Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Deepak Tijori | ... | Deepak Bakshi (as Depak Tijori) | |
Pooja Bhatt | ... | Monica | |
Raveena Tandon | ... | Mrs. Avantika Bajaj | |
Makrand Deshpande | ... | Stranger | |
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Jayant Kripalani | ... | Deepak's friend |
Jahangir Khan | |||
Amin Hajee | ... | John (as Amin) | |
Karim Hajee | ... | Jack | |
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Jack | ||
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John | ||
Paresh Rawal | ... | Police Inspector Mazumdar | |
Jalal Agha | ... | Mahesh Ahuja | |
Shammi | ... | Deepak's landlady | |
Avtar Gill | ... | Shakoor Bhai | |
Anjan Srivastav | ... | Interviewer (as Anjan Srivastava) |
A down and out actor, Deepak Bakshi (Deepak Tijori), who has a phobia and deep fear of enclosed spaces, goes to live as a care-taker in an multi-storied apartment, belonging to his friend Vijay (Jayant Kripalani), while he is away. His friend shows him a telescope which is used for spying on a neighborhood building which houses a beautiful woman. Deepak takes to spying on a regular basis. One day while spying on the woman, Deepak sees her getting attacked. He decides to get involved, and lands himself into trouble with the police as he is now a suspect for murder. Written by rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)
As is the norm with Bollywood, this remake is uncredited, but that's another story for another time. "Pehla Nasha" is the directorial debut of "Lagaan" director Ashutosh Gowariker, who is arguably one of the best and most honest directors in Bollywood right now. I don't normally follow Bollywood, but I've seen more Indian films than most middle class Canadians, and Gowariker never fails to astonish me with the sheer gulf in class between his directorial abilities and that of most of his peers.
Anyway, about the film, I haven't seen it in a long time and I'd imagine it would be pretty hard to find outside India. All I remember was quite liking it and thinking it was about as good as the original, which I never thought of as one of DePalma's better films.