Synopsis
There is a war raging in India. A war whose end can’t be seen. A war that isn’t being waged by outsiders. The enemy is our own! The youth of the country are rebelling.. Against injustice, against tyranny, against exploitation. Inequality will not be tolerated forever. There is anger, and there is deep social unrest. Our own countrymen are locked in the bloodiest armed mutiny this country has ever seen.
Chakravyuh is the story of six extraordinary characters, each with an all-consuming dream.. A promise.. A promise they will uphold above everything else.
Cast & Crew
Co- Produced By: Sunil Lulla
Produced And Directed By: Prakash Jha
Starring: Abhay Deol Arjun Rampal Manoj Bajpayee Esha Gupta Anjali Patil Om Puri
Music : Salim – Sulaiman
Screenplay: Anjum Rajabali, Prakash Jha & Sagar Pandya
Story: Anjum Rajabali
Dialogue: Prakash Jha & Anjum Rajabali
Director Of Photography : Sachin Krishn
Editor : Santosh Mandal...
There is a war raging in India. A war whose end can’t be seen. A war that isn’t being waged by outsiders. The enemy is our own! The youth of the country are rebelling.. Against injustice, against tyranny, against exploitation. Inequality will not be tolerated forever. There is anger, and there is deep social unrest. Our own countrymen are locked in the bloodiest armed mutiny this country has ever seen.
Chakravyuh is the story of six extraordinary characters, each with an all-consuming dream.. A promise.. A promise they will uphold above everything else.
Cast & Crew
Co- Produced By: Sunil Lulla
Produced And Directed By: Prakash Jha
Starring: Abhay Deol Arjun Rampal Manoj Bajpayee Esha Gupta Anjali Patil Om Puri
Music : Salim – Sulaiman
Screenplay: Anjum Rajabali, Prakash Jha & Sagar Pandya
Story: Anjum Rajabali
Dialogue: Prakash Jha & Anjum Rajabali
Director Of Photography : Sachin Krishn
Editor : Santosh Mandal...
- 8/30/2012
- by BollySpice Editors
- Bollyspice
Mamta Sharma rendered 3rd song for Hari Kripa Films maiden venture film titled “Babuji Ek Ticket Bumbai” at Premier Digital recording studio, Juhu, Mumbai.
Being Produced by K.K.Mundhada with Piyush Mundhada as co-producer, direction by Arvind Tripathi, story by Nazir Qureshi with screenplay & dialogues by Masood Mirza, music by Nikhil, lyrics by Kumar, and art director is Jayant Deshmukh.
The producer K K Mundhada hails from Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, earlier he has made many documentaries and tv serials for various channels, and now he has pl ...
Being Produced by K.K.Mundhada with Piyush Mundhada as co-producer, direction by Arvind Tripathi, story by Nazir Qureshi with screenplay & dialogues by Masood Mirza, music by Nikhil, lyrics by Kumar, and art director is Jayant Deshmukh.
The producer K K Mundhada hails from Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, earlier he has made many documentaries and tv serials for various channels, and now he has pl ...
- 5/4/2012
- Bollywood Chaska
Bollywood singer Shaan completes recording of 2nd for the film Babuji Ek Ticket Bumbai.
Being Produced by K.K.Mundhada with Piyush Mundhada as co-producer, direction by Arvind Tripathi, story by Nazir Qureshi with screenplay & dialogues by Masood Mirza, music by Nikhil, Umesh & Parveen, lyrics by Kumar & Haidar Nazmi, and art director is Jayant Deshmukh.
The producer K K Mundhada hails from Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, earlier he has made many documentaries and tv serials for various channels, and now he has plunged in producing a full length feature film for whi ...
Being Produced by K.K.Mundhada with Piyush Mundhada as co-producer, direction by Arvind Tripathi, story by Nazir Qureshi with screenplay & dialogues by Masood Mirza, music by Nikhil, Umesh & Parveen, lyrics by Kumar & Haidar Nazmi, and art director is Jayant Deshmukh.
