Issaq
| Issaq इसक | |
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| Directed by | Manish Tiwary |
| Produced by | Dhaval Gada Shailesh R. Singh |
| Starring | Prateik Babbar Amyra Dastur Ravi Kishan Makarand Deshpande Neena Gupta Prashant Narayanan Sudhir Pandey Prashant Kumar Amit Sial Vineet Kumar Yuri Suri Malini Awasthi |
| Cinematography | Vishal Sinha |
| Music by | Songs: Sachin–Jigar Sachin Gupta Krsna Background score: Prashant Pillai |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Issaq (Hindi: इसक[1]) is a 2013 Indian Hindi romantic film directed by Manish Tiwary and produced by Dhaval Gada and Shailesh R. Singh. The film, written by Padmaja Thakore-Tiwary, Manish Tiwary and Pawan Sony, was released on 26 July 2013. The film features Prateik Babbar, Rajeshwari Sachdev, Ravi Kishan and Makarand Deshpande as main characters.
Plot
Cast
- Prateik Babbar as Rahul Mishra (Romeo)
- Amyra Dastur as Bachchi Kashyap (Juliet)
- Ravi Kishan as Teeta Singh (Tybalt)
- Rajeshwari Sachdev as Paro Kashyap, Bachchi's step-mother (Lady Capulet)
- Makarand Deshpande as Baba (Friar Laurence)
- Neena Gupta as Amma (Nurse)
- Prashant Narayanan as Naxal leader
- Sudhir Pandey as Vishwanarayan Kashyap, Bachchi's father (Capulet)
- Sandeep Bose as Manohar Mishra, Rahul's father (Montague)
- Prashantt Guptha[2] as Preetam (Paris)
- Amit Sial as Murari (Mercutio)
- Vineet Kumar Singh as Bihata (Benvolio)
- Yogesh Suri as Prince
- Malini Awasthi as Manorama
- Evelyn Sharma as Roza (Rosline)
- Yuri Suri as Minister
- Akhilesh Jha as Mahender
- Saurabh Yadav as Paras
- Mehdi as Nandkishore
- Ishtiyak Khan as Reporter
- Parvez Fazal Khan as Surta
- Pradeep Ghosh as Mishrilal
Story
In this original Indian adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet directed by Manish Tiwary, we see the story transposed to Banaras and its neighbouring areas that are witness to violence unleashed by sand mafia controlled by urban elite and equally violent retaliation by Naxalite armies. The sand mafia is run by two influential Banarasi families, Kashyaps and Mishras, who are at brutal feud with each other. Kashyap has an 18-year-old, pretty and innocent daughter Bachchi from his first wife, Bachchi's role is played by Amyra Dastur who marks her debut in this film. On the other hand, Mishra's son Rahul (Played by Prateik) is a good-looking teenager with predictable interests for a boy of his background - Girls & Guns! Things change when the battle-hardened and pleasure-seeking Rahul and romantic yet head strong Bachchi fall in love. Disregarding the consequences, the young lovers choose go ahead with the dictats of their hearts. What follows is a high octane action-filled drama.
Marketing
The film was promoted in TV serial Amita Ka Amit.[3][4] The producers promoted the movie through Banarasi paan at the leading malls in Mumbai[5]
Soundtrack
Sachin - Jigar composed the songs while the background score was composed by Prashant Pillai.
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Track list
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Singer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Issaq Tera" | Mayur Puri | Sachin - Jigar | Mohit Chauhan | 3:16 |
| 2. | "Issaq Tera (Duet)" | Mayur Puri | Sachin - Jigar | Mohit Chauhan, Smita Nair Jain | 2:12 |
| 3. | "Jheeni Re Jheeni" | Sachin - Jigar | Rashid Khan, Pratibha Baghel | 7:25 | |
| 4. | "Bhole Chale" | Rahul Ram, Sachin Gupta | |||
| 5. | "Aag Ka Dariya" | Ankit Tiwari | |||
| 6. | "Enne Unne" | Keerthi Sagathia, Mamta Sharma, Tarun Sagar, Papon | |||
| 7. | "Aag Ka Dariya (Unplugged)" | Sachin Gupta | |||
| 8. | "Bhagan ke Rekhan Ki" | Malini Awasthi, Raghubir Yadav | 5:19 |
Critical response
The movie received generally negative reviews. Piyasree Dasgupta, in a review for Firstpost, summed it up as: "One wonders … what is a greater tragedy—Romeo and Juliet or what Issaq made of that classic love story."[6] Reviewing the movie for The Indian Express, Shubhra Gupta find it to be "without a singular voice of its own" and that ultimately "it drowns in its own noise."[7] The review in The Times of India calls out the poor acting by Babbar and Dastur's lack of charisma. "Manish Tiwary's Issaq lacks vibe, soul or depth needed for a classic love story. With incoherent narrative, unsketched characters, wispy (sometimes embarrassing) dialogues, one good melody in the whole ditty (Issaq tera); pointless shooting (mostly in the dark), gold-plated bandooks and bombs galore—Tiwary misses every target. There are movies beautifully adapted from Shakespeare’s works in the past, but none that tragically assault your creative, poetic or cinematic senses."[8] Sarit Ray, writing for the Hindustan Times, thinks "seldom have [Shakespeare movie adaptations] been associated with as nonsensical a mess as Manish Tiwary’s Issaq" and that "It’s a pity that Issaq joins remarkable films like Maqbool, Omkara and Angoor on the list of Bollywood adaptations of Shakespeare. In a time when works of literature are judged by their TV and film versions, it could even give the Bard a bit of a bad rep."[9]
References
- ^ "मॉर्डन रोमियो जूलियट की कहानी- इसक रिव्यू" (in Hindi). 26 July 2013. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
- ^ "Two films and much more in the kitty for actor Prashantt Guptha". www.indiannewsandtimes.com. 7 December 2015. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
- ^ "Pratiek Babbar, Amyra Dastur promote Issaq on Amita ka Amit". India Today. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
- ^ "Prateik-Amyra play cupid for Amita and Amit". The Times of India. 12 July 2015. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
- ^ "Issaq makers promote film through paan". Business Standard India. 16 July 2013. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
- ^ Dasgupta, Dasgupta. "Issaq Review: How Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet was murdered". Retrieved 16 April 2018.
- ^ Gupta, Shubhra (26 July 2013). "Movie review Issaq: Shakespeare would not be grateful for this representation". The Indian Express. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
- ^ "Issaq Movie Review". The Times of India. 26 April 2016. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
- ^ Ray, Sarit (27 July 2013). "Sarit Ray's review: Issaq". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
External links
- Issaq at Bollywood Hungama
- Issaq at IMDb