36 China Town

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36 China Town
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Abbas–Mustan
Screenplay by Shyam Goel
Story byShyam Goel
Based on Once upon a Crime (1992 film) and Crimen (1960 film)
Produced by Subhash Ghai
Starring Akshaye Khanna
Shahid Kapoor
Kareena Kapoor
Paresh Rawal
Payal Rohatgi
Johnny Lever
Tannaz Irani
Isha Koppikar
Priyanka Chopra
Tanushree Dutta
Upen Patel
Aasif Sheikh
Cinematography Ravi Yadav
Edited byHussain A. Burmawala
Music bySongs:
Himesh Reshammiya
Score:
Salim–Sulaiman
Production
companies
Distributed by Tips Industries
Release date
  • 5 May 2006 (2006-05-05)
Running time
134 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi English
Budget 19 crore [1]
Box office 38 crore [2]

36 China Town is a 2006 Indian Hindi-language mystery thriller comedy film directed by Abbas-Mustan and produced by Subhash Ghai. [3] It is an official adaption of the 1992 American film Once upon a Crime (which in turn is a remake of the 1960 Italian film Crimen ).[ citation needed ]

Contents

The film stars an ensemble cast of Akshaye Khanna, Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Vivek Shauq, Upen Patel (in his debut), Paresh Rawal, Payal Rohatgi, Johnny Lever and Tannaz Irani; while Isha Koppikar, Priyanka Chopra and Tanushree Dutta make special appearances. The film follows the investigation of a police officer trying to find the killer of a wealthy casino owner, Sonia Chang. [4] [5] [6] [7]

Plot

The only child of millionaire Sonia Chang, Vicky, has been kidnapped. To get her son back, she puts out a reward of 25 lakh rupees. She lives in her huge mansion named "36 China Town" in Goa with a housekeeper couple, Mr. and Mrs. Lobo. Sonia is consoled by Rocky, a local.

Raj, a struggling actor, and Priya, who ran away from home, meet each other. They find a child who appears to be all alone in Mumbai. They take pity on him, but after seeing a missing persons advertisement, they realise that the child is the son of Sonia Chang. Tempted by the reward money, they team up and decide to bring the child back home. Before leaving, they call Chang and tell her that they have her child. She was discussing the change in her will with her lawyer, Mr. Dixit, when the duo informed her. Meanwhile, Raj starts falling in love with Priya.

Raj and Priya come to Goa, where they run into a drunkard loitering near Sonia's mansion. The drunkard runs away on seeing them. They are horrified to see Sonia dead. The duo runs, but finds that the child is left inside the mansion. Raj enters the mansion again to take him. He sees two eyes and legs behind a cupboard. Terrified, he gets out of the mansion with the child. Raj and Priya then inform Goa police about the murder. Raj and Priya go back to the mansion to take her suitcase. Raj is arrested by Inspector Karan. Raj refuses to name Priya. She takes Vicky to a church to drop him off but is seen by Rocky with the kid. Rocky calls the police. Priya also gets arrested and sent to jail. Priya and Raj become the prime suspects in the murder. Inside the jail, both fall for each other.

Karan calls Rocky to the police station. But seeing Rocky's eyes, Raj recollects that it was Rocky's eyes and shoes which he had seen behind the cupboard. Rocky then says that he was in another room that night. He had found Sonia already murdered. Panicked, he was about to get out of the house when Raj and Priya entered and started searching for Sonia. Karan is able to reconstruct what actually happened that night. Based on Mr. Dixit's statement about the will and everybody's statement. First, he procures the drunkard, whom Raj and Priya believe to be the murderer. But Karan goes on to explain that he is, in fact, the kidnapper.

Karan explains that the kidnapper was hired by the killer, but the kidnapper lost the child, who was then found by Raj and Priya in Mumbai. After Sonia is informed about the child's discovery, the killer murdered Sonia, while other people incriminated themselves through circumstances. The real killers are Mr. and Mrs. Lobo. According to Sonia Chang's initial will, after her death, the person who was most close to her son (which were her housekeepers) would inherit everything, but then one day she found out about their evil intentions and decided to change her will, which led to them murdering her.

Raj and Priya are given custody of Vicky.

Cast

Awards and nominations

Winner

Nominated

Soundtrack

36 China Town
Soundtrack album by
ReleasedApril 21, 2006
Genre Feature film soundtrack
LanguageHindi
Himesh Reshammiya chronology
Humko Deewana Kar Gaye
(2006)
36 China Town
(2006)
Tom, Dick, and Harry
(2006)

The music was composed by Himesh Reshammiya. Lyrics were penned by Sameer. The music was released by Tips Music. According to the Indian trade website Box Office India, with around 12,00,000 units sold, this film's soundtrack album was the year's ninth highest-selling. [8]

The song "Aashiqui Mein Teri" was remade as "Aashiqui Mein Teri 2.0" for Reshammiya's 2020 film Happy Hardy and Heer and is performed by Reshammiya and singer Ranu Mondal. [9] [10]

Track listing

No.TitleSinger(s)Length
1."24x7 I Think of You" Shaan, Sunidhi Chauhan 5:13
2."Aashiqui Mein Teri"Himesh Reshammiya, Sunidhi Chauhan4:53
3."Badi Dilchaspi Hai" K. K., Arya5:26
4."Dil Tumhare Bina"Himesh Reshammiya, Alka Yagnik 5:23
5."Jab Kabhi" Kunal Ganjawala, Alka Yagnik5:21
6."24x7 I Think of You (DJ Akbar Sami Remix)"Sunidhi Chauhan, Shaan4:16
7."Aashiqui Mein Teri (DJ Akbar Sami Remix)"Himesh Reshammiya, Sunidhi Chauhan4:16
8."Badi Dilchaspi Hai (Remix by DJ Akbar Sami)"K. K., Arya4:08
9."Dil Tumhare Bina (Remix by DJ Akbar Sami)"Himesh Reshammiya, Sunidhi Chauhan4:51
10."Jab Kabhi (Remix by DJ Suketu)"Kunal Ganjawala3:02
11."Jab Kabhi (Remix by DJ Akbar Sami)"Kunal Ganjawala, Alka Yagnik5:02

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