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Starring: Salman Khan,
Ajay Devgan, Asin Thottumkal, Rannvijay Singh, Aditya
Roy Kapoor, Om Puri, Manoj Pahwa, Brinda Parekh
Director - Vipul Amrutlal Shah
They were childhood friends
with little in common except for the musical background
of their respective families. While Arjun was consumed
by a passionate drive to get on stage and realize his
grandfather's unfulfilled dream, Mannu had little
interest in his music tutor father's instruments and was
content with remaining a child at heart with no higher
ambition than enjoying the good things in life.
But little did they know as they grew up that someday it
would be music that will bring them together - and drive
them apart.
Arjun (Ajay Devgan) is an intense and darkly brooding.
He is a complex man burdened by guilt, jealousy and the
belief that God has abandoned him. But he's also deeply
committed to making the dream that has haunted him since
childhood into reality. Such is his obsessive compulsion
to fulfill his dream that he won't hesitate to
manipulate and destroy the one human being who has
implicit and total faith in him - his childhood friend
Then Arjun does what good friends do - brings Mannu to
London to become a part of London Dreams - and soon
regrets it.
Overnight, the irreverent
Mannu, with his inherent musical gift, effortlessly
achieves the adulation and glory that had taken diligent
Arjun years of struggle and sacrifice.
But when Arjun loses Priya also, the girl he secretly
loved, to Mannu, he battles his inner demons to devise a
sinister strategy to destroy his best friend. As the
band goes on a three-city tour of Paris, Rome and
Amsterdam, Arjun meticulously sabotages Mannu's career
and love life...
Finally, at Wembley, one of Europe's largest stadiums,
where he hopes to have his moment of glory, a rude shock
awakens Arjun - at the expense of his band, his
friendship and his credibility - a humbling experience
that teaches him the true meaning of acceptance in life.
Cast:
Asin Thottumkal - Priya
Ajay Devgan - Arjun
Salman Khan - Mannu
Rannvijay Singh- Zoheb
Aditya Roy Kapoor - Wasim
Brinda Parekh
Om Puri
Khalid Azmi
Manoj Pahwa
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His childhood friend Mannu (Salman Khan) is loud and
boisterous. He is the loveable rogue who chases women,
drinks heartily and is heavily into debt. He is an
absolute devil, who happens to sing like an angel. His
only redeeming feature is his absolute belief in his
friendship with Arjun.
While Arjun ends up in London and works his way up from
the streets to forge a band - London Dreams - with Zoheb (Rannvijay
Singh) and Wasim (Aditya Roy Kapoor),. two Pakistani
brothers, and Priya (Asin), a music enthusiast from a
conservative South Indian family. When Priya meets Arjun,
she's impressed by his intensity and love for music.
Zoheb is blindly loyal to
Arjun and only sees the world through the prism of Arjun's
eyes - and so Arjun's joy is his joy. Arjun's pain is his
pain and Arjun's perceived enemy, he makes his own too.
Wasim may be Zoheb's brother. He may be as loyal to Arjun.
But he isn't as blind and retained the capacity to tell
right from wrong... good from bad....
Far away in Punjab, music becomes just a mere survival
tool for Mannu, who takes to playing at weddings in the
village.
Ajay Devgan pulls out a well-balanced performance. Salman
Khan though well cast overacts a bit in many scenes,
notably the scene in a success party where he appears in a
towel. That is unrealistic by all counts. Asin is just
okay. It is fine to see Rannvijay Singh and the
curly-haired newcomer Aditya Roy Kapoor who have an
interesting presence.
Director Vipul Shah magnificently etches out the
protagonist’s character right from his childhood, through
the time after he runs away from his uncle on landing in
the UK. The film brilliantly depicts the burning desire in
him to achieve his goal yet he is the man with a golden
heart who would do anything for his friend. Arjun even
sacrifices his desire of professing his love for Priya as
he feels it could divert him away from his dream.
- PAW
Credits & Crew:
Presented by Block Buster Movie Entertainers
Producer - Headstart Films UK Ltd
Director - Vipul Amrutlal Shah
Head of Productions - Sanjay Bali
Executive Producer - Aashin A. Shah
Story & Screenplay - Suresh Nair
Dialogues - Ritesh Shah
Cinematography - Sejal Shah
Music Directors - Shankar, Ehsaan, Loy
Background Score – Salim Suleiman
Lyrics - Prasoon Joshi
Editor - Amitabh Shukla
Production Designer - Nitish Roy, Andrew Munro (UK)
Choreographers - Remo, Chinni Prakash - Rekha Prakash,
Bosco-Ceaser. Rajeev Surti
Re-recording - Future Works Media Ltd (Hitendra Ghosh)
Sound Designer - Parikshit Lalwani, Kunal Mehta
CA, Financial Advisor - Ashok Kumar Mehra & Co
Publicity Designs - Himanshu and Rahul Nanda
PRO - Spice
Costume Designers- Ashley Rebello, Alvira Agnihotri Khan,
Anna Singh, Archie
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