Shoot on Sight: Movies and Music Review

After receiving high appreciation in various film festivals across the globe, ‘Shoot On Sight’ finally hit the Indian Theaters on October 17, 2008. The film is directed by Jag (Jagmohan) Mundhra. It is produced by Arun Govil, who was popular in the early 90s for his role as Rama in Ramanand Sagar’s Ramayana. Shoot On Sight has been globally distributed and marketed by Aron Govil Productions Inc.

The movie, starring Naseeruddin Shah and Om Puri among others, has a fictional story and is based on the ‘Operation Kratos’. Operation Kratos was London police’s ’shoot-to-kill’ policy, which they applied on suspected suicide bombers, who they caught after July 7, 2005 bombings in London.

Tariq Ali (Naseeruddin Shah) is a Muslim police officer in the Scotland Yard. He is a Lahore born British citizen, who is married to an English woman and has 2 children. Ali constantly remains distrusted by his colleagues in the Scotland Yard, despite being associated to the Metropolitan Police for a long time. He is asked to hunt down suspected suicide bombers against July 7’s London bombings backdrop. Things get more complicated for Ali when he finds out that an innocent Muslim boy has been killed by an armed police officer on Underground.

Cast in ‘Shoot On Sight’ includes Sadie Frost, Gulshan Grover, Cloudia Swann and Brian Cox apart from Naseeruddin Shah and Om Puri. This film is another issue-oriented project from Jag Mundhra, who has also directed Nanditas starrer ‘Bawander’ and Aishwarya Rai & Naveen Andrew starrer ‘Provoked’. The movie first premiered in 4th Dubai Film Festival on December 2007. It received great appreciation when it got screened in the prestigious Cannes Film Festival by American World Pictures on May 14, 2008.

The movie is not expected of grossing much from the Box Office this weekend for its slow and off-beat theme, but it is sure to be one of those eye-openers for the Indian audience.

Starring: Naseeruddin Shah, Greta Scacchi, Om Puri, Stephen Greif

Starring: Naseeruddin Shah, Greta Scacchi, Om Puri, Stephen Greif, Ralph Ineson, Gulshan Grover, Laila Rouass, Mikaal Zulfikaar, Sadie Frost, Brian Cox

Director: Jag Mundhra
Screenwriter: Carl Austin
Producer: Aron Govil
Composer: John Altman

Karz: Remake of an 80s classic-Movie Music and songs Review

Himesh Reshammiya is back again with his new venture ‘Karz’, remake of the 1980 Subhash Ghai’s blockbuster of the same name. Directed by Satish Kaushik and released under the banner of T-Series Limited, the movie is all set to have a worldwide release on October 17, 2008. Himesh Reshammiya will be acting alongside Anna Kumar and Urmila Mantodkar (playing the role of a vamp) in the movie.

Karz is a story of Ravi Verma, who gets murdered by his wife Kamini (Urmila Mantodkar) on the day of their marriage. Ravi is reborn as young Monty Oberoi (Himesh Reshammiya), who is a popular singer and heartthrob of the nation. Images from his previous life continue to haunt Monty, even when he is fully awake. He decides to revisit the place, where the incident took place, only to uncover an old murder mystery and save Ravi’s family from Kamini’s wrath.

Himesh has a huge task in hand of doing justice to the role played by Rishi Kapoor, which was highly praised by critics more than a couple of decades back. Again, it will be difficult for him to recreate the same magic through his music and voice that the combination of Laxmikant Pyarelal and Kishore Kumar had on the global audience. Even the concept of reincarnation might not receive the same response from the audience, as it did in the early 80s. Henceforth, Director Satish Kaushik along with Producers Bhushan & Inder Kumar has their tasks cut out for them. All eyes would also be on Anna Kumar, daughter of Producer Inder Kumar, who will be making her debut in the movie as the lead, opposite to Himesh. She will be playing the role of Tina Munim from the 80s classic.

With the release of the movie only a week away, everyone will be having their fingers crossed for its box office report. With one flop already under his belt in Aap Ka Saroor, Himesh will be hoping that this film gives him the needed launching pad for his acting career.

 

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Star Cast: Urmila Matondkar, Himesh Reshammiya, Gulshan Grover, Danny Denzongpa, Rohini Hattangadi, Shweta Kumar, Bakhtiyaar Irani, Dino Morea, Raj Babbar, Asrani, Himani Shivpuri

Director : Satish Kaushik

Producer : Krishan Kumar, Bhushan Kumar

Singers : Himesh Reshammiya, Sunidhi Chauhan, Harshdeep Kaur, Tulsi Kumar, Shreya Ghosal

Music : Himesh Reshammiya

Songs

Lut Jaaon Lut Jaaon

Hari Om

Tandoori Nights

Soniye Je Tere

Dhoom Tere Ishq Ki

Sisak Sisak Ke

Tere Bin Chain Na Aave

Masha Allah

Ek Haseena Thi