Kalyug (2005 film)
| Kalyug | |
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| Directed by | Mohit Suri |
| Written by | Jay Dixit (Dialogues) |
| Screenplay by | Anand Sivakumaran |
| Story by | Mohit Suri |
| Produced by | |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Rituraj Narain |
| Edited by | Amit Saxena |
| Music by |
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| Distributed by | Vishesh Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 126 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | ₹40 million |
| Box office | ₹102.6 million |
Kalyug (transl. Modern era) is a 2005 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film[1] written and directed by Mohit Suri and produced by Mukesh Bhatt. It introduces actor Kunal Khemu, in his debut film as an adult actor.[2][3] It also stars Emraan Hashmi, Smilie Suri, Deepal Shaw, Amrita Singh and Ashutosh Rana.[4][5] The film follows a young man who sets out to exact revenge upon the porn industry after his wife commits suicide due to the footage of their first night getting released on internet.
Kalyug released on 9 December 2005. It featured the hardcore pornographic website indiapasssion.com which inspired a real website of the same name.[6]
Plot
18 years ago, the Dhar family, consisting of Pushkaran (Yatin Karyekar) and his son, Kunal (Kunal Khemu), were forced to leave Kashmir by terrorists. Pushkaran and Kunal re-locate to Bombay, where Kunal grows up. One day, the police knock on Kunal's door, informing him that his father had lost his hold from a crowded local train and was instantly killed after falling on the rails. A devastated Kunal arranges his father's funeral. Before he can reconcile to living alone, relatives contact him from Jammu, informing him that his father had promised to look after a young woman named Renuka (Smiley Suri). Kunal agrees to fulfill his father's promise.
When Renuka arrives, she finds out about the untimely death, and wants to return, but ticket reservation forces her to stay with Kunal for a week. It is this week that changes their lives, for they fall in love and get married.
They spend their first night together at a hotel, where they encounter Johnny Bravo (Ashutosh Rana), a womaniser who tells the manager to book them into the honeymoon suite. A few nights later, police storm into their house and arrest the two. During the interrogation, it is revealed that their intimate night at the hotel was secretly recorded and uploaded onto a porn website. Kunal realizes that Johnny was responsible for having them exploited.
Meanwhile, Renuka is forced by the police to sign papers and testify against Kunal. As she is led out, she encounters Kunal, who tells her the truth and begs her not to sign the papers. All these feelings of guilt, embarrassment, and confusion proves too much for Renuka, she then jumps off the ledge and commits suicide in front of Kunal. Kunal is sent to prison since he refuses to admit guilt to the false charge.
Kunal is later able to prove himself innocent and decides to track down Johnny and his team to get revenge. He discovers Johnny is working for a businesswoman Simi Roy, who secretly is the porn-website creator living in Zurich, Switzerland. Kunal leaves for Zurich in order to take revenge against Johnny and Simi Roy.
In Zurich, Kunal comes across Ali (Emraan Hashmi), a modern-day emo, who runs an adults only shop. In his shop, Kunal sees a magazine featuring Jazmin, a pornstar he had seen on the same website where his and Renuka's video was featured.
Kunal and Ali track the girl down in a bar where she is a prostitute, instead Kunal finds a young girl being held hostage and beats up the bodyguards, but gets hit by Simi Roy. The next day, Kunal overhears Simi fighting with her abusive daughter, Tanya, about being drunk and doing sexual activities with her girlfriend Jessica Simpson. Kunal then asks Simi about the blue film porn website, but Simi lies to him.
The girl Kunal helped is revealed to be Anny (Deepal Shaw) and tells Kunal that after her hometown got destroyed in the Gujarat earthquake, which killed her parents, her uncle sold her to Johnny and his friend Vick for money. She tried to escape but was quickly captured and forced to enter the porn industry and be sexually exploited.
Kunal and Ali lure Johnny and his bouncer goons into a trap during the fight, Ali is fatally stabbed by Johnny in the genitalia, but is still able to kill Johnny and his men. Before dying, Ali reveals that he knows Simi Roy is the main mastermind behind the pornography website and also controls the red light district in Zurich.
Kunal asks Tanya for help, and in return, he will help her ruin Simi's life and reputation. Simi, who see her own daughter on her porn website following a news report, feels devastated and is confronted by Kunal and Tanya, where Tanya kills her following a brief fight. Kunal is found not guilty of all charges and starts a new life with Jazmin.
Cast
- Kunal Khemu as Kunal Dhar / Rajeev Chawla: The main protagonist of the film, an vengeful person who cames back for revenge against Simi Roy and Johnny for accusing him on a porn video case which causes his wife, Renuka gets suicides, with the help of Ali and Anita he completes his revenge
- Emraan Hashmi as Ali Bilal (extended cameo appearance): An Modern guy who hails at Lucknow by runs an Sex Shop in Zurich, by meeting Kunal he helps to find Anita by meeting at an apartment but he gets killed by Johnny.
- Deepal Shaw as Anita (Annie) Varma: An bar dancer and singer who works at a Tantra Club near Sin city in Zurich, when she meets Kunal she reveals about the tortures from Johnny and his guy's, she helps Kunal by meeting Tanya to get Simi Roy.
- Smiley Suri as Renuka Ahuja: Kunal's former wife who hails at Kashmir to raise her for his father's promise by meeting her at railway station, and she gets falls in love with him and get married but she committed suicide by jumping off the building when she and Kunal gets accused on a porn video case.
