''Supari'' (), titled ''Supari - Your Time Starts Now'' in the UK, is a 2003 Indian

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-language

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directed and produced by Padam Kumar. The film stars

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Nandita Das Nandita Das (born 7 November 1969) is an Indian actress and director. She has acted in over 40 feature films in ten different languages. Das appeared in the films ''Fire'' (1996), ''Earth'' (1998), '' Bawandar'' (2000), '' Kannathil Muthamittal' ...

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and

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. The story is set in the

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, and follows four friends who become contract killers after losing a bet to an underworld figure. Released theatrically on 20 June 2003, it was also the first Hindi-language film to be later distributed online via Kazaa. Although the film was not commercially successful, the performances were praised.

Plot

Aryan Pandit lives a middle-class lifestyle with his family in

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, India, where the entire family depend on his salesman father's earnings. He relocates to Mumbai's St. Andrews College with big dreams of being wealthy and driving a red Ferrari. He befriends three other middle-class youth: Papad, Mushy, and Chicken. He borrows money from Matka Rajan, gambles it, loses everything, and is unable to re-pay. As a result, Rajan sets his goons on him. Aryan goes to a man named Baba for help, who in turn takes him to Mamta Sekhari. Sekhari offers to hire him as a hit man, agreeing to pay him 20,000

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for every killing, so that he can re-pay his gambling loan. Aryan reluctantly accepts, is trained by Baba to shoot a gun, and kills his first target, none other than Rajan himself. He tells his friends about his good fortune, and they join forces with him. In all killing contracts they are provided with a photograph, the location, and are instructed to look at the photo just 15 minutes before killing the person. In this manner the friends enjoy their new-found wealth. When Aryan's

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, Dilnawaaz finds out, she wants him to quit. He does, but his friends refuse to let go of this easy money and luxurious life. Shortly thereafter, the trio are given a contract; before the killing they look at the photograph ... of Aryan. The trio knows that it is too late to back out of this 'supari' (

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). Soon events takes a worst turn as one by one gets killed. Chicken commits suicide and a gun battle ensues where Papad and Mushy are killed with Sekhari's men. Aryan puts everything to an end by killing Mamta Sekhari and Baba once and for all.

Cast

as Aryan Pandit *

as Papad *

as Mamta Shekari *

as Chicken *

as Dilnaswaaz 'Dillu' *

as Baba *

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as Mushy

Soundtrack

The music was composed by

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, with lyrics written by

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and

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Reception

''Supari'' received generally mixed reviews from critics. Shahid Khan from ''Planet Bollywood'' gave the film a 7/10 rating and praised the direction, editing and performances, especially that of Nandita Das, while criticizing Chopra's performance in a few scenes, the background score and the ending. Mithun Verma from ''Fullhyd.com'' similarly gave a 7/10, praising the characterizations, performances and shootout sequences, while criticizing the performances of Chopra and Das, and the editing. On the other hand,

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from ''

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'' gave the film a 1/5 rating, feeling the screenplay and characterizations were "faulty" and found the action sequences ordinary. However, he praised the dialogues, songs and performances.

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from ''

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'' also gave it a 1/5 rating and criticized the performances, dialogue and overabundance of characters, while praising Dev's performance and the cinematography. Saibal Chatterjee from ''

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'' similarly gave it 1 star and felt Chopra was "terribly miscast" for the

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role.

Box Office

''Supari'' opened with 0.45 crore on the first day of release. It grossed 1.25 crore in its first weekend, and 1.85 crore in its first week. The film's closing collections amounted to 2.65 crore. It was one of the biggest

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s of 2003.

References

External links

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