Black & White (2008)

A spy living in the house in disguise, who has a heart transformation.

Director:

Subhash Ghai

Writers:

Sachin Bhowmick (screenplay), Subhash Ghai (screenplay & dialogue)

Stars:

Anil Kapoor, Anurag Sinha, Shefali Shah

Cast

Credited cast:
Anil Kapoor	...	Prof. Rajan Mathur Sen Gupta
Anurag Sinha	...	Numair Qazi / Mahmood Albak
Shefali Shah	...	Roma (as Shefali Shetty)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Arun Bakshi	...	Naeem Shaikh
Chaitanya Chinchlikar	...	Interpol Officer
Pawan Chopra	...	Police Officer
James Durston	...	Photojournalist
Milind Gunaji	...	Hamid
Pankaj Jha	...	Journalist
Mushtaq Khan	...	Mohanlal Agarwal - MLA
Akash Khurana	...	Wazir Shah - Rajya Sabha Member
Jaimini Pathak	...	Raahat
Nikita Rawal
Aditi Sharma	...	Shagufta
Nawazuddin Siddiqui

Storyline

Afghani Mahmood Albak is recruited to be a suicide bomber and kill at least 400 people at Lal Keela in Delhi on the occasion of India's Independence day celebrations on August 15. He is provided with the identity of an embittered youth, Numair Qazi from Gujarat, who had witnessed the death of the his parents at the hands of Hindu extremists. Upon arrival in Chandni Chowk, Delhi, he meets with Numair's paternal uncle, Gaffar Ali Nazar, an Indian Patriot who writes in the local magazine, and lives with his wife and two sons, Jalal and Bilal. Both Jalal and Bilal are involved and have been paid a huge sum to accommodate Numair. But when wealthy and influential Naeem Shaikh kills himself, after becoming suspect in the eyes of the CBI, Numair befriends the Urdu Professor of Zakir Hussain College, Rajan Mathur Sen Gupta, and his social activist wife, Roma, and moves in to live with them and their disabled daughter, Surubhi, so that they can procure a Pass for him to witness the Independence...

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Plot Keywords:

hindu | muslim | color in title | terrorist | terrorism | 

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Taglines:

In search of harmony

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Thriller

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi Urdu Bengali

Release Date:

7 March 2008 (India)

Filming Locations:

Delhi, India

Box Office

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$1,817,018

Company Credits

Production Co:

Mukta Arts, Mukta Searchlight Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

134 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Madhur Bhandakar was signed to direct the film but opted out. This made Subhash Ghaib unexpectedly take over the direction .

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Soundtracks

Yeh Hindustan Hai
Performed by Udit Narayan
Lyrics by Ibrahim Ashq
Music by Sukhwinder Singh

User Reviews

Not the best from Mukta Arts

I saw at the beginning that it was a Mukta Arts movie. Given the history of the banner, that could lead me to expect a lot. Look at the sweet part Anil Kapoor got in Taal. And here's Anil again, with Shefali Shah this time. I always look forward to seeing her.

Short answer is that this movie isn't that good. The music is no more than average. The script is very awkward a good deal of the time. The plot asks a lot from your credulity. Just one blatant example is when they want to get the protagonist close to the Urdu professor, they fake a terrorist attack and then have him rescue the professor's cute young daughter. For that plan to work, the kid has to wander away from her parents. Since the kid isn't IN on the plan, they seem awfully lucky that she somehow gets separated on cue.

Anurag Sinha, who plays the terrorist, is certainly a kid with some potential, but how great it is doesn't show in this movie. Compare him with J. D. Chakravarthy in Satya and it becomes obvious what I mean. Satya had the same kind of protagonist, but the director did ten times as much with the same sort of personality.

Also, to me this is a different angle on the Dil Se story, but having Dil Se makes this movie look like a comedown.

It might be worth one look, but no more.