Black & White (2008)

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
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

Hmmmmmmm

"Black and White" directed by Subhash Ghai is about a Muslim terrorist from Afghanistan who aspires to come to India and cause a Hindu massacre. Anurag Sinha, who plays this role, looks as shady and dangerous as the role permits him to, from the moment he first steps out of that train ,into Delhi. He lives undercover in a friend's house, changing his identity so that he's not discovered. All the Muslims around seem to know his secret, although they don't know how mean and fanatical he is. This is a man purely acting on revenge, and not reason. Anyways, Anil Kapoor plays a kind-hearted professor that has a lot of tolerance. You can imagine when he is Hindu and has the Quran memorized. Now, the regular Indian clichéd plot of this movie would be that Anil Kapoor influences the terrorist so much with his compassion and love, that the terrorist doesn't end up bombing the Hindu temple and killing all those people. Although the movie works towards this ending, the terrorist doesn't. Sinha's face is pretty much that of a terrorist: his expression is dead serious. I can't imagine him hugging anyone or even smiling. It looks so ridiculous when Aditi Sharma (a Muslim girl who loves him) imagines them running around on a train, hugging and laughing at each other. The general fantasy and dreamy spirit that wells up inside of me when listening to such songs, wasn't there…it didn't work as well as I wanted it to.