''Kal Kissne Dekha'' (; contextually: Who knows what will happen tomorrow?) is an Indian

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-language romantic

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directed by

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, who earlier directed ''

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''. The film introduces debutantes

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and

Vaishali Desai Vaishali Desai is an Indian model and actress. She won the Indian title of Miss International. She debuted in the film ''Kal Kissne Dekha''. Early life Vaishali Desai is a Gujarati. She is the grandniece of filmmaker Manmohan Desai. Vaishali w ...

. It has been reported to have similarities with the 2007

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film ''

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'', starring

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. ''Kal Kissne Dekha'' released on 12 June 2009. Upon release it received negative reviews.

Plot

Nihal Singh is a teen from

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who loves to build complicated gadgets to learn what is behind science. He has a brilliant mind and dreams of studying at an elite science institute. When he is accepted into his dream college in

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, he discovers college is a whole new world, new people and new challenges. At college Nihal is attracted to Meesha, a proud rude brat. She cannot accept that Nihal is managing to charm everyone his way including Professor Siddharth Verma, the warden of the college. Nihal starts to get visions of Meesha being in danger. He saves her life and his secret is revealed that he can see the future. After this incident, love blossoms between Nihal and Meesha. Meanwhile, media exposure results in attention from anti-social elements, including an explosion at a mall. Nihal sees the explosion before it takes place and manages to rescue most people. It turns out one of Nihal's friend is behind the attack. Despite seeing the bomber, he keeps quiet and doesn't tell the police department. He strengthens up and decides to fight the attacker himself. At the end it was found that the attacker was none other than professor Siddharth Verma. He reached his house and after leaving from there he took car from there and ran to hotel where many people were residing. At last he got to know that bomb was planted in the car he took from professor house. In the end he saved the people from bomb blast and rather professor was killed in his own blast. The movie ends by nihal and meesha marriage, where media was interrupting them by asking whether they will have a boy or girl.

Cast

as Nihaal Singh *

as Meesha *

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as Bebe (Nihaal's mother) *

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as Professor Sidharth Verma *

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as Mr. Vinod Kapoor (Meesha's father) *

Ritesh Deshmukh Riteish Vilasrao Deshmukh (born 17 December 1978) is an Indian actor, comedian, television presenter, writer, director and film producer. He is the son of former Chief Minister of Maharashtra Vilasrao Deshmukh. He works in Hindi and Marathi cin ...

as Kali Charan *

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as Marshal *

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as Police Inspector *

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as Maria *

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as DJ (special appearance) *

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(special appearance) *

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as Ria *

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as Kabir Ahuja *

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as Jailor Of Central Jail * Rachna Shah as Yana

Music

The music was composed by

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, with lyrics by

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. The music has gotten good reviews.

Production

The film commenced shooting on 18 June 2008 in the

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(a town near Cape Town) and the

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were the other locations. The prominent oaks in Stellenbosch can be clearly seen in many of the scenes. One of the dance numbers was shot in the university's library. In March 2009, it was announced that

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and

Rubina Ali Rubina Ali, also known as Rubina Qureshi, is an Indian actress who played the child version of Latika in the Oscar-winning film ''Slumdog Millionaire'' (2008), for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award. Following the film's success, she was ...

, two of the child stars of ''

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'' (2008), were cast in ''Kal Kissne Dekha''.

References

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