Black & White (2008)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Subhash Ghai

Writers:

Sachin Bhowmick (screenplay)
Subhash Ghai (screenplay)
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Release Date:

7 March 2008 (India)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

In search of harmony

Plot:

A spy living in the house in disguise, who has a heart transformation.

Plot Keywords:

Hindu | Muslim | Jihad | Terrorist | Rain

Cast

Anil Kapoor	...	Prof. Rajan Mathur Sen Gupta
Anurag Sinha	...	Numair Qazi / Mahmood Albak
Shefali Shetty	...	Roma R. Mathur Sen Gupta (as Shefali Chhaya)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Arun Bakshi	...	Naeem Shaikh
Milind Gunaji	...	Hamid
Mushtaq Khan	...	Mohanlal Agarwal - MLA
Akash Khurana	...	Wazir Shah - Rajya Sabha Member
Aditi Sharma	...	Shagufta
Manmeet Singh	...	Kirtan Singh
Sai Tamhankar	...	Nimmo Kirtan Singh
Habib Tanvir	...	Quazi Saab

Directed by
Subhash Ghai

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Sachin Bhowmick		screenplay
Subhash Ghai		screenplay & dialogue
Akash Khurana		screenplay

Produced by
Raju Farooqui	....	producer
Mukta Ghai	....	producer
Subhash Ghai	....	producer
Rahul Puri	....	producer

Original Music by
Sukhwinder Singh

Cinematography by
Somak Mukherjee

Film Editing by
Amitabh Shukla

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Vishal Bajaj	....	assistant director
Shilpi Dasgupta	....	associate director

Visual Effects by
Anand Nayak	....	visual effects
Reupal D. Rawal	....	visual effects supervisor

Camera and Electrical Department
Abheet Gidwani	....	still photographer

Editorial Department
Kunal Moitra	....	assistant editor

Music Department
Shreya Ghoshal	....	playback singer
Hans Raj Hans	....	playback singer
Udit Narayan	....	playback singer
Shraddha Pandit	....	playback singer
Rakesh Ranjan	....	audiographer: songs
Sadhana Sargam	....	playback singer
Jagjit Singh	....	playback singer
Sukhwinder Singh	....	musical director
Sukhwinder Singh	....	playback singer

Production Companies

• Mukta Arts
• Mukta Searchlight Films

Distributors

• Eros Entertainment (2008) (India) (theatrical)
• Mukta Arts (2008) (India) (all media)
• Mukta Searchlight Films (2008) (worldwide) (all media)

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi | Urdu | Bengali

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Filming Locations:

Delhi, India

Company:

Mukta Arts

Soundtrack:

Yeh Hindustan Hai

Not the best from Mukta Arts

I saw at the beginning that it was a Mukta Arts movie. Given the history of the banner, that could lead me to expect a lot. Look at the sweet part Anil Kapoor got in Taal. And here's Anil again, with Shefali Shah this time. I always look forward to seeing her.

Short answer is that this movie isn't that good. The music is no more than average. The script is very awkward a good deal of the time. The plot asks a lot from your credulity. Just one blatant example is when they want to get the protagonist close to the Urdu professor, they fake a terrorist attack and then have him rescue the professor's cute young daughter. For that plan to work, the kid has to wander away from her parents. Since the kid isn't IN on the plan, they seem awfully lucky that she somehow gets separated on cue.

Anurag Sinha, who plays the terrorist, is certainly a kid with some potential, but how great it is doesn't show in this movie. Compare him with J. D. Chakravarthy in Satya and it becomes obvious what I mean. Satya had the same kind of protagonist, but the director did ten times as much with the same sort of personality.

Also, to me this is a different angle on the Dil Se story, but having Dil Se makes this movie look like a comedown.

It might be worth one look, but no more.