Hindi
Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...
thriller film
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directed by
Akashaditya Lama
Akashaditya lama (born 9 March 1977) is a television screenwriter and filmmaker
Career
His first stint with film writing was with the film Lahore, directed by Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan. Lama has co-written Chauhan's next directorial venture ...
, featuring Bhoop Yaduvanshi,
Prashant Narayanan
Prashant Narayanan is an Indian actor, known for his roles in films like ''Waisa Bhi Hota Hai Part II'', '' Shadows of Time'', '' Bombil and Beatrice'', ''Via Darjeeling'' and '' Murder 2''. He also worked in the telefilm ''Ek Tamanna''. His br ...
,
Madhurima Tuli
Madhurima Tuli (born 19 August 1986) is an Indian actress and model. Her works in Hindi television include the fiction dramas '' Kasturi'', '' Parichay'', ''Kumkum Bhagya'', '' Chandrakanta'' and ''Qayamat Ki Raat'' and the reality shows ''Nac ...
and
Sudesh Berry
Sudesh Berry is an Indian actor and personality known for his works in Hindi cinema and Indian television.
Films
* ''Rajnandini'' (2021)
*''Sardar Saab'' (2017) (Punjabi)
* '' Sanam Teri Kasam'' (2016) - Inder's father
* '' Ainthu Ainthu Ai ...
. The film was produced under the banner of P. Y. Films Pvt. Ltd. While the music was composed by Sudeep Banerjee, Kavita Seth, Ankur Mishra and Viraj Sawant, the lyrics have been written by Ajay Jhingran, Kaushal Kishore and Dev Shukla.
Choreography
Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which Motion (physics), motion or Visual appearance, form or both are specified. ''Choreography'' may also refer to the design ...
in the film was handled by Vivek Yadav and
Longines Fernandes
Longinus Fernandes (Longie) is an Indian choreographer and dancer, who won the Filmfare Best Choreography Award in 2009; and internationally he is most known as the choreographer of the closing credits dance sequence featuring Academy Award for B ...
.
A dispute between the director and producers over the editing of the picture led to a lawsuit in the
Mumbai High Court
The High Court of Bombay is the high court of the states of Maharashtra and Goa in India, and the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. It is seated primarily at Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay), and is one of the o ...
, and eventually to what the director characterized as a "compromise" and an "edited version that did not meet my creative vision".
Plot
A guy falls in love blindly with a young beautiful girl. This blind love leads him into deep trouble, and further separates him from other people like one man versus the entire world. In these dark situations, where one surely gives up on everything, he doesn't, and thus keeps on believing and trusting on his blind love, which eventually shows him all the ways to be out from all the difficulties.
Cast
* Bhoop Yaduvanshi as Nikhil Dabur
*
Prashant Narayanan
Prashant Narayanan is an Indian actor, known for his roles in films like ''Waisa Bhi Hota Hai Part II'', '' Shadows of Time'', '' Bombil and Beatrice'', ''Via Darjeeling'' and '' Murder 2''. He also worked in the telefilm ''Ek Tamanna''. His br ...
as Rajesh Fogat
*
Madhurima Tuli
Madhurima Tuli (born 19 August 1986) is an Indian actress and model. Her works in Hindi television include the fiction dramas '' Kasturi'', '' Parichay'', ''Kumkum Bhagya'', '' Chandrakanta'' and ''Qayamat Ki Raat'' and the reality shows ''Nac ...
as Jessica
*
Sudesh Berry
Sudesh Berry is an Indian actor and personality known for his works in Hindi cinema and Indian television.
Films
* ''Rajnandini'' (2021)
*''Sardar Saab'' (2017) (Punjabi)
* '' Sanam Teri Kasam'' (2016) - Inder's father
* '' Ainthu Ainthu Ai ...
as Danny D'Gama
*
Ashok Banthia
Ashok Banthia, sometimes referred as Ashok Bathia or Ashok Bhatia, is an Indian actor and director associated with Hindi film, television and theatre actor. He is a NSD (National School of Drama) alumnus known for his roles in Australian TV ...
as Nikhil Dabur's Father
*
Monika Singh
''Mann Kee Awaaz Pratigya'' () is an Indian television series which aired on STAR Plus. The series premiered on 7 December 2009 and was ended on 27 October 2012. It starred Pooja Gor and Arhaan Behll. All episodes of the series re-telecasted a ...
as Prostitute Girl
*RajKumar as Ajay Nikhil's Friend
*
Deepraj Rana
Deepraj Rana (also Deepraz Rana or Deep Raj Rana) is an Indian and Nepali film and television actor.
Early life
He was born and brought up in Allahabad. Now he lives in Mumbai. He is married to TV actress Natasha Rana known for the role of Chh ...
as Corrupt Police Inspector
Soundtrack
The
music
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is composed by Sudeep Banerjee,
Kavita Seth
Kavita Seth (born 14 September 1970) is an Indian singer, who is most known as a playback singer in Hindi cinema, as well as a performer of Ghazals and Sufi music, and leads a Sufi musical group, ''Karwaan Group''.lyrics
Lyrics are words that make up a song, usually consisting of verses and choruses. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist. The words to an extended musical composition such as an opera are, however, usually known as a "libretto" and their writer, a ...
of it are written down by Ajay Jhingran, Kaushal Kishore, Dev Shukla and Sudarshan Goel. The songs are sung by
Tochi Raina
Tochi Raina (born 2 September 1971) is an Indian singer, composer and philosopher, best known as a playback singer in Hindi films. His most notable works include the songs ''Kabira'' for the movie "Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani", "Iktara" from "Wake U ...
,
Nikhil D'Souza
Nikhil D'Souza (born 21 November 1981) is a singer, songwriter and guitarist from Mumbai, India, and is now signed to East West Records of Warner Music UK.
Early life
Nikhil D'Souza was born and brought up in Mumbai and majored in Geology from ...
,
Kavita Seth
Kavita Seth (born 14 September 1970) is an Indian singer, who is most known as a playback singer in Hindi cinema, as well as a performer of Ghazals and Sufi music, and leads a Sufi musical group, ''Karwaan Group''.Shweta Pandit, Suzanne D'Mello and Sudeep Banerjee.
Reception
Critic Ankur Pathak of
Rediff.com
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, it had more than 300 e ...
panned the film, giving it no stars and calling it a "half-heartedly created music video, which tries to convince itself that it is an actual film". Shakti Shetty of ''
Mid-Day
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'' said, "There are bad films and then there are films that shouldn't have been made in the first place. ''Cigarette Ki Tarah'' effortlessly falls into the latter category.""Movie review: Cigarette Ki Tarah" ''
Mid-Day
''Mid-Day'' (stylised as mid-day) is a morning daily Indian compact newspaper owned by Jagran Prakashan Limited. Editions in various languages were published in Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore and Pune. In 2011, the Delhi and Bangalore editions were ...