Necklace

Director: Shekhar Das
Starring: Rituparna Sengupta, Locket Chatterjee, Dipankar Dey
Run time: 110 mins | Recommended Certificate: 12A
Language: Bengali with English subtitles | Year: 2011 | Country: India

A deftly delivered, charming comedy of errors set in contemporary suburban Kolkata. A corporate executive and his wife Shikha (Sengupta) face a bewildering situation when they confront a hapless burglar who has broken into their house at night. Trying to escape, the burglar leaps from their balcony and injures himself. The burglar makes out he is dying and the hapless exec and spouse now fear being sued and rush him to hospital, but then the burglar’s crazy wife arrives claiming compensation. The couple panic and invite her in to console her, all seems to be put to rights until Shikha discovers the burglar’s wife has now nicked her favourite necklace.