Apaharan (2005-movie) : Bollywood Hindi Film

Apaharan Movie Details :

Apaharan is a 2005 Indian Bollywood crime action film directer is Prakash Jha and stars Ajay Devgn, Bipasha Basu and Nana Patekar in the lead roles. It is the story of a complex relationship and clashing ideologies between a father and son set in the backdrop of the kidnapping industry in the eastern state of Bihar, India. Apaharan was declared semi Hit at the Indian box-office.

• Directer : Prakash Jha
• Producer : Prakash Jha
• Screenplay : Manoj Tyagi,Shridhar Raghavan
• Story : Prakash Jha
• Starring : Ajay Devgn,Bipasha Basu,Nana Patekar
• Music : Wayne Sharpe
• Cinematography : Arvind K.
• Editer : Santosh Mandal
• Art Direction : Smita Gupta,Salim Syed
• Makeup Department : Mahesh Angane,Tanuja Dabir,Ravi Futane
• Production Management : Kirti Banarase,K.L. Chhabra,Hemanth Gadkar
• Assistant Director : Anil Ajitabh,Disha Jha ,Priya Om Jha
• Special Effects : Ankur Chaudhary,Praveen Dhankar,Summit Jaiswal
• Visual Effects : Summit Jaiswal,Ranjit N. Patil
• Action Directer : Peter Fernandes,Jai Singh Nijjar,Harpal Singh Pali
• Production Company : Entertainment One India Ltd., Holy Cow Pictures,Prakash Jha Productions
• Distributors : Kria, Reliance Entertainment
• Genres : Action,Crime,Drama
• Release date : 2 December 2005
• Running time : 173 minutes
• Country : India
• Language : Hindi

Apaharan Movie Wacth Online :

Star Cast of The Film :

• Ajay Devgn as a Ajay Shastri
• Bipasha Basu as a Megha Basu
• Nana Patekar as a Tabrez Alam
• Yashpal Sharma as a Gaya Singh
• Mohan Agashe as a Professor Raghuvansh Shastri
• Ayub Khan as a Kashinat
• Anoop Soni as a Akash Ranjan (Press Reporter)
• Mukesh Tiwari as a SP Anwar Khan
• Daya Shankar Pandey as a Daya Shankar
• Pankaj Tripathi as a Gaya Singh’s Crony
• Ehsaan Khan as a DSP Veerendra Shukla
• Murli Sharma as a Muralidhar
• Anil Yadav as a Naga
• Deepak Bhatia as a Ramdhani Singh
• Brij Gopal as Jagannath Mandal
• Akhilendra Mishra as a Brijnath Mishra (Chief Minister)
• Radhakrishna Datta as a Seth Soorajmal
• Sanjay Swaraj as a Seth Chandmal
• Mukul Nag as Usman
• Chetan Pandit as a Dinkar Pandey (Home Minister)
• Padam Singh as a Dharam Singh
• Prithvi Zutshi as a Dwarka
• Khalid Siddiqui as a Kamal Kishore
• Mrinalini Sharma
• Vikram Sahu as a Megha’s Father
• Prathmesh Mehta as a Aniruddha Babu
• Khan Jahangir Khan as a Salim Khan
• Ashok Beniwal as a K.Prasad
• Milind Joshi as a Bankalal
• Jayashankar Tripathi as a Bankalal’s Brother In Law
• Arvind Pandey as a Sukhi Chacha
• S.C. Makhija as a Buchchi Kaka
• Preeti Kakade as a Doctor’s Relative/Neighbor
• Asmita Joshi as a Doctor’s Relative/Neighbor
• Aditya Jadhav as a Crying Child
• Saurabh Dubey as a Anil Shrivastava

Story of The Film :

Ajay lives with his stern, honest, disciplinarian and Gandhian widowed father, Prof. (retd.) Raghuvansh Shastri. Ajay works as a salesman, but soon finds himself out of work. He applies for a position with the Police, but is turned down, even though he always makes it to the merit list. Finally he borrows 5 lakh rupees to bribe his way on the merit list, & soon his name is shown on the shortlist. Just before his selection, major differences crop up between Home Minister Dinkar Pandey and his dad, with the later threatening to expose the corruption within the State Ministry. Dinkar ensures that Ajay’s name is dropped from the shortlist, and the money-lender sends his goons after him, giving him 3 days to come up with the money.

A desperate Ajay decides to be part of the lucrative kidnapping scheme in Bihar, abducts a Government official and demands a ransom so that he can re-pay his loan. Unfortunately, this Government official was under the protection of underworld Don, Gaya Singh, who carries out his operation from prison. When it is discovered that Gaya is involved, the abduction goes awry, with Ajay being arrested by the police, held in a cell, where he is severely beaten and humiliated by Gaya Singh. Ajay is discharged from custody when no one identifies him. Ajay is enraged, frustrated with his life, and he decides to take kidnap another government official. This official was on the list to be kidnapped by Gaya Singh, under instructions from corrupt MLA Tabrez Alam. When Gaya finds out that Ajay is behind this kidnapping, he locates and decides to kill him, a tussle ensues which results in Gaya’s death.

Ajay then takes over from Gaya and is accepted with open arms by Tabrez and his men. What Ajay does not know is that Tabrez is a ruthless man, who has killed his very own nephew, the son of his brother, Usman Alam, when he became an informant for the police. When Ajay’s popularity grows, he is invited by Dinkar to join forces with him, as everyone from a lowly Police Constable to the Home Minister gets a share in the ransom money. Ajay refuses, however, Tabrez is misinformed about this and thinks that Ajay is against him. Now Ajay finds himself alone, as even his father has forsaken him. The girl he hoped to marry, Megha, no longer cares for him, and the police want him dead or alive – that is if he can escape from the clutches of Usman and Tabrez first.

Apaharan Movie Songs / Music :

• “Aaiye, aao ji babu – Sapna Mukherjee, K. K.

“Aaiye, aao ji babu” Full Video Song :

• Song : Aaiye, aao ji babu
• Singer : Sapna Mukherjee, K. K.

Awards :

2006 National Film Awards (India) :

• Best Screenplay – Prakash Jha, Manoj Tyagi and Shridhar Raghavan

Filmfare Awards :

• Best Dialogue – Prakash Jha
• Best Villain – Nana Patekar

Apaharan Movie Review :

This film review are Mostly Positive from Critics, IMDB Public Reviewing site give 7.4 Star Out Of 10 Star with Reviewers are 4168.

The movie is about the thriving kidnapping industry in Bihar, Jha’s home state. The passion Jha has for his besieged land shows clearly throughout the film. Although we have been numbed by the tales of corruption told earlier, “Apaharan” still manages to shock us. Bihar was always a backward state, but 15 years of Laloo rule has turned it into a surreal world, full of scheming gangsters and unscrupulous politicians who sometimes seem to have forgotten why they ever started this ghastly game in the first place.

The climax is predictable but leaves us something to cheer about. A must see.

Critics Rating by Taran Adarsh, from Bollywood Hungama give 1.5 star out of 5 Star.

Apaharan Movie Box Office Collection :

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