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Starring: Sikander Kher, Neha Uberoi, Arbaaz Khan,
Shakti Kapoor, Sachin Khedekar, Dayashankar Pandey
Direction: Hansal Mehta
In the
tradition of film noir that is guaranteed to shock,
thrill and surprise. Woodstock Villa is a compelling
film from the national award winning director Hansal
Mehta, about swiftly changing moralities in today's
world.
After a successful businessman's stunning wife
disappears, hostile & taunting ransom demands follow. As
the true nature of stakes for the captor and his
captives unfold, Woodstock Villa lithely transforms from
a precision neo noir into a chilling & shocking thriller
& ultimately into a vivid, invigorating icy masterpiece
of murder, mystery and suspense.
About Zara (Neha
Oberoi), beautiful, seductive would also be an
understatement. Expressive, enigmatic, charming and
extremely beckoning. Full of abandon and totally wild
when on her own. Changing personalities to fulfill her
needs was as simple as changing clothes for her.
Planning her own abduction to test her husband's love
was obviously something that only Zara could plan. Her
huaband Jatin Kampani (Arbaaz Khan) is a rich, suave and
elegant businessman and a man of few words.
Zara
surprises Samir and drops at his door with a
proposition. She wants him to kidnap her and ask her
husband for ransom, all because she needs to know if her
husband loves her more or his money. Luring him with
cash bundles, the guy agrees. She gets kidnapped, then a
phone call to her husband Jatin Kampani. But then the
things go wrong. The kidnapped girl is found dead.
CREDITS
Cast:
Sikander Kher - Samir
Neha Uberoi - Zara
Arbaaz Khan - Jatin Kampani
Boman Irani
Anupama Verma, Gulshan Grover, Gaurav Gera, Shakti
Kapoor, Sachin Khedekar
Special Appearance - Saif Ali Khan, Sanjay Dutt
Banner - White Feather Films
Producers - Sanjay Gupta, Shobha Kapoor, Ekta Kapoor
Director - Hansal Mehta
Music - Anu Malik, Aryans, Shibani Kashyap
Writer - Rajiv Gopalakrishnan, S. Farhan
Lyrics - Aryans, Manoj Muntashir, Virag Mishra
Associate Producers - Dharam Oberoi, Hanif Chunawala
Executive Producers - Gary Van Shipley, Arjun Bagga,
Dipti Jindal
Dialogue Writer - Milap Zaveri
Screenplay - Rajiv Gopalakrishnan, Sanjay Gupta, S.
Farhan
Editor - Bunty Nagi
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Samir (Sikander Kher) is a
young, upwardly-mobile, Punjabi, professional who is
sacked from his job. He is street-smart with a disarming
manner, cunning in an innocent way, a handsome fellow who
believes in living and loving dangerously. Being without a
job, he also owes money to a local don played by Gulshan
Grover. His favourite pastime - sleeps with his ex boss's
wife, played by Anupama Verma and other girls .. so
generally having a good time in life. He charms Zara at a
nightclub and the two get talking and then she drops him
home.
He is broke, landlord
pestering him for rent, the local don is out for his blood
as he owes him money and here he has no means to repay
them.
He lands up in depression which leads him to take up a job
in Bangalore and move out of Mumbai. However, at the
airport he catches sight of his mysterious girl grooving
to a music video on television. He realizes that he has
been used, changes his plans and decides to get to the
bottom of this.
Sikander is very impressive, Neha is just okay. Arbaaz
Khan, Shakti Kapoor, Gulshan Grover have little to emote,
since the star of this film is editing which is brilliant
almost throughout, yet at times unpleasant.
Neither pleading eyes nor bound wrists, nor a shallow
grave are what they seem as a moment of relief is suddenly
transformed into a web of deceit and a moment of truth is
followed by a sudden web of lies.
Unsettling, thrilling, hallucinatory, suspenseful &
erotic, Woodstock Villa is contemporary entertainment that
breaks new ground with every twist.
- Amar Jeet
Cinematographer - Mahesh Aney,
Vikas Nowlakha
Art Director - Wasiq Khan
Production Designers - Wasiq Khan, Sunil Nagvekar
Action Director - Ravi Dewan
Costume Designers - Sanjeev Mulchandani, Naveen Shetty,
Rahul Goel, Violet Monis
Sound Designers - Resul Pookutty, Anuj Mathur
Background Sound - Amar Mohile
Choreographers - Ahmed Khan, Rajiv Surti
Playback Singer - Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Aanchal Datta
Bhatia, Shaan, Aryans, Mika Singh, Shibani Kashyap
First assistant director - Siddhartha Luther
Third Assistant Director - Prosit Roy
Sound Department - Nimish Chheda, Jayesh Dhakan, Baylon
Fonseca
Camera and Electrical Department - Nusrat Jafri
Manager - Publicity & Promos – Gautam Kohli
Publicity Designer - Epigram |
