Shamitabh

Shamitabh Movie Trailer 2015

Crew

Directed by     R. Balki
Produced by     Sunil Lulla, R. Balki, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, R. K. Damani, Amitabh  Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Sunil Manchanda, Shobha Kapoor, Ekta Kapoor, Dhanush
 
Written by     R. Balki
Music by     IlaiyaraajaCinematography     P. C. Sreeram
Edited by     Hemanti Sarkar

Production company
Hope Productions
Amitabh Bachchan Corporation
Wunderbar Films
Balaji Motion Pictures
 
Distributed by     Eros International, MAD Entertainment Ltd
Country     India
Language     Hindi
Budget     INR40.00 crore (US$6.3 million)

Cast

    Amitabh Bachchan
    Dhanush
    Akshara Haasan
    Rekha
    Abhinaya
    Rukmini Vijayakumar
    Rajeev Ravindranathan
    Vandita Shrivastava

Cameo Appearances

    Rohit Shetty
    Karan Johar
    Mahesh Bhatt
    Anurag Basu
    Rakesh Omprakash Mehra
    Rajkumar Hirani
    Gauri Shinde
    Javed Akhtar
    Boney Kapoor
    Ekta Kapoor


Filming

Principal photography commenced on February 2014 in Igatpuri. Amitabh Bachchan began shooting for his portions in the film in April 2014. Shamitabh became the first Bollywood film to be shot in the Finnish Laplands and in Helsinki. The crew shot some scenes at the Seven Hills Hospital, the same place where Amitabh Bachchan underwent two abdominal surgeries and saw the birth of Aaradhya, his granddaughter. Some scenes were also shot in London. The team took a break in mid-July 2014 to celebrate Dhanush's birthday and the success of his 25th film, Velaiyilla Pattathari (2014). In mid-August 2014, Amitabh Bachchan stated that he had completed his portions for the film, whilst also confirming that 90% percent of the film's shooting had been completed. Dhanush reportedly did a few dastardly stunts in the film. The film's cinematographer P. C. Sreeram was fascinated by Akshara's acting capability and lack of nervousness while shooting with Dhanush and Amitabh Bachchan and lauded her as a "woman of substance". Akshara did her own choreography for her dance.

During the shooting of the film in Finland, a Snow Storm hit the area where shooting was going on for a dance sequence in the film and had to immediately walk back towards a safer environment. Hence, they walked for about 10 kilometers with their heavy equipment. Choreographers Bosco-Caesar decided to continue with it and shot the song the next day since a delay would have caused permission trouble

Satyagraha

Satyagraha Movie Trailer 2013

Crew

Directed by     Prakash Jha

Produced by     Prakash Jha ,Ronnie Screwvala,Siddharth Roy Kapur
Written by     Anjum Rajabali,Prakash Jha
Music by     Salim-Sulaiman ,Indian Ocean (band)
Cinematography     Sachin Krishna
Editing by     Santosh Mandal
Studio     Prakash Jha Productions,UTV Motion Pictures
Distributed by     UTV Motion Pictures

Cast

Amitabh Bachchan
Ajay Devgn
Kareena Kapoor
Arjun Rampal
Manoj Bajpai
Amrita rao

Story

Satyagraha reflects the uprising of the middle class against a corrupt and unjust system that leaves it with no recourse but to form a spontaneous movement to challenge the status quo. It is the story of a dynamic and ambitious young man who is poised to take the elevator of corporate success when a personal tragedy exposes him to the shocking consequences of corruption in this country. Joining hands with an idealistic old man, he ignites a people’s protest that soon escalates into a massive movement with a national resonance, battling politicians determined to crush and discredit him. However, when people’s raw and unbridled anger is unleashed, the unintended penalty could be horrifying by itself.

Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag (2007)

  

Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag Movie Trailer 2007

Crew

Directed by     Ram Gopal Varma
Produced by     Ram Gopal Varma
Written by     Salim Khan,Ram Gopal Varma
Music by     Ganesh Hegde,Prasanna Shekhar
Cinematography     Amit Roy
Distributed by     Adlabs,K Sera Sera

Cast

    Amitabh Bachchan as Babban
    Mohanlal as Inspector Narsimha
    Ajay Devgan as Heerendra 'Heero' Dhaan
    Prashant Raj Sachdev as Raj Ranade
    Sushmita Sen as Durga Devi
    Rajpal Yadav as Rambhabhai
    Priyanka Kothari as Ghungroo
    Suchitra Krishnamoorthi as Kavita
    J. D. Chakravarthy as Subbu
    Abhishek Bachchan as Gypsy Singer (Special Appearance)
    Urmila Matondkar as Gypsy Dancer (Special Appearance)
    D. Santosh as Coolie

Story

Nasik-based Heerendra Dhaan (Ajay Devgan) and Raj Ranade (Prashant Raj Sachdev) are bodyguards of a politician but, after their employer is implicated in a scam, they end up assaulting a police officer and flee to Mumbai. Once there they meet with Rambhabhai (Rajpal Yadav), who in turn, gets them employed with a gangster named Shambhu. After a short while the duo are apprehended by Police Inspector Narsimha, questioned, and after they agree to cooperate to bring down Shambhu, are let go. The two succeed in assisting the police arrest Shambhu, but they themselves are arrested, tried in Court, and sentenced to a year in jail.

After their discharge they are met by Inspector Narsimha (Mohanlal), who wants to recruit them to capture and kill dreaded bandit Babban Singh (Amitabh Bachchan), who had slaughtered his wife, Kavita (Suchitra Krishnamoorthi), and son, Subbu (J.D. Chakravarthy), as well as cut his fingers off. Heerendra and Raj agree to carry out this task for 8 Lakh Rupees. They re-locate to Kaliganj where Heerendra falls in love with auto-rickshaw driver, Ghungroo (Priyanka Kothari), while Raj gives his heart to Subbu's widow, Durga (Sushmita Sen). They then set out to capture Babban and meet with some success during Diwali, but Babban manages to escape. Babban then starts to ambush and kill Kaliganj residents to compel them to surrender the duo to him. The question remains will the residents carry out Babban's wishes or will they permit themselves to be slaughtered?

Did you know?

1. The movie's working title is "Ram Gopal Varma Ke Sholay"
2. Katrina Kaif was signed first for the role of Radha. However, upon writing the script, Ram Gopal Varma rewrote the role of Radha into a deviation named Devi. Katrina felt she was unable to act the role, and Ram Gopal Varma felt that Sushmita Sen fit the role better.
3. Abhishek Bachchan was attached to play the role of "Veeru", but dropped out and the role went to Ajay Devgn. Abhishek is now playing the Gypsy Singer during the Mehbooba song.
4. It took 50 trials before Amitabh Bachchan decided upon a light brown colored soft contact lens for the left eye and blue for the right (applied each morning by his family's eye surgeon, Dr Himanshu Mehta).
5. Although Ram Gopal Varma faced criticism from many of the cast and crew of the original Sholay (Ramesh Sippy, Jaya Bhaduri, Dharmendra and Hema Malini), he had the support of Amitabh Bachchan, who was fulfilling a long-held dream to play Gabbar Singh.
6. Priyanka Kothari, like her character Ghungroo, is a fan of Rajnikanth.
7. During the song "Mehbooba Mehbooba," Babban (Amitabh Bachchan) is heard reciting verse from the romance Kabhi Kabhie - Love Is Life, which Bachchan starred in.
8. When the movie was announced several actors showed interest in playing Thakur. Dharmendra, Anupam Kher were some of them but it was Ram Gopal Varma's decision to cast Mohanlal as the new Thakur "Narishma".

