Sunday, May 14, 2006

'Tathastu'

Banner: Karma Entertainment and Sahara One
Producer: Nitin Manmohan
Director: Anubhav Sinha
Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Amisha Patel, Jaya Prada, Manoj Pahwa, Gulshan Grover, Asrani and Master Yash Pathak
Cassettes and CD's on: T-Series
Singer: Humsar Hayat
Cinematography: Ravi Walia
Choreography: Baba Yadav
Action: Allan Amin
Lyricist: Panchhi Jalonvi
Music: Vishal-Shekhar
Background Music: Ranjit Barot
Art: Acropolis
Screen Play/Story/Writer: Vinay-Yash
Released on: 12 May 2006

Ravi is a factory worker, married to a middle-class homely girl, Sarita. He is only another man in the crowd. But what the system didn’t factor was that he was a father. On a bad day, Ravi's healthy 8 year old son collapses while playing cricket. He has a hole in his heart and needs a heart transplant. So, he has to raise lakhs of rupees to save his son’s life. He tried to do it the right way. Asking for help from his office, claim from insurance company or debt from loan companies. But no one responded to his pleas while his son was not responding to medication. This desperate father kept a stone on his heart, a gun in his hand and grabbed the system by its horns to get his son a new heart. He held up the hospital waiting room. And laid out his conditions. Police did their best to talk him out of it. When talk didn’t work, their dirty minds did. But this father was determined. His wife, one doctor, one cop and million of ordinary people joined his battle. The one question the nation’s common folk was asking’ “Could this happen to us?” It had happened to Ravi, and Ravi was not asking question, he was giving answer. But it was far more complicated than it appeared. Can a father beat the system with a gun and a heart full of courage? And once the politicians got involved, mess was bound to follow. And the media’s passion for mess and sensational software added to the dirty game. He was only a father who wanted a heart for his dying son. He was a simple man with a simple request. But when they turned him down, everything suddenly changed. He made his decision, looked up at the sky. Maybe he heard… God answer his prayer!!!

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