Kaal : Hindi Film Details & Trailer, Songs, Review
Kaal is an Bollywood natural horror Movie directer is Soham Shah, and jointly producer are Karan Johar and Shah Rukh Khan. The Movie starring Ajay Devgn, John Abraham, Vivek Oberoi, Esha Deol and Lara Dutta in Main roles.
Ajay Devgan play negative role as title role while Vishal Malhotra and Kushal Punjabi play pivotal roles. It released on 29 April 2005.At the box office it performed moderately well, grossing an approx Rs.19 Crores and was declared Semi-Hit. It was also the tenth highest-grossing film of year 2005.
The story relates the struggle of wildlife expert Krish Thapar (John Abraham), his wife Riya Thapar (Esha Deol) and a group of friends, who battle against a ghost in the fictional Orbit National Park (alluding to the world-famous Jim Corbett National Park, Nainital, Uttarakhand) for their lives. The film sends out the message on protecting the precious wildlife of India.
Directer : Soham Shah
Producer : Karan Johar,Shah Rukh Khan
Screenplay : Soham Shah,Karan Johar
Story : Soham Shah
Starring : Ajay Devgn,John Abraham,Vivek Oberoi,Lara Dutta,Esha Deol
Music : Salim-Sulaiman,Anand Raj Anand
Cinematography : Santosh Thundiyil
Editor : Sanjay Sankla
Distributer : Dharma Productions,Red Chillies Entertainment
Release date : 29 April 2005
Running time : 127 minutes
Country : India
Language : Hindi
Kaal : Hindi Film Trailer
Kaal film story :
Two British nationals are killed by a ferocious tiger in Corbett National Park in India. This incident follows several other tiger attacks, and many deaths result, prompting National Geographic to send a correspondent, Krish Thapar (John Abraham) to the national park and ascertain what really happened. Thapar is accompanied by his wife Riya (Esha Deol). A group of youngsters, consisting of Dev Malhotra (Vivek Oberoi), Ishika (Lara Dutta), Sajid (Kushal Punjabi) and Vishal (Vishal Malhotra), are on a hunting trip in the hopes of sighting and shooting some big prey.
Both the Thapars and the youngsters meet and seek the guidance of a local called Kaali (Ajay Devgn) after he saves them from a streak of tigers. On their way out from the national park, some of the members of the group are mysteriously killed. Sajid is secretly murdered for using a pistol, Vishal dies while surviving a car crash, and Riya is found hanged in a well, drowning to death. Kaali tells them about a recent story of how hunting was destroying the jungle. One local guide got very upset by this and started leading tourists astray and getting them killed by tigers. When this started affecting the tourism, other villagers and local guides beat that guide and threw him to the Tigers. The local villagers now believe that his ghost is killing everyone who breaks the jungle’s rules.
It is finally understood that Kaali is the spirit of the dead tourist guide and is responsible for the recent deaths. Somehow Krish, Dev, and Ishika manage to escape the national park in the end.
Star Cast of the film :
- John Abraham as Krish Thapar
- Ajay Devgn as Kali Pratap Singh
- Vivek Oberoi as Dev Malhotra
- Esha Deol as Riya Thapar
- Lara Dutta as Ishika Malhotra
- Vishal Malhotra as Vishal
- Kushal Punjabi as Sajid
- Vineet Sharma as Bagga
- Parmeet Sethi as Officer Khan
- Daya Shankar Pandey as DS Pandey
- Shah Rukh Khan in a special appearance in item song “Kaal Dhamaal”
- Malaika Arora as an item girl in item song “Kaal Dhamaal”
Song / Music of the film :
This film music composer is Salim–Sulaiman and Anand Raj Anand. The lyricist is Shabbir Ahmed, Anand Raj Anand and Kailash Kher. According to the Indian trade website Box Office India, with around 16,00,000 units sold, this film’s soundtrack album was the year’s seventh highest-selling.
- “Aankhiyan Teriya Ve”…………Kailash Kher, Caralisa Monteiro
- “Dharma Mix”……………………Shankar Mahadevan, Ravi Khote,Sonu Nigam, Udit Narayan
- “Jungle Mix”………………………….Vijay Prakash, Caralisa Monteiro, Jeanne
- “Kaal Dhamaal”…………………Kunal Ganjawala, Ravi Khote, Caralisa Monteiro, Salim Merchant
- “Kaal Dhamaal [The Tiger Mix]” ………….Kunal Ganjawala, Ravi Khote, Caralisa Monteiro, Salim Merchant
- “Nassa Nassa”…………………………..Sonu Nigam, Sunidhi Chauhan
- “Tauba Tauba”…………………………Sonu Nigam, Kunal Ganjawala, Sunidhi Chauhan, Richa Sharma
Kaal Dhamaal : Video item song
- Singer : Kunal Ganjawal
- Composer : Salim-Sulaiman
- Lyricists : Shabbir Ahmed & Jeanne
- Music Label : Sony Music Entertainment India Pvt. Ltd.
Pre-Production / Production of the film :
Indranil Gorai (Manchu), the writer-director of Kaal had earlier assisted Karan Johar in Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham… (2001). 25 Litres of real blood was used in the film. The idea of using computer-generated tigers was dropped because of the lack of its realism. The three tigers shown in Kaal were also used in the Hollywood film Gladiator (2000). Scenes involving tigers were shot in Bangkok, where they used to roam free on sets. Vivek Oberoi earlier wanted to do Ajay Devgan’s role, but later accepted the one offered. The film was shot at the Jim Corbett National Park.
Review of the film :
The film received positive to mixed reviews from critics noting it to be a different type of horror film. At the box office it performed moderately well, grossing an approx Rs.19 Crores and was declared Semi-Hit. It was also the tenth highest-grossing film of 2005.
Box-office collection of the film :
- Day 1 (Friday)………Rs. 2.55 Cr
Day 2 (Saturday)…..Rs. 2.47 Cr
Day 3 (Sunday)……. Rs.2.61 Cr - Week 1 Collection………Rs. 11.80 Cr
Week 2 Collection…….. Rs. 3.20 Cr
Week 3 Collection………Rs. 2.47 Cr
Week 4 Collection………Rs. 1.13 Cr
Week 5 Collection………Rs. 0.32 Cr
Week 6 Collection………Rs. 0.06 Cr
Total Net Collection…………………Rs. 18.98 Cr
Worldwide Collection Gross…….Rs. 32.17 Cr
Overseas Collection………………….Rs. 6.55 Cr
- Kaal Budget : Rs. 11.00 Cr
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