Maatr
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Ashtar Sayed |
| Story by | Michael Pellico |
| Produced by | Michael Pellico |
| Starring | Raveena Tandon Alisha Khan Madhur Mittal Divya Jagdale Anurag Arora Rushad Rana Saleem Khan Shalee Goel |
| Music by | Fuzon |
Production company | CDB Musical Production |
Release date |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Maatr (English: Mother) is an Indian thriller film written by Michael Pellico and directed by Ashtar Sayed. Michael Pellico is the executive producer under the banner CDB Musical. It features Raveena Tandon in the lead role alongside Madhur Mittal, Divya Jagdale, Shailendra Goel, Anurag Arora, Saheem Khan and Rushad Rana. Casting is by Rajesh Gautam. The music is created by a Pakistani Sufi rock band Fuzön.
The film’s principal photography commenced in March 2016. The film is shot in Delhi and Haryana.[1] The film was released on 21 April 2017.[2][3][4][5]
Plot
Vidya Chauhan (Raveena Tandon) is a school teacher living in Delhi with her husband Ravi (Rushad Rana) and teenaged daughter Tia (Alisha Khan). One night she is returning home from a school event with her daughter when she decides to take a deserted route to avoid a huge traffic jam. Vidya and her daughter are kidnapped by the Chief Minister’s son Apurva Malik (Madhur Mittal) and his friends who take the women to a farmhouse and gang rape them before dumping their bodies on the roadside. Tia dies as a result of the assault but Vidya survives. She names the CM’s son and his friends as the attackers. However, the men use their influence to get away.
Vidya moves in with her friend Ritu (Divya Jagdale) after her husband leaves her. She decides to hunt down and punish her daughter’s killers. First up is Sikander Beniwal. She loosens the screws on tyres of his bike causing a severe accident that kills him. She notes down the numbers and names of his friends from his phone. She finds out that one of the men, Inder Jhangra has been abusing Meenal, one of her students and Tia’s friend. She helps Meenal poison Inder when he tries to abuse her in a hotel room. The inspector on the case Akhil Sachdeva is starting to get suspicious of Vidya but has no proof. Apurva Malik and his friends have also become suspicious. They beat up Ravi in order to pressure Vidya to back off.
One night Ritu takes Vidya out for dinner. Vidya doesn’t know that the restaurant is owned by Harshit Poojari, one of the rapists who attacked her. When Harshit sees her on the cctv cameras, he calls Apoorva who tells him to hold her. He also calls his other friends before following Vidya to the bathroom. In the ensuing scuffle Vidya stabs him and manages to escape in a taxi. She is followed by Kamran Qureshi, Poojari’s accomplice. Kamran rams his car into her taxi and shoots the driver before accidentally dropping his gun. Vidya grabs the gun and kills him before rushing home. Back home she tells Ritu the truth. Inspector Suchdeva comes to question her but leaves without getting anything out of her. Apoorva’s men beat up Ritu and she lands up in the hospital. Vidya decides to go after the rest of them.
She uses a fake name to set up a meeting at a building under construction with Sofi who is a property dealer. Once there, she holds him at gun point and makes him call Apoorva and tell him that he is turning himself and the others in to the police. Sofi then jumps off the building and kills himself knowing the Apoorva will kill him now. Sutti Mama who had driven Sofi there sees Vidya come out of the building with a gun in her hand and jumps into his car and drives away. His car is hit by a truck and he dies on the spot. Apoorva finally tells his father to tell the cops to stop Vidya. But before they can do that, she sneaks into the CM’s house during Holi and kills Apoorva and his father before walking away.
Cast
- Raveena Tandon as Vidya Chauhan
- Divya Jagdale as Ritu, Vidya's friend
- Saheem Khan as Sub-Inspector Akhil Sachdeva
- Madhur Mittal as Apurva Malik
- Shailendra Goel as Govardhan Malik
- Anurag Arora as Inspector Jayant Shroff
- Alisha Khan as Tia Chauhan
- Rushad Rana as Ravi Chauhan, Vidya's husband
- Pranav Brara as Sofi
- Amisha Sinha as Meenal, Tia's friend and schoolmate
- Piyush Kaushik as Sikander Beniwal
- Nitin Sharma as Inder Jhangra
- Ishan Bhatt as Kamran Qureshi
- Bhuvan Kaila as Harshit Poojary
- Sutinder Singh as Sutti Mama
Soundtrack
- "Zindagi Ae Zindagi"; Singer: Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
References
- ^ "Raveena Tandon wraps up 'Maatr – The Mother". Retrieved 28 July 2016.
- ^ "Raveena Tandon gears up for the release of 'The Mother'". Bollywood Hungama. Retrieved January 13, 2017.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "'Maatr' Gets Censor Clearance in Time for Release". thequint.com. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ "Maatr is not made just for Indians, it is for global audience: Michael Pellico". deccanchronicle.com. 8 April 2017. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ "Raveena Tandon on Maatr: Women have no objection to the film". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
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