Shukriya: Till Death Do Us Apart (2004)

Director:

Anupam Sinha

Writers:

Jeetu Arora (screenplay)
Jeetu Arora (story)
(more)

Release Date:

8 October 2004 (India)

Genre:

Musical | Drama | Family | Romance

Plot:

Thirty years ago Karam Jindal together with his widowed mom, Gayatri, and wife, Sandhya, had immigrated to London...

Cast

Anupam Kher	...	Karam Jindal
Aftab Shivdasani	...	Rohan "Ricky" Verma
Shriya	...	Sanam K. Jindal (as Shriya Sharan)
Indraneel	...	Yash
Rati Agnihotri	...	Sandhya K. Jindal
Rana Jung Bahadur	...	Uday R. Jindal
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ashwani Chopra	...	Doctor
Aarti Mehra	...	Shivani
Indraneil Sengupta	...	Anjali
Anupam Sharma	...	Sameer

Directed by
Anupam Sinha

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Jeetu Arora		screenplay
Jeetu Arora		story
Anubhav Sinha		dialogue
Anupam Sinha		screenplay
Anupam Sinha		story

Produced by
Meenu Bachan	....	co-producer
Vibha Bhatnagar	....	producer (as Vibha)
Dr. Phil Blackburn	....	executive producer
Ashwani Chopra	....	line producer
Ragini	....	producer

Cinematography by
Rajeev Shrivastav

Casting by
Ashwani Chopra

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Fahim Inamdar	....	associate director

Sound Department
Rajendra Hegde	....	sound mixer

Music Department
Sunidhi Chauhan	....	playback singer
Shreya Ghoshal	....	playback singer
Kay Kay	....	playback singer
Udit Narayan	....	playback singer
Sonu Nigam	....	playback singer
Anuradha Paudwal	....	playback singer
Kumar Sanu	....	playback singer
Alka Yagnik	....	playback singer

Other crew
Kristijana Maric	....	financial controller

Production Companies

• Inspired Movies
• Spice Team Entertainments

Other Companies

• Super Cassettes Industries Limited (T-Series)  soundtrack

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Color:

Color

Company:

Inspired Movies

Movie Connections:

Remake of Death Takes a Holiday (1934)

Better than the original movie.

Since I watched the movie Meet Joe Black with Pitt & Hopkins three years ago I enjoyed the story already. However this theme is not an easy one to play out considering, the supernatural and concept of 'angel of death'. Mere mortals acting this out could constitute a mocking of ideas some sincerely believe in. Even though Shukriya is no doubt broadly based on the same story lines as JoeBlack, it has however done more justice to the theme. This being simply because the theme is less alien to Indians' audience and the entire concept of angel of death is typically Asian. Take for example Oppenheimer's famous quote when he invented and detonated his famous A-bomb, which he himself claims to have taken from the Gita, relating to the personification of death. Where J.Black more closely resembles sci-fi, Shukria articulates it more spiritually refined. The idea was always an interesting one, but Anupam Sinha seems to do greater justice to the theme than Martin Brest. A western viewer however would do without the lengthy music video's scattered throughout Shukriya, which get tedious especially because of the deep language but summary translation. I however enjoyed the Indian version more, which not only combines life and after-life better, but also east and west and a number of other great equations.