Apartment: Rent at Your Own Risk (2010)

A jilted woman feels threatened after renting a room to a female.

Director:

Jag Mundhra

Writers:

Syed Gulrez (screenplay), Jag Mundhra (screenplay)

Stars:

Rohit Roy, Tanushree Dutta, Neetu Chandra

Cast

Credited cast:
Rohit Roy	...	Karan Malhotra
Tanushree Dutta	...	Preeti Sengupta
Neetu Chandra	...	Neha Bhargav
Mushtaq Khan	...	Watchman Mishra
Ravi Jhankal	...	Book Store Owner
Nassar Abdulla	...	Inspector Javed Sheikh (as Nasser Abdullah)
Parul Shah	...	Parul
Anupam Kher	...	Madhusudan 'Tanha'
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Suneshwar Bani	...	Courier Boy
Shivli Bembey	...	Producer's Assistant 1
Ramakant Bendre	...	Ticket Window Clerk
Kishore Anand Bhanushali	...	Property Broker (as Kishore Bhanushali)
Savita Bhargav	...	Orphanage Incharge
Pragati Chaurasia	...	Young Shobha
Bobby Darling	...	Boy Girl for PG

Storyline

Employed as an Air Hostess with Spice Jet, Mumbai-based Preeti Sengupta has a boyfriend in Karan Malhotra. Both decide to rent an apartment near Oshiwara and share the rent. But when she notices that he is paying more attention to other females, she breaks up with him, and decides to rent a room to a female paying guest. She does find one in Neha Bhargav, an employee from a book store, who calls her 'Didi', agrees to pay the rent on time, and even does all the housework and cooking. Preeti does make up with Karan at the intervention of her neighbor, Madhusudan, but feels threatened by Neha, who is getting overly friendly with Karan. After Madhusudan's cat dies unexpectedly he decides to probe further into Neha's past - and it is this decision that will change everyone's lives forever.

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Plot Keywords:

apartment | one word title | mental illness | female protagonist | psycho thriller | 

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Taglines:

Rent at your own risk

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Genres:

Drama | Thriller

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Details

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi Panjabi English

Release Date:

23 April 2010 (India)

Box Office

Budget:

INR 8,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Magna Films

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Connections

Remake of Single White Female (1992)

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Soundtracks

"Aankhiyan Na Mar - Remix"
Written by Syed Gulrez
Composed by Bappi Lahiri
Performed by Shilpa Rao
Courtesy of Magna Music

User Reviews

Toying the idea of Paying Guest? Think again

I did not know that "Apartment" was actually plagiarised from a Hollywood movie. But nonetheless that doesn't mar my opinion about it. I watched "Apartment" on a lazy evening when I had nothing better to do. And frankly, it not as lousy as it portrayed it to be. If your expectations are not sky-high then its a good psychopath thriller (though nearly gets classified as a B-grade movie).

Tanushree Dutta was OK. Neetu Chandra does her part quite effectively without going overboard. Anupam Kher was wasted. And roping in Bappi Lahiri is an absolute no-no (way past his sell-by-date).

Nari Hira/ Star Dust/ Magna films seem to have stuck in the time-capsule of 1980's where they used to do reasonably well in Video films genre. The same effort would have well spent on a creative project.

Watch it when its aired on telly on a lazy evening.

PS: Its a reality check on "Atithi Tum Kab Jaaoge"