Sunday, August 06, 2006

'Darwaza Bandh Rakho'

Banner: Adlabs Films Ltd.
Producer: Ram Gopal Varma
Director: JD Chakravarthy
Cast: Aftab Shivdasani, Chunky Pandey, Zakir Hussain, Snehal Dhabi, Isha Sherwani, Ishrat Ali, Smita Jaykar, Padma Rani, Vijay Singh, Tashu, Javed, Jeeva, Manisha Koirala, Divya Dutta, Ravi Kale, Nitin Raikwar, Kota Srinivasan Rao, Goga Kapoor, Raju Mavani and Gulshan Grover
Music: Nitin Raikwar
Background Music: Amar Mohile
Sound: Kunal Mehta and Parikshit Lalwani
Cassettes and CD's on: T-Series
Released on: 04 August 2006

Isha, a young and bubbly girl born with a silver spoon in her mouth. Rich, carefree and ever so careless, she considered every moment of life as the one designed for fun, laughter and making merry. So much was one such moment important to her that even kidnapping held no seriousness in her life. For her even this was designed for fun! With her doors open, she was kidnapped by 4 young and not-so-young men who were amateurish in their attempt and even further amateurish when trying to deal with the events that unfolded.

Ajay is a simple man with not-so-simple plan, In spite of his humble job as a waiter in cafe, his aim in life was to own it one day. Well, his plans came to standstill as not just his dreams of owning the cafe were shattered, he even failed to hold on to his job as a waiter. And now he was out on the streets.

Raghu, ever-so-flirtatious and not-so-debonair driver who had the dreams of the same scale as Ajay. Just like Ajay, he too played a long shot in the air.

Third kidnapper in this gang is Goga. Goga is a straight man with straight dreams, unlike Ajay and Raghu. He is content being a 'paanwaala' but that too wasn't destined for him as his shop came crashing down one day with municipality taking over the land where he had his shop set. He had a little dream now - to own a sweet shop. To top it all, he placed himself in gang as the wisest of all.

Where did this leave Abbas then? A man with a flair for breaking laws, he had nowhere to go after Bollywood suffered from a bad run. Abbas and Bollywood? What was the connection? Well, he was a black marketer who was jobless now since the time movies started flopping left, right and center!

Together Ajay, Raghu, Goga and Abbas thought that in order to achieve their small and big dreams they had to take the route of crime. And the first and easiest step in this direction was to kidnap someone for ransom. It was only later did they realize that this was going to be their toughest assignment ever! They easily succeeded in kidnapping Isha but what followed from thereon was unprecedented to say the least. First and foremost they had to rush from the scene of crime and enter some other person's place due to things going awry.

To make matters worse, they realize that Isha's father was no more in the country and it would take him some time to actually come back and handover the ransom. With no other choice than to take refuge in this house belonging to a "vegetarian family" headed by Shah, the 4 kidnappers found themselves fighting one battle after another! From now what they encountered was the trouble of these very own people in whose house they had taken shelter. While Shah was all smiling and humorous, his main problem lied with money. Why? Because once upon a time he was rich and now he wanted his money back. Staying with his wife, mother-in-law and his children, he had number of interesting stories of his own to tell. While his mother-in-law didn't have a single word of appreciation for Shah, his wife still tried to keep the 2 in an orderly state and also take care of the household chores.

2 kids Ponkey and Sheeba too were ‘sone-pe-suhaga’ in this family because while the former thought that he was an expert when it came to lip-reading, Sheeba had all her time spent in beautifying herself and making herself look million bucks! Well, this crazy family was not just that the 4 kidnappers had to be content with. While Isha was enjoying herself with the state she was in, the 4 kidnappers had to deal with dozens of uninvited guests that barged into this house one after another.

There was horde of such visitors who ranged from being good, bad to ugly. One such good visitor was a pretty female Julie who knocked on the door to sell a product. Well, she was a saleswoman after all! Though there was no choice for the kidnappers but do hold her hostage as well, soon love bloomed between Julie and one of them.

Aravind, who came with his financer father Sharat Shetty to get their money back from Shah but instead ended up falling to the charms of Sheeba!

There was another couple that made an entry into the proceedings- Chameli and Ganapath! While Chameli worked in the Shah house as a maid, her dream was to see Ganapath rise from the position of a constable to a police inspector. Her dream was alright but she wasn't aware that in spite of a police tag, in actual life her husband was a weak soul who could hardly face a challenging situation.

Apart from the visitors, there were 2 more interesting characters that had an underworld connection. While Mushtaq Bhai was indeed a gangster who dealt with extortions and kidnapping, there was a young pizza delivery boy too ringing a bell who dreamt of making it big one day in the world of underworld...

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