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Muskaan
India 2004
produced by Bhushan Kumar, Krishna Kumar, N.R. Pachisia
directed by Rohit Manash, Rohit Nayyar, Manish Robin, Manish Sharma
starring Aftab Shivdasani, Gracy Singh, Parvin Debas, Neha, Vrajesh Hirjee, Anjala Zaveri, Gulshan Grover, Ranjeev Verma, Razak Khan, Sharat Saxena
written by Atul Sharma, music by Nikhil, Raju Rao, Vinay
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Fashion designer Sameer (Aftab Shivdanasi) and young Muskaan (Gracie
Singh) fall in love over the phone, without ever having met each other.
Then though they meet at a hotel where he puts up a fashion show, without
actually knowing the identity of one another, and through a series of
misunderstandings, they come to hate each other - until Sameer notices
that she would be just the right model to open his show, and she notices
what a big heart he has, and suddenly they find themselves working with
each other, with Muskaan spending a whole night training on her own when
he tells her her modelling is less than perfect and she doesn't want to
let him down.
Enter Jahnvi (Neha), the girl who's madly in love with Sameer, even if
he regards her as nothing more than a good friend, and she gets so jealous
of Muskaan that she tries to insult her at every opportunity - until she
gets into a serious row with Sameer - after which she is found dead in her
room, slaughtered. And Sameer is seen at the crimescene. Of course, now
everything points to Sameer as the culprit, and the investigating cop
(Gulshan Grover) is already ready to arrest him - when an answering
machine tape turns up that has recorded the last minutes of Jahnvi's life,
including her death, and which identifies Sameer's close friend Satin
(Vrajesh Hirjee)as the killer, a fashion designer who has always been
jealous of Sameer's success and who has also hired an inept contract
killer to off him, but who has so far in the movie only served as the gay
(gay as in homosexual) comic relief.
Sameer and Satin slug it out on top of some cliffs, and in the end,
Sameer manages to push Stin off the cliffs to his death ... and of course,
he also gets the girl - Muskaan - whom he finally recognizes as the voice
on the phone he has fallen in love with at the beginning of the film.
Weak romance/thriller in which way too much time is spent with the
rather hokey setup about the leads falling in love over the phone, a
subplot that is pretty much abandoned once the two meet and never really
picked up again, while the thriller part of the movie is never really
allowed to come into its own, only taking up about half an hour of the
film's 2+ hours of running time. Not worth your time and money.
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