Ugly movie is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language thriller film writer cum co-producer and directer is Anurag Kashyap. Jointly producer Phantom Films and DAR Motion Pictures.
This film leading stars cast are Rahul Bhat, Tejaswini Kolhapure, Vineet Kumar Singh, Girish Kulkarni, Ronit Roy, Surveen Chawla and Anshika Shrivastava. This film Music composer is G. V. Prakash Kumar while Background score composer is Brian McOmber. All songs Lyrics writer is Gaurav Solanki and Cinematography done by Nikos Andritsakis while Film editing done by Aarti Bajaj.
This film story is revoving around struggling actor Rahul Varshney (Bhat), whose daughter Kali (Shrivastava) disappears, and the events that follow. Anurag had the idea for the film since 2006 and started writing the script after talking idea from one of his friends, who was in the Special Task Force, Lucknow, about kidnapping cases. He chose actors who could connect with the characters in the film.
Ugly movies was released on varieos film festival like Directors’ Fortnight section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. It was also screened at the 2014 New York Indian Film Festival, the third Ladakh International Film Festival and the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles.
The first look of the film poster was released on 8th May, 2013 on social media. The circumstances that led to the birth of Kali were separately made as short film, named Kali Katha, and was released in YouTube on 23 December 2014.
Ugly movie was released worldwide on 26th December, 2014 after a two-year delay due to Anurag’s denial to show static anti-smoking warnings in the movie. He had filed a case in court, but ultimately lost it. After, the movie release with Positive critical reviews and was also average commercial success, collected nearly 6.24 crore INR worldwide.
- Directer : Anurag Kashyap
- Producer : Arun Rangachari,Vivek Rangachari,Anurag Kashyap,Madhu Mantena,Vikas Bahl,Vikramaditya Motwane
- Writer : Anurag Kashyap
- Starring : Rahul Bhat,Ronit Roy,Girish Kulkarni,Siddhanth Kapoor,Tejaswini Kolhapure,Vineet Kumar Singh,Surveen Chawla
- Music/Songs : G. V. Prakash Kumar,Brian McOmber
- Cinematography : Nikos Andritsakis
- Editor : Aarti Bajaj
- Production company : Phantom Films
- Distributor : DAR Motion Pictures
- Genres : Crime, Mystery, Drama
- Release date : 26 December 2014
- Running time : 126 minutes
- Country : India
- Language : Hindi
Ugly movie trailer :
Star cast of the film :
- Rahul Bhatt as a Rahul Kapoor
- Ronit Roy as a Shoumik Bose
- Tejaswini Kolhapure as a Shalini Bose
- Viineet Kumar as a Chaitanya Mishra
- Surveen Chawla as a Rakhi Malhotra
- Siddhant Kapoor as a Siddhant
- Sandesh Jadhav as a Rane
- Anshikaa Shrivastava as a Kali Varshney
- Murari Kumar as a Shrilal The Baloon Guy
- Abir Goswami as a A.C.P. Gupta
- Madhavi Singh as a ACP Upadhyay
- Manoj Kolhatkar as a ACP Khanwilkar
- Ajay Purkar as a ACP Godbole
- Girish Kulkarni as a Inspector Jadhav
- Jayant Gadekar as a Inspector Direkar
- Prakash Ramchandani as a Inspector Rawal
- Sameer Patil as a Inspector Patnaik
- Abhijeet Chavan as a Inspector Raut
- Rajesh Bhosle as a Vinayak
- Aslam R. Wadkar as a Hawldar Salgaonkar
- Mahilani Tarun as a Young Bose
- Piyush Sharma as a Young Rahul
- Alia Bhatt as a Young Shalini
- Arya Modh as a Young Kali
- Vivek Lagoo as a Shalini’s Father
- Uma Gokhale as a Shalini’s Mother
- Pramatesh Mehta as a Chaitanya’s Father
- Sujata Joag as a Chaitanya’s Mother
- Santok as a Shreelal’s Aunt
- Sujay Shankarwar as a Rakhi’s Husband
- Ram Bahadur Renu as a Bose’s Driver
- Gouri Dutt as a Operator Gauri
- Saharsh Kumar Shukla as a Gangster Pujari
- Aashish Chawla as a Doctor at Old Gala
- Bala as a Bar Man
- Bala Subramaniam as a Bar Owner
- Jehangir as a Irani Café Owner
- Athavale as a General Store Owner
- Aseem Hattangadi as a Night Club Owner
- Mohammed Ashiq as a Jewelry Store Owner
- Yash Kumar as a Jewelry Store Security Guard
- Harishchand as a Shopkeeper at Crowded Market
- Harish Kumar as a Palmist
- Dhruv Raj as a Criminal
- Michale as a Nigro Guy
- Girish Joshi as a Robber Man
- Aarti Solanki as a Robber Woman
- Achin Jain as a Complainer 1
- Vasan Bala as a Complainer 2
- Shlok Sharma as a Complainer 3
- Abhinav Pareek as a Man in Bus (Jaipur)
- Riya Pareekh as a Little Girl in Bus (Jaipur)
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Pre-Post Production :
Pre-Production :
Director cum Producer Anurag Kashyap said in an interview that the genesis of Ugly started from his own broken marriage and the relationship with his daughter. He mentioned that his guilt of not spending enough time with her when he was an alcoholic also shaped the film.
