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Starring: Sarita Joshi,
Vinay Pathak, Rajat Kapoor, Saraubh Shukla, Neha Dhupia,
Joy Fernandes, Gaurav Gera, Brijendra Kala, Purbi Joshi,
Ranvir Shorey, Svetlana
Director: Shashant Shah
Dasvidaniya is a superb story about the realization
through the eyes of a dying man. It is a bittersweet
comedy about Amar Kaul who is diagnosed with cancer and
how he spends the last three months of his life. The
film flows through to your heart effortlessly which
leaves you with a lump in the throat at times or
giggling away at the jokes it throws at you.
This film will also make
you identify and even fall in love with the simpleton 'loser'.
Amar is symbolic of all
those people who have always wanted to do things but
kept on hold. Faced with the prospect of dying without
having truly enjoyed life and egged on by his flamboyant
alter ego, he makes a list of “Things to do” and he sets
out to do them.
He quits his job, plucking
up audacity to settle a score with his hateful boss and
embarks in pursuit of his dreams. He buys a shiny red
car, goes on a foreign trip, confesses his love to a
childhood crush, has guitar lessons and reuniting with
an estranged brother.
Crew and Credits:
Production: One More Thought & Lemontea Production
Producer: Azam Khan, Vinay Pathak
Co-producer: Guneet Monga, Sikhya Entertainment
Director: Shashant Shah
Director of Photography: Arun Varma
Story, Screenplay & Dialogues: Arshad Sayed
Editor: Aseem Sinha
Lyrics: Kailash Kher
Music & Background: Kailash, Paresh, Naresh
Sound Designers: Shajith Koyeri & Satheesh P.M.
Production Designer: Rakesh Morchale
Art Director: Brij Bhushan
Location Sound Recordist: Kamod Kharade
Costumes: Anuja Joshi & Priyadarshini Mujumdar
Make Up & Hair: Arun Gire
Production Manager: Gaurav Mishra
Chief Assistant Director: Navin Gujral
Assistant Director: Masoom Gandhi
Publicity Design Team: Venkatesh Kalluri, Milind Matkar,
Rameshwar Mhatre
Media Relations: Perception Managers & Ravi Prakash |
This film will also make
you identify and even fall in love with the simpleton
'loser'.
Shy and quiet Amar Kaul
lived a mundane run of the mill life - like millions of
others. Amar is a 37-year-old timid and lonely bachelor
living with his eccentric old mother (Sarita Joshi) who
has a hearing problem and is an addict to soap operas on
television. Amar’s existence was non-existent to people
around him.
And then one day a doctor
told him that he will die within 3 months. In a hurry
Amar Kaul rushed to make a list of things to do before
he dies... and in the course of doing them, he realized
that he has been dead all along until now except for
these 3 months before he is going to die.
The best scene of the movie
is when Amar confesses his love to Neha (Neha Dhupia)
skillfully in a silent way standing in the rain. It is
definitely the career best performance from Vinay Pathak.
Debutant director Shashant
Shah manages to extract extraordinary performances from
a superb bunch of actors. The entire cast and crew have
done an outstanding job. Vinay Pathak deserves a special
mention for his soulful and heart wrenching performance
in this superb film. There is also magnificent music and
a nice song by Kailash Kher. Ranvir Shorey is notable in
his cameo as a habitual tippler who bumps into Kaul at a
bar.
After seeing the film one is
reminded that anyone may have to face it one day sooner
or later. And one should start making your "Things To Do
Before You Die" list - as you never know what will be
there when you wake up next morning.
- PAW
Cast:
Amar Kaul - Vinay Pathak
Maa - Sarita Joshi
Rajiv - Rajat Kapoor
Boss Dasgupta - Saraubh Shukla
Neha - Neha Dhupia
Savio - Joy Fernandes
Vivek - Gaurav Gera
Shiraz - Brijendra Kala
Suchi - Suchitra Pillai - Malik
Garima - Purbi Joshi
Jagtap - Ranvir Shorey
Tatanya - Svetlana
Chandan Bisht
Suresh Menon
Sonia Rakkar
Shurobi Menon
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