Shikhar (film)

Shikhar
Directed by	John Matthew Matthan
Produced by	John Matthew Matthan
Written by	Abbas Tyrewala
Starring	Ajay Devgn Bipasha Basu Shahid Kapoor Amrita Rao
Music by	Viju Shah
Cinematography	A. K. Bir
Distributed by	Cinematt Pictures Pvt. Ltd.
Release dates	30 December 2005 (2005-12-30)
Running time	156 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Shikhar (English: Pinnacle, Devnagari: शिखर) is an Bollywood drama film directed by John Matthew Matthan. The film stars Shahid Kapoor, Ajay Devgn, and Bipasha Basu in lead roles. The storyline is based on lands, villages, and how some businessmen can cross any line of greed to get what he desires, and go to any length. The film released on 30 December 2005.

Plot

The story is about Gaurav Gupta (Ajay Devgan), a successful rich businessman, who started with nothing and now believes that only money can fuel his ambitions. When he interests himself on building a tower at an abandoned social village place, he makes his mind up and agrees to build the tower at any cost. However, the owner of the village place, Shrikant Vardhan (Javed Sheikh) does not accept the tower to be built. Therefore, Gaurav tricks Shrikant's son Jaidev (Shahid Kapoor) who is infected by the get-rich-quick virus.

Jaidev, who while respecting his father's philosophy, falls hook, line and sinker for Gaurav's gilt-edged dreams. Gaurav uses his girlfriend Natasha (Bipasha Basu) to charm Jaidev by pretending to be in love with him so Jaidev could support them instead of his own father. However, Shrikant still hopes that Jaidev will return to his roots. Gaurav and Natasha together trick Jaidev all the way long by pretending to be an construction/Ad agency partnered with actor John Abraham.

Jaidev falls for the whole plan, all along, with Gaurav blackmailing him, without him even knowing! However, according to Shrikant's philosophy, truth always beats lies. Who will win this war of greed vs. nature?

Cast

• Ajay Devgan as Gaurav Gupta (G.G.)
• Bipasha Basu as Natasha
• Shahid Kapoor as Jaidev Vardhan (Jai)
• Amrita Rao as Madhavi
• Javed Sheikh as Srikanth Vardhan
• Sushant Singh as Bhajanlal
• Manoj Joshi (actor) as Amrit Patil
• Raj Zutshi as Himself (cameo appearance)
• John Abraham as Himself (cameo appearance)
• Farha Naaz as Kusum
• Jaywant Wadkar as Goon

Soundtrack

The film's soundtrack is composed by Viju Shah with lyrics penned by Sudhakar Sharma, Anita Sarkar, Chandrashekhar Rajit and Manohar Iyer.

Tracklist

External links

• Shikhar at the Internet Movie Database
• Review at ApunKaChoice.Com