Buddha in a Traffic Jam

Buddha in a Traffic Jam
Buddha in a Traffic Jam
	Official release poster of Buddha in a Traffic Jam
Directed by	Vivek Agnihotri
Written by	Vivek Agnihotri
Produced by	Suresh Chukapalli; Vivek Agnihotri; Sharad Patel; Shreyanshi Patel; Pranay Chokshi; Ravi Agnihotri; (Supervising Producer); Vikram Gupta; (Associate Producers); Dream Cube; Sandeep Goel; Abhishek Mohunta; Pritika Idnani; Ritesh Patel;
Starring	Anupam Kher; Arunoday Singh; Mahie Gill; Anchal Dwivedi; Pallavi Joshi;
Cinematography	Attar Singh Saini
Edited by	Sattyajit Gazmer
Music by	Rohit Sharma
Distributed by	Carnival Motion Pictures
Release date	13 May 2016;
Country	India
Languages	Hindi; English;

Buddha in a Traffic Jam is an autobiographical film based on its writer and director Vivek Agnihotri's life. Its ensemble cast comprises Arunoday Singh, Anupam Kher, Pallavi Joshi, Mahie Gill, Anchal Dwivedi and Indal Singh (Indal Raja) in role of nanhe Singh. Indal Raja's role is very much impressible and heat touching. The film also takes on various themes of corruption, campus politics, moral policing, crony socialism and the aspirational India wiping it clean of its middlemen. It probes deep into the relevance of socialism and capitalism in a poverty and corruption ridden India seeking to become a superpower.

Buddha in a Traffic Jam was officially nominated and premiered at the 2014 Mumbai International Film Festival in the India Gold category with a standing ovation and great reviews. It won the best actress (Pallavi Joshi) and got nominated for the best film in Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival. It has won best Best Original Screenplay and was nominated for Best film and Best Lead Actress in a Foreign Language (Mahie Gill) at Madrid Film Festival, Spain. The film went on to receive Best Director at Jakarta Film Festival (Vivek Agnihotri) and has been showcased as the Opening Film in more than a dozen festivals. The film was recently premiered for students at Jawaharlal Nehru University after it was first denied screening due to the political atmosphere within the campus. Later on it was invited by the students and screened in open air with over 4.5 thousand students and faculty. The film was also screened at Indian School of Business,(Hyderabad), Indian Institute of Technology,(Gandhinagar), IIT Madras, S P Jain Institute of Management and Research,(Mumbai), National Law University,(Bangalore), Indian Institute of Science,(Bangalore), NALSAR University of Law,(Hyderabad), Osmania University,(Hyderabad), MANIT,(Bhopal), Indian Institute of Technology,(Bombay), University of Allahabad,(Allahabad), Banaras Hindu University,(Varanasi), Panjab University,(Chandigarh), Himachal Pradesh University,(Shimla), Indian Institute of Technology,(Kanpur), International Chamber of Film and Entertainment, Delhi University,(Delhi), Pune University,(Pune), LNCT,(Indore), Indian Institute of Management,(Indore), Jadavpur University,(Kolkata), Gujarat University,(Ahmedabad), SKIT,(Jaipur), University of Mumbai,(Mumbai)^{[citation needed]}

Plot

Vikram Pandit (Arunoday Singh) is a happy-go-lucky management student from a business school in India. He becomes an overnight sensation after a successful social media campaign against the radical fundamentalism of moral policing in India. Little did Vikram know that he was about to become a part of a plot that would risk his life and the nation. He gets entangled between two facets of India – Socialism and Capitalism, both of which are deeply rooted in isolated corners of the country. Somewhere deep within the jungles, flagrant conspirators were gearing up to maim the Country. They had established links with the patrician society. Vikram's internet campaign pulls him into a very deep web of conspiracy. The film revolves around Vikram's survival in the sinister designs of establishment. It resolves the age long conflict between Capitalism and Socialism and defines the much-needed revolution for the contemporary India.

Cast

Arunoday Singh as Vikram Pandit
Mahi Gill as Charu Siddhu
Anupam Kher as Professor Ranjan Batki
Pallavi Joshi as Sheetal Batki
Vivek Vaswani
Anchal Dwivedi
Gopal K Singh as Naxal chief
Indal Singh as Nanhe Singh-political leader

Music

The music of this film has been created and curated by independent artists/musicians coming together as a mesmeric band "Swaang". Buddha pays tribute to the legendary Faiz Ahmed Faiz.

Trivia

The film uses a real life incident of moral policing in Mangalore where young girls were beaten up in a pub and later on they protested under an impromptu Pink Chaddi campaign. In the film it's called Pink Bra Campaign, which highlights the atrocity of moral policing in India. While shooting, director Vivek Agnihotri insisted that all crew and actors stay in hostels with students. Arunoday Singh was often mistaken to be a student.

Release

The film was cleared by censors without any deletion.^[1] claimed to be the most controversial political drama of the year is all set to release on 13 May 2016

Promotion

The film’s promotional campaign opened with videos of real life, young entrepreneurs who accomplished their dreams despite all hurdles. The campaign is promoted under the theme of #IamBuddha

The Director of the film, Vivek Agnihotri came up with an unique promotional technique wherein he screened his films at the top Business Schools , Engineering colleges and Premiere Institutions across the country to reach out to his audience, the young aspirational India.

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