Waqt: The Race Against Time (2005)

Waqt : The Race Against Time 2005 Movie Trailer

Crew

Directed by     Vipul Amrutlal Shah
Produced by     Vipul Amrutlal Shah ,Kumar Mangat
Screenplay by     Aatish Kapadia
Story by     Aatish Kapadia
Music by     Anu Malik ,Aatish Kapadia
Cinematography     Ashok Mehta,Santosh Thundiyil
Editing by     Shirish Kunder
Distributed by     Blockbuster Movie Entertainers ,Entertainment One ,Eros Entertainment

Cast

    Amitabh Bachchan as Ishwarchand Thakur
    Akshay Kumar as Aditya Ishwarchand Thakur/ Adi
    Priyanka Chopra as Pooja
    Boman Irani as Nattu Bhai, Pooja's father
    Rajpal Yadav as Laxman
    Shefali Shah as Sumitra Thakur
    Anu Malik as a DJ in song, "Miraksam"
    Benjamin Gilani as a Director

Story

Ishwarchand Thakur (Amitabh Bachchan) and Sumitra Thakur (Shefali Shah) are a married couple who run a toy factory together. They have a son called Aditya Thakur (Akshay Kumar) who does not have any interest in responsibility or what he wants to do in life. It gets even worse when he elopes with his girlfriend, Pooja (Priyanka Chopra), the daughter of Natu (Boman Irani).

When Pooja gets pregnant, both Ishwar and Sumitra decide to make Aditya realise his responsibilities, as he will have to take care of his wife and child. They take drastic measures and throw Aditya out the house along with Pooja. As a result, he and she live in a room at the back of the house in the garden. The force becomes so bad that Aditya begins to hate his father and they do not speak to each other for a long time. At the same time Aditya becomes aware of his role in life.

However, Ishwar has done all this for a reason and is hiding something from Aditya. Ishwar is trying to make sure that his son is secure but because he is suffering from lung cancer and he wants his son to be responsible. Aditya succeeds in becoming a responsible man and also finds out the truth about his father when his father comes for his performance on the stage. He steps on the stage but instead he asks the audience to pray to god to give a minute of their lives to keep his father alive until his son's birth. His father is alive until his son is born and he names the baby boy 'Ishwar' after himself and he dies. The movie reaches its climax with Aditya welcoming children at his father's toy factory and playing with an alone, disabled boy like Ishwar did at the start of the film with his family there including his toddler Ishwar. The spirit of Ishwar touches Sumitra's flowers in her hair and it reminds her of the old times.

Did you know?

1. During the making of 'Aankhen (2002)', 'Vipul Shah' narrated the script of this movie to the two leading men Amitabh Bachchan and 'Akshay Kumar'. Both were keenly waiting to start working together once again.
2. When the film was announced Paresh Rawal was part of the script, however his role was finally taken by Boman Irani.
3. As part of the marketing strategy for the movie, Amitabh Bachchan personally wrote the story of father son relationship in his own handwriting on the advertising brochures of the movie
4. The seven-minute song "Do me a favor - let's play Holi" took seven days to film. This was due to a series of factors - the time it took to set up the sets and equipment; the time it took to film the scenes; the time it took to clean up the sets; and one unexpected setback - Priyanka Chopra got electrocuted when she stepped on a loose wire. Fortunately she spent only one night in the hospital.
5. The film's Launch was very innovative, which was held at Mumbai's Juhu Beach (behind Horizon Hotel). The director wanted the common man to witness it.
6. Akshay Kumar was so touched by the film's father-son subject that he acquired the Mumbai distribution rights of the film. He also insisted that the film be dedicated to his late father Hari Om Bhatia and that each DVD of the film display a letter he had written to his father. Apparently, he got into a clash with the director Vipul Shah over his set conditions, but eventually Shah agreed on all of them.