The producer K K Mundhada hails from Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, earlier he has made many documentaries and tv serials for various channels, and now he has plunged in producing a full length feature film for whi ...
- 4/5/2012
- Bollywood Chaska
If Prakash Jha's Raajneeti was big, his new film Aarakshan will be even bigger. Both the films are located in Bhopal. However, this time, Jha will shoot in a residential colony called Menal City comprising 5000 residents. The entire colony has been taken over by Prakash Jha's unit. A tabela (dairy farm) is being built in the colony at the reported cost of Rs. 1 crore. The tabela which will later be gifted to the colony after the shooting is complete, will house dozens of buffaloes and cows which are being transported at this very moment from outside Bhopal into the city. When contacted, Prakash Jha admits that the huge colony in Bhopal would serve as an extended set for Aarakshan. Says the director, "I needed a certain quaint suburban look for my film with a criss-cross of clean streets and houses fronted by lawns. What was missing was a tabela.
- 11/24/2010
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
If Prakash Jha's Raajneeti was big, his new film Aarakshan will be even bigger. Both the films are located in Bhopal. However, this time, Jha will shoot in a residential colony called Menal City comprising 5000 residents. The entire colony has been taken over by Prakash Jha's unit. A tabela (dairy farm) is being built in the colony at the reported cost of Rs. 1 crore. The tabela which will later be gifted to the colony after the shooting is complete, will house dozens of buffaloes and cows which are being transported at this very moment from outside Bhopal into the city. When contacted, Prakash Jha admits that the huge colony in Bhopal would serve as an extended set for Aarakshan. Says the director, "I needed a certain quaint suburban look for my film with a criss-cross of clean streets and houses fronted by lawns. What was missing was a tabela.
- 11/24/2010
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
Toronto International Film Festival
TORONTO -- Who knew that Shakespeare could write such a dynamite gangster movie?
In "Maqbool", Vishal Bharadwaj, a longtime film music composer, has in his second movie as a director re-created Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in the underworld of 21st century Mumbai (Bombay). However wacky that might sound, it works magnificently. Bharadwaj, who wrote the script with Abbas Tyrewala, hews to the general outline of the Scottish play, yet doesn't hesitate to make the story his own.
In the lead role of a top gangster undone by his overwhelming love for a beautiful woman, Irrfan Khan will only add to the international recognition he received for his role in "The Warrior". Following its world premiere here, "Maqbool" should collect plaudits at other festivals and could become one of the few Mumbai-produced films to appeal to those non-Indian audiences that are not necessarily fans of standard-issue Bollywood movies.
"Macbeth", of course, has long attracted moviemakers, ranging from Orson Welles and Roman Polanski to Akira Kurosawa, who adapted the play to a samurai setting. It works no less well in the Mumbai crime scene where Nimmi (sultry Indian star Tabu), mistress to aging underworld don Abbaji (Pankaj Kapoor), falls in love with Maqbool (Khan), Abbaji's right-hand man. But Maqbool is reluctant to respond to her passion as Abbaji is like a father to him.
Eventually, he does succumb to his desire. Then when a lesser gangster becomes engaged to Abbaji's daughter and thus will replace Maqbool as heir apparent to gang leadership, Nimmi is able to persuade Maqbool to kill Abbaji and pin the murder on a loyal bodyguard. Maqbool assumes control of the gang, but he and Nimmi are soon consumed by guilt over their actions. Meanwhile, forces loyal to Abbaji regroup and launch a war against Maqbool.
Khan and Tabu give emotionally powerful, complex performances that delineate their characters' conflicting loyalties. Crossing that thin line between loyalty and betrayal causes enormous inner turmoil in the two schemers. Maqbool loses that edge of self-confidence he has always carried into the street. And when Nimmi learns that she is pregnant, she believes she can hear the fetus wailing for its dead father.
Kapoor gives an amusing Brando-esque tilt to his playing of the Godfather of Mumbai, which is at once a homage to that great performance and a splendid performance in its own right.
