FILM
PREVIEW: APAHARAN (2005)
Director: Prakash Jha
Producer: Prakash Jha
Cast: Ajay Devgan, Bipasha Basu, Nana Patekar, Mohan Agashe, Yashpal
Sharma, Mukesh Tiwari, Chetan Pandit, Anoop Soni, Dayashankar Pandey,
Akhilendra Mishra
Editing: Santosh Mandal
Screenplay: Prakash Jha, Shridhar Raghavan, Manoj Tyagi
Radio
Sargam Predicted Rating: 4/10
Deep
in the Hindi heartland of India… within jagged urban streets,
in crowded by lanes, on street shops, at bus stops, in residential colonies,
in offices and hospitals, in schools and colleges, in broad daylight
and sometimes in the dark of the night, there is an endless spate of
kidnappings… This is the ‘’ Republic of Bihar.'’
The industry of
kidnapping spans all kinds of people… The ‘’Paan Wala'’
who sells the ‘’Purjah'’, the brokers who buy them,
the local petty goons who execute the kidnapping, the middleman who
buys the victim, the heavyweight dons who negotiate and make the real
profit… All this while the politicians and police are given their
due cuts.
Apaharan is the
story of a tumultuous and complex relationship between a father and
son set against the backdrop of this thriving kidnapping industry…
Ajay Shastri (Ajay
Devgan) aspires for a job in the police force, which is his ticket to
a future of power, respectability, social status and a secure life with
his childhood sweetheart Megha (Bipasha Basu). And he hopes it will
make his father proud.
Ajay is prepared
to do anything to meet this end. Tragically his desperate attempt at
success is snapped by the choices made by his father Professor Raghuvansh
Shastri (Mohan Agashe).
Dejected and disillusioned,
Ajay is drawn into a dark world from which there is no return…
Under the aegis
of self-proclaimed minority political leader Tabrez Alam (Nana Patekar),
Ajay soon tastes success and power…
What he doesn’t
know is that one day the dark labyrinths will loose their lure…
He will have to
face the truth.
Credit:
This preview was submitted by Ankit Jain of Footprints.in.
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