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By Sanjay Shah ©2003 Bollyvista.com |
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Credits
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| Producer/s: |
Karma Network Ltd. and Zee Telefilms Ltd. |
| Director: |
Tigmanshu Dhulia |
| Cast: |
Jimmy Shergill, Hrishita Bhatt, Irrfan Khan, Ashutosh Rana, Tinnu Anand, Sudhir Pandey, Raj Zutshi, Sharat Saxena and Rajpal Yadav |
| Music: |
Jatin-Lalit |
| Lyrics: |
Israr Ansari, Kausar Pandey, Devmani Pandey, Vinod Mahendra and Satyaprakash |
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Now that’s what a cinema is. Debutante director Tigmanshu Dhulia’s film Haasil is a remarkable piece of creativity and a lesson for those who are living in an illusion that making a film that could appeal all Indians has become a Herculean task. Frame to frame, shot to shot, Haasil unwraps a story that may sound routine told imaginatively and so, at the end of the movie, the viewer feels highly satisfied.
Haasil revolves around a north Indian college politics. Gaurishankar Pandey (Ashutosh Rana) and Ranvijay Singh (Irrfan Khan) are archrivals and the former is the current president of the student union. The lives of both men have just one motive, beat, kill, exploit and threaten anyone but make sure you rule the college. And to achieve their goals, both do best of the tricks. Pandey is funded and helped by his chief minister uncle Kanwal Nath Tiwari (Sudhir Pandey) and he also forces all Brahmin students to take oath that they will vote only for their Brahmin brother in forthcoming the election. Ranvijay has a comparatively small followers but he keeps brainwashing his aides saying that they are guerillas and so they should fight like them.
And Ranvijay spots Aniruddh (Jimmy Shergill) just before the election. Fondly called as Ani, this guy is a simpleton student who enjoys the company of friends and acting in college dramas. When Ranvijay happens to spot Ani, his heart has already started beating for Niharika (Hrishita Bhatt), a daughter of thakur N.N. Singh (Sharat Saxena). Both Ani and Niharika represent the next-door youngsters. One day, Ani’s friend Babul’s (Raj Kanojia) mother is molested in the market and Ani seeks Ranvijay’s help to take revenge. He happily obliges and befriends the guy. Ranvijay then uses Ani and his positive image to corner votes of students. Also, he helps Ani and Niharika meet regularly in a closed-down theatre where the girl’s father just can’t reach.
Pandey in frustration orders a massacre in Ranvijay’s native and in turn, Ranvijay kills him. The drama that happens afterwards has an innocent love story of Ani and Niharika, Ranvijay’s dirty games to rule the college and also to snatch Niharika from Ani and Pandey’s brother Badri’s attempt of saving the kingdom his brother has left behind.
Haasil is a high voltage movie with just a few mistakes. In fact, while seeing film in the dark, one would find it really difficult to locate mistakes except one that the climax sequence is little longer than desired. Tigmanshu’s way of unfolding the narrative is as good as faultless. And as a writer of the film, he has done a great job that helps the film to grow on the mind with each passing moment. He has conceived and executed all the characters, be it a small or a big one, in a fine manner. That’s why the viewer will love to see Ani’s father (Tinnu Anand), Suggi the paper vendor, Ranvijay’s man at Mumbai (Rajpal Yadav), Jackson (Raj Zutshi) and others.
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