Refugee (2000-movie): Bollywood Hindi Film

Refugee Bollywood Film Detail

Refugee is a 2000 Bollywood Indian film writter and directer by J. P. Dutta. It marked the debuts of Abhishek Bachchan, son of popular actor Amitabh Bachchan, and Kareena Kapoor, the younger sister of actress Karisma Kapoor. The film also starred Jackie Shroff, Sunil Shetty and Anupam Kher.

Refugee performed moderately well at the box office and was the fifth highest-grossing film of that year.It is the story of an unnamed Indian Muslim, who helps illegal refugees from India and Pakistan cross the border through the Great Rann of Kutch. The film is attributed to have been inspired by the short story “Love Across the Salt Desert” by Keki N. Daruwalla.

• Directer : J. P. Dutta
• Producer : J. P. Dutta
• Writter : J. P. Dutta
• Starring : Abhishek Bachchan,Kareena Kapoor,Jackie Shroff ,Sunil Shetty
• Music : Anu Malik
• Cinematography : Basheer Ali
• Edited : Deepak Y. Wirkud,Vilas Ranade
• Distributed : HR Enterprises
• Costume Design : Bindiya Goswami
• Production Management : Issa Khan Ejaaz
• Assistant Director : Jass Khera,Rajesh Latkar
• Sound Department : Hitendra Ghosh,Prakash Gupta
• Stunts : James Barla,Bhiku Verma,Kishore Verma
• Genres : Drama,Musical,Romance
• Release date : 21 June 2000
• Running time : 210 minutes
• Country : India
• Language : Hindi

Refugee Movie Star Cast

• Sunil Shetty as Mohammad Ashraf
• Abhishek Bachchan as Refugee Ahmed/Refugee
• Kareena Kapoor as Nazneen “Naaz” M. Ahmed
• Jackie Shroff as Raghuvir Singh
• Sudesh Berry as Gul Hamid
• Anupam Kher as Jaan Mohammad
• Kulbhushan Kharbanda as Manzur Ahmad
• Shadaab Khan as Shadab J. Mohammad
• Reena Roy as Amina J. Mohammad
• Mukesh Tiwari as Tausif
• Ashish Vidyarthi as Makkad
• Avtar Gill as Atta Mohammad
• Vishwajeet Pradhan as BSF Officer
• Puneet Issar as Sikh Priest
• Geetawali Rajkumari as Salma-Naaz’s little sister
• Nimai Bali as Jaffar Gul Hamid’s henchmen

Refugee Movie Story

Bihar-based Manzur Ahmed, his wife, his mother, and his daughter, decide to re-locate to East Pakistan after the partitioning of Hindustan during 1948, following the tussle between Sheikh Mujib Rehman and Pakistan’s General Bhutto, which led to the formation of Bangladesh, where Manzur and several other Muslims were forced to re-locate to Pakistan.

In order to do this, they cross two borders, one with India and Bangladesh, and the second with India and Pakistan. The route from Bangladesh leads from Dhaka then to Guwahati then to Delhi then to Ajmer then to Bhuj, and then on to Pakistan’s Haji Peer. They get as far as Bhuj, but afterward they are assisted by Jaan Mohammad’s son, known only as Refugee, who helps them trek their way across the Rann desert to Atta Mohammad’s house in Pakistan.

Refugee considers his clients as mere items of luggage and refuses to be emotionally involved with them. Then he meets Nazneen and he forgets this rule, and they soon both fall in love with each …

Production

Bipasha Basu was convinced by another judge, Jaya Bachchan, to play the role of a village belle opposite her son Abhishek Bachchan in J. P. Dutta’s Aakhari Mughal. The film was cancelled, and Dutta changed the script and made Refugee with Kareena Kapoor.[3] Basu was offered a role in Refugee opposite Sunil Shetty, which she declined.[4] Tabu was signed to play a Doctor but her role eventually got scrapped.J.P. Dutta initially wanted Akshaye Khanna to play Shadab Khan’s role but decided against it as the role was very small.

Film Shooting

The crew having traveled from Mumbai was based at the city of Bhuj and majority of the shooting took place around in the Kutch District of the Indian state of Gujarat including the Great Rann of Kutch (also on BSF controlled “snow white” Rann within), villages and Border Security Force (BSF) posts in Banni grasslands and the Rann, tera fort village, Lakhpat fort village, tera fort village, a village in southern Kutch, some ancient temples of Kutch, and with parts and a song filmed on set in Mumbai’s Kamalistan Studios.

Refugee Movie Songs / Music

The music of this movie is composed by Anu Malik. Refugee’s music received two National Film Awards: one for Best Music Direction and the other for Best Lyrics (for the song “Panchi Nadiya”).

• “Aisa Lagta Hai”- Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik
• “Jise Tu Na Mila”- Sukhwinder Singh, Shankar Mahadevan
• “Mere Humsafar”- Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik
• “Panchi Nadiya Pawan Ke”- Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik, Abhishek Bachchan, Kareena Kapoor
• “Raat Ki Hatheli Par” – Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik, Abhishek Bachchan, Kareena Kapoor
• “Taal Pe Jab”- Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik

Taran Adarsh gave the album 4.5 out of 5 stars and praised the songs by saying “The music touches the heart of every listener. Every moment you feel like a heavenly moment.” According to the Indian trade website Box Office India, around 35,00,000 albums were sold.

Film Awards

• 48th National Film Awards
• Best Music Direction – Anu Malik
• Best Lyrics – Javed Akhtar for “Panchhi Nadiya”

Filmfare Awards

The awards it won are highlighted in bold.

• Best Supporting Actor – Sunil Shetty
• Best Female Debut – Kareena Kapoor
• Best Lyricist – Javed Akhtar for “Panchhi Nadiya”
• Filmfare Special Award – Anu Malik for “his compositions for the film Refugee”
• Best Male Playback – Sonu Nigam for “Panchhi Nadiya”
• Best Female Playback – Alka Yagnik for “Panchhi Nadiya”
• Best Dialogue – O.P. Dutta
• Best Cinematography – Bashir Ali

Refugee Movie Review

After the success of Border (1997), J.P. Dutta came before the Indian audience with Refugee (2000) whose lead pair at that time was known as AB’s baby (the offspring of Amitabh Bachchan) and Lolo’s sis (the sister of Karisma Kapoor). J.P. Dutta had planned to launch Amitabh Bachchan’s son, Abhishek through a movie – Aakhiri Mughal but due to certain reasons, he had to shelve that project for good and instead he introduced him alongwith Kareena Kapoor, the high-profile daughter of Randhir Kapoor and Babita and the younger sister of the top heroine (those days), Karisma Kapoor.

This film review are Mostly Positive from Critics, IMDB Public Reviewing site give 5.4 Star Out Of 10 Star with Reviewers are 1793.

Critics Rating by Customer, from Amazon give 3.4 star out of 5 Star.

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