Watching this movie is my most recent favorite activity. It is tale of love, passion and betrayal inspired by real life story of underworld don Abu Salem and Monica Bedi if I have heard it right. Its definitely a wonderful movie starring Emran Hashmi(aka serial kisser of bollywood), Shiney Ahuja and Kangna Ranaut in the leading roles.
I wanted to watch this movie right from the day, I heard KK singing "Tu hi meri shab hai.." on http://www.desimusic.com/. Vidya mentioned to me about this song. Movie was not running in any of the theatres to which I could go by public transport :( . Sadly it was played only in North Bergen,you need to have a car to go to that place. It is not well connected by public transport. I neither have a car nor can drive. I wanted to play safe so, instead of asking my friends to drive me to north Bergen, I started bugging them to get the cassette/DVD when ever they go to JSQ. No luck !! I din get it ... But, this Tuesday I could watch it...Thanks to youtube. To be frank, print was exceptionally bad. Still my eyes were glued to laptop all through out. Nilie was out that day, so I could do this goofy stuff ..!!
I had seen one of the movies Directed by Anurag Basu, which is "Murder"- a very big musical hit of 2004. I could not watch the movie in theatre as none of my friends from hostel agreed to come with me. They were even so shy to ask for that cassette/DVD in the cassette rental shop. I had to push one of my friend Ajith , to get the cassette for me. It was a okay okay movie... Not that great. But, Gangster is definitely better than that. Has a pretty strong story line with good music. All the songs are good. Not even one mediocre song from the album.
I heard lot of rumors about the sufi styled song "Ya Ali". It seems, the music of this song is exactly same as an arabian song "Ya Ghali". But the Music director "Pritam" denies that, it was a copy from "Ya ghali". Anyway, Zubeen the one who sang this has done an amazing job. The lyrics of the song is very situational. Another rock styled song from this movie is "Bheegi bheegi..." .. Wonderful song.. James another singer who is well appreciated for his singing in this movie. There is also a good duet "Lamha Lamha doori..." sung by Sunidhi and Abhijeet. Very soft and romantic song, I loved this one too.
The movie is set against the backdrop of South Korea. Movie starts with a shady rainy shot where a girl shoots someone and at the same time she is also shot by someone else. And, all of a sudden dhoom...dhoom dhoom...They show Simran and Akash are in Hospital .... And Simran starts recalling about her past life ... there starts the actual movie.
Its all about where life takes these three people - 1. An alcoholic girl who is going through difficult phases of her life and in love with a gangster. 2. A singer who meets this girl in the restaurant where he works, likes her and starts giving company to her loneliness 3. A Gangster who is deeply in love this girl, he who thinks he cannot even touch her before marrying her.
Believe me, this was the first movie where I saw that, girls can also become "Devdas" under depression. :) she starts with helping the gangster to escape from Police, falls in love with him, get separated due to some situations..And finally , do nothing other than get drunk everyday and wait for his phone call. Akash brings happiness and love back into her life.
His company , songs makes her happy. But, this will not continue when Daya(the gangster) come back to see her. The story has a pretty good twist at this point. I will not be appreciated if I write here what will happen next. Go, watch it. I promise you will enjoy it.
Have fun. I am googling around to download all the songs with better quality from internet. I have got few, and they are the most played tunes on my new IPOD. :)
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