The most amusing transformation of Shakespeare comes in Bharadwaj's conversion of the prophetic witches into two corrupt policemen -- Om Puri's Inspector Pandit and Naseeruddin Shah's Inspector Purohit. While these two assist Maqbool's gang, they are ever so careful to keep the gang within a degree of control the gangsters themselves never suspect.
Bharadwaj, who composed the film's music, is determined to change the way musical numbers are staged in Hindi films. Unlike most Bollywood films, all his numbers advance the story and are integrated into the action. Meanwhile, cinematographer Hermant Chaturvedi and set designer Jayant Deshmukh create an ominous yet at the same time romanticized atmosphere in which all the bloody mayhem can take place.
MAQBOOL
Kaleidoscope Entertainment
Credits:
Director: Vishal Bharadwaj
Screenwriters: Abbas Tyrewala, Vishal Bharadwaj
Producer: Bobby Bedi
Director of photography: Hermant Chaturvedi
Production designer: Jayant Deshmukh
Music: Vishal Bharadwaj
Costume designer: Payal Salujaq
Editor: Aarif Sheikh
Cast:
Maqbool: Irrfan Khan
Nimmi: Tabu
Inspector Pandit: Om Puri
Inspector Purohit: Naseeruddin Shah
Abbaji: Pankaj Kapoor
Running time -- 134 minutes
No MPAA rating...
TORONTO -- Who knew that Shakespeare could write such a dynamite gangster movie?
In "Maqbool", Vishal Bharadwaj, a longtime film music composer, has in his second movie as a director re-created Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in the underworld of 21st century Mumbai (Bombay). However wacky that might sound, it works magnificently. Bharadwaj, who wrote the script with Abbas Tyrewala, hews to the general outline of the Scottish play, yet doesn't hesitate to make the story his own.
In the lead role of a top gangster undone by his overwhelming love for a beautiful woman, Irrfan Khan will only add to the international recognition he received for his role in "The Warrior". Following its world premiere here, "Maqbool" should collect plaudits at other festivals and could become one of the few Mumbai-produced films to appeal to those non-Indian audiences that are not necessarily fans of standard-issue Bollywood movies.
"Macbeth", of course, has long attracted moviemakers, ranging from Orson Welles and Roman Polanski to Akira Kurosawa, who adapted the play to a samurai setting. It works no less well in the Mumbai crime scene where Nimmi (sultry Indian star Tabu), mistress to aging underworld don Abbaji (Pankaj Kapoor), falls in love with Maqbool (Khan), Abbaji's right-hand man. But Maqbool is reluctant to respond to her passion as Abbaji is like a father to him.
Eventually, he does succumb to his desire. Then when a lesser gangster becomes engaged to Abbaji's daughter and thus will replace Maqbool as heir apparent to gang leadership, Nimmi is able to persuade Maqbool to kill Abbaji and pin the murder on a loyal bodyguard. Maqbool assumes control of the gang, but he and Nimmi are soon consumed by guilt over their actions. Meanwhile, forces loyal to Abbaji regroup and launch a war against Maqbool.
Khan and Tabu give emotionally powerful, complex performances that delineate their characters' conflicting loyalties. Crossing that thin line between loyalty and betrayal causes enormous inner turmoil in the two schemers. Maqbool loses that edge of self-confidence he has always carried into the street. And when Nimmi learns that she is pregnant, she believes she can hear the fetus wailing for its dead father.
Kapoor gives an amusing Brando-esque tilt to his playing of the Godfather of Mumbai, which is at once a homage to that great performance and a splendid performance in its own right.
The most amusing transformation of Shakespeare comes in Bharadwaj's conversion of the prophetic witches into two corrupt policemen -- Om Puri's Inspector Pandit and Naseeruddin Shah's Inspector Purohit. While these two assist Maqbool's gang, they are ever so careful to keep the gang within a degree of control the gangsters themselves never suspect.
