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Director:

Sudhir Mishra

Writers:

Sudhir Mishra (original story & screenplay) and
Shivkumar Subramaniam (original story & screenplay) ...
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Release Date:

15 April 2005 (India) more

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

A clash between idealism and realism more

Plot:

Stunningly beautiful Geeta Rao has two admirers - one is Siddharth Tyabji and the other is Vikram Malhotra... more | add synopsis

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination more

NewsDesk:
(8 articles)

End of Shiney Ahuja?
 (From indicine. 17 June 2009, 11:23 AM, PDT)

Wishing Shiney Ahuja a very happy Birthday
 (From BollywoodHungama. 15 May 2009, 12:50 AM, PDT)

User Comments:

Surrealistic India!! more (29 total)


Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Kay Kay Menon ... Siddharth Tyabji
Shiney Ahuja ... Vikram Malhotra
Chitrangada Singh ... Geeta Rao
Ram Kapoor ... Arun Mehta

Saurabh Shukla ... Senior Bihari constable
Yashpal Sharma ... Randhir Singh
Jasbir Malik ... Mehmood Tyabji
Sohrab Ardeshir ... The maharaja
Aditya Bhattacharya ... Politician Sadiq
Arif Zakaria ... Daryll
Anupam Shyam ... SHO Jhanda Singh
Sandeep Kulkarni ... Comrade Probir

Akhil Mishra ... Vikram's father
Yusuf Hussain ... Senior politician
Manohar Khushlani ... Hotelier Wadhwani
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Additional Details

Runtime:

120 min

Country:

India

Language:

English | Hindi | Punjabi

Color:

Color

Certification:

Singapore:NC-16 | India:A | UK:15

Filming Locations:

India


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

Shiney Ahuja won the Filmfare Best Debut Award for his performance. more


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13 out of 16 people found the following comment useful.
Surrealistic India!!, 24 July 2005
10/10
Author: rekha-r-nair from India

Today is a generation obsessed with western clothes, western accent, western everything... They tend to forget that they can explore these luxuries ONLY because their homeland is a free nation and a democracy. Hazaaron Khwaishen Aisi is meant to be an eye-opener for the youth who have not seen India when she was down and a reminder for the adults of what their generation and their older generations survived.

The movie starts off as a few people just following some ideologies that are very common in the college campuses. But some of them take it too far and decide to live their lives by those ideals while others go and make money and a grand living. Both lives have meanings of their own. The movie very eloquently shows how diverse India is... it shows the cities that are flourishing in wealth and dirty politics; it also shows villages where people die because of poverty or even caste related oppression.

The movie might be perceived in another way too... It could look like the moral is to "Not follow your ideologies if they are for just the well being of others"... but then is that life really worth living?? I think the underlying message was to just follow your vision to completion even if the sacrifices required are humongous.

The casting was perfect. Kay Kay Menon proves to be a very versatile and powerful actor. Inspite of being quite new to movies, he shows a lot of maturity and intelligence in the way he acts. I cannot imagine anyone other than Shiny Ahuja in the role of Vikram. He brings in the "cool" element in the movie. He has the charisma of a fixer-upper guy and also the fiery passion of a man in love with a woman who is in love with someone else. Chitrangada Singh does a terrific portrayal of the girl born and brought up in metros but finally following her ideals (or maybe the ideals of the man she loves). She has a lot of potential to be a powerful character actress.The two songs - title track and 'bawra mann' are really haunting melodies.

I don't think the film was a commercial success... But I definitely vote it as a "must see"... worth every penny! Its nice to see Pritish Nandy putting his money into projects that have some social value...

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