Cheeni Kum (2007)

Cheeni Kum Movie Trailer 2007

Crew

Directed by     R. Balki
Produced by     Sunil Manchanda
Music by     Ilaiyaraja
Distributed by     MAD Entertainment Ltd.

Cast

    Amitabh Bachchan as Buddha-Dev Gupta
    Tabu as Nina Verma
    Paresh Rawal as Omprakash Verma
    Zohra Sehgal as Buddhadev's mother
    Swini Khara as Sexy
    Vinay Jain as Sexy's father
    Alexx ONell as English Waiter

Story

Cheeni Kum focuses on Buddhadev Gupta (Amitabh Bachchan). Buddhadev is the 64-year old chef and owner of London's top Indian restaurant, Spice 6. He lives with his 85-year old mother, and his only friend and confidante is his 9-year old neighbour, Sexy (Swini Khara). Buddhadev Gupta is an arrogant, ego-centric, pompous man with a singular passion in life—cooking. He is a confirmed bachelor who has never been in love until 34-year old Nina Verma (Tabu) walks into his restaurant and life. Nina is a beautiful and charming Indian woman. Cool, calm, quiet, always smiling, but independent and strong willed. The two extreme in age, character, and attitude meet and against all odds fall in love. They decide to get married, and, like any Indian man, Buddhadev respectfully comes to ask Nina's father, Omprakash Verma (Paresh Rawal), who is a true Gandhian, living in Delhi, for her hand. The main problem here is the Buddhadev is older than Nina's father.

Did you know ?

1. The script was written two-and-a-half years before it started production.
2. Shooting was completed in 45 days.
3. Director R. Balki, a Tamilian and isn't fluent in Hindi, had a friend who helped in the translation of his direction/dialogs from Tamil into Hindi.
4. Art Director Julie Bonnet recreated the whole London restaurant on a studio set.
5. R. Balki's directional debut.
6. 'Paresh Rawal' was the last team member to join the cast, when the cast was being finalized he was out of the country and when he returned he asked the director "he had to be in the film"
7. At the end of every take Zohra Segal used to ask R. Balki where her whiskey was. On her birthday, Amitabh Bachchan presented her a crate of champagne and she was overjoyed.
8. R. Balki wanted Amitabh Bachchan to support a ponytail for his character; Amitabh Bachchan was asked by the media who's idea was the ponytail, to which he said "This was Balki's idea, he himself does not have any ponytail so he made his character sport them."
9. All the tracks composed by Ilayaraja have been used by him in Tamil and Kannada cinema. Ilayaraja recycled his original work and polished them up for this movie.
10. The film was shown at Cannes for a private screening with the cast and crew's close associates and some media people, before the national release date.

Nishabd (2007)

Nishabd Movie Trailer 2007

Crew

Directed by     Ram Gopal Verma
Produced by     Ram Gopal Verma
Written by     Kusum Punjabi
Music by     Vishal Bharadwaj

Cast

    Amitabh Bachchan as Vijay
    Jiah Khan as Jia
    Revathi as Amrita
    Nassar as Shridhar
    Aftab Shivdasani as Rishi

Story

The film opens with young Ritu (Shradha Arya) bringing her friend Jia (Jiah Khan) to spend the holidays with her at her home in Kerala. Ritu's parents Vijay (Amitabh Bachchan) and Amrita (Revathi) have a beautiful home surrounded by picture-perfect surroundings. Vijay is a photographer and Amrita is a homemaker.

Jia's mother lives alone in Australia (Jia's parents are divorced), and she studies in India. She is a free-spirited teenager with no attachments and no worries. She professes some affinity to Vijay, but it doesn't go much further than that. But Vijay's world is turned upside down when he takes pictures of Jia watering herself down with the garden hose. Something innocent grows into something bigger, and something bigger grows into something beyond control.

Jia's world collides with Vijay's causing three casualties. Ritu witnesses an intimate moment between Vijay and Jia and tries to get Jia out of the house without revealing the truth to her mother but fails. Around this time, Amrita's brother Shridhar (Nassar) visits them. Through a sequence of events, he uncovers the disturbing truth about Jia and Vijay. Shridhar questions Vijay and realises that things are serious between Jia and him. Vijay confesses his love for Jia to Amrita, leaving her shattered.

Rishi (Aftab Shivdasani), the unrequited lover of Jia, visits to surprise her on her birthday. Shridhar tells Vijay to objectively look at things and decide if he is right for Jia. Vijay realises that the relationship with Jia is not the best for her and tells her to leave. Jia is heartbroken, calls him a hypocrite, and leaves with Rishi.

The family is still in pieces after Jia's departure: Ritu leaves for America, and Amrita is unable to forgive her husband. Vijay relives his moments with Jia all the time. He drives for hours and finally stands on top of rocks ready to jump. But then he remembers his moments with Jia and returns home.

Shridhar asks Vijay where he had gone and Vijay tells him he had gone to die. The film ends with his conversation with Vijay saying that he is not scared of death. He says he has nothing left to live for, no wife, no daughter, no Jia. But he came back as he wants to live for a while with Jia's memory; that's all.

Did you know?

1. The film's shooting was complete within a month.
2. After the release of the movie, Director 'Ram Gopal Verma' was served with a High Court notice for infringement of the movie title by award winning Bengali filmmaker Jahar Kanungo, whose similarly-titled film Nisshabd won the Cinemaya Best Film and Best Actress award in 2004
3. Amitabh Bachchan denied in an interview on 'CNN IBN TV show' that this movie is inspired by Vladimir Nabokov's novel 'Lolita'.

Eklavya: The Royal Guard (2007)

Eklavya: The Royal Guard Movie Trailer 2007

Crew

Directed by     Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Produced by     Vidhu Vinod Chopra,Abhijat Joshi
Screenplay by     Abhijat Joshi ,Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Music by     Shantanu Moitra
Cinematography     Natarajan Subramaniam
Editing by     Rabiranjan Maitra
Distributed by     Vinod Chopra Productions

Cast

    Amitabh Bachchan as Eklavya
    Sanjay Dutt as Inspector Pannalal Chohaar
    Jackie Shroff as Rana Jyotiwardhan
    Saif Ali Khan as Prince Harshwardhan
    Vidya Balan as Rajjo
    Sharmila Tagore as Rani Suhasinidevi
    Boman Irani as Rana Jayawardhan
    Jimmy Shergill as Prince Udaywardhan
    Raima Sen as Princess Nandini
    Parikshat Sahni as Rajjo's father
    Pankaj Jha as a peasant villager

Story

Contemporary India. A majestic fort. A royal dynasty that no longer rules. A king without a kingdom. Yet Eklavya (Amitabh Bachchan), their royal guard, lives in a time warp. He lives only to protect the fort, the dynasty, and the king. For nine generations Eklavya's family has protected Devigarh, a centuries old citadel in Rajasthan. His marksmanship is the stuff of legends. His unflinching loyalty inspires ballads. Eklavya has spent his entire life serving the royals and closely guarding their secrets but now he's getting old and increasingly blind. Unable to cope with the suffocating customs of his land, the heir, Prince Harshwardhan (Saif Ali Khan), has stayed away in London. But the sudden demise of the queen, Rani Suhasinidevi (Sharmila Tagore), forces the Prince back to the kingdom he had left behind. The queen leaves a letter for her son in which she tells him that his biological father is actually Eklavya.

