Halla Bol (2008)

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Director:

Rajkumar Santoshi

Writer:

Ranjit Kapoor (dialogue)

Release Date:

11 January 2008 (India)

Plot:

Ashfaque (Ajay Devgan) is a small town boy aspiring to be a film star in the Hindi film industry. He...

Plot Keywords:

Actor | Crowd | Conscience | Sex | Moral Corruption

Cast

Ajay Devgan	...	Ashfaque / Sameer Khan
Vidya Balan	...	Sneha
Pankaj Kapur
Darshan Jariwala	...	Ganpatrao Gaekwad (as Darshan Zariwala)
Abhay Bhargav		(as Abhhay Bhaargava)
Shiva Natrajan
Anjan Srivastav		(as Aanjjan Srivastava)
Sulabha Arya
Iqbal Dosani
Deepak Pandit
Sitaram Panchal
Sanjay Mishra		(as Sanjai Mishra)
Anupam Shyam		(as Anupam Shayam)
Viju Khote		(as Vijoo Khote)
Sanaa Khan		(as Sannah Khan)

Runtime:

242 min

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Color:

Color

Certification:

India:UA

Company:

Indian Films

Trivia:

The plaques and awards displayed in Ashfaque/Sameer Khan's home office are actually Ajay Devgan's own awards won over the years. You can see Silver Jubilee (25 weeks) plaques for Ajay's films Vijaypath (1994), Dilwale (1994) etc. displayed in the showcase of his home office.

Soundtrack:

Is Pal Ki Soch

One time watch movie

Every time Pankaj Kapur's movie comes out, I eagerly wait to watch it. So I went to watch Halla Bol, but for the first half hour I could not decide if I am watching Halla Bol or Madhur Bhandharkar's "Page 3" or Jessica Lal murder case on some news channel. Its the same old plot, same old story. But as always Pankaj Kapur stands out. What an actor! Maqbool, Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro, Chameli Ki Shaadi, etc., awesome movies. Hope he gets more movies, and film industry does justice to his talent.

This movie is not up to the standard of what we expect from Raj Kumar Santoshi. The person gave us awesome movies like Damini, etc. but this movie is not like those movies. As for Vidya Balan, I don't understand how is she managing to get movies. She is not a good actor, and does over acting most of the time. Looks can only take you so far, but she doesn't have talent. She has this patent face expression in most of her movies. But anyways, do watch the movie, it is a one time watch.