Taxi No. 9211

Taxi No. 9 2 11
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Milan Luthria
Produced by	Ramesh Sippy Rohan Sippy
Screenplay by	Rajat Arora
Story by	Rajat Arora
Starring	Nana Patekar John Abraham Sameera Reddy Sonali Kulkarni Shivaji Satam
Narrated by	Sanjay Dutt
Music by	Vishal-Shekhar
Cinematography	Vijay Karthik
Edited by	Aarif Shaikh
Production company	Entertainment One Ramesh Sippy Entertainment
Distributed by	UTV Motion Pictures
Release date	24 February 2006 (2006-02-24)
Running time	116 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Box office	₹480 million (US$7.5 million)

Taxi No. 9 2 11 is a 2006 Indian Hindi slice-of-life drama film directed by Milan Luthria and produced by Ramesh Sippy. The film stars Nana Patekar along with John Abraham in lead roles. It released on 24 February 2006, received positive response from critics, and was a moderate success at the box office. It is a loose remake of the Hollywood film Changing Lanes.

Plot

Taxi No. 9 2 11 focuses on Raghav Shastri (Nana Patekar), a cab driver in Mumbai who lies to his wife about his job, pretending to be an insurance salesman. One day, he gives Jai Mittal (John Abraham), the spoilt son of a late businessman, a lift. Jai is fighting for ownership rights of his late father's estate. The cab gets into an accident with Jai escaping as he's in hurry. Jai loses the key to the vault containing his father's will in the back of Raghav's taxi.

Raghav decides to hide it from Jai, who, in search for his lost item, goes to Raghav's house and tells his wife what he really does for a living. She leaves him, taking their son. Raghav decides to take revenge. Raghav and Jai vow to kill each other in their fight for their properties. When Raghav fails to kill Jai he targets Jai's girlfriend, Rupali (Sameera Reddy). As Raghav chases Rupali she is saved by Jai by hair's breadth. Jai lets Rupali escape and he attacks Raghav. They have a dirty car fight but both survive.

Raghav goes to Jai's place. Jai returns to his apartment from a second court hearing regarding his father's estate in defeat, because he doesn't have his father's will. He discovers the will, torn to pieces and pasted on the wall of his apartment. Jai becomes depressed and lonely after his friends leave him. Rupali dumps him, too. Losing everything that used to be precious, Jai realises the hard-hitting life and starts respecting his father and his work.

On the other side Raghav is caught again by police and taken to police station where his wife tells him his real character and problem within himself. Soon, he realises his mistake. Jai, having realised the value of close ones, then bails Raghav out of jail. Raghav insists they have a drink and they go to Jai's house for one. They find out that they share the same birthday. Raghav gives back his will, which he had hidden in the sofa, and says that he had never destroyed it — the torn will on the wall is a fake. Raghav then goes to the railway station to stop his wife and son from leaving him, but arrives a little too late. He goes back home where he sees a birthday cake on the table. He feels that he is hallucinating, but gets a pleasant shock when he sees his wife and son standing there, singing him a birthday song (and finds out that it was Jai who brought them back).

Jai confronts Arjun Bajaj (Shivaji Satam), the friend and custodian of the property of Jai's father, whom he tells that he has realised the value of life.

Cast

• Nana Patekar as Raghav Shastri
• John Abraham as Jai Mittal
• Sameera Reddy as Rupali
• Sonali Kulkarni as Raghav's wife
• Kurush Deboo as Cyrus Batliwala
• Shivaji Satam as Arjun Bajaj
• Sanjay Dutt as Narrator
• Priyanka Chopra in a special appearance
• Akash Khurana as Jai Mittal's father
• Nasser Abdullah as Shivraj Behl
• Smita Jaykar as Rupali's mother
• Rajesh Asthana as Car owner
• Ganesh Yadav as an Inspector
• Mangal Kenkre as Judge
• Ajay Jadhav as a Constable
• Master Ashwin Chitale as Rishabh, Raghav's son
• Shankar Sachdev as Tiwari
• Anuradha as School Principal
• Bharat as Jeweller
• Vaibhav Mathur as Paanwala
• Rajeev Pandey as Flat complex watchman
• Mohammad as Lottery guy

Crew

• Director: Milan Luthria
• Producer: Ramesh Sippy, Rohan Sippy & Hussain Shaikh
• Screenplay: Manoj Tyagi
• Story: Milan Luthria
• Dialogue: Rajat Arora
• Music: Vishal-Shekhar
• Cinematography: Karthik Vijay
• Choreography: Bosco-Ceaser
• Lyrics: Dev Kohli & Vishal Dadlani
• Action: Abbas Ali Moghul
• Art Direction:Wasiq Khan
• Editing: Aarif Sheikh
• Costume Designs: Rocky S & Lajjo C

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Vishal-Shekhar with lyrics by Vishal Dadlani and Dev Kohli. The movie has six songs with two remixes. It features a song sung by yesteryear music composer Bappi Lahiri. The soundtrack was released sometime in the third week of January 2006 under the label of Saregama HMV.

Track listing

Trivia

• This movie is based, with added content and changes of context, on the Hollywood movie Changing Lanes Starring Ben Affleck and Samuel L. Jackson.
• This is the first movie soundtrack for which music composer Bappi Lahiri has sung for someone else besides himself.
• The deposit box account number of John Abraham's character, Jai Mittal, is 1129, which is 9211 backwards.
• This movie marks the comeback of actress Sonali Kulkarni in Hindi. She was last seen in Danav (2003)
• The movie was remade in Telugu as Game (2006), with Mohan Babu and his son Vishnu Babu.
• It was remade in Tamil as TN 07 AL 4777 (2009).
• The number plate MH-01-C-9211 was the same taxi used in Bluffmaster (2005) when Abhishek Bachchan chases Rietish Deshmukh for his car.

Box office

Taxi No. 9 2 11 was one of the highest grossing films of 2006.^[1] Nana Patekar and John Abraham were well applauded for their performances. Sonali Kulkarni was also appreciated.

References

External links

• Taxi No. 9211 at the Internet Movie Database