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Strangers; Best thriller produced in recent months
Dec 25, 2007 10:48 PM 4792 Views

An


extremely interesting entertainment, which made me write again, although was in


way to write over other movies as well, which came in between but'Strangers'


came to be winner at the end. A must watch.


We


might have heard about such a concept in few short stories and it is obviously


possible that the similar story might already been realized into movie earlier


but the same fact doesn't make its credit any lesser. But putting the name for


the reference "Strangers in the train by Alfred Hitchcock"


Extremely


interesting dialogues, highly intellectual ways and things, which make your


mind scratched, are the USP of this movie. I loved the way dialogues were here,


something like I seen in Cheeni Kum, but this time, it was full fledged.


Lovely…. Engaging. What more I could praise. One of the best thriller


produced by bollywood in last few months.


Title:Strangers


 


*Directed by: Aanand L Rai.


Written by:Gaurav Sharma and


Himanshu Sharma


Production banner:Sahara one


Motion Pictures


Produced by:Uday Tiwari


Music Directors:Vinay Tiwari


Editing: **Sanjay Sankla


Lyrics: *Javed Akhtar


Playback: Lata Mangeshkar, Sonu


Nigam, Shreya Ghoshal


Cinematographer: Manoj Gupta


Cost: Kay Kay Menon, Jimmy


Sheirgill, Nandana Sen, Sonali Kulkarni, Kittu Gidwani.


Jimmy;in


one of the best roles of his life yet, Kay Kay Menon


as we may expect from him, Sonali Kulkarni;according


to her caliber and class and Nandana Sen;


brilliant just like Jimmy.


The


story started with two strangers males meeting in a train and then interesting


conversations between them, which was initiated by Rahul(Jimmy); a writer …. I could relate myself


with him so well and so it was already interesting for me and the plots and


dialogues made it extremely interesting to me.


Sanjeev


and Jimmy have their stories to share, their life story, what was common? What


was to be common in them?



Rahul's Story: **A


writer, which come to meet a beautiful girl in an unusual ways and his engaging


ways connected her close to him in a short period and they got married. But as


the nature, soon the same things which attracted them, come to be the problems.


After coming into love, he lost his writing skills and I liked when he


described in words that how he lost and why writers write. Worth hearing;) He


started suspecting her wife along with his irritation over himself and like


other writers are his silence along with the girl side silence as well come to


make the things more worse. All was because of no communication between them.



Sanjeev's Story: **A


businessman, who was in a nice life, with a nice wife, but things changed when


she lost her mental stability due to death of her son in an accident and


finally it started making him distracted to her till an extent that he come to


think about killing her. But was this only reason?


The


train journey ends with proposal of Sanjeev to Rahul to kill his wife and he


will kill his and in this way, both of them will be out of their troubles and


in this way, it comes out to be a journey of lifetime. But what was still left


in the story… yes there was a big twist in story…. Watch it for the same…. You


will like it… its something like we seen in "Chocolate", but this


time story was not fake in any side, but still the suspense and psychological


thrill.


Lots


to write about this movie and analyzing the relations, but . leaving that


part, because of some reasons. Cinematography and dialogues are the area, which


could brought awards for this movie and if Jimmy may manage to get any award then


it would be a new changing cinematic face. Background score and each thing


about this movie was world class and intellectual enough. Probably, it's the


effect of corporate in Bollywood now, it has to be change its face for better


and worthy movies. Again a movie for the class and has the perfect standard.


Better watch it than reading this review only.


Ajnabee kaun ho tum?
Dec 19, 2007 11:45 AM 3109 Views

I am not sure how anyone with a financial bent of mind would make a movie like Strangers because it caters to a very exclusive section of the Indian audience. You realize that even before the movie begins. The theatre was filled to thrity percent of its capacity on its opening Sunday in Bangalore.


Apparently adapted from Strangers in the train by Alfred Hitchcock, Strangers is a dark take on human relationships. I am all for remakes, provided they are done well and suit the Indian milieu. Manorama 6 feet under came close to doing that this year.


The director of Strangers, however, is hell bent on recreating an English setting for his Hindi audience. The dialogues are part Hindi part English, the film is shot extensively in England, and where the movie actually fails is with its characters. Although Indian, their value systems are anything but, and although that is not surprising for Indians raised outside their country, one still cannot relate to these people. Except for their physical features, and instances where they speak Hindi, the actors are far removed from anything Indian. So, in the end, the movie ends up like a badly concocted Indo-european dish. The only people who will like this movie are the pretentious lot who want to be different just for the sake of it.


Release Date: 14 December 2007


Producer: Uday Tiwari


Director: Anand Rai


Music Director: Vinay Tiwari


Lyricist: Javed Akhtar


Playback: Lata Mangeshkar, Sonu Nigam, Shreya Ghoshal


Cinematographer: Manoj Gupta


*Star Cast:


*Actors: Kay Kay Menon, Jimmy Shergill


Actresses: Nandana Sen


Special Appearance: Kitu Gidwani,  Sonali Kulkarni


Story


Two strangers(Jimmy Shergill and Kay Kay Menon) board the same compartment in England on a bright sunny day. Through their conversations aided by flashbacks, you come to know that they both lead a tumultous existence. Jimmy's marriage is breaking apart partly due to his failure as an author, and partly due to his wife's straying ways. Kay Kay Menon's wife Sonali Kulkarni has turned recluse after her son's accident. She arranges havans on her son's birthday and believes that he is still alive. Just before the movie breaks for interval, Menon comes up with an idea that can change their lives. He suggests that each of them murder the other's wife and because they are strangers, the police would have no motive to offer for the murders. What follows is a bizarre turn of events leading to a somewhat predictable climax.


Pros


The movie's production values are excellent. Jimmy and Kay Kay do a good job in the acting department. Sonali Kulkarni has little to do and Nandana Sen is just about adequate. The background score rises up to the  sombre mood of the movie.


*Cons


*There are glaring loopholes in the storyline. Anand Rai is confused about getting the setting and his characters right. I know of no Indian man who will take kindly to his wife sleeping with other men every day. Menon's plan about killing their wives evokes a dead-pan reaction from Jimmy. Seriously, I have connected better to the 80's heroine screaming for the hero in the climax than the ones in this movie. Anand Tiwar's music is jaded. The special effects feel outdone and monotonous after a certain point.  Also, there was no reason to go and shoot a couple of scenes in Goa when anywhere in England would have worked just fine.


*Final take


*The movie is worth a watch on a dull sunday evening when you have enough time and patience to watch just about anything. If you are the one who likes the'different' kind of movies and absolutely detest your  movies masala maar ke, you might actually like this one. For people who have watched the English version(which I am sure is several notches above this hotch-potch), and whose attention span is less than a single flap of the humming bird, stay miles away.


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