The Prince's return brings a rush of joy into the moribund fort. His mentally challenged twin sister, Princess Nandini (Raima Sen) and his childhood love Rajjo (Vidya Balan) are delighted to see him. But the joy of reunion is short-lived.

There is unrest in the kingdom: Farmers are being stripped of their lands. The king, Rana Jaywardhan (Boman Irani), influenced by his brother, Rana Jyotiwardhan (Jackie Shroff), supports the atrocities being forced upon the helpless peasants. The king receives a death threat over the phone. An irreverent police officer, Pannalal Chohar (Sanjay Dutt), is called in to investigate. But he might be too late. The fragile peace of the land is suddenly shattered by a barrage of bullets. Jaywardhan instructs his brother Jyotiwardhan to kill Eklavya in a fit of rage but his brother betrays him and kills him and also his driver (Rajjo's father). And amidst the mayhem, the safely guarded secrets of the fort are unveiled.

Eklavya suspects Jyotiwardhan and his son, Udaywardhan (Jimmy Shergill), are responsible for Jaywardhan's death. He kills Udaywardhan and leads Jyotiwardhan to Udaywardhan's body, intending to kill him and fulfill his oath, whereupon Jyotiwardhan reveals to Eklavya that it was the prince who ordered the death of the king. Shouting in denial, Eklavya kills Jyotiwardhan, knowing he must face the young Prince Harshwardhan, his own son, in order to finally fulfill his dharma.

Harshwardhan overcome with guilt reveals his own hand in the murder of Jaywardhan to Rajjo, who leaves him because his actions also caused the death of her father. When Eklavya comes to the palace to kill the Prince, he explains why he killed the king. The King had murdered the Queen when she in her semi-conscious state kept muttering Eklavya's name. Eklavya finally fulfills his dharma, by sparing his son's life and declaring the original Eklavya wrong. Rajjo eventually forgives Harshwardhan because she believes that he is truly sorry for his actions and Pannalal Chohar finds a suicide note saying that Udaywardhan and Jyotiwardhan scared that they were about to be caught jumped in front of a train.

Did you know?

1. It was decided, early in production, to shoot the film in an actual palace for authenticity. Scouts were sent and went all over the state of Rajasthan with a tooth-comb to find the perfect location, but finally Vidhu Vinod Chopra, while skimming through a travel magazine, discovered a small picture of a fort in the hills of Devigarh. The fort, now a popular Heritage hotel, was perfect for exterior shots, but was obviously unsuitable for interior shots (as well as the obvious problems of guests, the interiors were modern-looking). So, scouting was undertaken again, but this time over the city of Jaipur. They were finally allowed to shoot interior scenes within the living quarters of the Jaipur Royal Family, thanks to costume designer Prince Raghavendra Rathore. Eklavya's cottage was the only set constructed from scratch. It was so well created that the hotel's guests and visitors assumed it to be a part of the hotel.
2. Vidhu Vinod Chopra was so impressed by Amitabh Bachchan's performance as the titular character that he presented to Bachchan a Rolls-Royce Phantom limousine costing around Rs. 35 million.
3. India's Official Submission to the Best Foreign Language Film Category of the 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008).
4. The assassination attempt sequence produced grave dangers for the cast during shooting. While running amidst a herd of 400 camels, Amitabh Bachchan got kicked in the head by an especially furious camel. It was only due to the heavy turban he was wearing that Bachchan was able to survive with nothing more than a little dizziness in his head. Jackie Shroff was standing only a few inches away from the rails when the train passed by him. For the attempt on the King, the action director, Tinnu Verma, decided to use a real bullet for authenticity, despite Boman Irani's misgivings about it. The bullet was off target and missed Boman's ear by a whisker.

Ek Ajnabee (2005)

Ek Ajnabee Movie Trailer 2005

Crew

Directed by     Apoorva Lakhia
Produced by     Bunty Walia ,Jaspreet Singh Walia
Screenplay by     Manoj Tyagi,Apoorva Lakhia
Story by     Manoj Tyagi
Music by     Vishal-Shekhar,Amar Mohile
Cinematography     Gururaj R. J.
Editing by     Steven H. Bernard
Distributed by     G. S. Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.

Cast

Amitabh Bachchan ...     Col. Suryaveer Singh
Arjun Rampal     ...     Shekhar Verma
Perizaad Zorabian     ... Nikasha R. Rathore
Rucha Vaidya     ...     Anamika R. Rathore (as Baby Rucha Vaidya)
Vikram Chatwal     ... Ravi Rathore
Daya Shankar Pandey ... Kripa Shankar
Akhilendra Mishra     ... ACP Harvinder Singh 'Harry'
Aditya Lakhia     ... Sammy
Rajendranath Zutshi ...     Wong
Denzil Smith     ... Lee Cap
Yuth     ...     Advocate Chang
Abhishek Bachchan ...     Bodyguard (Special Appearance)
Lara Dutta     ... Adult Anamika (Special Appearance)
Sanjay Dutt     ...     Special Appearance (Hip-hop MC)

Story

Apoorva Lakhia said that the script was written with the lead actor, Amitabh Bachchan, in mind. Lakhia explained that "Man On Fire has been made into four films in five different languages. So this is the Indian version. It has all the necessarily ingredients required for a movie to come out of India." Vikram Chatwal, who plays Ravi Rathore in the film, said "People talk a lot about cross cultural films. These films don't necessarily have to be like Monsoon Wedding or Bend It Like Beckham. This is not another Hindi film. This is not a remake of Man on Fire. If you see the way it is shot, edited and directed, it is setting new standards. Mr Bachchan is reinventing himself. So please don't turn this film into another Bollywood film."

The film was shot on location in Bangkok, Thailand, for 35 days. Lakhia said that he and Bunty Walia, a producer, chose Bangkok because "we wanted our characters to stand out. When they are walking on the street they will look different. Both my heroes are over six feet and Thai men are not as tall. So it was really important to be in a place where they could stand out."

Did you know?