Bharadwaj, who composed the film's music, is determined to change the way musical numbers are staged in Hindi films. Unlike most Bollywood films, all his numbers advance the story and are integrated into the action. Meanwhile, cinematographer Hermant Chaturvedi and set designer Jayant Deshmukh create an ominous yet at the same time romanticized atmosphere in which all the bloody mayhem can take place.
MAQBOOL
Kaleidoscope Entertainment
Credits:
Director: Vishal Bharadwaj
Screenwriters: Abbas Tyrewala, Vishal Bharadwaj
Producer: Bobby Bedi
Director of photography: Hermant Chaturvedi
Production designer: Jayant Deshmukh
Music: Vishal Bharadwaj
Costume designer: Payal Salujaq
Editor: Aarif Sheikh
Cast:
Maqbool: Irrfan Khan
Nimmi: Tabu
Inspector Pandit: Om Puri
Inspector Purohit: Naseeruddin Shah
Abbaji: Pankaj Kapoor
Running time -- 134 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Toronto International Film Festival
TORONTO -- Who knew that Shakespeare could write such a dynamite gangster movie?
In "Maqbool", Vishal Bharadwaj, a longtime film music composer, has in his second movie as a director re-created Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in the underworld of 21st century Mumbai (Bombay). However wacky that might sound, it works magnificently. Bharadwaj, who wrote the script with Abbas Tyrewala, hews to the general outline of the Scottish play, yet doesn't hesitate to make the story his own.
In the lead role of a top gangster undone by his overwhelming love for a beautiful woman, Irrfan Khan will only add to the international recognition he received for his role in "The Warrior". Following its world premiere here, "Maqbool" should collect plaudits at other festivals and could become one of the few Mumbai-produced films to appeal to those non-Indian audiences that are not necessarily fans of standard-issue Bollywood movies.
"Macbeth", of course, has long attracted moviemakers, ranging from Orson Welles and Roman Polanski to Akira Kurosawa, who adapted the play to a samurai setting. It works no less well in the Mumbai crime scene where Nimmi (sultry Indian star Tabu), mistress to aging underworld don Abbaji (Pankaj Kapoor), falls in love with Maqbool (Khan), Abbaji's right-hand man. But Maqbool is reluctant to respond to her passion as Abbaji is like a father to him.
Eventually, he does succumb to his desire. Then when a lesser gangster becomes engaged to Abbaji's daughter and thus will replace Maqbool as heir apparent to gang leadership, Nimmi is able to persuade Maqbool to kill Abbaji and pin the murder on a loyal bodyguard. Maqbool assumes control of the gang, but he and Nimmi are soon consumed by guilt over their actions. Meanwhile, forces loyal to Abbaji regroup and launch a war against Maqbool.
Khan and Tabu give emotionally powerful, complex performances that delineate their characters' conflicting loyalties. Crossing that thin line between loyalty and betrayal causes enormous inner turmoil in the two schemers. Maqbool loses that edge of self-confidence he has always carried into the street. And when Nimmi learns that she is pregnant, she believes she can hear the fetus wailing for its dead father.
Kapoor gives an amusing Brando-esque tilt to his playing of the Godfather of Mumbai, which is at once a homage to that great performance and a splendid performance in its own right.
The most amusing transformation of Shakespeare comes in Bharadwaj's conversion of the prophetic witches into two corrupt policemen -- Om Puri's Inspector Pandit and Naseeruddin Shah's Inspector Purohit. While these two assist Maqbool's gang, they are ever so careful to keep the gang within a degree of control the gangsters themselves never suspect.
Bharadwaj, who composed the film's music, is determined to change the way musical numbers are staged in Hindi films. Unlike most Bollywood films, all his numbers advance the story and are integrated into the action. Meanwhile, cinematographer Hermant Chaturvedi and set designer Jayant Deshmukh create an ominous yet at the same time romanticized atmosphere in which all the bloody mayhem can take place.
