Run (2004 film)

Run
Run
Soundtrack album by Himesh Reshammiya
Released	14 May 2004 (India)
Recorded	2004
Venue	Mumbai
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Producer	Himesh Reshammiya
Himesh Reshammiya chronology

Run
Run
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Jeeva
Written by	Kamalesh Pandey (dialogue)
Screenplay by	N. Linguswamy
Story by	N. Linguswamy
Based on	Run ; by N. Linguswamy
Produced by	Surinder Kapoor (presenter); Boney Kapoor ; Sridevi ;
Starring	Abhishek Bachchan ; Bhumika Chawla ; Ayesha Jhulka ; Vijay Raaz ; Mukesh Rishi ; Mahesh Manjrekar ;
Cinematography	Jeeva
Edited by	Sanjay Verma
Music by	Original songs; Himesh Reshammiya ; Naresh Sharma; Background score; Naresh Sharma
Production; company	BSK Film Network
Distributed by	Sridevi Productions
Release date	14 May 2004;
Running time	137 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Last updated March 24, 2024

Run is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language romantic action film directed by Jeeva. It stars Abhishek Bachchan and Bhumika Chawla.^[1]^[2] It is a remake of a 2002 Tamil film of the same name for which Jeeva worked as a cinematographer. The film was produced by Boney Kapoor and Sridevi under the banner Sridevi Productions.^[3]

Plot

Siddharth alias "Sidhu" comes to New Delhi for his further studies and stays with his sister Esha from Allahabad. His spoiled friend Ganesh trails behind him and arrives later. Sidhu, through perceived destiny and chance, bumps into Janhvi and falls in love with her. Janhvi belongs to a conservative Haryanvi family where her elder brother, Ganpat, is the head and is very protective of his family, mainly his sister, after the loss of their parents.

Initially, Janhvi brushes off Sidhu's constant attempts to be with her in order to keep him safe from Ganpat. An encounter with the thugs and Sidhu leads Janhvi to encourage Sidhu to run, but he instead rises to the challenge and fights off all the thugs. While Ganpat goes to threaten Esha and her husband, Sidhu threatens him back viciously as he was one step ahead of him and planned to retaliate (though falsely) by killing Ganpat's family, excluding Janhvi.

Sidhu and Janhvi keep meeting with each other, hiding and running from Janhvi's brother and his men, while Sidhu fights off any thugs that follow him and threaten to hurt him or his family. Eventually, Ganpat decides to use his thugs to beat up a boy who was giving Sidhu a hard time in school, thus giving the impression to the principal of the school that Sidhu is a thug. Sidhu is suspended in return. Then, they hit Esha with a van and frame her husband for him to lose his job all at the same time, while Sidhu and Janhvi agree they should elope and be married before she is married off.

Meanwhile, Ganesh is constantly tricked and goes through various harsh realities about life. In the end, Ganesh loses all his money, his watch, his clothes, his hope to meet his friend Sidhu and a kidney. All his experiences end in the form of making Ganesh accidentally a "Pettycoat Baba", a saint who is believed by the people (not by Ganesh) to be living in the Himalayas for 250 years.

In the climax, Sidhu hatches a plan to bait Ganpat and his men to the wrong area and marry Janhvi with her remaining family members who care for her and Sidhu, until Ganpat gets wind of this and tracks them down. The newlyweds now have to run from a mass of thugs. This leads to a final battle which ends with a one-on-one fight with Sidhu and Ganpat. Sidhu wins and refuses to deal with the death blow, allowing him to live. Ganpat allows Janhvi and Sidhu to leave, finally accepting him as his brother in-law. Sidhu and Janhvi leave, married.

