Friday, October 15, 1999

Mast

Cast: Urmila Matondkar, Aftab Shivdasani
Director: Ram Gopal Varma
Music: Sandip Chowta

Synopsis: Krishnakant Mathur (Aftab Shivdasani) alias "kittu", works in a restaurant, which is located right opposite the bunglow of famous movie actress, Mallika (Urmilla Matondkar). Kittu, simply put, is only a fan, but is smitten by Mallika, almost to the point of obsession. He does get to meet her at Mehboob Studios, and speak with Mallika herself. Before he could finish speaking with her, he is rudely interrupted by Tolluram, Manisha's uncle (Govind Namdeo), who insults and humiliates him and tells him to leave. Kittu is confused at this, and gets appalled and concerned about Mallika, when he learns that her life is being controlled by her uncle, aunt and cousin sister. One day he witnesses her uncle beating her up, he breaks into her house, assaults the uncle, and abducts Mallika. The next day, there is furore in the media when everyone learns that an actress has been abducted. The police get involved. Kittu decides to take Mallika to his home to his parents, and does so. He hides her in his house, but decides not to tell anyone in his family about Mallika. How long will Kittu succeed in doing this? Is this what Mallika wants, or is she being taken advantage of again? How long will a famous actress hide out without anyone else coming to know her?


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Sunday, August 8, 1999

Yeh Hai Mumbai Meri Jaan


Star Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Twinkle Khanna, Chunky Pandey, Saurabh Shukla, Akshay Anand
Director: Mahesh Bhatt
Producer: Mukesh Bhatt
Written by: Sony Bhatt , Girish Dhamija , Ravinder Prashar

Synopsis: Orphaned Raju Tarachand is cared for by his maternal uncle, Brij, and aunt, Basanti, in Nainital. Raju decides to re-locate to Mumbai to make a name for himself in a firm run by Chaturvedi. Upon arrival, he finds out that Chaturvedi's firm has gone bankrupt. He goes job-hunting, ends up having his luggage, wallet, and car stolen by a man named Chali. He locates Chali and forces him to provide accommodation, while he lands himself a job with Malhotra Group of Companies as a lowly Peon. He falls in love with the dress designer, Jasmin Arora, and comes to her assistance as Husn Bano. When he finds out that Malhotra's elder brother, and his associate, M.R. Poplet, are scheming to bring down Mr. Malhotra, he masquerades as David Rathod, an American trouble-shooter. He has Poplet well in check and ready for exposure, as well as has Jasmin eating out of his hand, when another peon by the name of 'God', and the appearance of the real David Rathod virtually turns his life upside down - and instead of being shown as a good Samaritan he is arrested and jailed, giving Poplet and the elder Malhotra complete freedom to do what they originally wanted to do - bring down Chhotey Malhotra.

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