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Starring:
Priyanka Chopra, Neil
Nitin Mukesh, John Abraham, Irrfan Khan, Aleksandr
Dyachenko, Annu Kapoor, Naseeruddin Shah, Vivaan Shah
and others
Directed by Vishal Bhardwaj
‘7 Khoon Maaf’, in English
means: Seven Murders Forgiven. It is a black comedy
thriller revolving around the life of a beautiful lady
played by Priyanka Chopra who goes on to kill all the
husbands in her life.
Based on Ruskin Bond's short story - Susanna's Seven
Husbands, the film features seven male actors with
Naseeruddin Shah who plays the oldest husband. Other
husbands of the lady are Neil Nitin Mukesh as the young
Army Major, John Abraham, Irrfan Khan, Annu Kapoor and
Russian actor Aleksandr Dyachenko.
The seventh husband is a mystery which keeps the viewer
glued till the end of the film.
Her first husband, Edwin Rodriques (Neil Nitin Mukesh), is an over possessive
and doubting army man. Incidentally the Army Major has a challenge fight with
Goonga where in a hunter-fight he mercilessly injures one eye of the poor
servant. Susanna kills him because she has more care for Goonga the trusted
servant rather than her over possessive and jealous husband.
She gets married to a guitarist Jamshed Rathod alias Jimmy (John Abraham) but
soon kills him too when she comes to know about his indulgence in drugs and
kinky sex with other girls. Then she marries Wasiullah Khan alias Musafir (Irrfan
Khan), an Urdu poet. The poet has weird ideas about love and sex and
eventually beats up Susanna brutally every night. Tired, Susanna kills him
too.
Her fourth husband is a Russian, Nikolai Vronsky (Alexsandr Dyachenko), who
hides the fact from her that he already has a wife and children in Russia.
Susanna feels cheated as this Russian won her heart by claiming he was a
one-woman man. He is then murdered.
Credits & Crew:
Produced by Ronnie Screwvala, Vishal Bhardwaj
Directed by Vishal Bhardwaj
Writing credits - Matthew Robbins and Vishal Bhardwaj
Based on a story by Ruskin Bond
Original Music & Background Score by Vishal Bhardwaj
Lyrics - Gulzar
Cinematography - Ranjan Palit
Film Editing - Sreekar Prasad
Casting by Honey Trehan
Sound Design - P.M. Satheesh, Sajith Koyeri
Sync Sound - Sanjay Kurian
Production Design - Samir Chanda
Action - Shyam Kaushal
Costume Design by Payal Saluja
Supervising Producer - Punam Sawhney
Line Producer - Sanjeev Kumar
Associate Director - Honey Trehan, Manish Hariprasad,
Vikas Mehta
Executive Producer - Ajay G. Rai
Creative Producer - Vikas Bhal
Playback Singers - Rekha Bhardwaj, Vishal Bhardwaj,
Clinton Cerejo, Francois, Suraj Jagan, Kay Kay, Usha Uthup,
Suresh Wadkar
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Susanna Anna-Marie Johannes, a beautiful lass, who over
the course of thirty-five odd years, gets married seven
times due to the untimely and mysterious deaths of half a
dozen of her hapless husbands.
Susanna Anne Marie Johannes (Priyanka Chopra) feels
betrayed in love after her marriage. She has hope and
attempts to finding true love by marrying several times,
seven times to be precise, and yet does not find what she
desires in life even after her seven marriages. Very
skillfully, she goes on killing each of her seven husbands
in her search for true love and marital bliss.
Born to a Christian father and a Hindu mom, Susanna alias
Saheb is a wealthy woman whose parents are no more. She
has a guardians in Maggie aunty (Usha Uthup), a caretaker
in Ghalib uncle (Harish Khanna) and a domestic help Goonga
(Shashi Malviya) who cannot speak.
It is now a high profile murder case as it involves a
foreign national. An intelligence officer is now on the
case. The smart Susanna uses her physical charms on the
intelligence officer Keemat Lal (Annu Kapoor) who by
twisting facts, saves her from landing in jail. Susanna
has to get married to Keemat Lal but even this marriage
doesn’t last as he becomes her fifth victim
The frustrated Susanna then marries Dr. Modhusudan
Tarafdar (Naseeruddin Shah) and even he is killed by her
when she comes to know about the doctor who himself was a
murderer.
After decimating the doctor husband, Susanna burns her
palatial house to show that she had committed suicide.
Convinced of her death, the police close the matter, but
Susanna is alive and will come across her seventh husband…
The strange circumstances of their deaths, makes Susanna a
prime suspect. Enigmatic and irresistibly charming in
equal measure - Suzanna is the kind of a woman any man
would die for! Literally !
The acting is top level from the veterans and even the new
Vivaan Shah. Priyanka Chopra is mesmerizing in all stages
of her life. The ‘Dar-r-r-r-ling’ song and the background
music are fine. There are some glitches in the screenplay
and in the latter half the pace is very slow.
- Aniz Filmvala
Cast:
Priyanka Chopra - Susanna Anna-Marie Johannes
Neil Nitin Mukesh - Major Edwin Rodriques
John Abraham - Jimmy Stetson / Jamshed Singh Rathore
Irrfan Khan - Wasiullah Khan
Aleksandr Dyachenko - Nicolai Vronsky
Annu Kapoor - Inspector Keemat Lal
Naseeruddin Shah - Dr. Modhusudhon 'Monu Da' Tarafdar
Vivaan Shah - Arun Kumar Singh
Usha Uthup - Maggie - Maid
Konkona Sen Sharma - Nalini A. Singh
Shashi Malviya - Goonga
Ruskin Bond in a Guest appearance
Harish Khanna |
