Hulchul (2004 film)

Hulchul (transl.Commotion) is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language romantic action comedy film directed by Priyadarshan. The story is adapted from the 1991 Malayalam film Godfather. The film has an all-star cast including Akshaye Khanna, Kareena Kapoor, Sunil Shetty, Jackie Shroff, Arshad Warsi, Amrish Puri, Paresh Rawal, Arbaaz Khan, Shakti Kapoor, Farha Naaz, and Laxmi.[2]

Hulchul
Theatrical release poster
Directed byPriyadarshan
Written byK. P. Saxena
(Dialogues)
Screenplay byNeeraj Vora
Story byNeeraj Vora
Siddique
Lal
Based onGodfather by
Siddique-Lal
Produced byRatan Jain
Ganesh Jain
Champak Jain
StarringAkshaye Khanna
Kareena Kapoor
CinematographyJeeva
Edited byArun Kumar
Music bySongs:
Vidyasagar
Score:
Surinder Sodhi
Production
company
Distributed byVenus Films
Release date
  • November 26, 2004 (2004-11-26) (India)
Running time
149 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget10 crore[1]
Box office32.86 crore[1]

Plot

Angar Chand Jakhar lives a rich lifestyle in a small town in India, with his wife Parvati, and four sons—Balram, Kishan, Shakti and baby Jai. Balram falls for Dhamini Chawla, who reciprocates his feelings. Angar proceeds to fix the marriage. Dhamini's mother Laxmi opposes this relationship. In anger, her father Sanjeev shoots his firearm at Balram. Instead, Parvati is killed. Then, Laxmi marries Dhamini to Kashinath Pathak. Enraged, Angar kills Sanjeev and is sentenced to 14 years in prison.

14 years later

Bailed from prison, Angar now returns home, and declares that women won't be permitted in his property, posting a sign on the front gate, and forbidding his sons to ever marry.

7 years later

Dhamini's daughter, Anjali, is in college with Jai. The Chands are informed that Anjali will be married off to the state's Home Minister. Still bearing a grudge, Angar breaks off the engagement by putting political pressure on the minister. Laxmi convinces Anjali to trick Jai into falling in love with her to cause a rift in the family. Anjali admits that she is attracted to him. First they Both Tell the Truth and Jai Leave Anjali , but Anjali has Still feelings for him . Soon Jai Also realise that He is Falling for Anjali by his hilarious Best - Friend Lucky.

Eventually, Jai and Anjali really fall in love with each other. Lucky learns that Kishan is leading a dual life; he is married to a woman, Gopi who is a dance teacher , since 7 years and even has a son and daughter. First to find out the real truth Angar fixes a marriage to kishen but gopi finds out that she is to commit Suicide with her kids but gets saved by kishen. Angar finds out, and kicks Kishan and Jai out as Jai supports him. Jai Comes to Anjali ask to go with him Laxmi thinks that anjali is stil doing a trick but she goes and hugs him and gets beaten by her family . Laxmi fixes Anjali's wedding with her lawyer's son, Sattu. Jai enters the wedding venue with help of Anjali's uncle Veeru, dresses as the bridegroom by putting sattu and his father Unconscious and goes through the marriage rituals.

However, at the ceremony end, Jai reveals himself. Balram asks Jai to place the wedding necklace around Anjali's neck, completing the wedding after many troubles . Eventually, he marries her. Jai and Anjali are married now and Anjali asks Laxmi to end the feud. Jai begs forgiveness from Angar, who leaves and contemplates all his sons' actions. The women (Anjali and Gopi) are finally welcomed into the Chand family, with the four sons.

Cast

Soundtrack

According to the Indian trade website Box Office India, with around 10,00,000 units sold, this film's soundtrack album was the year's fourteenth highest-selling.[3] The song "Rafta Rafta" is a Hindi remake of the song "Aasai Aasai" with a slight change in tune from the 2003 Tamil film Dhool, another film where the music was composed by Vidyasagar. The lyrics are penned by Sameer.

All music is composed by Vidyasagar.

No.TitlePlaybackLength
1."Dekho Zara Dekho"Udit Narayan, Kunal Ganjawala5:47
2."Hum Dil Ke"Sadhana Sargam, Shaan4:56
3."Lut Gayee"Gayatri Iyer, Sayanora Philip, Poornima & Raja Lakshmi5:18
4."Ishq Mein Pyar Mein"Alka Yagnik, Shaan4:57
5."Lee Humne Thi Kasam"Hariharan4:49
6."Rafta Rafta"Udit Narayan, Sujatha Mohan5:17

Reception

It received generally positive reviews, who appreciated performances of cast, humor, and cinematography, but criticised for screenplay, narration, cliche plot, and running time.[4]

References

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