1. The movie's working title was "Ajnabi - A Man Apart".
2. The filmmakers chose Bangkok as their primary location principally because Bangkok hadn't been captured so extensively on celluloid in the past.
3. The entire unit traveled in one bus. The bus would leave for the locations, as scheduled and would not wait for anyone. Those who were late missed the bus. The unfortunate ones included producer, Bunty Walia, director Apoorva Lakhia as well as actress Perizaad Zorabian.
4. The makers auditioned approximately 70 kids for the role of Anamika before finally zeroing in on Baby Rucha Vaidya. One of the prerequisites for the character was that the child had to know how to swim. However, even though Rucha didn't know how to swim, director Apoorva Lakhia was so impressed that he was adamant on casting her. And so she was given three months before the shooting of the film, during which she actually learned how to swim.
5. The cast and crew used to keep having Tuk Tuk races, throughout the streets of Bangkok, during their schedule. Tuk Tuks are the local auto rickshaws.
6. Pooja Bedi shot a cameo role as a News Reporter, but her scenes were removed in the final print as the makers felt there wasn't any need for her role.
7. The snaps of 'Amitabh Bachhan' seen when Kelly Dorjee browses police records are actually from the film "Lakshya" which also had Amitabh playing an army officer (Colonel Damle).
8. This is the first time Arjun Rampal will be seen in an item number track.
9. Producers Bunty Walia and Jaspreet Singh Walia requested good friends Vishal and Shekhar to compose the two item numbers pictured on Sanjay Dutt and Arjun Rampal.
10. The promotion of the film kicked off with a star studded press conference in New York. Bollywood was represented by the films producer Bunty Walia, director Apoorva Lakhia, the lead star Amitabh Bachchan, co-stars Arjun Rampal, Vikram Chatwal as well as Jaya Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Abhishek Bachchan and Karan Johar. International celebrities 'Naomi Campbell', Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker were also present.
11. In the scene when Ravi (Vikram Chatwal) and Nikasha (Perizaad Zorabian) leave for London, Suryaveer Singh (Amitabh Bachchan) is wearing a cap which has director Apoorva Lakhia's directorial debut's name Mumbai Se Aaya Mera Dost.
12. Arjun Rampal's first negative role.

Dil Jo Bhi Kahey (2005)

Dil Jo Bhi Kahey Movie Trailer 2005

Crew

Directed by     Romesh Sharma
Produced by     Lawrence D'Souza, Romesh Sharma
Music by     Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
Cinematography     Binod Pradhan,Gopal Shah
Editing by     Anil Kumar Bonthi,Rasshi Ganeriwal

Cast

    Amitabh Bachchan ... Shekhar Sinha
    Revathi ... Sandhaya Sinha
    Karan Sharma ... Jai Sinha
    Bhoomika Chawla ... Gayatri Pandey
    Annabelle Wallis ... Sophie Besson
    Malcolm Stoddard ... Norman Besson
    Claire Oberman ... Claire Besson

Story

Shekhar Sinha (Amitabh Bachchan), his wife Sandhaya (Revathi) and their son Jai (Karan Sharma) are one of the many Indian families living in Mauritius.

Jai ventures out to Stockholm, Sweden to obtain education in culinary studies and incidentally meets Sophie Besson (Annabelle Wallis), a Roman Catholic Franco-Mauritian. They start meeting regularly and soon fall in love. Jai is introduced to Sophie's parents Norman and Claire Besson (Malcolm Stoddard and Claire Oberman) but Norman (a previous slave master) instantly disapproves of him (because of his ethnicity). Jai feels his father and mother would approve of Sophie. Unfortunately Sandhaya disapproved her (because of her Catholic faith) and tells Jai to end his relationship with her.

The lovers plan to elope but Jai fails to turn up on the stipulated wedding time in Church. Sophie reluctantly returns to her parents to marry the boy of their choice (Gordon). By this time Jai is engaged to Gayatri Pandey (Bhoomika Chawla), to fulfill his mother's wish (who has asthma). Sophie wants to know why Jai did not turn up.

Meanwhile Gayatri gets to know of Jai and Sophie's love and so comes up with a ruse of Sophie's false pregnancy that forces Sophie and Jai's family to accept them as a couple.

The film ends with Gayatri leaving Mauritius.

Did you know?

1. Manmohan Shetty suggested Amitabh Bachchan's name to Romesh Sharma.
2. The movie is a big screen adaptation of Romesh Sharma's 42-episode French television series "C'est La Vie", which starred Karan Sharma in the same role that he's enacting in this film.

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!

Sarkar (2005)

Sarkar Movie Trailer 2005

Crew

Directed by     Ram Gopal Varma
Produced by     Parag Sanghavi ,Ram Gopal Varma
Story by     Manish Gupta
Music by     Background
Score: Amar Mohile
Songs: Bapi-Tutul
Cinematography     Amit Roy
Editing by     Nitin Gupta ,Amit Parmar
Distributed by     K Sera Sera ,Sahara One

Cast

    Amitabh Bachchan as Subhash Nagre (Sarkar)
    Abhishek Bachchan as Shankar Nagre
    Kay Kay Menon as Vishnu Nagre
    Katrina Kaif as Pooja (Mona Ghosh Shetty as the dubbing voice)
    Tanisha Mukherjee as Avantika
    Anupam Kher as Motilal Khurana
    Supriya Pathak as Pushpa Nagre
    Rukhsar as Amrita (Vishnu's wife)
    Ishrat Ali as Khansaab
    Raju Mavani as Vishram Bhagat
    Zakir Hussain as Rashid
    Kota Srinivasa Rao as Selvar Mani
    Ravi Kale as Chander
    Virendra Saxena as Girl's Father
    Anant Jog as Police Commissioner
    Deepak Shirke as Madan Rathod
    Carran Kapoor as a Hero in Vishnu's film
    Nisha Kothari as a Heroine in Vishnu's film
    Jeeva as Virendra Swami
    Mangal Kenkre as Shoba
    Saurabh Dubey as Pooja's Father
    Dinesh Lamba
    Rushad Rana
    Anil Yadav

Story

Subhash Nagre (Amitabh Bachchan), who is known by his followers as Sarkar, lives in Mumbai. The opening scenes show a rape victim's father (Veerendra Saxena) approaching Sarkar (which is parallel to Amerigo Bonasera visiting Don Corleone in The Godfather for same reason) for justice (which the corrupt law and order system has failed to deliver) which Sarkar promptly establishes by having the rapist beaten up by his henchmen. His son, Vishnu (Kay Kay Menon), plays a foul-mouthed producer who is more interested in the film actress Sapna (Nisha Kothari) than his wife Amrita (Rukhsar). Sarkar's other, more upright son, Shankar (Abhishek Bachchan), returns from the United States with his love Pooja (Katrina Kaif) after completing his education there. Pooja's doubts about Sarkar's image cause Shankar, who firmly believes in his father's righteousness, to break up with her later in the movie.

One day, a Dubai-based don, Rasheed (Zakir Hussain) tries to strike a deal with Sarkar; he promptly refuses on moral grounds and also forbids him from doing it himself. Rasheed tries to eliminate Sarkar's supremacy with the help of Selvar Mani (Kota Srinivasa Rao), Sarkar's former associate and Swami Virendra (Jeeva). Meanwhile, they trap Sarkar by assassinating a righteous, upright, Ahimsa political leader and an outspoken critic of Sarkar, Motilal Khurana (Anupam Kher). Everyone, including Vishnu believe that Sarkar is guilty but Shankar has deep faith in his father. Sarkar gets arrested. Shankar now takes over the position of Sarkar temporarily. On learning of a plot to murder his father in prison, he approaches the police commissioner (Anant Jog) who mocks him and his father besides not providing protection. By the time he reaches the prison and appropriate action is taken, the attempt on Sarkar's life is already made. Sarkar is later acquitted. He remains bedridden as Shankar takes on Sarkar's enemies. Meanwhile, Selva Mani, Swami and Rasheed try to convince Vishnu to murder Sarkar. Vishnu was previously thrown out of Sarkar's house because he had murdered the actor who was having an affair with Sapna. Vishnu returns home pretending to have repented. When he approaches Sarkar in the dark of the night with the intent of murdering him, Shankar foils his plan and later kills him (establishing justice by the way of his father). Shankar eliminates Rasheed and Selva Mani. He also succeeds in making Swami his puppet. Shankar has also realized that Chief Minister Madan Rathore (Deepak Shirke) also has a part in the attempt to end Sarkar and his rule. This results in legal action against the Chief Minister. The closing scenes show people approaching Shankar for justice and his father apparently retired.

