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Two woman --different backgrounds, miles apart, and strangers to each other-- are linked by tragedy. Their new-found friendship is tested as one holds the fate of the other's husband in her hands.

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Meera
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Behroopiya
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Zeenat Fatima
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Randhir Singh
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Gowri Singh
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Amir Khan
Aniruddha Jatkar ...
Shankar Singh (as Anirudh Jaykar)
Shivani Joshi ...
Leela
Uttara Baokar ...
Laxmibai Singh
Pavan Singh ...
Pahad Singh
Banwarilal Taneja ...
Baig Saab
Iqlaq Khan ...
Hanif (as Ikhlaq Khan)
Veena Sajnani ...
Waheeda
Vibhu Kashyap ...
Post Master
Dhruv Jagasiya ...
Bhumi Singh
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Chopra
Maulvi Saheb ...
Priest
Gururaj Manepalli ...
Natarajan
Kohli Chirjyot Singh ...
Rajinder (as Chirjot Singh Kohli)
Kush Chaddha ...
Bad guy 1
Vipin Bhati ...
Bad guy 2
Mukhtar ...
Photo studio guy
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Masterji (as Abhay Bhargav)
Navneet K. Chander ...
Hut owner
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Directed by

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Nagesh Kukunoor

Written by

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Nagesh Kukunoor ... (screenplay)
 
Nagesh Kukunoor ... (story) and
Mir Ali Husain ... (story)
 
T.A. Razak ... ()

Produced by

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Devika Bahudhanam ... executive producer
Elahe Hiptoola ... executive producer
Sumit Kumar ... promo producer
Jaswinder Pabbla ... associate producer
Mahesh Ramanathan ... associate producer
Shailendra Singh ... Distributed by Percept Picture Company
Chhitra Subramaniam ... supervising producer

Music by

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Salim Merchant ... (as Suleiman Merchant)

Cinematography by

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Sudeep Chatterjee

Editing by

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Sanjib Datta

Art Direction by

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Muneesh Sappel

Costume Design by

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Karthik Saragur ... (as M.P. Karthik)
Komal Shahani

Makeup Department

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Rajesh Kadam ... makeup artist

Production Management

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Balaraj ... production manager
Kush Chaddha ... production team
Rajesh Chopra ... production team
Kaushik Chowla ... production team
Arun Kumar ... production team
Naveen Mathur ... production manager
Vaishanvi Reddy ... unit production manager
Subbareddy ... production team

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Vibhu Kashyap ... first assistant director
Taruni Mathur ... assistant director: continuity
Rohan Shaanti ... assistant director (as Rohan Bader)
Supriya Sharma ... second assistant director
Kapil Singh ... second assistant director (pre-production & segments)
Vartika Singh ... assistant director

Art Department

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Haris Umar Khan ... assistant art director
Prashant Laharia ... assistant art director
Rakesh Yadav ... assistant art director

Sound Department

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Prapul Betapudi ... boom operator
Vipin Bhati ... sound designer
Alok De ... re-recording mixer
Karnail Singh ... foley artist

Visual Effects by

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Abrez Mohammed ... visual effects artist (as Mohd Abrez)

Stunts

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Mahendra Verma ... stunt coordinator

Camera and Electrical Department

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Anirban Chatterjee ... second assistant camera
Mohan Prajapati ... Focus Pullar
Samir Sarkar ... still photographer
Shyam N. Shukla ... gaffer

Costume and Wardrobe Department

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Sanjay Hadpidkar ... wardrobe supervisor

Music Department

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Shafqat Amanat Ali ... playback singer
Sunidhi Chauhan ... playback singer
Rakesh Chaurasiya ... playback singer
John Stewart Eduri ... composer: additional music
Emu ... band
Shreya Ghoshal ... playback singer
Trilok Gurtu ... playback singer
Mir Ali Husain ... lyricist
Salim Merchant ... playback singer
Pratichee Mohapatra ... playback singer
Karsan Sargathiya ... playback singer
Sandeep Shirodkar ... additional background music

Additional Crew

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Anthony D'Souza ... promos
Parag Desai ... media consultant
Nitin Dwivedi ... production staff
Sam S Fernandes ... marketing & distribution
Alexy Jacob ... promos
Pankaj Kothari ... marketing: promotion
Ashima Mehra ... publicity stills
Chhitra Subramaniam ... Producers team
Lalji Wagh ... publicity design

Thanks

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Karan Johar ... special thanks
Prashakha Mathur ... special thanks (as Dr. Prashakha Mathur)
Hrishikesh Mukherjee ... dedicatee
Rahul Puri ... special thanks
Chandraveer Singh ... special thanks
Moti Singh ... special thanks
Narendra Singh ... special thanks (as Thakur Narendra Singh)
Prithviraj Singh ... special thanks
Umed Singh ... special thanks
Veer Vijay Singh ... special thanks
Veer Vikram Singh ... special thanks
Sanjeev Varshney ... special thanks

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Storyline

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Plot Summary

Shankar Singh and his wife, Meera, live in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India along with widowed paternal grandmother, Laxmibai, his mom, Gowri, and dad, Randhir. The family feel that they are blessed after Meera's entry in this family. Shankar must go and abroad in Saudi Arabia and bids farewell to Meera, promising to keep in touch, which he does, and also sends them a large portion of his earnings, which is used to pay off the family's debts. Then when no word is received from him, a worried Meera phones, and is devastated to learn that Shankar has been killed by being thrown off a 10th floor balcony. Her status quickly changes, her jewelery, ornaments, fancy clothes are taken off, and she is told to remain indoors. wear dark clothes, and is only allowed to pray at a Mandir. Things brighten up for Meera when she befriends an Islamic woman, Zeenat, who has come all the way from Himachal Pradesh to look for her husband, Amir Khan. Shortly thereafter, Meera's world is turned upside down when she finds out that her father-in-law plans to make her the mistress of a wealthy building contractor, Chopra, for a sum of Five Lakh Rupees; she endures further trauma when she finds out that Zeenat is the wife of the man who has been accused of killing her husband, is merely here to persuade her to sign a Mafi-Naama, which would ensure the release of her husband from the Saudi jails, and prevent his death. Hurt, humiliated and confused Meera refuses to sign this document, and is confined to a locked room by Randhir. It looks like Zeenat may lose her husband after all, and Meera may end up being Chopra's temporary mistress. Written by rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

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Also Known As
  • डोर (India, Hindi title)
  • String (Canada, English title)
  • String (World-wide, English title)
  • Vom Schicksal verbunden (Germany)
  • Laços (Brazil)
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  • 147 min
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Did You Know?

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Trivia The film is an official adaptation of the Malayalam film, Perumazhakkalam (2004) See more »
Movie Connections Features Hero (1983). See more »
Soundtracks Yeh Honsla See more »

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