Ghayal Once Again (2016)

When a video of his mentor's murder surfaces, an investigative journalist takes action to find those responsible.

Director:

Sunny Deol

Writers:

Shaktimaan Talwar (story), Sagar Pandya (story)

Stars:

Sunny Deol, Rishabh Arora, Nadira Babbar

Cast

Credited cast:
Sunny Deol	...	Ajay Mehra
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Rishabh Arora	...	Varun
Nadira Babbar	...	Dadi
Harsh Chhaya	...	Rajguru
Tisca Chopra	...	Sheetal Bansal
Ramesh Deo	...	Nana
Ruhanika Dhawan	...	Ananya Bansal
Zakir Hussain	...	Commissioner
Narendra Jha	...	Raj Bansal
Manoj Joshi	...	Home Minister
Diana Khan	...	Zoya
Neha Khan	...	Renu
Soha Ali Khan	...	Rhea
Sachin Khedekar	...	Kriplani
Nina Kulkarni	...	Mrs. Joe D'Souza

Storyline

Ajay Mehra (from previous Ghayal-1990), after finishing off his life sentence, starts a newspaper called Satyakam. Still dealing with the haunting trauma of losing his loved ones, Ajay manages to make a credible name for himself in investigative journalism. Working with a strange team of RTI activists, ex-criminals and ilk; and even stranger ways of unearthing and presenting truth, Ajay Mehra has earned quite a fan following among the youths, who finds his fearless and unforgiving approach in dealing with all kinds of sociopaths very inspiring. Among his die hard fans are these four teenagers who happened to have received bravery medals from him once. These four friends once out on photography expedition, accidentally record a murder on a camera. The footage turns out to be explosive as it clearly shows two of the city's most powerful people involved in the murder. Well what happens after this is a series of twists and turns where the four kids get entangled and have to fight it out ...

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Plot Keywords:

mall | fistfight | one against many | chase | businessman | 

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Genres:

Action | Drama

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Details

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Release Date:

5 February 2016 (India)

Filming Locations:

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Company Credits

Production Co:

Sunny Super Sound, Vijayta Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

127 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

The first look of the film was revealed showing Sunny Deol running on streets of Mumbai in between the cars.

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Goofs

It shows that ajay mehra has a daughter, but ajay mehra was arrested after killing balwant rai and served 14 years, prior to that he was in jail after being falsely accused of his brothers murder after which he broke out and killed everyone. So when did he have time to have a baby with menaskshi?

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Connections

Follows Ghayal (1990)

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Soundtracks

Lapak Jhapak
Written by: Amitabh Bhattacharya
Produced by: Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendonsa
Performed by: Yashita Sharma, Siddarth Mahadevan and Armaan Malik

User Reviews

top notch action movie ............go and catch it

With a plethora of well-etched characters, up-to-date subplots, he delivers a fairly comprehensive tale with moralistic and inspirational messages

Sunny has managed to extract fine performances from every actor. As an actor with brooding eyes, he emits raw emotions with ease. He is agile, brilliant and appealing in the action sequences.

He is efficiently supported by an able cast that includes; Narendra Jha as the business tycoon Raj Bansal, Om Puri as Joe D'Souza the former police officer who is now an RTI activist, Harsh Chhaya as Aditya Raj Guru the editor of The Daily Herald and Manoj Joshi as the politician.

Soha Ali Khan in a restrained and nebulous character Riya, Ajay's psychiatrist-cum-partner, is passable.

Tisca Chopra as Raj Bansal's wife and Zakir Husain as the police commissioner, in one-dimensional, stereotypical roles with limited screen presence, are wasted.

But the highlights of the film are the four new youngsters; Shivam Patil as Rohan Kriplani, Aanchal Munjal as Anushka Kriplani, Diana Khan as Zoya and Rishabh Arora as Varun Jain. They are bright and energetic talent who are dynamic and sincere.

The action sequences packed with fisticuffs and chases, are well- orchestrated on the streets, railways and malls of Mumbai. These backed with the motivational drive and adrenaline boosting sound effects, uplifts the viewing experience.

With a decent production value, the film has a believable and a realistic feel in terms of its setting, but fails in terms of the dialogues, which are packed with clichéd and outdated phrases.

Overall, "Ghayal Once Again" is a complex tale that is astutely handled. It will definitely appeal to Sunny Deol's fans and those who enjoy action films.