Did you know?

1. 'Ram Gopal Verma' had signed Amitabh Bachchan for another movie "Ek", he decided to scrap that script and decided to cast both father and son together for the first time in this movie.
2. The term "Sarkar" (pronounced "sur-kaar") is a title, used in Hindi, to address someone of authority. It is also the Hindi word for government.
3. Many directors have been trying to get both the real life father and son together in the same movie, finally 'Ram Gopal Verma' managed to rope them in together for the first time, even though Bunty Aur Babli (to which the father and son signed much later) was released earlier.

Paheli (2005)

Paheli Movie Trailer 2005

Crew

Directed by     Amol Palekar
Produced by     Gauri Khan
Screenplay by     Sandhya Gokhale
Story by     Vijayadan Detha ,Sandhya Gokhale ,Amol Palekar
Narrated by     Naseeruddin Shah
Music by     M. M. Kreem ,Aadesh Shrivastava
Cinematography     Ravi K. Chandran
Editing by     Amitabh Shukla
Distributed by     Red Chillies Entertainment

Cast

    Shahrukh Khan .... Kishanlal/The Ghost as Prem
    Rani Mukerji .... Lachchi
    Anupam Kher .... Bhanwarlal, Kishanlal's father
    Sunil Shetty .... Sunderlal, Kishanlal's brother
    Juhi Chawla .... Gajrobai, Sunderlal's wife
    Amitabh Bachchan .... Gadariya
    Rajpal Yadav .... Bhoja
    Dilip Prabhavalkar .... Kanwarlal, Bhanwarlal's brother
    Palak Jain ... as a cousin of Kishanlal (Child artist)
    A.K. Hangal .... Jeevraj
    Naseeruddin Shah .... Male Puppet (voice)
    Ratna Pathak ... Female puppet (voice)

Story

he movie is narrated by two puppets, voiced by Naseeruddin Shah and his real-life wife Ratna Pathak Shah. Enthusiastic young Lachchi (Rani Mukerji) is to be married to Kishen (Shahrukh Khan), the son of the rich merchant Bhanwarlal (Anupam Kher). Kishen is a dutiful son who honors his father's wish to start a new, far-away business on a predetermined auspicious date, which happens to be the day after the wedding ceremony. On the wedding night, Kishen turns away from his wife to finish his bookkeeping, and in the early morning hours sets off on a business trip that is to last five years. Lachchi is devastated; Gajrobai (Juhi Chawla), her husband's sister-in-law, consoles her, empathizing on the grounds that Gajrobai's husband Sunderlal (Sunil Shetty) has also disappeared. The next day, a ghost appears, having taken Kishen's shape and voice because of his own attachment to Lachchi.

Lachchi is thus presented a riddle (hence the title "paheli") between the representation of all of her desires in the form of the ghost and her real husband. She takes this new, fond, sexual, magical, social, self-confident version of Kishen as hers. As Kishen, the ghost befriends all of the real Kishen's family and keeps Bhanwarlal happy by providing him with magical, possibly illusory, gold coins. His only blunder is in his treatment of the messenger Bhoja, who is perplexed by the idea that Kishen has sent a letter from his business trip only to receive it himself in his own house and offended when the ghost (who appears as Kishen) does not offer him a drink of water. Lachchi's bliss goes on until four years later, when she is pregnant and the real Kishen returns to see if the rumors about his wife's pregnancy are true. He returns to find the ghost in his (Kishen's) own form. Kishen's family is unable to determine which of the doppelgangers is the real Kishen (the ghost refusing to confess). They decide to visit the king so that he can arbitrate. On the way to the king they meet an old shepherd Gadariya (Amitabh Bachchan) who helps them out. He asks the real son of Bhanwarlal to pick up hot coals, asks the real husband to gather the sheep, and asks Lachchi's real paramour to enter a water-bottle. The real Kishen is found out and everyone returns home. Lachchi is devastated over the loss of the ghost. In the very end it is revealed that the ghost has escaped the bottle and taken control of Kishen's body in order to live with her. By now Lachchi has given birth to a daughter, Looni Ma, by whose identification the ghost exposes his identity to Lachchi. The puppets close the film, remarking that the film's plot is "an old story".

Bunty Aur Babli (2005)

 Bunty Aur Babli Movie Trailer 2005

Crew

Directed by     Shaad Ali
Produced by     Aditya Chopra
Screenplay by     Jaideep Sahni
Story by     Aditya Chopra
Narrated by     Amitabh Bachchan
Music by     Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
Cinematography     Abhik Mukhopadhyay
Editing by     Ritesh Soni
Distributed by     Yash Raj Films

Cast

    Amitabh Bachchan as Dashrath Singh
    Abhishek Bachchan as Rakesh Trivedi / Bunty
    Rani Mukerji as Vimmi Saluja / Babli
    Raj Babbar as Bunty's Father
    Talluri Rameshwari as Bunty's Mother
    Puneet Issar as Papaji (Babli's Father)
    Kiran Juneja as Babli's Mother
    Pratima Kazmi as Phoolsakhi
    Prem Chopra as a Truck Driver
    Sanjay Mishra as Q.Q Qureshi
    Ravi Baswani as Hotel Owner
    Virendra Saxena as Police Commissioner
    Yunus Parvez as a Hotel Owner
    Tania Zaetta as Kate
    Anupam Shyam as Raj Kapoor Tiwari
    Rajesh Vivek as a Protestor
    Aishwarya Rai in a Special Appearance in song 'Kajra Re'
    Shaad Ali in a Guest Appearance
    J. Brandon Hill as Harry
    Kunal Kumar as Newspaper Salesman

Story

Rakesh Trivedi (Abhishek Bachchan) comes from a small village. His father is a ticket collector on the train, and wants him to get into a similar occupation as well. However, Rakesh has big dreams; he is forever coming up with new business plans and is convinced he will make it big one day. He adamantly refuses any notion that he will one day work in a 9-to-5 environment.

Vimmi Saluja (Rani Mukerji) is the daughter of a Punjabi family in another small village; she spends her hours watching films and studying supermodels, and dreams of becoming Miss India one day.

One day Vimmi's parents tell her they have arranged her marriage to a young man with a decent job. At the same time Rakesh's father gives him an ultimatum – go to the interview for the job his father has arranged for him, or get out of the house.

Rakesh and Vimmi both pack their bags in their respective homes and sneak out in the dark of the night. They bump into each other at a train station, and become friends after realizing their stories are similar. Both support and encourage each other to achieve their dreams: Vimmi tries to enter herself in the Miss India contest but gets thrown out after an argument, and Rakesh tries to sell his ideas for an investment scheme, but a businessman turns him away. In fact, a man he had met at a restaurant stole ideas from Rakesh's presentation file and when he enters the office, the interviewer states someone before him came in with the same idea. After finding out that the businessman who Rakesh had approached has used his idea to make money for himself, he and Vimmi con him and take money they believe is rightly theirs.

