Kaal (2005)

A tiger expert, his wife, two tourists and a village chief engage in a battle for survival against supernatural beasts within Jim Corbett National Wildlife Park.

Director:

Soham Shah

Writers:

Soham Shah (dialogue), Soham Shah (screenplay),

Stars:

Ajay Devgn, Vivek Oberoi, John Abraham

2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Ajay Devgn	...	Kaali Pratap Singh
Vivek Oberoi	...	Dev Malhotra
John Abraham	...	Krish Thapar
Lara Dutta	...	Ishika
Esha Deol	...	Riya Thapar
Parmeet Sethi	...	Bashir Khan
Vishal Malhotra	...	Vishal
Kushal Punjabi	...	Sajid
Vineet Sharma	...	Bagga
Daya Shankar Pandey	...	D.S. Pandey
Vinod Jaywant	...	Driver
Raajan Anand	...	Forest Officer
Vijay Joshi	...	Asst. Forest Officer
Gopal Babel	...	Waiter
Prem Singh Bisht	...	Asst. Ranger

Storyline

Two British Nationals are killed by a ferocious tiger in Orbit Park, India. This incident follows several other incidents, and many deaths result, prompting a National Geographic correspondent, Krish Thapar, and his sexy photographer, Riya, to take a trip to this park and ascertain what really happened. A group of youngsters, consisting of Dev Malhotra, Ishika, Bagga, and Vishal, on a thrill and hunting trip also arrive there in the hopes of sighting and shooting some big prey. Both Thapar and Malhotra groups meet with each other, and seek the guidance of a local called Kaali. What these folks do not know that they are the ones who have been singled out to be the prey - and soon they will find out that there is no escape from Kaal (death) - as it hunts them down one by one.

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Plot Keywords:

tiger | death | beast | wildlife | tourist | 

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Taglines:

Time to die

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Genres:

Thriller | Adventure | Mystery

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Certificate:

PG-13

Details

Official Sites:

Dharma Productions [in] (English)

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Release Date:

29 April 2005 (USA)

Also Known As:

Kaal - Das Geheimnis des Dschungels

Filming Locations:

Bangkok, Thailand

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

£101,649 (UK) (29 April 2005)

Gross:

$340,091 (USA) (13 May 2005)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Dharma Productions, Red Chillies Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

126 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Karan Johar claims he was inspired to do a thriller instead of his usual family film by Aditya Chopra, who had broken Yash Raj Films out of their romantic film mold by doing the action film Dhoom. He paid tribute to Chopra by casting that film's stars, John Abraham and Esha Deol.

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Goofs

There is a sheet of paper on which the national park's rules are printed. One of the park officers states that those are in English on the front and in Hindi on the back. However, there are several other shots in which it is plain that the back of the sheets is blank.

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Connections

Featured in Billu (2009)

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Soundtracks

"Ankhiyan Teriya Ve"
Written and sung by Kailash Kher
Composed by Saleem Merchant and Suleman Merchant

User Reviews

A super time waster

Kaal was supposed to be the best film of the year before its release. But, as usual bollywood has produced yet another Hollywood style (read copy) time waster. The macho men like Ajay Devagan and Vivek Oberoi also could not save the disaster.

Some sequences clearly are copied from "Final Destination" and Taran Adarsh of Indiafm says these scenes are the best. I seriously don't understand how come he became a film critic. Tasteless cheap idiot.

The promos gave much hype to the movie with tigers and all the stuff. Clearly Soham concentrated more on the promos than the original film. Esha and Lara prove to be a waste. To be frank I don't find a single positive point about the movie except the marketing and pre release promotion.

My advice is not to watch the movie and waste your money.

Rating **.