In turn, Chameli helps bring a change in him, where he finally goes to meet his wife's father-in-law whom he had been avoiding since his wife's death. He helps rescue Chameli from the clutches of Usman. Aman (Rahul Bose) is left depressed after the death of his wife. In some ways, the premise of grief is present in both the films. Aaj Rosie, toh kal Chameli." Both the names are named after flowers, Rosie being the one in Talaash, and Chameli in Chameli. She says, " Hamare dhande me toh aise hi hai. Mallika replies that she does not know any Rosie. When Suri takes Mallika to a women's rehabilitation center, he tells her that she should thank Rosie as she told him to rescue her. There is a hat tip to her old role in Chameli. Kareena Kapoor had earlier played a prostitute in Sudhir Mishra and Anant Balani's Chameli. There is karma in many aspects of the film. Rosie tells him that this is not his place, as he is a good man, and he does not take advantage of anyone. Surjan, literally, means a good man, and he does good deeds.
Rosie talks about not leaving the world before paying her debts udhaar chukana baki hai. Nirmala who trusts Taimur escapes with the cash. Mallika is rescued after she tells the truth. The old receptionist of Hotel Lido gets AIDS. The hit man who killed Taimur is eventually caught. Taimur is shot, and then, falls off to his death from the building. Sanjay Kejriwal is arrested, and also killed, in the end. Nikhil is left paralyzed and cannot speak a word after he tried to kiss Rosie in the car. The three friends, Armaan, Sanjay, and Nikhil, are punished for the way they treated Rosie. Everyone who did a bad deed is eventually punished in some way or the other. In Talaash, there is this subtext of karma.
Similarly, in metaphysics, karma is the belief that states that every act, no matter how insignificant, eventually returns to the individual with equal impact. The third law of motion given by Isaac Newton states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Karma describes the principle of cause and effect, which says that past deeds will come back later in the life. Reincarnation and karma form the principal beliefs of Hinduism. It is these aspects of grief that Talaash touches. She says if Suri can go out all night to be with someone, why can't she do something that gives her peace and happiness, even it might not be considered a rational belief.
All the while, Roshni had not been taking any medicines but she got healed.
Some people speak to psychologists, some people believe in the supernatural, some people just need to talk to someone. Generally, time heals everything, but sometimes, people need more than the instrument of time to heal. Each of us have our own way of overcoming grief. All we can do is slowly learn to heal ourselves. But life is inherently unfair, and death is inevitable. Some people blame God, and some people blame themselves, like Suri does. Many a time, we need to blame someone for the cause of grief, and it makes us question as to why only it had to happen to us. We try to avoid reality by imagining alternate scenarios, like Suri does where he imagines he could have stopped Karan from going to play, or he could have gone with him. Losing a loved one, especially one's own child, is devastating. I remember Jab Tak Hai Jaan released at the same time as Talaash, and though it was much derided, in some ways, it dealt with the bargaining aspect of grief. There is a little bit of these emotions in Suri, with depression being the most prevalent one in his case. The stages are not a linear and predictable progression but only a collation of five common experiences for the bereaved that can occur in any order, if at all. Talaash is a spectacular story on the theory of grief. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross had famously postulated the five stages of grief-denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.