Once they realize how easy it is to con people, they decide to run some more scams in order to raise money to make it to Bombay.

Unfortunately for India, they find the lifestyle too exciting to give up. Adopting the fake names of 'Bunty' and 'Babli', they successfully pull off scam after scam, looting and conning rich people dressed as local guides, religious priests, health inspectors, business partners, etc. Their flamboyant antics make them famous in newspapers nationwide. Soon their friendship leads to romance and they decide to continue scamming the rich as husband and wife.

Little do Rakesh and Vimmi know that ACP Dashrath Singh (Amitabh Bachchan) is catching up with their scams and pranks, getting closer each time. He relentlessly pursues them across India in the hopes of putting them behind bars. To complicate matters, Rakesh and Vimmi have a child, and after a very close call eluding Dashrath they decide to quit conning for their child's sake. Ironically, this decision leads to their capture by Dashrath. While in custody, their heartfelt confessions and conversation soften the detective's heart and he lets them go, certain he has destroyed Bunty and Babli's career as criminals.

Years later, Dashrath rescues them from their mundane and domestic lives to work for the nation thwarting the activities of other scammers.

The plot, although it draws on the idea of two rather lovable crooks, does not contain much violence. In fact each of the adventures of Bunty and Babli are thoroughly Indianised, like the fake selling of the Taj Mahal. It draws comparisons to the American classic "Bonnie and Clyde", however there are no dark elements to the film. In fact, as stated above, there is minimal violence and the characters do not die a bloody death, unlike their American counterparts. The robberies done were usually to teach a lesson or exact revenge for some previous altercation.

Did you know?

1. Hrithik Roshan was approached for the role of Bunty. However, recalling the disastrous Mujhse Dosti Karoge!, he put a condition that he would do the film if it was directed by either Yash Chopra or Aditya Chopra. Abhishek Bachchan was approached next and he accepted the role.
2. The movie is a homage to work of Amitabh Bachchan (who also stars in the movie). His son (Abhishek Bachchan) tries to reprise his father's roles in various movies. For example he tries to act like Amitabh bachchan from Agnipath in the scene where he goes on to con a hotel owner in Mussoorie. He appears in Rishi Kappor get-up from Amitabh's super hit film Amar Akbar Anthony. Also, almost all the songs playing in the background throughout the movie are from Amitabh Bachhan movies.
3. As part of an advertising campaign for the film, Bunty and Babli were seen broadcasting the news on the Hindi news channel NDTV.
4. The horn-rimmed glasses and old-fashioned dress Babli dons to give an old-fashioned look to her persona is a reference to the popular Hindi serial _Jassi Jaissi Koi Nahin (2003)_.
5. A song titled "I'm in Love" was composed for the film, but it was deemed inappropriate for such a rustic and earthy film and eventually appeared in Neal 'N' Nikki.
6. Heard in the mujra hall is the song "Salaam-E-Ishq" from Muqaddar Ka Sikandar, which featured Amitabh Bachchan, who also stars in this film. Interestingly, the first song became the title of Salaam-E-Ishq, which has, just as in this film, music by Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani, and Loy Mendonsa.
7. Heard in the mujra hall is the song "Dil Cheez Kya Hai" from Umrao Jaan. Interestingly, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who has a special appearance in this film, plays the titular character in Umrao Jaan's remake, Umrao Jaan, which also stars Abhishek Bachchan.
8. Sushmita Sen was considered for the "Kajra Re" item number.
9. The Aishwarya Rai Track 'Kajra Re' was a take of Rekha from the film 'Muqaddar Ka Sikandar (1978)' in the song 'Saalame Ishq'
10. Since seriously injuring Amitabh Bachchan in Coolie, this was the first time in 22 years Puneet Issar appeared in the same film as Amitabh Bachchan, even though they didn't have any scenes together.

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.

Black (2005)

Black Movie Trailer 2005

Crew

Directed by     Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Produced by     Sanjay Leela Bhansali , Anshuman Swami
Screenplay by     Sanjay Leela Bhansali ,Bhavani Iyer,Prakash Kapadia
Narrated by     Rani Mukerji
Music by     Monty Sharma
Cinematography     Ravi K. Chandran
Editing by     Bela Sehgal
Distributed by     SLB Films

Cast

    Amitabh Bachchan as Debraj Sahai
    Rani Mukerji as Michelle McNally
    Ayesha Kapoor as Young Michelle McNally
    Shernaz Patel as Catherine McNally
    Dhritiman Chaterji as Paul McNally
    Nandana Sen as Sarah McNally
    Sillo Mahava as Mrs. Gomes
    Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal as Mrs. Nair

Story

The film begins with Michelle McNally (Rani Mukerji), a blind and deaf woman, visiting her former teacher Debraj Sahai (Amitabh Bachchan), who now has Alzheimer's disease, in a hospital. The film then flashbacks to the past to her childhood.

Michelle was a girl who lost her eyesight and hearing after recovering from an illness at the age of two and exists in a black world where she is isolated in the darkness of her own existence, trapped by her inability to see, hear and express. She grows up becoming more and more frustrated by the black and dark world around her, making her a violent, uncontrollable eight-year old child. Her parents, Paul and Catherine, are at their wits' end trying to control her, until one day the light shines through the end of the tunnel.

Debraj Sahai enters their lives, an elderly alcoholic teacher for the deaf and blind, Debraj sees himself as a magician and is a disillusioned eccentric man. He takes it upon himself to bring young Michelle into the light. He uses harsh methods, although always for Michelle's long-term benefit. Initially, his methods are met with disapproval by Michelle's father, who asks Debraj to leave. Although her father thinks he is gone, Debraj stays as the teacher while her father is away on business for 20 days. Her mother grudgingly approves of his continuation given her fear of Michelle being sent to an asylum. By the 20th day, Debraj manages to teach Michelle some words and better manners, but he has difficulty teaching her the meaning of words. When Michelle's father returns, Debraj packs his bags. At the very last moment, as he is walking towards the door suitcase in hand, Debraj gets frustrated with Michelle's continuing insolent behavior and he throws her into a fountain full of water. Michelle suddenly takes to Debraj's lessons at that moment and begins to understand meaning. She is able to recognize her mother and father, and can vocalize the first syllables of some words. The McNallys decide to keep Debraj as Michelle's teacher.

Many years later, Michelle has learned a great deal, becoming relaxed and expressive, and she is even able to dance and expertly sign. Debraj convinces the Principal of a university to grant her an interview which she passes and gets admission to pursue a Bachelor of Arts degree, the first deaf-blind person to do so at that university. Michelle moves away from home and lives with Debraj and one of her servants. Over the next 2 years, she struggles to gain her Bachelor of Arts degree, failing year after year, but she still maintains her spirit. One reason is that she must rely on Debraj completely for interpretation of the material and studying. This problem is overcome by the Principal of the school preparing the whole first-year Arts course of study in Braille. Another reason for her continuing failure is that her typing skills are lacking and typing is her only way to write down what she knows during exams. However, she also soon overcomes this deficiency through another flash of increased of competence when she almost quits the university and gets into an argument with Debraj.

