Asambhav (2004-movie) : Bollywood Hindi Film

Asambhav Movie (2004) Detail :

Asambhav is a 2004 Bollywood Hindi action thriller directer Is Rajiv Rai and producer is Gulshan Rai under Trimurti Films banner. It was released on 23 July 2004, starring Arjun Rampal, Naseeruddin Shah and Priyanka Chopra in the main roles with Dipannita Sharma, Tom Alter, Milind Gunaji and Sharat Saxena playing supporting roles among others.The film was shot entirely in Switzerland.

Director Rajiv Rai worked earlier with Arjun Rampal in Pyaar Ishq Aur Mohabbat (2001). Rajiv signed him for a second time for Asambhav in 2002. Work on the movie had stated in 2002 when he started his new project and film name titled it Asambhav. Aishwarya Rai was initially signed to act as Rampal’s heroine but was replaced by Priyanka Chopra. Legendary actor Naseeruddin Shah was cast as the villain. Film Shooting started in June 2003 and was completed in September 2003. It was the first Indian film to be graded digitally on Luster.

The film trailer was launched in March 2004. The music composer is Viju Shah; it was released on 26 May 2004. The film was released on 23 July 2004. Through an extensive post-production work and huge promotion, Asambhav was an average grosser at the box office, collecting rs. 34 million nett. It grossed rs. 43.0 million in India and was average overseas as well, with a collection of US$19,504 in the United States and £16,894 in the United Kingdom.

• Directer : Rajiv Rai
• Producer : Gulshan Rai
• Writter : Rajiv Rai
• Starring : Arjun Rampal,Priyanka Chopra,Naseeruddin Shah
• Music : Viju Shah
• Cinematography : Sukumar Jatania
• Film Editing : Taranjiet Singh Namdhari
• Production Company : Trimurti Films Pvt. Ltd.
• Distributor : Eros Entertainment,Eros International,Shemaroo Video Pvt. Ltd.,Starmedia Home Entertainment
• Art Direction : Nitish Roy
• Costume Design : Nakul Sen
• Makeup Department : Shrikant P. Desai
• Production Management : Nekko Sha
• Visual Effects : Taranjiet Singh Namdhari
• Genres : Action,Adventure,Drama
• Release date : 23 July 2004
• Running time : 149 minutes
• Country : India,Switzerland
• Language : Hindi

Asambhav Movie Trailer :

Story Of The Film :

The Indian president Veer Pratap Singh (Mohan Agashe) is kidnapped by Rafiq Mabroz (Shawar Ali) in exchange for cash rewarded by renowned terrorist Youssan Baksh (Mukesh Rishi) and General Ansari (Milind Gunaji). Adit is sent undercover to rescue the president and his daughter, Kinjal (Dipannita Sharma).

Captain Adit Arya (Arjun Rampal) is a special agent of the Indian army. The mission is coded “Asambhav”. Adit poses as a journalist for Indiatimes and makes his way to Switzerland with the help of a RAW agent called Atul Bhatnagar (Jameel Khan). On the flight, Adit meets Alisha (Priyanka Chopra). Alisha is a singer and has come to Switzerland to do a show with Sam Hans (Naseeruddin Shah). Her friend Shilpa (Chitrita Sharma) accompanies her. However, the people whom Alisha and Shilpa have come to Switzerland with are drug smugglers. Shilpa is murdered when she finds this out, and Alisha pretends she knows nothing but meets Adit for help. Adit and Alisha fall in love.

Adit links events from Shilpa’s murder to the president’s kidnapping and sees that Sam Hans, General Ansari, Youssan Baksh, and Rafiq Mabroz are involved together. Hans’ friend Ranjit Parmar (Yashpal Sharma), of the Indian embassy, checks files of Switzerland and learns Rafiq Mabroz is a terrorist. He informs Hans, and Hans decides to fight ISI. However, he signs a deal with ISI by kidnapping the president from Youssan Baksh and returning the president to Baksh in exchange offer 50 million pounds.

Parmar suspects someone at the Indian embassy is a traitor helping terrorists. He finds out that Ms. Brar (Tora Khasgir) is a traitor. He informs ambassador G.L. Sarin (Sharat Saxena) and is knocked out by Mabroz. Parmar awakes to discover that Ms. Brar and Sarin are both traitors and are associates of Mabroz. Mabroz kills Parmar, and Sarin leaves a suicide note beside Parmar. Capt. Arya and Bhatnagar find Parmar dead by the note, but Arya reveals that the ambassador is the traitor because of his head-stamp on the suicide note. Arya tries to finish Sarin, but Brar calls the police to get Arya and the ambassadors arrested. Arya shows the police his army card while Sarin and Brar flee. Arya chases them, and Gazi (Chetan Hansraj) tries to attack Arya. Arya runs after Gazi and is attacked by ISI agents and Youssan’s men in a fort. They try to kill Arya, but Arya fires back and kills all of them, including Gazi.