He stated that the first ten minutes of the film stems from his personal experiences. He had been working on its script since 2006. Later, Anurag met his friend Amit Pathak, who was the head of Special Task Force in Lucknow and talked to him about real life kidnapping cases and how they were tackled. He also explained the whole “logic” of such kidnapping cases and how they function.
The shocking thing for Anurag to know from him was that in eighty five percent cases of kidnapping, there are no ransom calls, and are vendetta based abductions. He later included several real-life incidents in the script like a case of an Indian Administrative Service officer whose wife filed a case of brutality against him.
After the research, Anurag completed the script and gave it to some people to read who felt that “it was a very dark and intense film”. He said: “I knew that I could make it only after I had made a successful film. So Gangs of Wasseypur allowed me the freedom to make this film without sharing the script with anyone. I just told people I wanted to make a kidnapping drama and to trust me.” The film’s story is told over the course of a week. Anurag announced Ugly film in May 2012.
Casting :
Anurag selected actors who could connect with the characters in the film. He found a lot of parallels between Rahul Bhat’s real life and his character in the film and hence gave him the role of a failed actor. They had previously discussed the project in 2012. To prepare for his role, Rahul started consuming alcohol heavily and deprived himself of sleep to create dark circles around his character’s face.T
Tejaswini Kolhapure, as per Anurag know “what happens when you make bad choices in life”, as her first film choice, Paanch, was never released. She plays the role of an alcoholic mother, for which she actually consumed alcohol while shooting.Ronit Roy was cast in the role of a cop.
Vineet Kumar Singh was cast in the role of a casting director.Anurag had seen Girish Kulkarni in films such as Vihir (2010) and Deool (2011) and wanted to work with him. He met their director Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni in Denmark, who told him that Kulkarni would love to work with him. Afterwards Anurag came back and called him for Ugly.
Surveen Chawla plays the role of a C-grade film actress, who she described as “crass, downmarket C-grade item girl who is ugly on the inside”. The film has television actor Abir Goswami’s last film before his death in 2013. Siddhanth Kapoor was cast in Ugly before his debut film Shootout at Wadala (2013), since he wanted to work with Anurag. Alia Bhatt casted as Guest appearance in the film.
Shooting of the movie (Production) :
Anurag film shooting done without giving its lead actors any script as he felt the film “required” that. During shoot, he would brief the actors about the scene and let them emote to do their own bit, while the camera was kept rolling. The actors got to know about the film, when it released at the Cannes Film Festival.
Anurag had told Rahul and other cast that he wanted to make this film in 2012. They spent the next two years, talking to each other and getting to know each other. The little girl in the film is named Kali (Hindi for bud), who, according to author Vaiju Naravane, represents “untouched innocence”. Anshika Shrivastava, who played the character, was unaware of the story, and Anurag requested her parents not to show her the film as he felt she was too young for the subject matter.
On the day of shooting, Anurag gave Ronit the scene for the day which he refused to read and said: “I told Anurag that now that there was no script, I’ll leave the shooting entirely on him.” For a sequence, where Rahul had to cry, Anurag kept talking to him for three hours and he eventually broke down and wept. The camera kept rolling during that period.
The film shooting done mainly in real locations. While shooting a scene where his character is taken in remand by the police, Singh was slapped more than 50 times in real. His hands were cuffed and tied to the roof to represent the actual third degree torture. It was because Anurag wanted to depict a realistic reconstruction of police methods in India.
A scene where both Singh and Rahul talk to the inspector in the police station was improvised, because, Anurag wanted to show the real “police apathy and the power trip.”
Anurag shot the whole film in the suburbs of Mumbai to create the feeling of constriction. He worked with a new cinematographer, Nikos Andritsakis, who works with Dibakar Banerjee, as he wanted to shoot in the “constricted spaces” of the city.
They shot most of the scenes in one or two angles. The suburbs were difficult locations to shoot because of the constant crowd hence the team then decided to use hidden cameras to capture most of the original scenes, especially the ones that were shot at Bandra and Lonavala railway station.
As a result, the actors did not have the liberty to give as many retakes as they can on a set. Anurag called it his most “brutally honest” film.
