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Starring:
Sikander Kher, Gul Panag, Ashutosh Rana, Sachin Khedekar,
Divya Dutta, Uvika Chaudhary, Arjan Bajwa, Alekh Sangal,
Vikram Gokhale, Prashant Narayanan, Shweta Menon
Director: Suhail Tatari
Summer 2007 is a hard-hitting film based on a pertinent
issue; it has a touch of humanity and a noble story. It
is the story of five medical students who experience a
rude awakening of sorts when they visit a village in
rural Maharashtra. The film opens with a peasant putting
himself on fire - depicting the Vidarbha farmers' mass
suicide.
Rahul Sharma (Sikander Kher), Vishakha (Gul Panag),
Qateel (Arjan Bajwa), Bagani (Alekh Sangal) and Priyanka
(Yuvika Chowdhary) are indifferent to the world around
them, and remain absorbed in their lives. They lived a
fun-filled, carefree city life with ‘who cares’
attitude, are now forced to look within and do some
serious soul searching when they see the appalling
conditions in which the villagers live. It’s a bleak
place with no medical facilities, where hapless and
hopeless farmers commit suicide in the face of
government’s apathy and moneylender’s greed.
In such a
scenario, the five friends are faced with the tough
option – to return to their comfortable lives or to do
something for the villagers. But given the rural
politics and the influence of those who are opposed to
change, the going would certainly not be easy for the
five.
Sikander Kher comes up with a restrained yet impressive
performance as a man undergoing inner transformation.
Gul Panag the under rated actor is brilliant, Yuvika is
fresh and glamorous. Arjan Bawja and Alekh Sanghal play
their parts well. Sachin Khedekar does well. Ashutosh
Rana manages to impress yet again. The rest of the cast
is good.
CAST AND CREDITS
Cast
Rahul - Sikander Kher
Priyanka - Uvika Chaudhary
Qateel - Arjan Bajwa
Vishakha - Gul Kirat Panag
Bagani - Alekh Sangal
Sachin Khedekar
Ashutosh Rana
Vikram Gokhale
Prashant Narayanan
Shweta Menon
Neetu Chandra - Special Appearance
Divya Dutta
Banner: Atul
Productions, Adlabs Films Ltd
Producer - Atul Pandey
Director - Suhail Tatari
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The five students who have packed their bags, head to a
village for their rural internship. For them, this is
really a vacation. And then, reality strikes.
As soon as they reach the rural service centre, an entire
family of farmers poison themselves. Rahul and his friends
cannot believe what goes on in the villages. They try to
escape to Goa, but instead, they're dragged further and
further into the farmers' tragedies.
Except for a song picturised
on Sikandar and Yuvika, there aren't many songs in the
film. But the music is pleasant and in sync with the film.
Summer 2007 is worth a watch
for its hard hitting theme. It has a Rang De Basanti kind
of theme and feel. The debutant director Suhain Tatari
skillfully portrays the plight of villagers on one side
and tries to treat the audience with developing romance
between the two lead characters. Overall it is a bit slow
in the second half and has nothing impressive in the
climax.
- Amar Jeet
Crew Members
Producer - Atul Pandey
Director - Suhail Tatari
Written by - Bijesh Jayarajan
Screenplay - Ritesh Shah, Bijesh Jayarajan
Music Director - Gourov Dasgupta
Cinematography - Attar Singh Saini
Film Editing - Bobby Bose
Lyrics - Vibha Singh, Ujjaini, Gourov Dasgupta
Choreographer - Ravi Botalje
Action: Javed Eijaz
Art: Chokas Bharadwaj
Dialogues: Ritesh Shah
Costumes: Lovleen Bains
Cassettes and CD's on Big Music
Singers – Ujjaini, Sharib, Toshi, Aanchal, Bonnie
Chakraborty, Gourov Dasgupta, Sunidhi Chauhan, Shweta
Vijay
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