village’s headstrong and fearless heroine—reveals a fierce sense of justice and a quick temper that often lands her in trouble. She lives with her mother and sister and is unwavering in her resolve to fight for her rights, no matter the cost.

Binda, Kartik Aaryan, is a charming yet stubborn figure who becomes entangled with Kaanchi through playful affections and a handful of risky pranks. When he launches a proposal framed as a marriage to a fat man from another village, Kaanchi takes offense, the duo’s flirtation collides with a dangerous moment, and she suffers a fall while speeding down a mountain road on her bike. This accident becomes a turning point in her relationship with Binda, who is soon tutored by his father, Subedaar, Anil Charanjeett, who assures her that Binda truly loves her, even as the village’s future begins to hinge on larger forces.

Jumar Kakda, Rishi Kapoor, emerges as a ruthless property developer who aims to transform Koshampa into a resort, pressing villagers to sell their land with the help of local police led by Inspector Bhaagwat. His ambitious timetable—aiming to complete the project within one year—puts him on a collision course with the villagers living in fear of losing their homes. Binda resists the pressure, refusing to back down, while Jumar’s project attracts political attention.

To push the project through, Jumar’s elder brother Shyam Kakda, Mithun Chakraborty, enters the scene as a politically influential force. Shyam’s arrival, along with his son Sushant, intensifies the battle between development and tradition. Public rallies frame the resort as a vehicle for regional growth, and Sushant briefly captivates Kaanchi with attention and promises. He offers her a daily rate to act as a tourist guide, hoping for private time with her, and what begins as charm quickly becomes insistence. Sushant’s feelings deepen, and Kaanchi, unsettled by the attention, returns to her family with a wary eye on the changes rippling through her village.

The conflict escalates as Binda fights at public hearings, challenging Shyam’s position and the long shadow of Jumar’s plans. When Sushant publicly humiliates Binda, Shyam intervenes, and the tension culminates in a brutal confrontation. Sushant escalates to revenge, and in a devastating moment, he kills Binda with a speeding lorry during a pre-wedding photo shoot. Shyam, seeking to control the fallout, has the local authorities file only an accidental death report, systematically orchestrating the cover-up by casting the casualties as a coincidence of fate. The toll booth evidence—the day before the murder—becomes a quiet but damning clue that exits the village with Binda’s voice silenced.

Disillusioned and emboldened, Kaanchi leaves the village and heads to Mumbai, where she encounters Bagulla and builds a wary alliance. She moves into Bagulla’s circle by presenting herself as someone seeking work, and she quickly learns the Kakra family’s routines. She targets the housemaid Maya Tai to gain proximity, fakes an accident to elicit sympathy, and lands a position within the Kakra residence. Meanwhile Sushant has left for Dubai for a month, and Shyam’s affair with his secretary adds another layer of vulnerability to the Kakra empire.

Kaanchi also discovers secret videos: she secretly records Shyam and his secretary’s trysts, later using those recordings to expose the secretary’s blackmailing scheme and Shyam’s own involvement in the village’s scams and Binda’s murder. Although she loses one of her crucial devices, her resourcefulness keeps her steps measured. She uses her connections with Bagulla to reach a madame who supplies girls to Jumar’s parties, allowing Kaanchi to enter that world and seduce Jumar as part of her plan. With intelligence and audacity, she steals the financial dealings file from Jumar’s laptop, hoping to expose the corruption that underpins the resort project.

Back in the Kakra household, Kaanchi discovers her missing phone in the garden, reconnecting the threads of her surveillance and evidence collection. The plot thickens when Shyam’s secretary is blown up in a bomb blast, and Kaanchi hands the evidence she has gathered to a civic activist, Satyakaam, [Akash Dhar], who channels it to Sanjay Pathare, [Sahil Vaid], and eventually to the media. The exposure brings authorities to the Kakras’ door, and both Shyam and Jumar are arrested as the net closes.

But the path to justice grows more personal when Bagulla betrays Kaanchi, selling her to Sushant for Rs 50 L. Rather than surrender, Kaanchi counters with a fierce counterattack, culminating in a brutal battle that ends with Sushant dead at her hands. With the long arc of conflict resolved in the public eye and the private score settled, Kaanchi quietly returns to her village, leaving no trace of her presence in Mumbai—an enigmatic figure who has rewritten the rules of power in both places.

In the end, the courtroom framing resolves into a quiet, resolute return to the hills, where the villagers may still whisper about the woman who toppled a sprawling network of lies, and the girl who refused to be silenced.