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Directors: Abbas Mustan
Producers: Kumar S. Taurani, Ramesh S. Taurani
Music Director: Pritam
Lyrics: Sameer
Starring: Bobby Deol, Akshaye Khanna, Urvashi
Sharma, Vishal Malhotra, Vikas Kalantri, Raj Zutshi
Director duo Abbas-Mastan have have in the past given us
thrillers through movies like Baazigar, Ajnabee and
Humraaz. Naqaab - their latest offering matches
their previous thrillers and the best thing is that it's
just two hours long.
This just-engaged girl shares a tremendously intimate
song with the upstart, coming close enough to an actual
kiss, and just then the spell breaks. Vicky too belongs
to the girl's strata of the society. Positives come
close too, hence Sophie, inspite of being engaged to
Karan, starts falling for Vicky.
The girl Sophie has a past that seems to be threatening
her future. The guy - Vicky also has a past that can
jeopardize the girl's future. And the rich guy Karan,
too has a gruesome past that will.... if unleashed -
shatter all the three lives.
There's also a fourth element to the story, a mysterious
guy who seems to be monitoring these three characters.
CREDITS
Director of Photography:
Ravi Yadav
Story & Screenplay: Shiraz Ahmed
Dialogues: Anurag Prapanna, Jitendra Parmar
Executive Producer: Ishwar Advani
Action Directors: Kaushal - Moses
Choregrapher: Raju Khan
Sound Designer: Rakesh Ranjan
Art Director: Aashish Anant Ranade
Costume Stylist: Falguni Thakore
Background Score: Salim Sulaiman
Mixing Engineer: Arup Dev
Playback Singers:
Sonu Nigam, Alisha Chinai
Sunidhi Chauhan
Zubin Garg, Javed Ali, Krishna
Line Producers: Chandru Bakhtiani, Prakash Talreja,
Dilip Advani
Chief Assistant Directors:
Pramod A. Dubey, Mohammed S. Burmawala
Assitant Directors:
Rajesh Tripathi
Ashish Sharma
Chief Assistant Editor: M.P. Sawant
Saifuddin Bangdiwala
Media Manager: Mahek Bachani
Sr Manager Accounts: Haresh Sedhani
Production Controllers: Narendra Jani,
Sayyed Faizaan Hussain
Production Executives: Harish Pujari, Murli Shah, Varun
Lalwani
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The story is based on the scenic locales of Dubai.
A middle-class girl called Sophie (Urvashi Sharma) meets
Karan (Bobby Deol) belonging to the upper echelon of the
society.
Opposites attract, Sophie falls in love with Karan and
gets engaged to him.
While Sophie treats her friends post engagement in an
Egyptian restaurant, the brash, awfully dressed Vicky (Akshaye
Khanna) ends up dancing with her after being prompted by
an usher who harps about Egyptian traditions and they
dance to a Hindi song.
The film is neatly shot, progresses breezily with a fair
share of contrived contertwisting and ends with a climax
layered on and on...
NAQAAB belongs to Akshaye Khanna delivers a powerful
performance. He's impressive and the real scene stealer.
Bobby Deol is consigned to the backseat in the first hour,
but manages a good comeback in the second half. Urvashi
Sharma the newcomer gets a dream launch and she lights up
the screen.
Its definitely watch able for the twists and turns in the
story and of course for the pretty heroine.
- Aniz Filmvala
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