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Starring:
Nilesh Sahay, Maddalsa Sharma, Aruna Irani, Manoj Joshi
and Vaishali Thakkar
Director:
Ganesh Acharya
Ganesh Acharya who has choreographed the title tracks of
Dabangg and Golmaal 3 and the Zor ka jhatka number in
Action Replayy and directed films like Swami and Money
Hai to Honey Hai has come up with this third bollywood
movie Angel.
Angel has two debutant actors - Nilesh Sahay (Sanjay
Dutt's nephew). Nilesh is the son of yesteryear's
actress Zaheeda who was seen in the song Choodi Nahi Ye
Mera Dil haai with Dev Anand. The other debutant is
Maddalsa sharma (Television actress Sheela Sharma's
daughter).
After serving his term, he realizes that he is no more
required in the house, his family members disown him and
even his friends too show him the door. He finally finds
a friend in the daughter of the deceased victim - the
mentally challenged girl Sonal (Maddalsa Sharma) whose
father was killed by him.
Sonal’s brother and sister-in-law live in a posh
apartment, while she is subjected to stay in a chawl
with a maid to look after her. When Ajay meets the girl,
he asks for forgiveness. Sonal who is initially
outraged, mellows down and after a point even starts
liking Abhay. He too likes her, and takes up the mission
to bring the girl to normalcy.
Love brews between them amidst the physiotherapy
sessions and everything's is looking fine, until an
incident throws their life in complete disarray.
One weird thing is with the blooming romance of the
debutants, their love is all about the chanting some
incoherent Chinese mantra.
Credits & Crew:
Presented by Pushpa Krishna Creations
Produced & Directed by Ganesh Acharya
Director of Photography - Aseem Prakash Bajaj
Music - Amjad-Nadeem
Lyrics - Shabbir Ahmed
Writer - Mauzzam Beig
Associate Director - Raakesh Sahu
Executive Producer - Honey Chandok
Script Consultant - Vibha Singh
Editor - Nilesh Naik
Background Score - Adesh Shrivastava
Mixing Engineer - Leslie Fernandes
Art Director - Aashish Anant Ranade
Action - Mahendra Vrma
Choreographer - Sanjeev-Rahul
Sound - Jitendra Chaudhary
Costume Designer - Jimmy
Publicity Design - Sachin Suresh Gurav
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Nilesh and Maddalsa are in lead roles. The story is about
two people, a girl Sonal who cannot speak and a boy Abhay
who speaks a lot. Its about how Abhay meets Sonal who he
fondly calls 'Angel' and becomes her friend helping her
overcome her disability.
It begins with a Abhay (Nilesh Sahay) being beaten by the
police and who has just served a two year jail sentence. A
happy-go-lucky young man Abhay loves to live life king
size, till fate leads him to prison.
Abhay, has been in and out of jail. The first time he is
behind the bars for two years after a freak accident where
a man is hit on the road, killing him on the spot. This
time he has been inside the prison for seven years for
death of a man.
Does Sonal forgive the man who killed her dad (by default)
and will she fall in love with him to become his angel?
There is nothing impressive or new in this love story as
even the narrative is too slow till midway. Post interval,
there is a twist which somewhat accelerates the narrative
to a certain extent.
Supposed to be a naturalistic film, it has some illogical
scenes like where Abhay takes on several policemen single
handedly. Gone are those days of the angry young man in
Bollywood. The present generation does not click with such
stuff. And by the way aren’t our cops, especially the
police officers armed with guns?
Several songs are shot in foreign locations as with Aseem
Bajaj's cinematography which is quite decent. Songs in
this film are penned by Shabbir Ahmed and music directed
by Amjad Nadeem. Aadesh Shrivastav has composed the
background score.
Nilesh Sahay is fine, but needs a lot of improvement.
Maddalsa Sharma is impressive in her handicapped act.
Manoj Joshi and Aruna Irani are fine, but there is some
soul missing in this sensitive subject which otherwise
could have been a memorable tear-jerker.
- Amar Jeet
Cast:
Nilesh Sahay – Abhay
Maddalsa Sharma – Sonal
Aruna Irani
Manoj Joshi
Vaishali Thakkar |
