Aarakshan (2011-movie) : Bollywood Hindi Film

Aarakshan Movie Details :

Aarakshan Movie is a 2011 Indian Bollywood drama film starring are Amitabh Bachchan, Saif Ali Khan, Manoj Bajpayee, Deepika Padukone, and Prateik Babbar. Directer is Prakash Jha, the film is a socio-political drama based on the controversial policy of caste based reservations in Indian government jobs and educational institutions. The film was released on 12 August 2011 to mostly mixed reviews. It was an average success at the box office.

• Directer : Prakash Jha
• Producer : A. A. Nadiadwala,Firoz Nadiadwala,Prakash Jha
• Writter : Prakash Jha
• Screenplay : Anjum Rajabali,Prakash Jha,Ravinder Randhawa
• Story : Kamalesh Pandey
• Starring : Amitabh Bachchan,Saif Ali Khan,Manoj Bajpayee,Deepika Padukone,Prateik Babbar
• Music : Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
• Cinematography : Sachin Krishn
• Editer : Santosh Mandal
• Casting : Ritam Srivastav
• Art Direction : Jayant Deshmukh
• Costume Design : Priyanka Mundada
• Production Management : Rishi Jha,Rajesh Kumar Khanna,Anil Sharma
• Visual Effects : Wasim Ali,Yatin Bhave,Marchila Dutta,Abhishek Goel,Manoj Gohil
• Production company : Base Industries Group,Prakash Jha Productions
• Distributer : Reliance Entertainment
• Genres : Drama
• Release date : 12 August 2011
• Running time : 164 minutes
• Country : India
• Language : Hindi

Star Cast of The Film :

• Amitabh Bachchan as a Dr. Prabhakar Anand
• Saif Ali Khan as a Deepak Kumar
• Manoj Bajpayee as a Mithilesh Kumar Singh, the main antagonist
• Deepika Padukone as a Poorvi Anand
• Prateik Babbar as a Sushant Seth
• Tanvi Azmi as a Kavita Anand, Dr. Prabhakar’s wife
• Mukesh Tiwari as a Inspector
• Yashpal Sharma as a Shambhu Kaka
• Darshan Jariwala as a Anirudh Prasad
• Rajeev Verma as a Damodar Seth, Sushant’s father
• Saurabh Shukla as Education Minister
• Sonal Jha as Shanti Bua
• Amitosh Nagpal as a Panditji
• Hema Malini as a Shakuntala Thakral (Tai)-guest appearance, central minister
• Chetan Pandit
• Indira Tiwari as a Tabela Topper Student
• Vinay Apte
• Anita Kanwar
• S. M. Zaheer
• Aanchal Munjal as a Muniya S. Yadav
• Rahul Daksh as a Surendar
• Sumeet Vyas as a Teacher
• Sachin Chaubey
• Amit Singh Thakur as a Principal
• Deepraj Rana as a Sanjay Tandon
• Bikramjeet Kanwarpal

Story of The Film :

Following the Mandal Commission report and the Supreme Court of India’s decision to maintain a 27 percent reservation for Dalits and lower/backward castes, right-winged political parties organize protests. The Principal of Shakuntala Thakral Mahavidyalal, a non-government college which is exempt from this mandate, gets in the limelight when it’s Principal, Prabhakar Anand, endorses the decision – much to the ire of the trustees as well as the newly appointed Vice-Principal Mithilesh Singh, who has invested Rs.1200 Crores in private coaching classes. Prabhakar refuses to change his stand and ends up tendering his resignation, taking his family, consisting of his wife, Kavita and daughter, Poorbi, to live near Shambhu Yadav’s Tabela after they find their family home being taken over by Mithilesh’s coaching classes. Attempts to evict Mithilesh’s staff will be in vain and will not only end up alienating the family from everyone but Prabhakar will also be summoned and possibly arrested for…

Production :

Shooting began on 15 January 2011. Director Prakash Jha finished casting but the male lead was not finalised. Ajay Devgan was first considered for the role, however Ajay had many other projects in hand, including Golmaal 3 and Singham. So Jha decided to cast Saif Ali Khan. Khan found it very hard to juggle between two films at once because he had to learn Sanskrit for his role in the film. Bachchan and Saif Ali Khan learnt teaching skills in mathematics from Bihar’s Super 30 founder Anand Kumar. Most of the film’s shooting took place in Minal Residency, Oriental College, Upper Lake in Bhopal. The shooting finished in early March 2011.

Aarakshan Movie Songs / Music :

The soundtrack was composer is Shankar Ehsaan Loy. The album consists of six tracks. The soundtrack features the vocal talents of Mohit Chauhan, Shreya Ghoshal, Mahalakshmi Iyer, Raman Mahadevan, Shankar Mahadevan and classical singer Channulal Mishra. The concept of the song “Kaun Si Dor” was from Prasoon Joshi, the songwriter of the album who came up with the first lines of the song. The trio then went on to develop the song and roped in Channulal Mishra, who agreed to sing the song as per their request. The soundtrack was released on 11 July 2011.

• “Achha Lagta Hai” – Mohit Chauhan, Shreya Ghoshal
• “Mauka” – Mahalakshmi Iyer, Raman Mahadevan, Tarun Sagar, Gaurav Gupta, Rehan Khan
• “Kaun Si Dor” – Channulal Mishra, Shreya Ghoshal
• “Roshanee” – Shankar Mahadevan
• “Saans Albeli” – Channulal Mishra
• “Mauka” (Remix) – Mahalakshmi Iyer, Raman Mahadevan, Tarun Sagar, Gaurav Gupta, Rehan Khan

“Achha Lagta Hai” Full Video Song :

• Song : Achha Lagta Hai
• Singer : Mohit Chauhan, Shreya Ghoshal

“Roshanee” Full Video Song :

• Song : Roshanee
• Singer : Shankar Mahadevan

Aarakshan Movie Review :

This film review are Mostly Positive from Critics, IMDB Public Reviewing site give 6.2 Star Out Of 10 Star with Reviewers are 5001.

I recommend people to watch this movie.The movie moves around the plot of Reservation and Anti-Reservation. The Movie supports both the ideas but not being biased towards particular caste or community.

The movie shows how the face of the education have changed since last 62 years becoming nothing more then a mere business for high class people and the mentality of the society and it’s stinking thoughts, how they just ignore well educated and intelligent person just because he belong to lower caste.

But at last the Movie ends with a good note that whatever caste, community, creed we belong education see no difference. It belongs to everyone equally

Critics Rating by Taran Adarsh, from Bollywood Hungama give 4 star out of 5 Star.

Aarakshan Movie Box Office Collection :

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