Aks (2001)

Aks Movie Trailer 2001

Crew

Directed by     Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Produced by     Amitabh Bachan ,Jhamu Sughand
Written by     Rensil D'Silva,Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra,Kamlesh Pandey
Music by     Anu Malik,Ranjit Barot
Cinematography     Kiran Deohans
Editing by     P.S. Bharthi
Distributed by     Amitabh Bachchan Corporation Limited

Cast

    Amitabh Bachchan.... Insp. Manu Verma
    Raveena Tandon.... Neeta
    Manoj Bajpai .... Raghavan Ghatge
    Nandita Das .... Supriya Verma
    K.K. Raina .... Mahadevan Ghatge
    Kamal Chopra .... ACP Pradhan
    Tanvi Azmi .... Madhu Pradhan
    Vineet Kumar .... Narang
    Pramod Muthu .... Justice Balwant Chaudhry
    Salim Ghouse .... Blind Guru
    Veerendra Saxena .... Hanif Kasai (as Virendra Saxena)
    Vijay Raaz .... Yeda Yakub
    Vrajesh Hirjee .... Raw Officer 1
    Gajraj Rao .... Raw Officer 2
    Mithilesh Chaturvedi .... PM's Aide
    Amol Palekar .... The Minister

Story

Aks is the story of a hunter and his prey. A cop and a killer. Aks is the story of Manu Verma and Raghuvan. The story begins in the heart of Budapest. The Indian Defence minister is on a routine foreign visit. He reveals the true details of his diplomatic trip to his head of Security Manu Verma by informing him about the floppy which has valuable information that could affect the very destiny of the nation. On the other hand Intelligence sources have revealed to Manu Verma that a lone assassin long feared for his ruthlessness has been paid to eliminate the Defence minister. The shadowy figure is called Raguhvan, Manu Verma reaches the Indian Defence Minister just moments too late to save him and finds the statesman in a pool of blood Raguhvan has struck and vanished into thin air. Now the hunter becomes the hunted as Manu Verma tries to find Raghuvan. When he does find him something unexpected happens, which changes both Manu and Raguhvan forever.

Did you know?

1. At the age of 58, Amitabh Bachchan jumped from a height of 30 feet, along with co-star Manoj Bajpayee, for the waterfall scene in this movie.
2. While filming the wolf chase scene, the wolf was actually running after its trainer (who isn't shown in the film) and Manoj was running after the wolf, who was unaware of Manoj running behind him with a knife in his hand. When the wolf realized this, it started chasing Manoj, who just about escaped the wolf's clutches and ran inside his van.
3. Nandita Das was unhappy the way her role shaped up in the end product and felt cheated by the makers, she stated in a press conference that the role was the complete opposite of what was explained to her.
4. Amitabh Bachchan was flying to New Delhi and director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra met him at the airport and gave him the final script of Aks, and asked him to read something while he is flying. When Amitabh got of in New Delhi he rang the director and told him that he is very keen on the idea and wants to start the project.
5. The director had 3 stars in mind for the main lead roles, luckily he managed to rope in all 3 first choices for each role.
6. Amol Palekar did the film for purely emotional reasons as scriptwriter Kamlesh Pandey was a good friend of the actor. Kamlesh started his career as a screenplay writer with Palekar's Ankahee.