Ugly is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language thriller film written, co-produced and directed by Anurag Kashyap. Jointly produced by Phantom Films and DAR Motion Pictures, the film stars Rahul Bhat, Ronit Roy, Tejaswini Kolhapure, Vineet Kumar Singh, Girish Kulkarni, Surveen Chawla and Anshika Shrivastava in the lead roles. It also features TV actor Abir Goswami in his last film appearance before his death in 2013. Told in the course of a week, Ugly follows the story of a struggling actor Rahul Varshney (Bhat), whose daughter Kali (Shrivastava) disappears, and the events that follow.

Plot

Shalini (Tejaswini Kolhapure) is a depressed housewife who attempts suicide but is interrupted by her ten-year-old daughter from her first marriage, Kali. Shalini calls her husband, DCP (Detection) Shoumik Bose (Ronit Roy), asking for money, but he refuses. Her brother Siddhant (Siddhanth Kapoor) tries to convince Bose to smuggle iPhones. Rahul (Rahul Bhat), a struggling actor Shalini's first husband and Kali's biological father, takes Kali to a work assignment, where she chooses to stay in the car. While Rahul is waiting for his casting director, a toy seller tries to catch Kali's attention with children's masks. Rahul's agent Chaitanya (Vineet Kumar Singh) soon arrives and gives Rahul a film script and informs him that Kali was not in his car, the two rush back and finds her missing. While Rahul frantically searches for her, Chaitanya asks the toy seller about Kali and notices that he has her phone. The man tries to get away but is eventually killed by a car while being chased by the two. They later go to the police station to report Kali's disappearance. The local police inspector, Jadhav, asks Rahul why he was travelling with his daughter. Rahul says that since his divorce, he can only meet Kali on Saturdays.