At the same time as Michelle suffers through and triumphs over her challenges, we also witness numerous other changes. Debraj begins to succumb to Alzheimer's, first forgetting the way out of the Principal's office and then forgetting Michelle and leaving her stranded during an ice cream celebration for her improved typing. We also see Michelle reconcile with her sister Sara, who we find out was jealous of her parents' affection for Michelle throughout her life. After attending Sara's wedding, Michelle begins to wonder about love, which she has not experienced, and she even asks Debraj to kiss her on the lips. Debraj reluctantly does so but decides to leave Michelle on her own because of this demand and the position she has put him in. Twelve years after enrollment, Michelle does manage to gain her BA, and with her proud parents looking on her, she even gives a speech to the graduating class. Wearing no black graduation robe, she thanks her parents and her teacher and she announces that she will only wear the robe so that her teacher may see her first.

Debraj is in a mental hospital due to his almost complete inability to remember his past and even how to speak. Michelle visits him wearing her robe and we see glimmers of memory return as Debraj realizes that she has graduated and even does a victory dance. As the window opens to the rain outside, we see Debraj's hand in Michelle's reaching into the rain, and we hear the teacher-student pair say the first syllable of the word "water", with echoes of the scene in which Michelle first begins understanding the meaning of words earlier in the movie. However this time, it is Debraj who is beginning to learn to speak and understand.

The movie ends with a scene of Michelle amongst a crowd of people all dressed in black carrying candles walking towards a church. There is a voiceover of a letter Michelle has written to Debraj's friend Mrs Nair explaining that today was her teacher's first day of school, and that like hers, his alphabet began with "B L A C K", implying that Debraj had finally succumbed to his illness and died.

Did you know?

1. The shooting of the movie ran into trouble in Scenic Hill Resort, with authorities refusing to allow shooting in the premises of a heritage building. Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS) refused permission to shoot in the 120-year-old building as the arc lights could affect the vice regal lodge heritage structure. The building was home to British viceroys from 1886 until 1947, after which it became the summer home of the president of India and since 30 years houses the IIAS.
2. A fire broke out on the sets at Mumbai's Film City and four fire brigades were required to put out the fire.
3. Rani Mukherjee wore dark-tinted contact lenses to cover up her famous green eyes.
4. Sanjay Leela Bhansali named the film after his favorite color.
5. The movie's title was registered with Kumar Gaurav; Sanjay Leela Bhansali approached him and requested him to relinquish the title, as he wanted it for his movies. Kumar felt that the film was bold and path breaking and wanted to render any help that he could to the film. Hence the reason Sanjay expressed his gratitude to Kumar Gaurav in the opening credits.
6. At first, Rani Mukerjee refused to step in, because she felt that she was unable to play the character she was proposed
7. Unusually for a work by Bhansali, there are no songs featured in this film. So the background score became of paramount importance to the composer, Monty. To create more of an uplifting aura for the deaf-blind-mute character of Michelle McNally, he used pianos and strings, but kept the voices in the chorus at a low octave. For Debraj Sehai's character, a fighting spirit needed to be vocalized, so Monty used a little-known Middle Eastern instrument called a duduk.
8. The film is based on screenwriter Prakash Kapadia's Gujarati play "Aatam Vinjhe Paankh", which was inspired from "The Miracle Worker"
9. Director Bhansali hoped to make a film that was an extension of his critically acclaimed (box office flop) debut film Khamoshi: The Musical. Both were based on a visit he made to the Helen Keller Institute.
10. Snow was essential for the story, so for the first part of the shoot, the entire unit went to Simla in mid-January. It was cold but there was no sign of snow. Since the unit could not wait around, kilos of salt bags bought from the local market and snow making machines from Bombay helped complete that schedule. The shooting would be done early at 4 am. And when the locals emerged they'd be amazed to see so much snow; it looked so authentic that they would touch it to check whether it was real. Dogs would come and lick the salt. The day after the unit left Simla, it snowed heavily.
11. While the movie is supposedly set in Simla, and has an undefined time period, the time period is variable, and can be measured in part by the presence of Charlie Chaplin movies, which are being presented in the background. These movies include The Kid and The Gold Rush, and while we do not know when they were released in India, they give us a general time period, although this might not fully explain the extravagant European setting of the area, even though the British Raj was still in force.

Baabul (2006)

Baabul Movie Trailer 2006

Crew

Directed by     Ravi Chopra
Produced by     B.R. Chopra
Music by     Aadesh Shrivastav
Cinematography     Barun Mukherjee
Distributed by     B.R. Films

Cast

    Amitabh Bachchan ... Balraj Kapoor
    Hema Malini ...Shobhana Kapoor (Balraj's Wife)
    Salman Khan ...Avinash Kapoor (Avi)
    Rani Mukherjee ...Malvika Talwar-Kapoor (Millie)
    John Abraham ... Rajat Verma
    Om Puri ... Balwant Kapoor (Elder Brother of Amitabh)
    Sarika .... Pushpa (Widowed sister-in-law of Balwant and Balraj)
    Aman Verma ... Shobhna's brother
    Parmeet Sethi .... Balwant's son
    Sharat Saxena .... Malvika's father
    Smita Jaykar .... Malvika's mother
    Rajpal Yadav .... Servant
    Shriya Saran ... appeared in title track

Story

Balraj Kapoor (Amitabh Bachchan) is a rich businessman, happy and content with his world. He and his wife Shobhna (Hema Malini) live happily together and they wait for their only son Avinash a.k.a. 'Avi' (Salman Khan) to return from his studies in the United States. After an absence of 7 years, Avinash comes back to India. He reunites with his parents at the airport and races home. Back home, Avi joins his father's business.

One day they decide to go golfing and Balraj accidentally hits the ball which ruins a painting. The young woman painting the picture, Malvika a.k.a. 'Millie' (Rani Mukherjee) gets furious with Balraj and leaves. Later on, Avi runs into Millie on the golf course, and they start to talk. Millie tells him that a stupid old man ruined her painting and points out that it was Balraj; but she doesn't know that the 'old man' is Avi's father and he doesn't tell her. They start to hang out together while slowly falling in love with each other.

When Millie comes home, she is visited by her childhood friend Rajat (John Abraham). She tells him that she loves someone, which devastates him because he is also in love with her. One day, Millie goes to Avi's office to drop off a painting and finds out that Balraj is Avi's father. When Avi shows up, she leaves the office crying. He chases after her and says that the only reason he lied to her was because he loves her. She doesn't accept his apology right then, but when Balraj apologizes to her for ruining her painting, she forgives them both.

Avi asks Millie to get dressed up for a party at his house. When she arrives, there is no one except Avi. He proposes to her and she accepts. The whole family visits Millie's house to discuss marriage and everyone agrees, except Rajat. He tells Avi that he'll let him marry her if only he promises to always keep her happy and never let her get sad. Avi and Millie get married and soon they're expecting a child. Time goes on, Millie's water breaks while in yoga class and Avi and she flee to the hospital where they are blessed with a healthy baby boy.

