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Starring:
Yukta Mookhey, Vijay Raaz,
Govind Namdeo, Rajpal Yadav, Ehsaan Khan, Mohnish Behl
Directed by: Arshad Siddiqui
Memsahab is
based on the cruel incidents post the 1984 riots between
a section of Hindus and the Sikhs in Delhi and other
parts of North India.. Ensuing these riots, the Sikhs
were targeted by the hindu fundamentalists and several
Sikh families were ruined.
Yukta Mookhey plays the character of Anjali, who is a
victim of the riots and is pushed into prostitution.
This young girl Anjali’s mother is raped by the villains
and her father is shot dead. What an horrifying impact
would this have on the girl! This Anjali grows up with
such traumatic memories of her childhood.
More about
the protagonist in Memsahab, Yukta Mookhey was crowned
Miss World in 1999. However, she was not fortunate
enough like her predecessors Sushmita Sen (Miss
Universe) and Aishwarya Rai (Miss World). Even Juhi
Chawla once Miss India, Lara Dutta the Miss Universe
2000 have had success in Bollywood. Unfortunately, like
them she has not yet had a hit film in her Bollywood
career.
About the performances, Govind Namdeo as Kashinath plays
a negative role and the culprit of destroying the family
of Anjali in 1984 riots. Yukta, as she grows with fire
of taking revenge, Rufee Khan as her aficionado Rahul is
okay. Vijay Raaz and Rajpal Yadav do not impress much,
so does the direction.
In Memsahab, Yukta has to be lauded for staged a
comeback with a sincere effort. She has adorned a bold
new look in this flick. Yukta admits that getting into
the character of a prostitute was a bit tough and bold
too but she portrayed it with honesty. Her idol is
Shabana Azmi who played an award winning role of a
prostitute in ‘Mandi’
Memsahab is a woman-oriented movie with a social message
of non-violence.
- Shaami
M. Irfan
Yukta Mukhey at the launch
party of the film
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The director seeks to portray reality by actually shooting
in a few bye lanes of Kamathipura (a red light area in
Mumbai), where Anjali is one of the many women indulging
in flesh trade. Every night, this woman has a new ‘Sahab’.
Some unexpected incidents take place and she stumbles upon
the killers of her parents. She starts searching for them
and hunting them one by one. In the process where she
takes revenge on the killers of her dad, she realizes that
the violence wouldn't help her get back her victimized
parents. She then realizes that even after taking revenge
she still could not erase her traumatic memories of
childhood. Wisdom dawns on her and then she takes
startling decision in the end.
Yukta works hard to prove her acting skills. Contrastingly
in the first half, she is in 'lehenga-cholis' and battling
with street goondas. Post mid-way, she gets into skinny
skirts and picks up a gun and goes after the bad guys.
Cast:
Anjali - Yukta Mookhey
Vijay Raaz
Kashinath - Govind Namdeo
Rahul - Rafique Khan
Rajpal Yadav
Lalji - Ehsaan Khan
Mohnish Behl
Nandu - Akshay Verma
Nilanjana Bhattacharya
Shoorveer Tyagi
Rajeeta Kochar
CREDITS
Banner - Kailash Entertainment
Producer - Kailash Shukla
Director - Arshad Siddiqui
Choreography
- Jay Borade
Action - Hanif Sheikh
Editor - Bibhuti Bhushan
Sound - Buta Singh
Story / Writer - Arshad Siddiqui
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