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Directed by | Anand Rai |
Produced by | Uday Tiwari, Raj Kundra |
Written by | Gaurav Sinha, Himanshu Sharma |
Starring | Jimmy Shergill, Kay Kay Menon, Nandana Sen, Sonali Kulkarni |
Music by | Vinay Tiwary |
Cinematography | Manoj Gupta |
Editing by | Sanjay Sankla |
Release date(s) | 14 December 2007 |
Running time | 100 min |
Country | India |
Language | Hindi |
Strangers is 2007 Hindi movie directed by Anand Rai and starring Jimmy Shergill, Kay Kay Menon, Nandana Sen, Sonali Kulkarni.[1] It is an adaption of the 1951 Hitchcock movie Strangers on a Train.
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Rahul, a flop writer, and Mr Rai, a management professional giant, are travelling in business class compartment of train in England from Southampton to London. The claustrophobia of closed space and fact that they both are Indians binds them in chatting. The chatting get more and more personal and they both learn that they are not happy with their married life. Rai is living miserable life. After his son's death, his wife Nandini is in state of madness. Likewise Rahul is not respected by his wife after crash of his ambitious career as writer. Rahul and Rai come to mutual conclusion that only way to get out of their painful life is to kill each other's wife. [2][3][4][5]
This is first movie by Anand Rai as director. Earlier Anand Rai (younger brother of Ravi Rai) has worked as associate director for the 2000 Hindi film Anjaane directed by Ravi Rai[6][7]. The English translation of the Hindi word anjaane is strangers.