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Starring: Samir
Aftab, Gauri Karnik, Rituparna Sengupta, Reema Lagoo,
Vrijesh Hirjee
Director: Rahul Kapoor
A Muslim culture film based in the scenic settings
of Lucknow and Dubai.
It is a story of a a middle-class muslim family of three in Lucknow, where the
mother Najma (Reema Lagoo), is the sole earner and wishes to go for Hajj with
her self-earned money. There is an ailing husband Nadeem, who is restricted to
the wheelchair and she has a son Faraaz (Sameer Aftab) who works as a part
time guide waiting to get a proper job.
Faraaz is on his normal spree as a guide with a few school kids and with a
sweet gesture of his, he is noticed by a lady Sameera (Rituparna Sengupta),
who had just come to Lucknow from Dubai and wants him to show her around the
place. Faraaz spends the next few days with Sameera showing around the various
historic monuments of Lucknow.
The doctor explains that the kid had a Bipolar Disorder,
a psychiatric disorder normally found in children with
unnatural parental death. It begins with destructive
tantrums in the early ages and leads to suicidal
tendencies at a later stage.
Ahmed needs a normal father at this stage so that he can
be cured of this problem at a later in life so Faraaz
agrees to act as a foster father to Sameera’s son.
Faraaz tastes the best things life could offer, but here
in India his family and loved ones are going through a
bad patch in life. He gradually cuts off with his old
contacts and feels that the money he has sent to his
family is enough to fill up his loss to the family,
absolutely unaware that in the course of time, his
father succumbs to his ailments.
Credits & Crew:
Banner - Spark Films Entertainments
Producer - Subhan A. Aziz
Executive Producer - Kurnool Nasreen Jaffer
Director - Rahul Kapoor
Story Writer - Ali Hashmat Siddique
Lyricist - Manthan
Music Director - Onkar
Cinematography - Akash Deep
Choreography - Narendra Sharma, Habiba Rehman
Editors - Vilas Ranade, Deepak Wirkud
Costumes - Kavita Chotani
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She admires him all the more
after they have been together for so long. At the end of
her trip she gives him a job offer in Dubai, and to her
pleasant surprise, Faraaz agrees and she pays him a hefty
advance. Unknown to him is the background of the lady who
has offered the job and its complex nature.
Things are looking up for Faraaz and happiness flows from
all angles. This is the time where he comes across the
love of his life, Sanah, a teacher in the local school.
His parents are happy for both of them and agree to get
them engaged before he leaves for his job in Dubai.
Faraaz gets engaged to Sanah (Gauri Karnik) and prepares
to leave for Dubai. He has still kept the secrecy about
the job details and who has offered it.
Sameera welcomes him in Dubai
and to start with, takes him to a big hospital where he is
introduced to a 6 year old kid Ahmed, admitted in a
psychiatric ward. Sameera is a single parent, a very well
settled business woman, but a girl with a haunting past.
This kid is of destructive nature as he breaks the dolls
from the neck and hanging them on the noose.
Back in India, his mother
Najma is alone and struggling with life and has no one to
look up to. She gets deeper involved with her work alone
and hopes to carry on her religious pursuits and spend the
rest of her life in the name of the Almight Allah, post
her Hajj.
After his fathers demise, Faraaz comes back to his mother
and Sanah, hiding the life he spent in Dubai. Here Sameera
faces a tough time with Ahmed who is now all the more
aggressive and wants his father back in life. So she
decides to settle in Lucknow, unaware about Faraaz's
engagement, with the hope of sorting out matters with
Faraaz and get back happiness in her son's life. She
admits Ahmed in the best school - which happens to be the
place where Sanah teaches.
The ending has an unexpected climax. It is a beautiful
story of a middle class boy who goes wayward because of
his greed for money.
-
Amarjeet
Cast:
Reema Lagoo - Najma
Sameer Aftab - Faraaz
Gauri Karnik - Sanah
Rituparna Sengupta - Sameera
Anjana Mumtaz - Swaleha
Vrajesh Hirjee - Chulbul
S. M. Zaheer - Nadeem
Rajan Modi - Banarsi
Master Laeeque - Ahmed
Bharat Kapoor
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