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Starring: Neil Nitin
Mukesh, Bipasha Basu, Rahul Dev, Sophie Choudhry, Bobby
Vats, Shrivas Naidu, Deepak Dhariwal, Tanapath
Si-Ngamrat, Sameer Siddiqui
Director: Jehangir Surti
Ray Acharya (Neil Nitin Mukesh), a struggling
photographer has nothing going for him... until he
inherits a very 'special' camera from his grandfather
which changes his life in a way that he could not have
ever imagined in his wildest dreams.
As they say, with great
power comes great responsibility and in Ray's case, also
great danger. He must now face up to the dark side of
reality and win not only against the evil forces, but
also against fate.
Can Ray change his date with fate?
CREDITS & CREW:
Banner - Eros Entertainment
Director - Jehangir Surti
Producer - Viki Rajani
Original Concept & Screenplay - Shantanu Ray Chhibber &
Sheershak Anand
Music - Pritam, Gourav Dasgupta
Cinematography - Jehangir Chaudhary
Lyrics - Sheershak Anand, Irshad Kamil, Syed Gulrez,
Prashant Pandey
Screenplay - Sheershak Anand, Shantanu Ray Chhibber
Story - Sheershak Anand, Shantanu Ray Chhibber
Executive Producer - B Chintu Mohapatra
Action Director - Shyam Kaushal
Post Production & VFX Studio - Future Works
Editor - Bunty Nagi
Choreographers- Ahmed Khan, Harshall-Vitthal
Art Direction - Pradeep Jha, Haseena Shaikh
Sound Design - Rakesh Ranjan
Line Producer - Rohan Bajaj
Singers - Neil Nitin Mukesh, Sunaina, Dibyendu Mukherji,
Shweta Vijay, Sunidhi Chauhan, Shaan, Akruti Kakkar
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The 'power' of the camera changes Ray's destiny
overnight. His life becomes one big roller coaster ride
that takes him from rags to riches and also helps him
meet the love of his life, Simi (Bipasha Basu) who is an
exciting sexy DJ with a mind of her own.
Ray doesn’t know that the
camera is special until he slowly realizes the pictures
he clicks today, develop in future tense. He just checks
the camera and clicks a new car parked in his compound.
When the photo is developed, it showed the car’s window
cracked, and indeed the next day, he witnesses a cricket
ball smashing the car’s glass.
In a second instance, Ray
clicks the picture of a child, and the photograph shows
the kid and his mother falling off a giant wheel. When
that happens exactly like in the photograph, Ray wonders
what else more he can do with his grandfather’s legacy.
Then he realizes how much money he can make after he
buys a lottery ticket, knowing the winning number. The
next step is putting money into horseracing; and he is
suddenly rolling in wealth. Now he buys a sprawling home
and a nice car..
Everything is hunky dory and moving towards 'happily
ever after'.
The film has an interesting
thought but the story telling (which is the screenplay)
lacks continuity and excitement. It has nice songs,
especially the title number Aa Dekhen Zara and the other
well choreographed and pasteurized song at a tacky pub in
Thailand.
Neil Nitin Mukesh, like in
his debut film Johnny Gaddaar, has less to emote, and is
required to carry a blank expression, which he does well.
Bipasha Basu is apt in her part as the DJ, while the hot
girl Sophie Choudhry is included only as the glamour
quotient. Rahul Dev is impressive, while the star of
yesteryears Biswajeet is there only for a very short time.
Aa Dekhen Zara is a fast-paced, romantic musical thriller
with some great edge of the seat action. The film starts
off with a lot of energy, but drags in the second half.
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Aniz Filmvala
Cast:
Ray Acharya - Neil Nitin Mukesh
Simi Chatterjee - Bipasha Basu
Captain - Rahul Dev
Sophia - Sophie Choudhry
Puri - Bobby Vats
Murli - Shrivas Naidu
Arora - Deepak Dhariwal
Dr Animesh Joshi (Nana) - Biswajeet Chatterjee
Baan - Tanapath Si-Ngamrat
Ramesh (Bookie) - Sameer Siddiqui
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