Road (2002)

Arvind Chauhan (Vivek Oberooi) and Lakhsmi (Antara Mali) are in love with each other. Lakhsmi's dad, a senior police inspector, hates Arvind, and so Arvind and Lakshmi decide to elope and ... See full summary »

Director:

Rajat Mukherjee

Writer:

Rajnish Thakur

Stars:

Manoj Bajpayee, Vivek Oberoi, Antara Mali

1 win & 2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview:
Manoj Bajpayee	...	Babu (as Manoj Bajpai)
Vivek Oberoi	...	Arvind Chauhan
Antara Mali	...	Lakshmi
Sayaji Shinde	...	Inspector Singh
Makrand Deshpande	...	Inderpal
Rajpal Yadav	...	Bhanwar Singh
Vijay Raaz	...	Villager on the road
Ganesh Yadav	...	Bungalow watchman
Rajendranath Zutshi	...	Kishan bhai
Rajnish Thakur	...	Hotel receptionist
Mithilesh Chaturvedi	...	Old man
Vidya Phadnis	...	Old lady
Ganesh Acharya	...	Dancer (song 'Khullam Khulla')
Koena Mitra	...	Dancer (song 'Khullam Khulla')

Storyline

Arvind Chauhan (Vivek Oberooi) and Lakhsmi (Antara Mali) are in love with each other. Lakhsmi's dad, a senior police inspector, hates Arvind, and so Arvind and Lakshmi decide to elope and get married. On the way they allow Babu, a stranded motorist, to ride with them. After a short while, Babu irritates both of them and they ask him to leave, instead Babu draws a gun, and asks Arvind to get out, and drives away with Lakhsmi. Arvind, with the help of a truck-driver, Inderpal (Makrand Deshpande), catches up with Babu, and Babu runs away. Arvind files a police report, and they proceed on their way. That's when they find Babu in the back of their vehicle, angry and resentful, and this time determined to have his way with them...

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Plot Keywords:

police | truck driver | gun | motorcycle chase | suv | 

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Taglines:

Drive carefully

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Genres:

Thriller

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Details

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Release Date:

27 September 2002 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Kangaroo Island, South Australia, Australia

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$73,636 (USA) (27 September 2002)

Gross:

$73,636 (USA) (27 September 2002)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Varma Corporation

Technical Specs

Runtime:

134 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital DTS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Saif Ali Khan and Urmila Matondkar were originally considered for the main roles.

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Connections

References Company (2002)

User Reviews

What a waste

The Ram Gopal Varma name in the credits sets up expectations that are left unsatisfied.

The script and characters are all needlessly unrealistic. For example, Arvind and Lakshmi (Oberoi and Mali) live in a vacuum, set off on a road trip to nowhere in their SUV with a pack of biscuits, and don't display much emotion, either toward one another or toward anything else. It's hard to identify with either of these characters. The scenery is out of the world, too: petrol pumps spring up from nowhere next to lonely stretches of desert highway as if the landscape were the western United States.

Great locations, photography, and sound fail to dress up this dog. I can't believe at the time of posting this comment on IMDB that seventeen people have voted an average of 7.4!