Cast: Abhay Deol, Soha Ali Khan, Shayan Munshi, Shakeel Khan, Kamini Khanna, Sohrab Ardeshir Director:Shivam Nair Producer:Anjum Rizvi, Tejpal A.Shah Music:Himesh Reshammiya Date Of Release: August 18th, 2006 Synopsis
The storyline is simple; the situations seem straight out of life and just when you thought that the film would charter the routine path, the twist in the story takes you by suprise. In this film Abhay Deol plays the character of Ankush, Soha Ali Khan plays the role of a character named Megha where loves Dheeraj which is played by Shayan Munshi. Ankush scrapes a living by acting as a witness in the marriage registrar's office in Delhi. Megha has run away from her home in Nainital to marry her love Dheeraj. But Dheeraj doesn't turn up at the appointed hour.
Ankush helps Megha get a job at an old age home so that she finds herself a place to be secured. As the time passes by, Megha realizes that there's more to life than her boyfriend. Simultaneously, Ankush realizes that the Rs. 10,000 loan he had taken for Megha's sake was sitting heavy on him. He ends up as a bank's representative who opens savings accounts at a commission. Ankush feels that he has changed because of Megha and her faith in him. A relationship of sorts develops between the two and Megha decides to leave her past and Dheeraj behind and embrace the future with Ankush. At this point, Dheeraj returns. He is persistent in his search for Megha. Ankush's new-found world crumbles. It gets so slow-paced that you actually start feeling restless after a point. Besides, there's no scope for songs in the narrative and the ones in the second hour look completely forced. In fact, a few songs can easily be deleted to make the goings-on crisper.
Performances:
Abhay Deol has performed well, he is completely natural. His boy-next door looks make the character more believable and more convincing. Soha Ali Khan catches your attention once again, she has performed very well and getting better with every film. Shayan Munshi is competent in small role. Shakeel Khan as Abhay’s friend has given good performance in this film. Sohrab Ardeshir is theatrical. Kamini Khanna is loud. Himesh Reshammiya's music is soft and easy on the ears, but the songs look like a forced infredent. Cinematography [Prakash Kutty] is superb. It's refreshing to watch Delhi on the big screen yet again after ‘Rang De Basanti’.