Cast

Abhishek Bachchan as Siddharth Varma alias "Sidhu"
Bhumika Chawla as Janhvi Choudhry
Ayesha Jhulka as Esha Varma (Sidhu's sister)
Vijay Raaz as Ganesh Yadav, Siddharth’s friend
Mukesh Rishi as Rajeev Kant, Sidhu’s brother-in-law
Mahesh Manjrekar as Ganpat Choudhry, Janhvi’s brother
Shweta Menon as Mrs. Shreya Choudhry, Ganpat's wife
Aanjjan Srivastav as Mr. Yadav, Ganesh's father
Goga Kapoor as Ganpat's uncle
Pankaj Tripathi as Unknown Man ^[4]
Shafi in a guest appearance

Soundtrack

Music by Himesh Reshammiya. Lyrics by Sameer.

#	Title	Singer(s)
1	"Chain Ho Chain Ho"	Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik, Jayesh Gandhi
2	"Dil Mein Jo Baat"	Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik
3	"Tere Aane Se"	Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik
4	"Tere Aane Se" (Remix)	Alka Yagnik
5	"Sarki Chunariya Re Zara Zara"	Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik
6	"Nahi Hona Nahi Hona"	Kunal Ganjawala, Richa Sharma
7	"Bade Hi Naazuk Daur Se"	Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik
8	"Tere Mere Pyaar Ke Chand"	Alka Yagnik

Reception

Taran Adarsh of IndiaFM gave the film 1 out of 5, writing, "On the whole, RUN is too weak a fare to leave any impact whatsoever."^[5] Kaveree Bamzai of India Today wrote, "For some reason Mumbai filmmakers, living in their plush, Lalique-studded Juhu bungalows, assume that small-town Indians love to see themselves ridiculed onscreen. That is the only reason why Boney Kapoor would produce a film like Run, ostensibly an action movie aimed at what is known in Bollyspeak as B-class towns. Clearly, Kapoor has not heard of the rampant glocalisation of India that economic liberalisation and satellite television have wrought."^[6]

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References

↑ "Abhishek, Bhoomika: On the run!". Rediff. Archived from the original on 9 June 2021. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
↑ "Bhoomika runs for Abhishek!". Rediff. Archived from the original on 29 May 2022. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
- Taran Adarsh (14 May 2004). "Run Review". Bollywood Hungama. Archived from the original on 29 May 2022. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
↑ Ronjita Kulkarni (14 May 2004). "Run for Abhishek!". Rediff. Archived from the original on 16 July 2014. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
↑ Mimansa Shekhar (4 September 2019). "First of Many: Pankaj Tripathi revisits Run". The Indian Express. Archived from the original on 18 March 2020. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
↑ Adarsh, Taran (14 May 2004). "Run Movie Review". IndiaFM . Archived from the original on 29 May 2022. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
↑ Bamzai, Kaveree (31 May 2004). "Run of the mill". India Today . New Delhi: Living Media. Archived from the original on 9 February 2024. Retrieved 9 February 2024.

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[1] "Abhishek, Bhoomika: On the run!". Rediff. Archived from the original on 9 June 2021. Retrieved 13 October 2020.

[2] "Bhoomika runs for Abhishek!". Rediff. Archived from the original on 29 May 2022. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
- Taran Adarsh (14 May 2004). "Run Review". Bollywood Hungama. Archived from the original on 29 May 2022. Retrieved 14 May 2020.

[3] Ronjita Kulkarni (14 May 2004). "Run for Abhishek!". Rediff. Archived from the original on 16 July 2014. Retrieved 23 February 2020.

[4] Mimansa Shekhar (4 September 2019). "First of Many: Pankaj Tripathi revisits Run". The Indian Express. Archived from the original on 18 March 2020. Retrieved 18 March 2020.

[5] Adarsh, Taran (14 May 2004). "Run Movie Review". IndiaFM . Archived from the original on 29 May 2022. Retrieved 11 May 2020.

[6] Bamzai, Kaveree (31 May 2004). "Run of the mill". India Today . New Delhi: Living Media. Archived from the original on 9 February 2024. Retrieved 9 February 2024.

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