Gupt Film
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Sinha's stepson Sahil is an unattached young man, who resents Sinha for marrying his mother. Sinha's personal secretary Ishwar Dewan's daughter Isha is Sahil's girlfriend. They recently reunited after childhood as Isha was sent to boarding school.
Sinha announces Sahil's engagement to Meghnad's daughter Sheetal, leading to an argument between him and Sahil. In a fit of rage, Sahil tries to stab Sinha but is stopped by his mother, Sharda. Sahil gets heavily drunk at Dr. Gandhi's house, Sinha's family doctor. Gandhi advises Sahil to reconsider, saying that Sahil will lead a happier life with Sheetal. A tipsy Sahil returns home to find a stabbed Sinha. Before Sinha can reveal the name of his attacker, he dies. Sharda finds Sahil holding a knife and assumes him to be the killer. Sahil is arrested and taken to court, where many of his acquaintances and Sharda testify against him. Sahil is sentenced to fourteen years in prison. As Sahil is being taken to jail, he secretly hands over a necklace to Sheetal telling her that he found his stepfather holding it when he died.
Police Commissioner Patwardhan assigns police officer, Uddham Singh, to handle the case. Sahil secretly meets Isha at her home, where he calls Dr Gandhi for advice, and Dr Gandhi invites Sahil to his home. Sahil reaches the doctor's residence to find a stabbed Dr Gandhi. Dr Gandhi's servant reports Sahil to the police.
Now accused of two murders, Sahil suspects advocate Thanawala. He enters Thanawala's office and brutally interrogates him, throwing him out from the window of his office. Sahil similarly interrogates Choudhary and Vilas Rao but it leads to nothing. Sahil, Sheetal and Isha trick Mantriji into attending a ceremony and abduct him.
Uddham Singh is also present there and realises that Sahil is not the murderer. The murders were committed by two identical knives. Singh finds the same set of knives at Ishwar Dewan's house with two knives missing and arrests Dewan, who confesses. Sheetal tells Sahil that the murderer is Ishwar Dewan, and Sahil releases Mantriji. Isha, however, is shocked and tries to attack Sheetal, and later rushes to meet her father. Sahil, now free, returns home and reconciles with his mother and half-brother, Harsh.
Sahil gives the necklace to Harsh. Harsh opens the necklace and shows it to Sahil, who finds his and Isha's pictures inside. Sahil realises Isha is the killer. In the meantime, Isha enters Uddham Singh's house and stabs him multiple times.
Sahil interrogates Ishwar Dewan, who admits that Isha is the killer. He reveals that while Isha loves him immensely, she has had a massive anger management problem since her childhood, particularly when it comes to Sahil. As a child, she had killed Dr. Gandhi's dog after it bit Sahil, following which she was sent to a boarding school by Sinha and Dr. Gandhi to keep her away from Sahil. After Sahil's argument with his father, Dewan and Isha had gone to meet Sinha the following morning, to request him to unite Sahil and Isha, whereupon the latter rejected and humiliated them in a fit of anger, and asked them to leave. Isha was so enraged that she later stabbed Sinha to death. When Dr. Gandhi realised that she was the murderer, she killed him as well.
Sahil is shocked beyond words, but understands that Isha will try to attack Sheetal next and calls her. He rushes to her house but is attacked by Babu Anna, an assassin hired earlier by Mantriji to kill Sahil and Isha. Sahil is injured, but manages to incapacitate Babu Anna and reach the house.
Sheetal is fooled by Isha at first, because the latter falsely apologises for her misbehaviour. However, Isha suddenly attacks Sheetal. Sahil arrives on time to save her and pulls Isha off Sheetal, who rushes into Sahil's arms. An enraged Isha tries to stab Sheetal, but Babu Anna tries to intervene and is killed instead. An injured Uddham Singh arrives and fatally shoots Isha. In her final moments, Isha begs Sahil for forgiveness.
The music was composed by Viju Shah and the lyrics were written by Anand Bakshi. The title track of the film, "Gupt Gupt", samples the electronica track "Deep Forest" from the eponymous album by Deep Forest and the titular tracks from Mike Oldfield's seminal prog-rock orchestral debut Tubular Bells (revisited and sampled numerous times since). "Duniya Hasino Ka Mela" was sampled from "Matsuri" included in the new age album Kojiki by Japanese keyboardist Kitarō. The soundtrack was #87 on the list of "100 Greatest Bollywood Soundtracks of All Time", as compiled by Planet Bollywood
Shah's work on the soundtrack was well received. It won the Best Background Score and Shah was nominated for the Best Music Director, whereas Alka Yagnik was also nominated for the Best Female Playback Singer for "Mere Khwabon Me Tu".
