Nazar (2005 film)

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Nazar
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Directed by Soni Razdan
Written by Mahesh Bhatt
Produced by Mukesh Bhatt
Starring
CinematographyAnshuman Mahaley
Edited byAmitabh Shukla
Music by
Production
company
Release date
  • 20 May 2005 (2005-05-20)
Running time
137 minutes [1]
CountriesIndia
Pakistan [2]
LanguageHindi

Nazar is a 2005 Hindi-language supernatural thriller film directed by Soni Razdan, starring Meera and Ashmit Patel. [3] [4] An Indo-Pak co-production, [2] [5] the film marks the debut of Pakistani actress Meera in Hindi films. [6] It is inspired by the 1991 film 100 Days , which itself took inspiration from the 1978 American film Eyes of Laura Mars . [7]

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Released on 20 May 2005 alongside Naina , another film based on the theme of extra-sensory perception, Nazar was a box-office bomb. [8]

Plot

Nazar revolves around a young and talented pop star Divya (Meera). From the start it is obvious the existence of a strange aura surrounding Divya's personality. She is a girl who has lived a secluded life after the death of her parents in a car crash. After shooting her last video she decides she wants to go home. Along the way, despite the darkness she discovers a dead body on the middle of the road.

From this moment on Divya has visions of the future, rather than an art it becomes like a curse for Divya as all she sees is brutal murders. In her visions all she sees is dance-bargirls being stabbed, strangled and suffocated to death by a killer whose face continues to elude Divya's clairvoyance.

Unknowing to her, a policeman, Rohan (Ashmit Patel), is investigating murders of bargirls in the city. A serial killer is on the loose and Rohan has the case to nab him.

Rohan buys Divya's story (about her visions of murders) but his female assistant Sujata (Koel Purie) does not. Taking help of Divya's clairvoyance, he begins to zero down on prime suspects that include a doctor, a fugitive and an eccentric-alcoholic uncle who frequents bars regularly.

As the movie progresses, Divya becomes the next on the murders list of the unknown killer who might have been the same who killed the person on the road that she found that night.

In the end, it turns out that Sujata is the serial killer: her husband slept with a bargirl who passes AIDS to him, who in turn gave the disease to Sujata. From then on, she developed a dislike for the bar girls in the city and goes on a killing spree. She dies at the end by falling off a building.

Cast

Soundtrack

Nazar
Soundtrack album by
Anu Malik
Roop Kumar Rathod
Released23 April 2005
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Label T-Series

The Soundtrack was composed by Anu Malik & Roop Kumar Rathod

No.TitleLyricsMusicSinger(s)Length
1."Nazar Nazar" Sayeed Quadri Anu Malik KK 6:54
2."Mohabbat Zindagi Hai"Sayeed QuadriAnu Malik Shreya Ghoshal 5:41
3."Pyar Asth"Sayeed QuadriAnu Malik Sunidhi Chauhan 6:41
4."Ali Ali" Shakeel Azmi Roop Kumar Rathod Shubha Mudgal6:48
5."Shor Machale"Sayeed QuadriAnu MalikSunidhi Chauhan4:48
6."Nazar Nazar" (Remix)Sayeed QuadriAnu Malik KK 7:16
7."Pyar Asth" (Instrumental)   6:40
8."Mohabbat Zindagi Hai" (Instrumental)   5:37

Reception

Taran Adarsh from Bollywood Hungama gave the film 1.5 stars out of 5, noting the film's similarities with Eyes of Laura Mars and The Eye , and remarking that while it had a few scary moments to bank upon, the weak screenplay was its biggest undoing. [9] Raja Sen from Rediff.com praised Meera's performance, while feeling the film's plot itself was "an amalgamation of a half-dozen unnecessary to identify DVDs." [10]

Controversy

The film was controversial in Pakistan for depicting a kissing scene between Meera and Ashmit Patel, which was deemed as being against Islamic ethnic and moral values in the country. [11] Meera was fined by the Pakistani government, [12] [13] while Patel was not able to attend the film's premiere in Pakistan as his visa application was rejected. [14]

References

  1. ↑ "Nazar". British Board of Film Classification .
  2. 1 2 "'There's more to Nazar than just kissing'". Rediff.com . Retrieved 19 May 2005. I am upset because Nazar will not be released in Pakistan, even though it is an Indo-Pak production.
  3. ↑ "Thriller sans scares". Thehindu.com. 27 May 2005. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
  4. ↑ "Nazar (2005)". Indiancine.ma.
  5. ↑ "'Nazar is entirely my film'". Hindustan Times . Retrieved 25 May 2005. It's a story set in Mumbai. It's a serial killer murder mystery with an edge of the supernatural. But this is an Indo-Pakistan co-production.
  6. ↑ "Film-kiss star demands protection". News.bbc.co.uk. 2 March 2005. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  7. ↑ "Mahesh Bhatt's Ten WORST Writing Jobs!". Rediff.com . Retrieved 6 August 2012. For wife Soni Razdan's directorial debut, Bhatt sources his ideas from Madhuri Dixit-starrer 100 Days, which itself took inspiration from Eyes of Laura Mars.
  8. ↑ "Nazar - Movie". Box Office India .
  9. ↑ "Nazar Movie Review: NAZAR has a few scary moments to bank upon, but a weak screenplay is its biggest undoing". Bollywood Hungama . Retrieved 20 May 2005.
  10. ↑ "Nazar is just tolerable". Rediff.com . Retrieved 20 May 2005.
  11. ↑ "Cross-border kiss stirs up passions in Pakistan". The Guardian .
  12. ↑ "'Even if I have kissed, what wrong have I done?'". Rediff.com . Retrieved 24 February 2005.
  13. ↑ "Pak actress fined for kissing!". Rediff.com . Retrieved 23 February 2005.
  14. ↑ "19 Years of Nazar EXCLUSIVE: Ashmit Patel reveals the Pakistan government rejected his visa application due to his intimate scene with Meera: "It was clearly a message that DON'T kiss our lady"". Bollywood Hungama . Retrieved 21 May 2024.
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