Hijack (2008)

After the passing away of his wife, Pooja, Delhi-based Vikram Madan, enrolls his daughter, Priya, in a boarding school in Amritsar, and re-locates to work as a Mechanic at Chandigarh ... See full summary »

Director:

Kunal Shivdasani

Writers:

Gavendra Agarwal (story, screenplay, dialogue), Kumaar (lyrics)

Stars:

Shiney Ahuja, Mona Ambegaonkar, Ishita Chauhan

Cast

Credited cast:
Shiney Ahuja	...	Vikram 'Vicky' Madan
Mona Ambegaonkar	...	Simone
Ishita Chauhan	...	Priya V. Madan
Mukesh Chhabra	...	Shakeel
Ujjwal Chopra	...	Co-Pilot
Esha Deol	...	Saira
Ashwin Dhar	...	Abraham
Bomie E. Dotiwala	...	Kersi
Mariah Gantois	...	Herself
Sunil Godse	...	Home Minister
Shruti Gupta	...	Wife - Honeymoon Couple
Harman	...	Airhostess 1
Kaveri Jha	...	Pooja V. Madan
Mushtaq Kak	...	Mushtaq
Bikramjeet Kanwarpal	...	Amrinder Singh

Storyline

After the passing away of his wife, Pooja, Delhi-based Vikram Madan, enrolls his daughter, Priya, in a boarding school in Amritsar, and re-locates to work as a Mechanic at Chandigarh Airport. His daughter informs him that she is on her way to Amritsar on a hostel-trip on Indian Airlines Flight IC147. Shortly thereafter, Vikram will be informed that the flight has been hijacked to Dubai by Islamic terrorists, who want the Indian government to release one of their comrades, Rashid Omar, or else they will start killing the passengers and crew one by one at half-hour intervals.

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Plot Keywords:

die hard scenario | rescue | airplane hijack | 

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Genres:

Action | Drama | Thriller

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Release Date:

5 September 2008 (India)

Filming Locations:

Lonavala, Maharashtra, India

Company Credits

Production Co:

Aleya Motion Magic, Eros International

Technical Specs

Runtime:

117 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital (Dolby 5.1)

Color:

Color (super 35mm) Color (original 35 mm prints)

Did You Know?

Soundtracks

Yaad Mein Teri Aksar
Performed by Kay Kay
Lyrics by Kumaar
Music by Justin, Uday

User Reviews

This is a boring movie

It's a horrible thing to say, but hijacks and hostage situations lend themselves to such high-strung drama and nail-biting tension, they almost always serve as an interesting subject for thriller films. Shiny Ahuja-Esha Deol starrer Hijack which opens at cinemas this week, takes what could have been a perfectly exciting premise and botches it up irreparably. An Amritsar-bound passenger airplane is hijacked by a group of terrorists who force land the flight at Chandigarh airport, and demand the release of a militant in exchange of passengers' lives. Shiny Ahuja stars as chief of maintenance at Chandigarh airport, who sneaks into the grounded flight to overpower the terrorists. His daughter is on the flight, you see. What's more, a hijack situation isn't a new experience for Shiny, who lost his wife in a similar incident some years ago while he was employed as flight captain. Esha Deol, plays an airhostess on this doomed flight, who lends Shiny a helping hand. Unbelievably idiotic, the script of Hijack is so ridiculous, it's hard to imagine how actors and producers signed up to be a part of this venture. Not only is the screenplay an uneven mish-mash of predictable scenes, the characters are all caricatures from typical Bollywood films, and they spout the kind of dialogue that they stopped writing way back in the eighties. To give you an idea of just how mind-boggingly stupid this film is, let me tell you terrorists sneak guns on this plane by hiding them in farsan packets; and an air-hostess must make out with a corpse on another occasion. This film is so embarrassingly incompetent, I think the passengers who got killed by the hijackers on this flight should consider themselves lucky they didn't live long enough to endure the indignity of walking out of that plane alive and being pelted with eggs by disgruntled viewers of this film.