Mast (film)

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Mast
Mast movie.jpg
Poster
Directed by Ram Gopal Varma
Written byVinod Ranganathan
Ramesh Khatkar
Produced byRam Gopal Varma
Starring Urmila Matondkar
Aftab Shivdasani
Antara Mali
CinematographyPiyush Shah
Edited by Chandan Arora
Ashok Honda
Music by Sandeep Chowta
Production
company
Varma Corporation
Distributed by Eros International
B4U Entertainment
Release date
  • 15 October 1999 (1999-10-15)
Running time
153 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Mast (transl. Enchanted) is a 1999 Indian Hindi-language musical romance film directed by Ram Gopal Varma. [1] The film stars Aftab Shivdasani in his debut as a lead actor alongside Urmila Matondkar. Shivdasani won the Star Screen Award for Most Promising Newcomer – Male for his performance.

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Plot

Kittu is an arts student in Pune and is madly in love with actress and film star Malika. He has posters up on his wall and goes to all of her movies, and even fantasizes that she is there with him when he is watching these items. His father, concerned with his son's declining exam scores, confronts Kittu on his obsession and later tears down the posters. To Kittu, this is almost as bad as murder, and decides to move out and away to Mumbai, where the star, herself, lives.

Unknowing of where to go, he goes to her bungalow, but the security guard shoos him away. He finds a job at a nearby cafe. After interacting with Malika, Kittu soon finds that she is not the girl that he had pictured from her posters and movies. Being a simple orphan, exploited by her evil uncle and his family, Kittu begins to feel sorry for her and even more in love although for an unknown reason she does not report her uncle's actions to the police.

A series of events lead him to the point where he decides to convince her to run away with him. But with her being such a famous icon, Kittu soon finds it harder than he had thought to get away. The police are looking for her as is her family; and after a visit to the home of Kittu's family, as well, they are soon helping Malika enjoy her newfound freedom.

Things take a turn for the worse when Mr. Mathur is taken into custody for allegedly housing the "kidnapped" Malika. The police beat Kittu for information. Malika turns herself in to save them, and she tells the cops that Kittu rescued her and that her uncle is the one who has ill-treated her. The police then take her uncle into custody and whack him.

Malika then returns home, leaving Kittu to his life with his family and Nisha believing that they are in love. Kittu returns home as well and is devastated that she left him without an explanation or goodbye. They visit her on set one day to see that she has returned to her old life, uncle-free, but this meeting is an uncomfortable one. Through her awkward goodbye, Kittu then realizes that she believes that Kittu is going to marry Nisha.

After this realization, he then runs to Malika's dressing room from the cab to tell her of his love and the fact that she has assumed wrong. They have a heartfelt conversation of love and life, and Malika goes on to explain that she thinks that Nisha and Kittu have a love that she cannot come between. She then asks him not to see her anymore and he runs to Nisha to tell her of this belief. After hearing this, Nisha explains the situation that she loves Kittu, but Kittu has always been in love with Malika. Malika and Kittu embrace to express their love.

The closing scene shows that they get married and everyone in the story was there, including his coworkers from the cafe and the taxi driver.

Cast

Soundtrack

Mast
Soundtrack album by
Sandeep Chowta
Released24 July 1999
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Label Venus Records & Tapes

All songs were composed by Sandeep Chowta and written by Nitin Raikwar.

#TitleSinger(s)
1"Mast" Sandeep Chowta
2"Ruki Ruki" Sonu Nigam, Sunidhi Chauhan
3"Aasman Kehta Hai Rab Se"Sonu Nigam
4"Pucho Na Yaar"Sonu Nigam, Sadhana Sargam
5"Hey Rama Krishna Govinda Gopala" Asha Bhosle
6"Suna Tha"Sonu Nigam, Sunidhi Chauhan
7"Main Mast"Sunidhi Chauhan
8"Main Tere Dil Ki Malika"Sonu Nigam, Asha Bhosle
9"Na Govinda Na Shah Rukh"Asha Bhosle

Reception

Critical response

Faisal Shariff of Rediff.com wrote, "Yes, a must see. If not for the storyline, if not for Urmila Matondkar, if not for the music, then because most of us, somewhere within, nurture this secret fantasy of realising our wildest dreams. And that is what Mast is all about. Realising a dream." [2]

Box office

The film grossed ₹10.35 crore against a budget of ₹4.5 crore. [3] Boxofficeindia.com called it a "Box office flop" while Anupama Chopra wrote that the film "died an agonisingly quick death at the box office." [3] [4]

Accolades

List of awards and nominations
AwardCeremonyCategoryRecipient(s)ResultRef(s)
Screen Awards 6th Screen Awards Best Male Debut Aftab ShivdasaniWon [5]
Best Supporting Actress Antara MaliNominated [6]
Best Female Playback Sunidhi Chauhan – "Ruki Ruki"Nominated [7]

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References

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  2. ↑ Shariff, Faisal (15 October 1999). "A Mast See!". Rediff.com. Archived from the original on 9 May 2024. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
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  5. ↑ "Hum Dil De… sweeps Screen-Videocon awards". The Indian Express. 23 January 2000. Archived from the original on 5 July 2022. Retrieved 5 July 2022. while Aftab Shivdasani walked upstage to collect his trophy for Best Male Newcomer for Ramgopal Varma's musical, Mast.
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