Adit reaches Youssan’s headquarters, to free the president. He kills General Ansari and all of Youssan’s men. Youssan takes the president and flees. Adit chases him. Sam has captured Alisha and Kinjal but is stopped by Ambassador Sarin, who has Hans’ friend Brian as a captive. Hans gives money to free Brian, but Sarin kills Brian. Hans kills Mabroz’s men. Ms. Brar and Volga (Anupama Verma) chase Alisha and Kinjal near a helicopter but kill each other in the crossfire. Sarin tries to finish Hans, but Hans kills him to avenge the death of Brian.

Youssan tries to kill the president, but Adit kills Youssan and saves him. Mabroz tries to shoot Adit, but Adit kills him. In the end, Adit meets Sam, who confesses sins he committed but promises to improve; so they become friends after being arch rivals throughout the Mission Asambhav. Adit goes back to India with his girlfriend Alisha, Kinjal, the president and Atul Bhatnagar.

Star Cast Of The Film :

• Arjun Rampal as A Captain Aditya Arjun Kapoor A.C.P Aryan
• Priyanka Chopra as A Alisha
• Naseeruddin Shah as A Sameer “Sam” Hans
• Dipannita Sharma as a Kinjal
• Mohan Agashe as a president Veer Pratap Singh
• Yashpal Sharma as a Ranjit Parmar
• Tom Alter as a Brian
• Jameel Khan as a Atul Bhatnagar
• Milind Gunaji as a General Ansari
• Tej Sapru as a Hashmi
• Chetan Hansraj as a Arjun Rampal Gazi
• Sharat Saxena as a G.L. Sarin
• Tora Khasgir as a Ms. Tanya Brar
• Mukesh Rishi as a Youssan Baksh
• Shawar Ali as a Rafiq Mabroz
• Arif Zakaria as a Dabral
• Anupama Verma as a Volga
• Shabhir as a Zorba
• Mumaith Khan as a Dancer in song “Mashuqa Rubiya”

Pre-Post-Production Detail of the Film :

Rajiv Rai is well known for directing hit films in the action thriller genre including Yudh (1985), Tridev (1989), Vishwatma (1992), Mohra (1994) and Gupt (1997) under the banner of his father Gulshan Rai’s production company Trimurti Films. All did well at the box office and were huge successes, establishing Rai as a well acclaimed director. After his five successes in action movies, Rajiv directed a romance film for the first time titled Pyaar Ishq Aur Mohabbat and the newcomer Arjun Rampal was cast in the movie, who had filmed Ashok Mehta’s Moksha. However, Pyaar Ishq Aur Mohabbat was released before Moksha and was billed as Rampal’s first movie. Rampal received critical acclaim for his performance.

In 2002, Rajiv planned to shift to action thriller genre after Pyaar Ishq Aur Mohabbat. In an interview with Filmfare Online, Rajiv said “I listened to several people’s opinions. I made the film (‘PIAM’) not on intuition and belief but on marketing strategies and counsels from trade persons insisting that love stories were the trend of the day.” In that same year, Rajiv started his new project with a comeback to action genre and titled it Asambhav.

After planning Asambhav, Rajiv signed Arjun Rampal as the hero of the movie as Rampal had worked as the hero of Rajiv’s previous directorial venture Pyaar Ishq Aur Mohabbat. Aishwarya Rai was signed as the heroine. Rampal and Rai were in Dil Ka Rishta that released on 17 January 2003 and Asambhav marked their second pairing. However, Rai backed out in 2003 and Priyanka Chopra was cast in as the female lead.

Naseeruddin Shah was roped in to essay the role of the villain as he had worked with Rajiv as a hero in Tridev and as a villain in Mohra. Naseeruddin had earned critical acclaim for his villainous performance in Rajiv’s Mohra and had earned a nomination for the prestigious Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role at the 40th Filmfare Awards.Noticing on Naseeruddin’s previous success in a negative role, Rajiv cast him as the villain in his latest action thriller.The total cast was of 55 artists including model turned actress Dipannita Sharma, Tom Alter and Sharat Saxena among others.

During the music launch, Rajiv Rai was interviewed on casting models in important roles. He said, “I wanted a very western look to the film; I wanted it to look stylish. I have roped in many models because I wanted my film to look fresh and stylish. Models have a lot of exposure, they are very confident in front of the camera. There are a lot of fresh faces coming into acting. I wanted fresh faces for my film. The modeling industry can act. It’s not fair to pinpoint. Arjun (Rampal) himself was a model.”

