Missing

Spoiler alert! Please do not read the following plot summary if you have not seen the film.Sushant (Manoj Bajpayee) and Aparna Dubey (Tabu) check in to a beach resort in Mauritius with their daughter Titli. On their first night, while they are busy making love in the other room, their daughter gets kidnapped. On the morning after, both Sushant and Aparna scamper across the resort to look for their daughter but they can’t find her. The resort authorities don’t help them either. Aparna files a police complaint, and the Mauritius Police officer Buddhu (Annu Kapoor) investigates the case of abduction. Buddhu is convinced that there’s something fishy about how Sushant has reacted to the situation. He finds consistency in the mother Aparna’s behaviour, but he feels there is something suspicious about the father’s behaviour. The inspector also finds it odd that the parents don’t have a photo of the missing girl.

Sushant keeps getting a girl’s call on his mobile and he keeps sneaking into corners to talk to the woman on the phone in a romantic manner. Working on his hunch, Buddhu calls in a police sketch artist. Sushant describes the child to the artist who makes a sketch. One of Buddhu’s associates records a separate description from Aparna and later gives it to the sketch artist too. The two sketches turn out to be completely different and Buddhu’s hunch about Sushant and Aparna’s story not adding up becomes stronger. Sushant breaks down and explains that Aparna is mentally unstable. He reveals that since she can’t conceive a child, she became obsessed with a doll and started treating the doll as her child Titli. Buddhu’s investigation with Aparna though reveals opposite details. She describes an exhaustive history with Titli. Convinced that Sushant is lying, Buddhu pressures him to reveal the truth.

Scared and disoriented, Sushant confesses that he and Aparna are not married. He narrates the story of them accidentally meeting on a boat. They share the same room on the boat and they both tell each other stories of their rocked-up marriages. On the pretence of helping Aparna and her ailing 3-year-old daughter, Sushant brings her along to his resort. Sushant says he has no clue about Titli’s whereabouts though. Shocked, Buddhu decides to take Sushant corroborate his confession with Aparna. But Aparna, starts consoling Sushant and tells him he should not make up the stories just because he’s stressed about their daughter’s kidnapping. Aparna’s affirmations confuse Buddhu even more and surprise Sushant. Sushant asks Buddhu and his colleagues to give him some private time with Aparna to sort things out. He then threatens Aparna, claiming that he’s the one who kidnapped Titli and that he was working for Aparna’s husband.

Sushant then forces Aparna to run away from the hotel. They end up in an isolated part of the woods, where Aparna begs Sushant to reveal the whereabouts of Titli. Sushant then confesses that he made up the kidnapping story to just be able to runaway from the police. Just then he notices Aparna carrying a bag he’s never seen before. When he opens the bag, he finds a doll inside, wearing the same clothes Titli was when she was kidnapped. Aparna pulls out a knife and stabs Sushant in the back, taunting him about his irresponsible behaviour and statements against Titli. Inspector Buddhu meets an old man claiming that he’s looking for his daughter Titli. The old man claims that Titli is a 30-year-old woman who’s run away from a mental asylum. He then shows Buddhu a photo of Tabu as Titli.