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Strangers - 2008 [DVD] |
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| Year : |
2008 |
| Playtime : |
100 Minutes |
| Lang : |
Hindi |
| Genre : |
Drama |
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| Mr.Rai is a successful management giant, who on the face of it, is leading the life that everybody dreams of; Rahul, the flamboyant writer with a flop career is an existence that can only be an example but never an ideal. Their conversations are interspersed with flashbacks, which reveal essential clues into these complex yet real characters. It is at this time when on one hand, we see the trauma that Rai was living through after his son's untimely death and his wife Nandini subsequent insanity. On the other hand is the beautiful relationship between Rahul and Preity that starts on an almost fantastical note with a hopeful Rahul and a loving Preity and ends with Preity turning cold towards him because of his obsessive ranting after the collapse of his career and their ending up living under the same roof as strangers. Every moment between Rai and Rahul adds a piece to the big jigsaw puzzle and we see how every character is playing a game of wits with each other, a game that should be won at all costs not to establish a monarchy or absolute victory but to ensure their individual survival. The second half of the film is about laying the cards out in the open. It is about the clandestine affair between Rai and Preity, a relationship borne out of both affinities and a need to find a refuge at the time when the relationship between Rahul and Preity has collapsed and Rai had given up on life. The battered individuals find solace in each other after a long ordeal with their individual realities. What follows is deceit and living by the instinct for all of them. Rationality filters away painfully from their relationships and life and Rai and Preity decide that they would get Rahul to kill Rai's wife Nandini and be framed for the murder. An act that would play on their conscience forever and yet is the only possible way to eliminate the reason that would keep them apart. But their plan takes ugly twists and turns and their basic presumption that Rahul was oblivious of their relationship backfires and the backdrop of a thriller becomes a building block of two sincere and complete love stories. |
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| 3 members reviews for this DVD |
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Nice, unconventional and intelligent thriller  |
Sonjoy |
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| It's a unconventional (with respect to the largely exisiting concept of Hindi movies) and intelligent thriller, and will appeal to anyone looking for something new and afresh. Though after-thought on a few situations might appear to you unexplained, director's (Aanand Rai) style of story-telling is fascinting. Superb performance by all the actors. While expectation from Kay Kay is always high, Jimmy Sheirgill's performance was top-notch. Nandana Sen is another revealation in a complex role. It is certainly worth-watching if you are a fan of Hollywood/foreign type thriller. |
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Good movie!!  |
SG |
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| Good movie - thoda hatke...I had no idea what the movie was about and thats the way to go for this movie. |
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| I Liked it. |
Navroop Gill |
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| Story has a little dark side to itself, but well structured. I would recommend it to people who are looking for something other than blockbuster types of movies. |
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