NAQAAB-DISGUISED INTENTIONS
NAQAAB-DISGUISED INTENTIONS
Director: Abbas Mustan
Karan(Bobby Deol) and Sophia (Urvashi Sharma) live together as friends and lovers in big house of Karan. After a song with bambaiyaa romance, Sophiya falls in love with Vicky(Akshay Khanna). Vicky is working for a man called Rohit who forces him to be in love with Sophia. During whole film somebody catching romance of Sophia and Vicky through cameras. When karan knows about their affair he becomes angry and instead of killing Sophia / Vicky, he kills himself. Then what happens? For whom Vicky was working? Why Karan kills himself? For these answers you should see NAQAAB.
In past, Abbas Mustan had succeeded to create suspense thriller in pure hindi films style (of course inspired from some English flick like Daraar- sleeping with enemy, Aetraaz- Disclosure etc..) They give entertaining thrillers for both mass and class.
Naqaab is abbas mustan’s latest thriller. The promos and poster claims the film “Most shocking thriller of the year” 50% it is true and 50% is bakwaas. Story- Screenplay Sheeraz ahmed has taken a good concept but somehow while showing triangular love story and suspense drama, the content is messed up.
Performance wise Akshay khanna is heart of the film. Though his dancing in jeans and t-shirts, he looks embarrassing but it becomes negligible in front of his performance. Bobby Deol is also good. Introducing Urvashi Sharma looks so beautiful and managed average acting in her first film. Instead of abbas mastan’s regular Johny lever here Vikash Kalantri and Vishal are there. Both have managed to give comic relief but not at the level of johny lever(Baazigar, Darrar, 36 china town, humraaz)
Cinematorgraphy (Ravi yadav), and Editing(Hussain Burmawala) kuchh khaas nahi hai. Music(Pritam Chkravorthy) is average. Thanks to directors that they have put only 3 songs in the film. “e dil paagal mere dil” and “ek din” both are average songs and after watching the film you would not take the music to home.
Abbas mustan’s last release 36 china town had good songs and comedy but failed to create suspense, Naqaab has also that fault. Climax tak abbas mustan thrilling aur chilling moments create karne me kaamyaab rahe hai par jab suupense khoolta hai to kuchh had tak hazam nahi hota. Par abbas mastan ki filmo ka ek strong point isme bhi hai – film’s speed that does not make you bored at any time. But they should change their style – unki 2002 ki Humraaz aur latest naqaab me trematment ke maamle jyaada kuchh difference nahin hai.
In short, Naqaab is an average film that entertains you well but plase do not find any logic for the suspense.
Tags: abbas mustan, akshaye khanna, bobby deol, Cinematography, Direction, naqaab, urvashi sharma
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
Abbas Mustan’s NAQAAB-DISGUISED INTENTIONS is also inspired by DOT THE I by Matthew Parkhill.
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my review
abinash,forget about copying, the producers’ message proclaims that it is an original work and any infringement of copyright will be seriously dealt with and blah, blah , blah…They have the audacity to claim copyright to the copy itself..And forte of Abbas-Mustan is giving tried and tested the Indian tadka..They have been successful to quite an extent so far..And now it seems they are going out of steam or not tuned to the pulse of changing audience tastes..
Shailesh to me Naqaab was bearable for Urvashi Sharma..To me she seems a real star in the making..She is natural with oodles of chutzpah.
ajay,i just read your review on naqaab and agree with you on Urvashi to a tee.
Dude, you need to improve your English before posting any reviews. Your articles are terrible,
it is something of a torture to read your language.
I love Urvashi Sharma since “Something Something” video of Mika.
She is gorgeous.
sudheer, soory dude i can write in this “hinglish” manner only. pure hindi will be embarrassing to all other guys and I am not comfortable with too much sophisticated english.
krysh, MY FAVOURITE DIRECTOR SANTOSH USED TO SAY “THE MOST VITAL ASPECT OF CREATIVITY IS TO BE ORIGINAL. IT IS ENOUGH TO CONVIENCE OTHERS OF A GREAT WORK BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY YOU SHOULD ABLE TO LOOK AT YOURSELF, & ASK YOUR SOUL IF IT WAS YOU BEST EFFORT.” & its veyr true for me.
The director dio copies each and every scene. I dont have a problem in that but many stories in India are just crying out to be made.
BY THE WAY DID YOU SEE THAT MOVIE “DOT THE I”???