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Starring:
Aamir Khan, Prateik Babbar, Monica Dogra
Direction:
Kiran Rao
Music:
Gustavo Santaolalla
Production: Aamir
Khan, Kiran Rao |
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| Aamir
Khan Productions is back again after the
critically acclaimed ‘Peepli Live’
in 2010, with their new venture ‘Dhobi
Ghat’ due to be released in the Indian
theatres on January 21, 2011. Dhobi Ghat
is a much-awaited directorial debut of Kiran
Rao, wife of Aamir Khan and the co-producer
in Aamir Khan Productions. This movie supposedly
had its world premiere in September 2010
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International Film Festival and also at the London Film
Festival in 2010.
Dhobi Ghat is a movie about four characters –
Arun (Aamir Khan), Shai (Monica Dogra), Munna (Prateik
Babbar) and Yasmin (Kriti Malhotra) and how their lives
are inter-twined in spite of the different classes in
the society they belong to. Aamir Khan plays the role
of a reclusive and lonely modern art painter, Monica
Dogra plays the role of an Indian Banker, who is visiting
Mumbai, while Prateik Babbar plays a washerman living
near Kriti Malhotra’s residence.
Prateik Babbar is the son of late actress Smita Patel
and actor/politician Raj Babbar and made his film debut
with Aamir Khan Productions ‘Jaane Tu Ya Jaane
Na’ as Genelia’s brother and won many laurels
for his role. As for the other actors, Kiran Rao has
kept it really simple by picking new faces who completely
mesh well with the normal girl-next-door characters.
To maintain the authenticity of the movie, it is much
spoken that Kiran Rao took extreme steps to shoot the
movie in the real ‘dhobi ghat’ in Mumbai.
Kiran had also shot the movie using the ‘guerilla’
technique and shot the movie at Mahalaxmi, Worli, Chowpatty
and Marine Drive among other places to insist on the
authenticity. No special sets were constructed for the
movie.
While Aamir plays a remorseful painter in this movie,
it is rumoured that he was keen on playing the role
of Munna, played by Prateik but the director, Kiran
Rao was insistent that Aamir play the role of Arun.
The real life couple, when asked about their professional
chemistry, had to blatantly agree that the initial days
were very tough on Aamir when Kiran ignored him completely
on the sets and things were back to normal only when
Aamir confronted Kiran inside a room that he is not
being treated as an actor on the sets. Kiran admitted
to her fault and the rest of the shooting went on well
for the entire crew.
The background score and 3 songs listed in this movie
are by Gustavo Santaolalla and his capturing music for
the trailer makes this movie irresistible to wait. The
songs of the movie are only included in the film with
no CD release. This Argentine musician has done justice
to this much-awaited movie for the year 2011.
The much talked about fact about this movie is the editing
by Nishant Radhakrishnan. Aamir Khan was found in all
the editing sessions with Nishant when Kiran found herself
avoided by her editing-absorbed husband. The nail-biting
wait is for the theatres to unleash the talents of this
new age intellectual couple in Bollywood. Will their
intelligence take over our expectations? Will this diary
of events of four strangers devour us all? It is just
a few days’ wait.... |
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: Aamir
Khan,
Prateik Babbar,
Monica Dogra,
Kiran Rao, Gustavo Santaolalla |
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