John Day (film)
| John Day | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Ahishor Solomon |
| Produced by | Anjum Rizvi, Aatef A Khan and K Asif |
| Written by | Ahishor Solomon |
| Starring |
Naseeruddin Shah Randeep Hooda Vipin Sharma Shernaz Patel Sharat Saxena Elena Kazan |
| Music by | Kshitij Tarey & Strings |
| Cinematography | Prakash Kutty |
| Edited by | Arindam Ghatak |
Release dates |
(India)[1] |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
John Day[2] is 2013 Hindi thriller film directed by Ahishor Solomon and produced by K Asif, Anjum Rizvi and Aatef A Khan. The film features Naseeruddin Shah, Randeep Hooda, Vipin Sharma, Shernaz Patel as main characters.It is an unofficial remake of the spanish thriller "La Caja 507"
Cast
- Naseeruddin Shah as John Day
- Randeep Hooda as Gautam
- Vipin Sharma as Shinde
- Shernaz Patel as Maria Day
- Sharat Saxena as Khan Saab
- Elena Kazan as Tabassum Habibi
- Ananth Mahadevan as Vinod Pandey
- Kenneth Desai as Prakash Nair
- Makarand Deshpande as Krishnan
- Bharat Dabholkar as Ex-Mayor Deshmukh
Plot
John Day is a bank manager of Royal Citizen Co-operative Bank and lives with his wife Maria Day. The couple has recently lost their only daughter in a forest fire accident while she was on a trip with her boyfriend. Maria is always depressed and never opens up with anyone. One day when John is away for office work, a courier-boy enters the house and takes Maria as a captive. He then calls up John informing him about his wife is a hostage and tells him that a man will visit him at his bank and John has to do his work. It is shown that actually it was a planned bank heist where the visitor gagged John, opened up the cash locker and fled, meanwhile the kidnapper hammered Maria causing her a serious brain damage and she got admitted to the hospital in a state of coma.
The news spread like wildfire in all TV channels. An impatient and short tempered Police Officer Gautam (Randeep Hooda)is shocked and calls his girlfriend Tabassum to collect a very important document stored in a locker of the bank. Inside the bank, the bank authorities in the presence of the police are giving away claims to bank customers, when Tabassum approaches and claims her documents which are revealed to be some property papers called "CASABLANCA ESTATES". This surprises John Day and he follows the duo in his car and observes them depositing the file in a government property office. John bribes the office personnel and procures the original Casablanca files and investigates.
During his investigation he comes to know that police Officer Gautam is also in pursuit of the files and wants to sell them to a Mafia based organization in Dubai. Gautam is under pressure from the Mafia to handover the original documents of "Casablanca Estates". John vows to take revenge on the people who has injured his wife and actually eliminates all the informants including the kidnapper, the bank robbers and others involved. He then takes Tabassum as a captive and calls Gautam and another powerful Mafia Khan Saab(Sharat Saxena) at Gautam's place and there the truth is revealed.
Casablanca estate is nothing but 6000 acres of forest land being acquired illegally on papers by Mafia Lord Khaan Saab and Dubai based Al Hunain along with the help of Police Officer Gautam who works for Khan. They had acquired the land, registered it with the insurance company and then set fire to the place in order to get heavy compensation. It was revealed that on that fateful day when the fire erupted John Day's daughter was there for a jungle trip and perished in the same.
Meanwhile Gautam has a plan to sell the papers for billions to the Dubai based AG group and settling with his girlfriend abroad. When Khan is about to shoot Gautam for his treachery Tabassum opens fire to save him. An ensuing shoot out occurs in the room and results in Tabassum being killed, Khan and his associates badly wounded and finally, Gautam getting shot multiple times by John. John then shoots Khan Saab too. Later he is shown weeping at the graves of his daughter and wife. The film ends with a Biblical quote by Mark "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Mark 8:36".
Soundtrack
The soundtrack of John Day is composed by Kshitij Tarey & Strings & lyrics are penned by Sayeed Quadri & Strings. The Music was released on 26 August 2013. Songs are as follows:
| Track No | Song | Singer | Composer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charon Taraf | Strings | Strings |
| 2 | Kis Lamhe Mein (Female) | Aditi Singh Sharma | Kshitij Tarey |
| 3 | Kis Lamhe Mein (Male) | Kshitij Tarey | Kshitij Tarey |
Critical Response
Eat pray love Movies says, "The banner, the makers, the cast instill a sense of faith but that gets wonky sometime into the film. It looks like a well-intended film to begin with. The kind of film you want to like. But it's marred by an unenganging execution."[3]
Neha Gupta of Bollywood3 stated that the suspense that is showcased in the film is intact right till the end. She also added that as always, Naseeruddin Shah has given the best performance and is very convincing in every emotion he portrays.[4][5]
External links
References
- ↑ Tushar Joshi (13 September 2013). "Film Review: John Day is a muddled affair". DNA. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
- ↑ "Randeep Hooda - Naseeruddin Shah On The Sets Of John Day". Retrieved 17 May 2013.
- ↑ eat pray love Movies
- ↑ "John Day Review". Bollywood3. 13 Sep 2013. Retrieved 13 Sep 2013.
- ↑ "John Day - Movie Review". MovieTalkies. Retrieved 13 September 2013.