MAQBOOL
Kaleidoscope Entertainment
Credits:
Director: Vishal Bharadwaj
Screenwriters: Abbas Tyrewala, Vishal Bharadwaj
Producer: Bobby Bedi
Director of photography: Hermant Chaturvedi
Production designer: Jayant Deshmukh
Music: Vishal Bharadwaj
Costume designer: Payal Salujaq
Editor: Aarif Sheikh
Cast:
Maqbool: Irrfan Khan
Nimmi: Tabu
Inspector Pandit: Om Puri
Inspector Purohit: Naseeruddin Shah
Abbaji: Pankaj Kapoor
Running time -- 134 minutes
No MPAA rating...
TORONTO -- Who knew that Shakespeare could write such a dynamite gangster movie?
In "Maqbool", Vishal Bharadwaj, a longtime film music composer, has in his second movie as a director re-created Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in the underworld of 21st century Mumbai (Bombay). However wacky that might sound, it works magnificently. Bharadwaj, who wrote the script with Abbas Tyrewala, hews to the general outline of the Scottish play, yet doesn't hesitate to make the story his own.
In the lead role of a top gangster undone by his overwhelming love for a beautiful woman, Irrfan Khan will only add to the international recognition he received for his role in "The Warrior". Following its world premiere here, "Maqbool" should collect plaudits at other festivals and could become one of the few Mumbai-produced films to appeal to those non-Indian audiences that are not necessarily fans of standard-issue Bollywood movies.
"Macbeth", of course, has long attracted moviemakers, ranging from Orson Welles and Roman Polanski to Akira Kurosawa, who adapted the play to a samurai setting. It works no less well in the Mumbai crime scene where Nimmi (sultry Indian star Tabu), mistress to aging underworld don Abbaji (Pankaj Kapoor), falls in love with Maqbool (Khan), Abbaji's right-hand man. But Maqbool is reluctant to respond to her passion as Abbaji is like a father to him.
Eventually, he does succumb to his desire. Then when a lesser gangster becomes engaged to Abbaji's daughter and thus will replace Maqbool as heir apparent to gang leadership, Nimmi is able to persuade Maqbool to kill Abbaji and pin the murder on a loyal bodyguard. Maqbool assumes control of the gang, but he and Nimmi are soon consumed by guilt over their actions. Meanwhile, forces loyal to Abbaji regroup and launch a war against Maqbool.
Khan and Tabu give emotionally powerful, complex performances that delineate their characters' conflicting loyalties. Crossing that thin line between loyalty and betrayal causes enormous inner turmoil in the two schemers. Maqbool loses that edge of self-confidence he has always carried into the street. And when Nimmi learns that she is pregnant, she believes she can hear the fetus wailing for its dead father.
Kapoor gives an amusing Brando-esque tilt to his playing of the Godfather of Mumbai, which is at once a homage to that great performance and a splendid performance in its own right.
The most amusing transformation of Shakespeare comes in Bharadwaj's conversion of the prophetic witches into two corrupt policemen -- Om Puri's Inspector Pandit and Naseeruddin Shah's Inspector Purohit. While these two assist Maqbool's gang, they are ever so careful to keep the gang within a degree of control the gangsters themselves never suspect.
Bharadwaj, who composed the film's music, is determined to change the way musical numbers are staged in Hindi films. Unlike most Bollywood films, all his numbers advance the story and are integrated into the action. Meanwhile, cinematographer Hermant Chaturvedi and set designer Jayant Deshmukh create an ominous yet at the same time romanticized atmosphere in which all the bloody mayhem can take place.
MAQBOOL
Kaleidoscope Entertainment
Credits:
Director: Vishal Bharadwaj
Screenwriters: Abbas Tyrewala, Vishal Bharadwaj
Producer: Bobby Bedi
Director of photography: Hermant Chaturvedi
Production designer: Jayant Deshmukh
Music: Vishal Bharadwaj
Costume designer: Payal Salujaq
Editor: Aarif Sheikh
Cast:
Maqbool: Irrfan Khan
Nimmi: Tabu
Inspector Pandit: Om Puri
Inspector Purohit: Naseeruddin Shah
Abbaji: Pankaj Kapoor
Running time -- 134 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 9/23/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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