Their child Ansh grows up to be a sweet and intelligent boy. The family throws a birthday bash for Ansh and wait for Avi who is in a meeting. But Avi never arrives home. He is involved in an accident and dies. Millie is devastated. Balraj seeks to bring happiness back into Millie's life and gets into contact with Rajat. He learns that Rajat still loves Millie. Balraj asks Rajat to marry Millie. However, there is stiff opposition from Shobhna and Balraj's conservative older brother Balwant (Om Puri). Shobhna fears losing her grandson Ansh, while Balwant thinks a widow's remarriage is a sin. However, Balraj stands firm and convinces everyone. In the end, Rajat and Millie get married, and everything is well. Avinash comes in as a spirit and blesses his dad with happiness.

Did you know?

1. Director 'Ravi Chopra' wanted Kajol to play the main lead but she couldn't commit herself to the project. Then Rani Mukerji stepped in.
2. Amrish Puri was set to play a role, but when he died, Om Puri stepped in.
3. Manish Malhotra was set to design the costumes until Rani Mukerji suggested Sabyasachi Mukherji because Rani had recently worked with Manish in Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna and felt she needed a new wardrobe.

Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006)

Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna Movie Trailer 2006

Crew

Directed by     Karan Johar
Produced by     Hiroo Yash Johar ,Karan Johar
Written by     Karan Johar,Shibani Bathija,Niranjan Iyengar
Music by     Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
Cinematography     Anil Mehta
Editing by     Sanjay Sankla
Distributed by     Dharma Productions,Yash Raj Films

Cast

    Shahrukh Khan as Dev Saran
    Abhishek Bachchan as Rishi Talwar
    Rani Mukherjee as Maya Talwar
    Preity Zinta as Rhea Saran
    Amitabh Bachchan as Samarjit Singh Talwar
    Kirron Kher as Kamaljit Saran
    Arjun Rampal as Jai (special appearance)
    Ahsaas Channa as Arjun Saran (Rhea and Dev's son)
    Kajol as a special appearance in song "Rock 'n' Roll Soniye"
   John Abraham as a special appearance during song "Where's The Party Tonight?" as the DJ
    Karan Johar as a special appearance (train passenger in last sequence)

Story

Dev Saran (Shahrukh Khan) is a successful football player in the United States. He lives in New York with his wife Rhea (Preity Zinta), a fashion designer, his young son Arjun, and his mother Kamaljeet (Kirron Kher). Maya (Rani Mukherji) is an orphan who is to marry her closest childhood friend Rishi Talwar (Abhishek Bachchan). The two have been raised by Rishi's fun-loving father Samarjit a.k.a. Sam (Amitabh Bachchan). Dev encounters Maya moments before she is to marry Rishi, and the two have a deep conversation. Although Dev and Maya are strangers, they connect instantly. When Dev bids Maya goodbye, she tells him they should never say goodbye because they may meet again. Moments after they part, Dev is hit by a car and permanently injures his leg; as a result, he is no longer able to play football.

Four years later: Dev is now extremely bitter — first because of his inability to play football and second because Rhea is very successful in her career, making Dev feel inferior. Maya is in a similar situation: she has found that she is infertile and does not feel any love towards Rishi because she believes he is selfish. The two couples meet and quickly become friends. When Dev and Maya witness Sam and Kamaljeet embracing, they confront them about it. Sam and Kamaljeet explain that having both lost their spouses, they understand each other and have decided to help one another through their loneliness by means of friendship. Dev and Maya notice each other's marriages failing miserably and, taking into account what Sam and Kamaljeet said, they decide that they need to help each other save their marriages. They meet every day for coffee and discuss their situations. Eventually, Dev and Maya decide to take a break from the stress of their relationships and spend some quality time together. In doing so, they find themselves drawn to one another.

After celebrating their wedding anniversaries, both couples have an argument. Upset, Maya arrives at the train station and finds Dev, who finally confesses that he has fallen in love with Maya, and so has she. Rhea and Rishi talk with each other and realize they need to stop arguing with their spouses and reach out to them. For a while, both marriages seem to be fine; however, Dev and Maya begin an affair, as they are happier with each other. The two couples attend a ballet show, where Dev and Maya try making each other jealous by showing affection to their partners. The next day, they realize what they are doing is wrong but nevertheless give in to their love and sleep together.

Sam invites the Sarans to dinner to celebrate Kamaljeet's birthday. Here, Dev 'jokingly' admits he loves Maya; Sam is the only one who realizes that Dev was being serious. Shortly afterward, Dev and Maya are caught together by Sam and Kamaljeet. Sam has a heart attack; on his deathbed, he advises Maya to leave Rishi, as neither of them are happy in the relationship and never will be. After Sam's death, Dev and Maya decide they must end their relationship and go back to Rhea and Rishi, but must tell them the truth first about their extramarital affairs. Shocked and brokenhearted, Rhea and Rishi decide they have had enough and divorce their spouses. Dev and Maya lie to each other and say that they have managed to sort things out with their partners, believing they'll never meet again.

Three years later: Dev and Maya now live alone miserably, and have not seen each other since. Rishi visits Maya and says that he has fallen in love again and is remarrying, and wants Maya to be his best man, to which she agrees. Rhea, having also been invited, arrives at Rishi's wedding with her boss Jay (Arjun Rampal in a cameo), whom she is now dating. Rhea learns that Rishi and Maya are divorced — Rishi learns the same about Dev and Rhea. Maya is encouraged by Rishi and Rhea to go to Dev, who is leaving for Toronto by train, as they have both moved on and believe Maya should find her true love. At the station, Dev sees Maya but tries to avoid her, believing she is still with Rishi. However, Maya finds him just as the train leaves. Dev pulls the emergency stop and arrives back at the station. He learns that Maya has also been divorced and alone in these three years. They finally find happiness with their love and decide to start a new life together. At the end, Dev narrates that love should be the only foundation of marriage; otherwise it will never work out.

Did you know?

1. Kajol was initially offered the lead role in this movie, but due to scheduling conflicts, since she was already cast in Fanaa, she had to refuse. She was originally going to play the role played by Rani Mukerji, and Rani was to play the role played by Preity Zinta.
2. India's most expensive Hindi film, reportedly made for an astronomical Rs 70 crore (~US$15 million).
3. Ritesh Deshmukh was cast for a guest role in the film. The stills were even on the publicity material of the film. However, Karan Johar cut the part out at the last minute.
4. The film's shooting was delayed due to Amitabh Bachchan's illness. However, the team managed to get on track and the film was released on schedule.
5. The makers of the film came up with T-shirts for the film's promotion. The T-shirts had the witty phrase "married or happy" on them.
6. The idea of making this film struck Karan Johar while he was in London. During his trip, he saw the movie Before Sunset, based on a couple who meet after parting ways. After seeing that film, he was out at a restaurant where he overheard a married couple breaking up amicably. The incident moved him and he decided to explore the idea.
7. The film was primarily shot in New York, where there was a 90-day schedule. The remaining scenes were completed in four of Mumbai's studios.
8. Karan Johar asked Shah Rukh Khan, because he was busy elsewhere, to direct the controversial hotel scene himself. Khan then asked Amitabh Bachchan to direct the scene by phone because he was uncomfortable to do it.
9. Ajay Devgn was the original choice for the role of Rishi, but he refused.
10. Shah Rukh Khan promised Karan Johar that this is the first film he would complete after Yash Johar death. Due to other delays, Shah Rukh Khan ended up completing Paheli first.
11. Director Cameo
12. Karan Johar:  plays a man talking on a cell phone behind Shah Rukh Khan inside the train during film's climax.