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Starring:
Sushant Singh, Rajat Kapoor, Kartikadevi Rane, Mandeep,
Chandrachood Karnik, Vrajesh Hirjee, Dibyendu
Bhattacharya, Dinesh Thakkerr, Balaji Deshpande, Sushil
Parashar
Directed by Jaideep Varma
This energetic bittersweet comedy (more accurately
perhaps - drama with a sense of humour) turns a
contemporary eye on something that is taken too much for
granted in Indian cities, especially Mumbai – private
space. It’s about the clash between a stockbroker who is
not allowed to sleep at night and a small-time trader
who won’t let him (as the secretary of the building
society they live in). This seemingly trivial, even
laughable, problem eventually snowballs into disasters
for both of them and their families, while unspooling
the attitudes of people around them.
Raj and Abha, a couple in their early-thirties, move
into their new 2-bedroom flat in a Mumbai suburb. They
are both very happy as only new home-owners can be in
Mumbai. Since the flat is in a residential complex away
from the bustle of the city and the main road, they both
expect peace and quiet.
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Raj appeals to Janardhan the next day, but meets a brick
wall. Janardhan refuses to stop the whistling as
according to him the safety of the community is much
more important than the comfort of one individual. A
society meeting is called and the whistling is replaced
by the banging of the stick. But this is still loud
enough to disturb Raj, so his problem continues.
Janardhan is
a small time businessman and his nagging wife constantly
reminds him of his failure to make it big and life
passing them by. On being appointed secretary of the
society, Janardhan overcompensates for his mid-life
crisis by overzealously passing orders.
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Raj (Sushant Singh) is an
aggressive sub-broker in a prosperous broking firm where
he is considered a star. Abha (Kartikadevi Rane) is a
marketing professional who is doing well in her job. They
have no children. Their promising careers now seem to be
nicely complemented by domestic stability.
However, every night Raj is disturbed by strange screechy
noises. They wake him several times in the nights (Abha is
undisturbed though). Finally one night, Raj discovers that
it is the nightwatchman blowing the whistle periodically
to scare thieves away. The nightwatchman – Matthew, refers
Raj to Janardhan (Rajat Kapoor), the new secretary of the
building society, who has passed these orders to enhance
security.
The tussle between Raj and
Janardhan takes on serious proportions and significantly
alters both their lives. The nightly disturbances lead to
a domino effect which completely destroys Raj’s judgement,
composure, professional and personal life. His bid to
salvage the situation and get his own back at Janardhan
lead to a sequence of events involving Raj, Janardhan and
the nightwatchman Matthew which eventually end with their
lives get extraordinarily realigned at the end despite the
innocuous beginnings.
Sushant Singh and Rajat Kapoor
play parts so convincingly that they naturally appear as
the society members. The sweet looking Kartikadevi Rane is
competent. Mandeep Mazumdar, Vrajesh Hirjee and Darshan
Jariwala are just natural. But the credit goes to the
actor (Chandrachood Karnik) enacting the role of the
security guard.
Debutante director Jaideep Varma comes up with a story you
can identify with, especially by those living in Mumbai.
Originality in the subject matter, and its execution makes
Hulla an above average comedy drama, which makes you break
into uncontrollable laughter at times.
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Aniz Filmvala
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CREDITS -
Writer-Director - Jaideep
Varma
Producer - Sunil Doshi
Executive Producer - Cartwheel Features
Music - Indian Ocean
Cinematography - Paramvir Singh
Sound Design - Vivek
Editor - Nimish Gaur
Art Director - Alok Haldar
Associate Director - Nimish Gaur
Assistant Directors - Sumit Kilam, Shriya Ghate, Ruchi
Srivastav, Swapnil Gandhi
Assistant Editor - Khushboo Raj
Asst. Cinematographer - Dhiren Shukla
Location Sound - Santosh Kumar
Recording Studio (Background Music) - Kshitij studios,
New Delhi
Sound Engineer - Akash Gupta
Sound Design Studio - Hash Tone Sound, Mumbai
Make-up - Arif Sheik
Production - Gurudas Pai, Hanumanta Yalka
Casting - Joginder Singh |
Cast -
Raj - Sushant Singh
Janardhan - Rajat Kapoor
Abha - Kartikadevi Rane
Kamini - Mandeep
Mathew - Chandrachood Karnik
Dev - Vrajesh Hirjee
Gonsalves - Dibyendu Bhattacharya
Khadilkar - Dinesh Thakkerr
Kulkarni - Balaji Deshpande
Chaddha - Sushil Parashar
Nasser Abdullah
Datta Sonawane
Jayant Gadekar
Raja Hudda
Sonamuni Jayant
Vaibhav Mathur
Aanshika Srivastava
Smita Oak
Anil Bhagwat
Bhagyashree Desai
Shailesh
Special Appearance: Darshan Jariwala, Ravi Jhankal
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