Viruddh Family Comes First (2005)

 Viruddh Family Comes First 2005 Movie Trailer

Crew

Directed by     Mahesh Manjrekar
Produced by     Nitin Manmohan
Screenplay by     Mahesh Manjrekar ,Vinay ,Yash
Story by     Mahesh Manjrekar
Music by     Anand Raj Anand ,Roop Kumar Rathod,Bhavdeep Jaipurwale,Ashit Desai,Ajay-Atul,Violin Brothers
Cinematography     Vijay Arora
Editing by     Rahul Bhatawkar
Distributed by     Amitabh Bachchan Corporation ,Satyajeet Movies Pvt. Ltd

Cast

    Amitabh Bachchan ad Vidhyadhar Patwardhan
    Sharmila Tagore as Sumitra Patwardhan
    Sanjay Dutt as Ali Asgar
    John Abraham as Amar Patwardhan
    Anusha Dandekar as Jenny
    Prem Chopra as Arora
    Sharat Saxena as Shetty
    Beena as Mrs. Chitnis
    Shivaji Satam as Bharucha
    Sachin Khedekar as Inspector Desai
    Amitabh Dayal as Harshwardhan Kadam
    Bipasha Basu as (Special Appearance)
    Rocky Verma as Hawaldar
    Viju Khote as Politician
    Tom Alter as Anderson (British Consultate)

Story

The movie begins with Amar telling the story of his family and himself. Amar is the son of Vidyadhar and Sumitra Patwardhan, a middle class couple in India. Amar lives and works in London and he sends some of his salary to them. One day Amar returns home with Jenny Mayer, his girlfriend, and announces his intention to get married to her. Initially reluctant, his parents are pleased and happy for the two. One day, Amar goes out celebrating with his friends, whilst his parents and Jenny organise a surprise party for him.

Outside a pub, Amar witnesses a murder and, while trying to apprehend the killer, he gets mortally wounded in the fight. Amar succumbs in the hospital. The assailant is identified as Harshwardhan Kadam, son of a minister Kadam. Soon, the police start covering the case up. Amar is implicated in false charges of drug peddling. Witnesses and close friends of Amar too give false statements. The torture doesn't end there, as police try to implicate Jenny as his accompolice.

Vidyadhar decides that it is not good for Jenny to live there, especially since she is expecting Amar's child. Vidyadhar bails her out and implores her to return before she is locked up for good. Harshwardhan goes scot free meanwhile and Vidyadhar decides to seek justice on his own. Ali Asgar, a mechanic and an acquaintance of Patwardhan's, decides to help them. Soon, Ali succeeds in procuring a gun for Vidyadhar.

Vidyadhar decides to confront Harshwardhan in his own office. Harshwardhan cockily lets him enter in and starts taunting him. Vidyadhar accuses him and Harshwardhan arrongantly confesses his crimes, telling Vidyadhar that he cannot prove a thing. Vidyadhar points the gun at him, upon which Harshwardhan calls his guards. Vidyadhar guns down Harshwardhan and the guards enter in moments later Harshwardhan's dead body collapses down. Harshwardhan's head guard lets Vidyadhar go, claiming that he won't be able to look at his family in the eye if he arrests Vidyadhar.

A case stands up against Vidyadhar, where he reveals a pocket tape recorder on which the whole confession of Harshwardhan is recorded. Based on the proof, Amar is exonerated of all false charges levelled up against him. Vidyadhar is also set free. In an interview, Vidyadhar makes it clear that he doesn't intend to sue Kadam since his son has been killed and Vidyadhar knows the pain.

In the end, it is shown that Vidyadhar is living a happy life with Sumitra, Jenny, and his grandchild. Amar now explains that his father has always been a hero for him since childhood and he is feeling a little jealous of his daughter who is being treated with same affection with which Vidyadhar treated Amar in his childhood. The movie ends with Amar disappearing in light claiming now he can rest in peace.

Did you know?

1. The mahurat (start of filming) was scheduled for 28 June 2004, but was called off at the last minute owing to the death of well-known producer Yash Johar.
2. Saif Ali Khan was the original choice to play the role of Amar Patwardhan, but because he couldn't accommodate the filming schedule, 'John Abraham' replaced him.
3. The highlight of the mahurat, was the presence of celebrities who have actually made an attempt to fight against the establishment or the system successfully. These include Medha Patkar, T N Seshan, Anna Hazare, Tarun Tejpal and Sundarlal Bahuguna.
4. Initially Mahesh Manjrekar wanted to cast Jaya Bachchan opposite Amitabh Bachchan. The idea was to portray them as an ideal couple. However, their dates could not be worked out, and Mahesh cast Sharmila Tagore in the role.
5. The movies script was written keeping Amitabh Bachchan's character in mind. Mahesh was initially apprehensive to approach Amitabh; he tentatively approached the actor during the shooting of Kaante, and started developing the script after he got a positive response.
6. While shooting in Pune with Amitabh Bachchan and John Abraham, the crowd held up the shoot. John stepped in and volunteered to calm them down, so that Bachchan could shoot without disruption.
7. Sharmila Tagore was conscious about the height difference between her and Amitabh Bachchan. Before she started shooting for the film, she went shopping for high heels. On the first day of shooting, she came in wearing her heels, only to realize they were shooting sitting down.
8. While shooting the climax, Mahesh Manjrekar wanted a happy, laughing family. But during the take, everyone was laughing except Sharmila Tagore. After several retakes, Amitabh Bachchan very sweetly said, "Please laugh, Mrsji" - it looked so real that Mahesh kept it!