Gupt received positive reviews from critics upon release. Fullhyderabad.com gave it a 7.5/10 rating and wrote, "It is a slickly-made film with stylish cinematography, beautiful locales, and pretty good performances. It falls in the genre of thriller movies and fares much better than any of its sorry predecessors did. The director, Rajiv Rai is not over-awed by the subject and so does not make a hosh-posh out of the whole thing."[10] Mohammad Ali Ikram of Planet Bollywood praised the suspense and music.[11]
I saw the film "Gupt" in theatres last month while I was in Toronto and I must
say that I was amazed and enjoyed it very much.For those who do not know much about it, I'll fill you in with the plot
summary.It has Bobby Deol, Manisha Korala, and Kajol(Not 1, but 2 Beauties!!). As
well, it has Om Puri, Prem Chopra, Raj Babbar, and Raza Murad as supporting
characters, though throughout the 2nd half of the film, Om Puri is used very
much.Anyways, here's how it goes. Bobby Deol and his step-father Raj Babbar do not
get along for some reasons. Bobby Deol likes Kajol and wants to marry her,
but before he can announce it at his birthday, Raj Babbar announces to
everybody at the same time that he is going to get married to Manisha. Deol
gets enraged and almost threatens to attack his stepfather and makes a big
commotion and then leaves with Kajol.Later in the night, a drunken Deol comes home and finds his step-father
murdered. Naturally, everybody, including his mother assumes that he killed
his step-father because of his attitude towards him and his previous
experiences with him. So, he goes to court and is sentenced to life in
prison. Before he leaves, he hands Manisha a locket which he found when his
father was killed and she tells him that she will help in any way possible.
While in prison, an old man tells him that there is a way in which he can
escape from here to look for the real killer. That place is at the bottom of
the prison area which is reserved for violent offenders and/or troublemakers
and that place is right above the sewer system, which leads to the river.
Thus, to get there, he fights with 2 other trouble makers and a strict jail
officer sentences all 3 of them down there. Once there, he tells the other 2
goons that he can either kill them right here, or not if they help him escape.
The other 2 obviously choose the latter and soon enough, they escape and land
in the river, with a boat arranged by Manisha to pick them up.The first half of the film ends with Om Puri, a really determined, yet
stubborn former police officer agreeing to work on the case to find Bobby Deol
and the other 2 men, but only if he can play by his rules only.The second half is all about Bobby Deol trying to find the suspects of his
father's killer while running from the cops and he puts one after another in
the hospital, but it turns out to be none of them. Finally, Om Puri finds
Bobby Deol and he lets him go after believing that he is not the killer. So
who is the killer? Well, Bobby finds out in the end of the movie after the
killer is trying to kill Manisha. And believe me the killer looks freaky and
finally dies in the end.I won't name the killer, but it is very hard to imagine from the start that
this would be the killer.Go see it and you'll see why.
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I dont belive there are so many stoopid peoples out there who have time to
write all that shit i think its time to grow up ....or is it just because
you are AN INDIAN ?CefurPeter Pan wrote in article
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> I dont belive there are so many stoopid peoples out there who have time to
> write all that shit i think its time to grow up ....or is it just because
> you are AN INDIAN ?
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> Cefur
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A feminist film company called Dispatch FMI put on a screening of Bend It Like Beckham in London this week. They comissioned an essay to go with the screening and put a call out for proposals a few weeks ago on their twitter page. I was excited to see some positive representation in the media.
Sikhs get so little coverage compared to muslims and we spend so much of our time explaining that we aren't muslims. There is virtually no Sikh representation in the medea It seems like the company is just reinforcing that. It's like all brown people are the same. I don't know if they got any proposals from Sikhs, but they should have made the effort to hire someone with the same ethnicity as the protagonist of the film.
You might say Bend it Like Beckham isn't a Sikh film, and you would be right. But it presented Sikhi in a positive light to billions of film watchers around the world. It was a mainstream phenomenon. No film in the English Language has managed that since.
Here's the essay. The company's contact details are at the bottom of the page with links to their twitter pages if you want to complain. -post/bend-it-like-beckham-could-have-been-queerer-but-it-still-aged-well
sorry but i hated this cr*p and that coconut suckup Gurinder Chadha. its typical cr*p about 'oppression' and how life would be so great if we only acted like goreh. this <banned word filter activated> didn't do sikhs any favours. i think only sikhs with low self-esteem were impressed/felt good about this.
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