*Director – Sriram Raghavan
Screenplay – Sriram Raghavan, Jaideep Sahni, Aga Jani Kashmiri and Madhusudan.
Plot
There are 4 guys. Seshadri (Dharmendra) is an ex-smuggler cum gangster. Shardul(Zakir Hussain) is an owner of a hep Lounge who lives with his infidel wife, Mini(Rimi Sen). Prakash(Vinay Phatak) is an hen pecked husband and owner of a Gambling den. Vikram(Neil Nitin Mukesh) is a young stock broker and the cause of Mini’s infidelity. Shiva(Daya Shetty) is a wrestler. All 5 men have one thing in common. They want to make fast money by hook or crook. Seshadri gets a deal from his old friend Kalyan(Govind Namdeo). All they need to do is invest a fortune in 4 days and earn Rs 25 million each. The plan is simple. Everyone gets the share of the investment. Shiva goes to Bangalore and meet Kalyan. Finalize the deal and within a couple of days, everyone is rich by atleast Rs 5 million. Vikram has some other plans. He decides to take all the investment money himself by looting Shiva on the train and run off with Mini to Canada. Things go wrong when he accidentally kills Shiva. He takes the money but things go from bad to worse with a twist at every turn right till the end.
Critic’s Comments
This is, by far, one of the year’s best film. In my books, its already been nominated for the best film, script, actor (Neil Nitin Mukesh), Supporting Actor(Vinay Phatak), Cinematography and Score(Shankar-Eshan-Loy). Super impressive debut by Neil Nitin Mukesh. The rest of the star cast, although very unique, are perfectly casted. The script (Although has a few flaws) is brilliant and the score and the cinematography are first rate. There is only one song in the movie which could have been easily avoided and this would have had been a 5 star edge of the sit thriller. Impressive movie and a must watch. Hats off to Sriram for pulling this one off so well.
Psst -
1) So impressed was Sriram by the murder scene from the 1971 Amitabh Bachchan thriller, Parwana, that he decided to plot the main murder scene from that movie and even shows the movie scene within the movie.
2) The couple of scenes where the money was being counted, real money worth Rs 2.5 million was used. There was very tight security during the filming but the production still lost Rs 3000 worth of cash.
3) The scene where Dharmendra slaps Neil Nitin Mukesh was very much real. Dharmendra was supposed to land a fake slap but accidentally slapped Neil so hard that Neil actually had tears in his eyes. Not wanting to waste a real shot, Sriram decided to have the cameras rolling and finish the scene. Later Dharmendra was so embarrassed by this, that he kept pampering Neil through out the day. So impressed was Neil by Dharmendra’s humility that he refused to accept any apologies from him stating that Dharmendra was too senior to apologize to a new comer.
Quotes
1) “Its not the age, it’s the mileage.”
2) “Agar mujhe der ho jaaye, to bhi darna mat.”
3) “I am pure Non-Veg.”
4) “Tumhe kaisey maalum pada ke main usey station chodney gaya tha.”
Oops-
1) Daya Shetty is shown catching a “Bangalore Express” train from Mumbai CST station at night. There is no such train which leaves, CST station at night. The most popular train is the Mumbai-Bangalore Udyan express which leaves CST at around 7:30 in the morning and reaches Bangalore in approximately 24 hours.
2) Taking cinematic liberties in to consideration and assuming there would be a Bangalore express at 9:30 in the night, it wouldn’t reach Bangalore before 9:30 next night to Bangalore and it would definitely not reach Pune at 4:10 in the morning as shown in the movie. It would reach Pune by around 12:30 or max by 1 in the night.
3) It would also be very unlikely that Vikram would have got an air ticket, on the spot without any identification proof from Go-Air using a false name. This would have altered the entire plot of the movie. Although this is quite debatable since domestic flights don’t have a mandatory requirement of checking identity proof unlike International flights.
4) In the final scene at the lounge, Rimi Sen enters the club drenched in the rain, but when she enters the room from the main door, she is completely dry.