After the casting was finalised, Rajiv Rai flew to Switzerland and the film was shot in Ticino. He started film shooting in June 2003 with a schedule of 57 days. It was filmed in multi-camera setup. While most scenes were shot with four cameras, the action sequences consisted of seven camera units. It was the first Indian action film to feature no stunts. The action sequences were digitally shot. Asambhav was the first Indian film to be graded digitally on Luster. Film shooting was completed in September 2003. It was the first Indian movie to be shot in that location, in the longest filming schedule of any Indian film unit in Switzerland. Asambhav was digitised and no duplicates were used in its development.

Asambhav film trailer was launched in March 2004. The Music composer is Viju Shah and it was launched in Mumbai on 26 May 2004.

Asambhav Movie Music / Songs :

The music of Asambhav was recorded in 2003. This film music composer is Viju Shah. It was released by the Tips Music Films label on 26 May 2004. The lyricist is Sameer and Remo D’Souza was the choreographer of the music sequences. The music album was released on 26 May 2004.

The music album consisted of eleven tracks including five songs, five instrumental versions and a special ‘Asambhav Theme’. The director Rajiv Rai and the supporting actor Naseeruddin Shah also sang in the movie. They performed the song ‘Raatein Badi Hain’.
Aira of SmasHits wrote “Music of ‘Asambhav’ is only mediocre. If heard in isolation the music lovers will probably be interested in the techno bit of the entire album.”

The music received mixed to negative reviews. Shahid Khan of Planet Bollywood rated it 7 out of 10 stars. He wrote “Viju Shah´s “Asambhav” might not exactly win the award for the best soundtrack of the year but there are some pretty darn good tunes here.”
Runaq Kotecha of Glamsham wrote “The music of Asambhav once again confirms that Viju Shah is certainly one of the best composers that we have when it comes to delivering expeditious racy tracks with ultra modern electronic beats. However, in the midst of all the upbeat technology and heavy duty musical instruments, the tunes seem to be taking a back seat.”

• “Raatein Badi Hain” – Hema Sardesai, Naseeruddin Shah, Rajiv Rai & Nayan Rathod
• “Teri Dekh Dekh Ladkaiyan” – Udit Narayan & Kavita Krishnamurthy
• “Mashuqa Rubi” – Anuradha Sriram
• “Main Sada Hoon” – KK
• “Koi Aayega” – Sunidhi Chauhan
• “Asambhav Theme” – (Instrumental)
• “Raatein Badi Hain” – (Instrumental)
• “Teri Dekh Dekh Ladkaiyan” – (Instrumental)
• “Mashuqa Rubi” – (Instrumental)
• “Main Sada Hoon” – (Instrumental)
• “Koi Aayega” – (Instrumental)

”Teri Dekh Dekh Ladkaiyan” Full Video Song :

• Singer(s): Udit Narayan & Kavita Subramaniam
• Music Director: Viju Shah
• Lyrics Writer: Sameer

“Raatein Badi Hain” Full Video Song :

• Singer(s): Hema Sardesai, Naseeruddin Shah, Rajiv Rai & Nayan Rathod
• Music Director: Viju Shah
• Lyrics Writer: Sameer

Asambhav Movie Review :

Asambhav received mixed reviews from critics upon release.

Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave a rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars and gave positive reviews. He wrote “On the whole, ASAMBHAV is a medium film in all respects. At the box-office, its chances of hit movie asambhav”

Nitika Desai of Apun Ka Choice gave a rating of 3 out of 5 stars. She wrote “‘Asambhav’ is a film that sticks to the beaten and worn-out Bollywood stereotypes. Over-dramatic dialogues, deliberately forced songs and inflated action sequences make it quite a predictable and stodgy fare.”

Subhash K. Jha of IANS wrote “Asambhav is arguably the only mainstream film ever with no mother-figure on the hectic horizon. But absence of melodrama cannot in itself be a virtue unless it is compounded by a moist quality in the overall design of storytelling.”

Pankaj Shukla of SmasHits praised the movie but criticised the casting. He wrote “The film in totality is not boring. It not only entertains but also makes value for the money, as the labor done by the director is quite visible on the screen. It is only the casting of the film that has gone haywire.”

This film review are Mostly Positive from Critics, IMDB Public Reviewing site give 3.4 Star Out Of 10 Star with Reviewers are 557.

Asambhav Movie Box Office Collection :

Making of the film is on a very high budget, Asambhav became an average grosser at the box office. It collected 80,632,076 rupees in the first 3 days from all over the country. The earning in the following week was it 100,507,694 rs. in the second week and rs. 220,731,569 in the third week.

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