Break Ke Baad (2010)

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Director:

Danish Aslam

Writers:

Prasoon Joshi (lyrics)
Vishal Dadlani (lyrics)
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Release Date:

26 November 2010 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Plot:

Childhood friends Abhay and Aaliya experience plenty of obstacles in their paths as they find their way in the world and back to each other.

Plot Keywords:

Breakup | Boyfriend Girlfriend Relationship

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Deepika Padukone	...	Aaliya Khan
Lillete Dubey	...	Pammi J. Gulati
Imran Khan	...	Abhay J. Gulati
Shahana Goswami	...	Nadia
Sharmila Tagore	...	Ayesha Khan
Navin Nischol	...	Jeet Gulati
Parzan Dastur	...	Young Abhay J. Gulati
Gaurav Nanda	...	Theatre Director
Neelu Kohli	...	Kamal Gulati
Ziyah Vastani	...	Young Aaliya Khan
Grady McGahan	...	Student
Yudhishtir Urs	...	Cyrus

Directed by
Danish Aslam

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Danish Aslam		story
Vishal Dadlani		lyrics
Prasoon Joshi		lyrics
Renuka Kunzru		story, screenplay & dialogue

Produced by
Vicky Bahri	....	associate producer
Vivek Bhatnagar	....	line producer
Kunal Kohli	....	producer
Amit P. Singh	....	line producer (as Amit Kumar Raj)

Original Music by
Vishal Dadlani
Shekhar Ravjiani

Cinematography by
Andre Menezes

Film Editing by
Prasad Narvekar		(conform editor)
Anand Subaya

Production Design by
Minal D. Rath

Costume Design by
Neha Bhatnagar
Ayesha Dasgupta
Harmeet Sethi
Sonia Tommy
Soniya Tommy

Makeup Department
Ayesha DeVitre	....	hair stylist

Production Management
Sanjana Chopra	....	production manager
Ignatius Rapose	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Aarti Bhatia	....	second second assistant director
Sonal Joshi	....	assistant director
Neha Kaul	....	first assistant director
Mehul Mittra	....	third assistant director
Pooja Singh	....	assistant director
Prashant Pratap Singh	....	second assistant director (as Prashant Singh)

Art Department
Reema Paryani	....	set dresser

Sound Department
Ali Merchant	....	sound recordist
Gandhar Mokashi	....	assistant sound re-recordist
Ajay Kumar P.B.	....	sound re-recording mixer

Visual Effects by
Abrez Mohammed	....	digital compositor (as Mohd Abrez)
P. Mohan	....	Senior Compositor: Prasad Efx
Achal Muchhala	....	digital compositor: Reliance MediaWorks Ltd.
Himesh Nagda	....	line producer: Reliance Media Works
Rajiv Raghunathan	....	digital intermediate production head
Rajeev Rajasekharan	....	visual effects supervisor
Indranil Roy	....	visual effects supervisor
Mehruz Siganporia	....	di producer
Meghna Thakar	....	visual effects production assistant

Camera and Electrical Department
Rudhraveer Singh Bhati	....	key grip
Sagar Singh	....	jimmy jib operator

Editorial Department
Harsh Gupta	....	on-set editor
Rohit Karkera	....	digital intermediate conformist
Vasudevan Kothandath	....	digital intermediate editor
Bakul Matiyani	....	assistant editor
Manan Mehta	....	assistant editor
Kunjan Oza	....	on-line smoke editor
Makarand Surte	....	digital intermediate colorist

Music Department
Sunidhi Chauhan	....	playback singer
Nikhil D'Souza	....	playback singer
Vishal Dadlani	....	playback singer
Monica Dogra	....	playback singer
Monica Dogra	....	voice
Mikey McCleary	....	playback singer
Alyssa Mendonsa	....	playback singer
Caralisa Monteiro	....	playback singer
Shekhar Ravjiani	....	playback singer
Neeraj Shridhar	....	playback singer

Other crew
Nazar Abbas	....	behind the scenes director
Pep Figueiredo	....	product integration
Harsh Gupta	....	script supervisor
Arpita Kalanuria	....	marketing head
Mahesh Ramanathan	....	management team
Dhairya Roy	....	international distribution
Navmeet Singh	....	line producer (as Navmeet Arora)

Production Companies

• Kunal Kohli Productions
• Reliance Big Pictures

Distributors

• Reliance Big Pictures (2010) (worldwide) (all media)

Other Companies

• Seek Red  publicity creatives

Also Known As:

"After the Break" - USA (informal literal English title)

Runtime:

USA:118 min

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi | English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Australia:PG | Ireland:12A | Singapore:PG | UK:PG

Filming Locations:

Mauritius

Company:

Kunal Kohli Productions

Trivia:

The poster on Aaliya's (played by Deepika Padukone) room in Delhi is of a movie called Do Shatru (1980). This is a 1980 movie starring Sharmila Tagore, who plays Aaliya's mother in the movie.

Movie Connections:

Features Mr India (1987)

Watchable but never particularly special

I watched Break Ke Baad without expectations and it neither surprised nor disappointed me. It was quite a watchable movie but way too ordinary to be memorable. The film follows the relationship of Abhay and Aaliya, their love, friendship and differences. At times the movie manages to work with its light nature and looks quite believable and fun, but at others it's also too subtle for the story it tells and lacks the power to convince and captivate. The story is very simple, and it could have been more interesting had the direction and the script been better handled. Here, the narrative style is a bit dark and plain, and it often seems like it was taken too seriously by the makers, which is odd considering the fact that it does not really have much substance. The film's music is quite okay although, like the film, it is nothing particularly special. The main lead Imran Khan and Deepika Padukone are well cast, and frankly enough they are not really challenged by some great roles to begin with, so don't expect much. Imran is okay. Deepika is better in a performance that is pretty nice and more impressive than his but never particularly impressive in and of itself. She is undeniably pretty and attractive and something about her in this film works and may improve her prospects in the film industry, but she is far from being a glowing talent (like Anushka Sharma, for example). To sum it up, Break Ke Baad is overall an ordinary feature which does have its moments but after all can be watched only once, at least according to me.