- Amrita Singh as Simi Roy: The main Antagonist who accuses and frames Kunal and Renuka from a fake porn video case with the help of Johnny which causes Kunal loses his life. She is an marketing head of Swiss Telecom company and also she is an main mastermind behind the porn website, but she gets killed by her daughter Tanya who wants to avenge her father's death.
- Ashutosh Rana as Farid Ahmed aka Johnny (extended cameo appearance): He is Kunal's rival and enemy who shoots Kunal and Renuka's intimate video and uploaded in the website. But however, he gets killed by Ali itself in an ensuing fight.
- Yatin Karyekar as Pushkaran Dhar
- Atul Parchure as Bhaskar Rajput: Kunal's friend, who runs a Gym at Mumbai and also he bailed Kunal with the help of his lawyer who want to take avenge on them by sending him to Zurich.
- Nisha Lalwani as Tanya Rampal: She is Simi Roy's daughter and also she hates her mother for killing her unknown father and also she is an Lesbian who lives with her girlfriend named Jessica, when she meets Kunal who want to avenge her mother. Then, Tanya kills her mother for killing her father and also she fulfils Kunal's revenge too.
- Sheena Bajaj as Hema Birla
- Atif Aslam as Singer
- Billy Herrington as a bouncer
- Amitabh Bhattacharjee as Mumbai Police ACP Jadhav
- Prasad Oak as Anny's uncle
- Jazmin Chaudhry as Jazmin, a pornographic actress
- Rajeev Khandelwal as Himself (cameo appearance)
- Jackie Shroff as Himself (cameo appearance)
Production
The film was initially titled 'Blue Film' however the title was later changed to 'Kali Yuga'.[7] Sunny Leone was originally offered the lead role, but due to her demanding $10 million for the role, director Mohit Suri retreated.
Home media
Kalyug's VCDs and DVDs were released by Shemaroo six weeks after the theatrical release.[8] The DVD Included Cast & Crew interviews, Television Promos of Kalyug, The Aadat Remix and Subtitles in four languages: English Tamil, Telugu and Bengali as Bonus Features.
Music
| Kalyug | ||||
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| Released | 29 October 2005 | |||
| Recorded | 2005 | |||
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
| Length | 39:14 | |||
| Language | Hindi | |||
| Label | Sa Re Ga Ma | |||
| Producer | Anu Malik, Rohail Hyatt, Jal, Mithoon | |||
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The soundtrack was released on 29 October 2005. Raju Singh composed the film score while the songs featured in the Soundtrack were composed by Anu Malik, Faisal Rafi, Rohail Hyatt, Jal, Goher Mumtaz and Mithoon. The track "Aadat" was reused from Jal's album of the same name, with music being recreated by Mithoon.[9] According to the Indian trade website Box Office India, with around 1,400,000 units sold, this film's soundtrack album was the year's twelfth highest-selling.[10]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Singer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Jiya Dhadak Dhadak Jaye" | Asim Raza | Rohail Hyatt, Faisal Rafi | Rahat Fateh Ali Khan | 5:15 |
| 2. | "Aadat" (rearranged by Mithoon) | Goher Mumtaz, Sayeed Quadri | Goher Mumtaz | Atif Aslam | 5:36 |
| 3. | "Dheere Dheere" | Sayeed Quadri | Anu Malik | Alisha Chinoy | 6:12 |
| 4. | "Ye Pal" | Sayeed Quadri | Anu Malik | Najam Sheraz | 6:26 |
| 5. | "Aadat (Remix)" (remixed by DJ Suketu) | Goher Mumtaz, Sayeed Quadri | Jal | Atif Aslam | 4:10 |
| 6. | "Tujhe Dekh Dekh" | Asim Raza | Rohail Hyatt, Faisal Rafi | Rahat Fateh Ali Khan | 2:42 |
| 7. | "Thi Meri Dastan" | Sayeed Quadri | Anu Malik | Anuradha Paudwal, Amit Sana | 4:16 |
| 8. | "Aadat" | Goher Mumtaz | Goher Mumtaz | Jal | 4:30 |
| Total length: | 39:14 | ||||
References
- ^ "11 most emotionally charged movies by Mohit Suri". Yahoo!. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
This action thriller is based on pornographic film industry. It featured the hardcore pornographic website indiapasssion.com which inspired a real website of the same name. The film introduced actor Kunal Khemu, in his debut film as an actor. It also stars Emraan Hashmi, Smilie Suri (Mohit's sister) and Amrita Singh.
- ^ Ashraf, Syed Firdaus (5 December 2005). "Enter the hero from Kashmir". Rediff.com. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
- ^ Subhash K Jha (21 December 2005). "Kunal Khemu: Child grows up". Sify. Archived from the original on 18 December 2014. Retrieved 2 March 2010.
- ^ "Kalyug". The Tribune. 9 December 2005. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
- ^ Tuteja, Joginder. "Kalyug – Beware, as you are being watched!". IndiaGlitz. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
- ^ Saurav, Kumar (27 May 2009). "Bhatt Film Inspires Desi Group Sex Trip". Mid-Day. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
- ^ Ayaz, Shaikh (12 September 2005). "WHY DID 'BLUE FILM' BECOME 'KALYUG'?". Daily News & Analysis. Mumbai. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
- ^ "Shemaroo releases KALYUG on home Video". www.glamsham.com. Archived from the original on 18 October 2016.
- ^ Vijayakar, R.M. (22 July 2015). "Singer-Composer Mithoon: Doing Music for Myself Makes Me Very Happy". India West. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
- ^ "Music Hits 2000–2009 (Figures in Units)". Box Office India. Archived from the original on 15 February 2008.