Ugly movie shooting was done fourteen hours a day to meet the schedule and was completed in forty days.Anurag wanted the scene where Siddhant gets the money to be hyper-stylised, and he treated the scene “like an orgasm”. He drew similarity of the scene with a man’s eagerness to have sex, which is sudden and intense. He recalled the whole shooting an “emotionally exhausting” experience.
Post-production :
Ugly film editor Aarti Bajaj and the sound mixing was done by the Mumbai-based audio engineer Mandar Kulkarni with assistance from Alok De. Such scenes as a road accident in the film were shot on different places and later merged using visual effects provided by Balakrishna P. Subbiah Nadar. The film is jointly produced by Phantom Films and DAR Motion Pictures.
Ugly movie Songs / Music :
The film music composer is G. V. Prakash Kumar, nephew of music director A. R. Rahman. This is his third Hindi film he composed, after Joker and Gangs of Wasseypur, in which he composed the background score for the two-part series, who also has composed songs for Tamil cinema. Background score composer is Brian McOmber.
All songs lyrics writer is Gaurav Solanki, except one title song “Ugly” was written by Vineet Kumar Singh. Playback singinging artist like G.V Prakash Kumar, Shilpa Rao, Vineet Kumar Singh, Ishq Bector, Christopher Stanley, Barkha Swaroop Saxena and Shree D given their voice.
The music album release by Zee Music Company and have five songs. It was released on 24 November 2014. According to a critic from Sify, the song “Nichod De” rocked the item song and their corny music and lyrics.
List of Song with name of Playback singers are as per below :
- “Suraj Hai Kahan”…G. V. Prakash Kumar
- “Papa”……………….Shilpa Rao
- “Nichod De”………Barkha Swaroop Saxena
- “Money”………….Christopher Stanley
- “Ugly”………….Ishq Bector, Vineet Kumar Singh, Shree D
“Papa” full video song :
- Singer : Shilpa Rao
- Lyricist : Gaurav Solanki
- Composer : GV Prakash Kumar
- Banner : Zee Music Company
“Ugly” full video song :
- Singer : Vineet Singh, Ishq Bector, Shree D
- Lyricist : Vineet Singh
- Composer : Shree & Ishq
- Banner : Zee Music Company
“Nichod De” full item song online :
- Singer : Bharka Swaroop Saxena
- Lyricist : Gaurav Solanki
- Composer : GV Prakash Kumar
- Banner : Zee Music Company
Review of the film :
This film reviews are mostly mix to Highly positive from critics. Few Highly appreciated the film while other criticized the film by said that Ugly movie liked only who are fan of Anurag dark Film.
Critics review :
- Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV gave 3 star from 5 and saying that “indescribably better than all the muck that mainstream Bollywood passed off for entertainment this year.”
- Sweta Kaushal from Hindustan Times gave 4.75 star from 5 star and stated that “A dark, gripping movie that is a must watch”
- Raja Sen called it Anurag’s “finest film”, stated that : “film is a tale of torment, masterfully woven around the universally urgent trigger of a disappearing minor.”
- Kaushani Banerjee of Deccan Chronicle rated the 4 star out of 5 and stated that “Every frame has a dark undertone and Ugly does not conclude until every possible avenue of audience empathy is explored.”
- Mihir Fadnavis of Firstpost apreciated the film Ugly by writing that “Anurag’s “best film since Black Friday”.
- India Today critics called the film an “eye opener” and “one of the best films of the year”.
- Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express giving the film a 2 star from 5 star, stated that “Anurag Kashyap takes darkness to an extreme, much more than Paanch”
- Meena Iyer of The Times of India gave 4 star from 5 star and writes that “It’s not for the faint-hearted, but for those who are willing to let the morally decrepit live.”
- Subhash K. Jha in his review mentioned, “You know these characters are played by actors. And that there is a camera recording their activities. But you let yourself believe this is not make-believe.”
- Suprateek Chatterjee from HuffPost gave a positive review to the film and called Kashyap the “antithesis of Sooraj Barjatya”.
- Arunava Chatterjee called Ugly a “pathbreaking crime fiction” and “one of Kashyap’s best so far.”
- Sonia Chopra of Sify gave a positive reviews and stated that “Kashyap gives us a film that represents a disturbing reflection of life.”
- Bollywood Hungama critics gave 2 star from 5 and stated that “Watch it if you are an Anurag Kashyap fan, else avoid!”.
Online Review :
Public Review : First Day First Show :
Box office collection :
- Screens : 350
- First Day Friday : 0.41 crores INR
- First Weekend : 1.75 crores
- First Week : 3.35 crores
- Lifetime India (net) : 6 crores
- Worldwide Gross : 9 crores
- Ugly movie Budget : 5 crores
- Ugly movie Verdict : AVERAGE
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