Kaante

Infobox_Film
name = Kaante


caption = Kaante
director = Sanjay Gupta
writer = Sanjay Gupta, Milap Zaveri
starring = Amitabh Bachchan,
Sanjay Dutt,
Sunil Shetty,
Mahesh Manjrekar,
Lucky Ali,
Kumar Gaurav,
Namrata Singh Gujral
Rati Agnihotri
Malaika Arora,
Jeff Davis,
Ranjit Chowdhary
producer = Raju Patel
distributor =
released = December 20, 2002
runtime = 150 min
music = Anand Raj Anand
language = Hindi/English
budget =
imdb_id = 0294662

"Kaante" (Hindi: कांटे, Urdu: کانٹے English: "Thorns") is a 2002 Bollywood film directed by Sanjay Gupta and starring Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Sunil Shetty, Kumar Gaurav, Namrata Singh Gujral, Rati Agnihotri, Isha Koppikar, Lucky Ali and Mahesh Manjrekar in the lead roles The film is a Hindi remake of Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs" and also has similarities to Bryan Singer's "The Usual Suspects". A sequel to Kaante is in the pipeline. The sequel is titled Saath.

Plot

The movie is mostly inspired from "Reservoir Dogs" which in turn was inspired by Ringo Lam's City on Fire starring Chow Yun Fat.

Cast

* Amitabh Bachchan: "Yashvardhan 'Major' Rampal" is the oldest of the group. Nobody knows why he came to be called 'Major'.
* Sanjay Dutt: "Jay 'Ajju' Rehan" is a club owner. He robs a truck full of laptops as a result of which all six people are detained for questioning. This is the starting point for the plot. He also feigns ignorance of the English language until the final part of the movie.
* Sunil Shetty: "'Marc' Issak" is a bouncer in a club. Is referred as 'Chingado' by Cyrus (Gulshan Grover), the club owner.
* Mahesh Manjrekar: "Raj 'Bali' Yadav" is a drug peddler and a motormouth. He stutters badly while speaking.
* Lucky Ali: "Maqbool 'Mak' Haider" is an undercover policeman assigned to infiltrate the group, which he achieves by befriending 'Bali'.
* Kumar Gaurav: "Anand 'Andy' Mathur" is a software engineer. He is the only survivor of the six at the end of the movie.

Sanjay Dutt and Suniel Shetty alongside others are set to come back in a sequel. Hype is around of how these actors will resurrect their characters as they all died apart from Gaurav. Director Sanjay Gupta has stated the story will be original and the characters may have some supernatural doctoring in order to be resurrected.

Production

The film was to star Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Sunil Shetty, Akshaye Khanna, Mahesh Manjrekar, Kumar Gaurav, Shilpa Shetty and Lisa Ray initially. But Akshaye Khanna opted out of the project subsequently, while Malaika Arora stepped in Shilpa Shetty's shoes and Namrata Singh Gujral was cast opposite Kumar Gaurav in lieu of Lisa Ray.Fact|date=November 2007The character of Renu Mathur (played by Namrata Singh Gujral) was the only role cast in Hollywood from the entire principal cast. All other principals including Amitabh Bachchan were flown in from Mumbai for the Hollywood shoot.Fact|date=November 2007This was Amitabh Bachchan's 126th lead role.Fact|date=November 2007The film was the first Bollywood film to be completely shot in Los Angeles.Fact|date=November 2007The film's production team used Hollywood technicians.Fact|date=November 2007
Rohit Roy (Fattu Bhai from "Shootout at Lokhandwala" and popular television actor) makes an appearance in the Song "Ishq Samandar".Fact|date=November 2007

Controversy

Kaante director Sanjay Gupta was involved in a long court case about this movie due to its being a copy of Reservoir DogsFact|date=February 2007.

References

*imdb title|id=0294662