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Starring: Neetu
Chandra, Tanushree Dutta, Rohit Roy, Anupam Kher,
Mushtaq Khan
Director - Jag Mundhra
Apartment was earlier titled
'Roommates', is inspired by the Hollywood film ‘Single
White Female’ starring Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason
Leigh.
Preeti Sengupta (Tanushree Dutta) is an airhostess who
is scouting for a place to live in Mumbai. She manages
to find an apartment (flat) and lives in living in with
her boyfriend Karan Malhotra (Rohit Roy). Their flat is
on the 8th floor of the multi storey building and they
have a single, elderly neighbour Anupam Kher, who is a
struggling poet and lyricist.
Neha is the adjusting, helping
type who addresses Preeti as ‘didi’ and even takes off the
burden of Preeti’s cooking. Their friendship leads them to
even become companions. Until things begin to go
tragically wrong.
Preeti’s happy-go-lucky lifestyle is soon thrown off gear,
as there is more to Neha who actually appears as simple as
she seems and she obsessively takes over Preeti’s personal
life.
Neetu Chandra cunningly uses every trick in the book to
make Tanushree's life miserable. She pulls up her
performance very well as the simpleton from a modest town
to the mod girl after Tanushree grooms her and how she
even eyes her landlord’s boyfriend. Anupam Kher's single
status and attachment to his pet cat is very touching.
Rohit Roy, like his brother Ronit Roy is a handsome actor
and its nice to see him come back after a long time.
Director Jag Mundhra comes up with a fairly taut thriller,
which is more so absorbing in the second half. He has
skillfully adapted the story decently well to suit Indian
sensibilities.
Cast
Rohit Roy - Karan Malhotra
Tanushree Datta - Preeti Sengupta
Neetu Chandra - Neha Bhardwaj
Anupam Kher - Madhusudan Tanha
Mushtaq Khan
Nassar Abdulla
Bobby Darling
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The drawback
of Preeti is that she is very possessive and has a
doubting nature. Once, when she mistakenly suspects Karan
to be unfaithful, she throws her boyfriend out of the
house. Karan contributed towards half of the monthly
payment for their apartment.
Now that Preeti cannot afford the payment of the flat on
her own, so on her friend’s advice, she advertises for a
tenant to share her apartment.
This is where Neha Bharadwaj (Neetu Chandra), comes into
her life. Neha is a humble small-town girl looking for a
shared accommodation. Preeti is very impressed by Neha’s
simplicity and respectfulness and believes she has found a
perfect paying guest / tenant.
In view of other films in the
halls, Apartment is a watchable thriller.
- Amarjeet
Credits & Crew:
Producer – Nari Hira
Executive Producer - Vikram Hira
Director - Jag Mundhra
Story - Jag Mundhra
Lyrics - Syed Gulrez
Music Director - Bappa Lahiri
Cinematography - Uday Tiwari
Dialogues – Syed Gulrez
Singers - Sunidhi Chauhan., Shaan
Art - Aparna Sud
Editor - Jag Mundhra
Screenplay - Jag Mundhra, Syed Gulrez
Sound - Anandar Chandrahasan
Costume - Rohit Chaturvedi
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