Waisa Bhi Hota Hai Part II

Infobox_Film
name = Waisa Bhi Hota Hai Part II


caption = DVD cover of "Waisa Bhi Hota Hai Part II"
amg_id = 1:305846
imdb_id = 0387678
writer = Shashanka Ghosh
starring = Arshad Warsi
Prashant Narayanan
Sandhya Mridul
Anant Jog
director = Shashanka Ghosh
producer = Rahul Misra
Sameer Gupta
distributor = Impact Films
released = Flagicon|India November 14, 2003
runtime =
language = Hindi
music = Vishal Dadlani
Shekhar Ravjiani
Saibal Basu
Abhinav Dhar
Shibani Kashyap
cinematography = Andre Menezes
editing = Neerav Ghosh
runtime = 138 minutes
country = Flagicon|India India
awards =
budget =

"Waisa Bhi Hota Hai Part II" (Hindi: वैसा भी होता है, English: "It Happens That Way Too"), a 2003 Indian movie starring Arshad Warsi, is one of the few cult movies of Bollywood. Shashanka Ghosh, the creative driver behind the launch of MTV and Channel V in India, marks his debut as a director with this film. [http://waisabhihotahai.indiatimes.com/cast.htm Shashanka Ghosh] Running in many parallel threads, the movie is in equal parts a comedy, satire, crime, and a Bollywood masala film. The film is most famous for its song "Allah ke Bande" performed by Kailash Kher.

Tagline: "a not-normal urban film"

Plot

Puneet Sayal (Arshad Warsi) is a copywriter with a dream. Some Day, he will have earned enough to dump his job, and live peacefully in Nainital. Till the said dream materialises however, he's living in Bombay with his girlfriend Agni (Sandhya Mridul).

Things go asunder one day when he finds out his brother's been shot dead - A brother he's hardly acknowledged in the past. Agni finds out, and throws him out of the house. Puneet goes on a drinking spree that leads him to a park bench where he witnesses someone being shot. He doesn't know it yet, but this is the end of his life as he knows it.

He saves the injured man - a gangster called Vishnu (Prashant Narayanan)- and the act lands him squarely in the middle of Bombay's famed gang wars.

The war between two ganglords - Ganpat (Anant Jog) and Gangu (Pratima Kazmi) is a second thread in the film. Ganpat is the dominant kingpin, and Gangu is the perpetual second-in-place who's never given up her dreams of displacing Ganpat as top don.

Cast

* Arshad Warsi as Puneet Sayal
* Prashant Narayanan as Vishnu
* Sandhya Mridul as Inspector Agni Sinha
* Anant Jog as Ganpat
* Pratima Kazmi as Gangu Tai
* Suchitra Pillai as Shalu
* Manini De as Suman

Reception

The film did poorly at the box office in most parts of India. However, a small audience in urban India did find the film interesting and have compared it with the likes of other cult classics. Arshad Warsi and Prashant Narayanan were highly appreciated for their performances. Singer Kailash Kher, however, won the most plaudits for his brilliant voice in the chart-topping song, "Allah ke Bande".

Trivia

* The film is not a sequel to any other film. "Part I" and "Part III" are included in the same movie. "Part I" runs for about 9 minutes before "Part II" starts, while "Part III" runs for less than a minute before the end credits for the film rolls.
* In the credits, the film-makers acknowledges the Coen Brothers, Quentin Tarantino, Ram Gopal Varma, Takeshi Kitano, Mahesh Manjrekar and Ramesh Sippy as inspiration.
* Singers Kailash Kher, Shibani Kashyap and Rabbi Shergill make a cameo in the film and actually sing their songs on-screen. [http://waisabhihotahai.indiatimes.com/music.htm about the music]
* Actress Mahima Chaudhry and ex-MTV VJ Maria Goretti make special appearances in the film.
* The Barista trio in the film comprises Channel V VJs Ranvir Shorey and Shruti Seth, and a third guy credited as John Owen.

Quotes

*(Translated from Hindi): "Girlfriend is in police, brother a police rat, friend a shooter. How did I become a writer?"

Awards

Kailash Kher won the Best Male Playback Singer award at the 2004 Star Screen Awards. The film was also nominated for Best Performance in a Negative Role (Pratima Kazmi), Best Dialogues, Best Editing, Best Lyrics and Best Screenplay at the Star Screen Awards, but failed to win any.

Soundtrack

Album infobox
Name = Waisa Bhi Hota Hai Part II
Type = soundtrack
Artist = Various Artists


Background = gainsboro
Released = October 2003
Recorded = Unknown

Genre = Film soundtrack
Length =
Label = Zee Records
Producer = | Reviews =

The soundtrack features 7 songs, composed by various artists including Vishal-Shekhar, Abhinav Dhar, Saibal Basu and Shibani Kashyap, and written by Sadaquat Hussain, Vishal Dadlani, Abhinav Dhar and Virag. The soundtrack listing is given below. [http://www.planetbollywood.com/Music/WaisaBhiHotaHai:PartII/ Music Review]

# "Sajnaa" (Shibani Kashyap) - 4:26
# "Allah Ke Bande" (Kailash Kher) - 4:06
# "Laundiya" (Rabbi Shergill) - 4:51
# "Prem Dunk" (Shibani Kashyap) - 3:40
# "Tum Bas Tum" (Shibani Kashyap) - 3:57
# "My Name is Gurdeep" (Bali Brahmbhatt) - 3:53
# "Jism" (Sunidhi Chauhan) - 3:39

ee also

* Indian Mafia
* Cult Movies

Notes

External links

* [http://waisabhihotahai.indiatimes.com/ Official Site]
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