Dus Kahaniyaan
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Dus Kahaniyaan is a 2007 anthology
Anthology
An anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler. It may be a collection of poems, short stories, plays, songs, or excerpts...

 India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n film comprising ten short films telling ten different stories which are directed by a host of six directors. Some of the stories have twisted ending and bring supernatural elements and have similarities with other supernatural series like "Tales From The Crypt".

Main cast (listed by story)

"Matrimony" (Directed by Sanjay Gupta
Sanjay Gupta (Director)
Sanjay Gupta is a Bollywood writer-director known for his dark thrillersSanjay Gupta comes from an affluent business family of South Mumbai. He completed his studies at Palm Beach School at Napean Sea Road and Sydenham College at Churchgate in Mumbai. He has frequently worked with Sanjay Dutt. The...

, inspired by Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl was a British novelist, short story writer, fighter pilot and screenwriter.Born in Wales to Norwegian parents, he served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, in which he became a flying ace and intelligence agent, rising to the rank of Wing Commander...

's short story "Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat
Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat
"Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat" is a story by Roald Dahl which first appeared in the 1959 issue of Nugget.-Alfred Hitchcock Presents Version:...

")
  • Arbaaz Khan
  • Mandira Bedi
    Mandira Bedi
    Mandira Bedi is an Indian actress, model and television presenter who gained celebrity status playing the title role in the 1994 television serial, Shanti, shown on India's national channel, Doordarshan which was the first ever daily soap on Indian television.She followed up her career in TV...

  • Sudhanshu Pandey
    Sudhanshu Pandey
    Sudhanshu Pandey is an Indian model and Bollywood actor. He was born and raised in Uttar Pradesh. After a career in fashion modeling, he debuted in Bollywood in a 2000 movie Khiladi 420.-Filmography:- External links :* * * *...

    • Synopsis: The bored wife of an MNC Vice President (Arbaaz), Mandira, has an extramarital affair with an army officer. She meets him every Thursday on the pretext of visiting her aunt. At home she is a doting and dutiful wife. She describes her affair as not only for sex, but also for love and consideration. As it turns out, her lover has to report to his post, and gifts her a beautiful diamond necklace. She loves it, but is hesitant to take it. When the officer insists, she devises a plan. She goes to a jeweller and hands over the necklace with an arrangement that she be given a coupon, which under the pretext of a lucky draw or so, would be produced and she'd be given her necklace. The next morning, her husband goes to collect the "prize". He calls her from his office and asks her to come over to see what she has got. She goes with great enthusiasm, but to her utter dismay finds a small diamond ring. She comes out of his cabin and tries to call the jeweller. Her cell phone does not get reception, so she turns to her husband's secretary and asks her to dial the number for her, only to spot the necklace on the secretary. The secretary mentions that it is from her "boyfriend".


"High on the Highway" (Directed by Hansel Mehta)
  • Jimmy Shergill
    Jimmy Shergill
    Jasjit Singh Gill , popularly known as Jimmy Shergill , is an Indian actor.-Early life:Shergill was born in a Jatt Sikh family in Gorakhpur, India and studied there till 5th Grade in St. Paul's School. Then, his family shifted to Patiala...

  • Masumeh Makhija
    Masumeh Makhija
    Masumeh Makhija, also known as Masumi Makhija, is an award winning Bollywood actress. She was born in Canada and came to India when she was one year old. She started her career as a child artist appearing in commercials and T.V. shows. She made her film debut in Chupke Se and has since appeared...

    • Synopsis: Two college graduates who are in love with each other have a habit of getting high and taking a walk along the highway. On the night after their graduation when they are walking down the road a bunch of goons try to kidnap Masumeh and succeed in spite of Jimmy putting up a fight. Masumeh gets helped by the cops but what happens to Jimmy??? Jimmy slashes his wrists, feeling responsible and dies. Masumi cries by his bed.


"Pooranmasi" (Directed by Meghna Gulzar
Meghna Gulzar
Meghna Gulzar is a Hindi Film Director, and is the only daughter of famous lyricist and poet Gulzar and actress Rakhee.She directed her first film Filhaal in 2002, starring Former Miss Universe Sushmita Sen and Tabu. Her second movie was Just Married in 2007.-References:...

)
  • Amrita Singh
    Amrita Singh
    Amrita Singh is an Indian film actress.-Early life:Amrita is the daughter of Rukhsana Sultana. Mohinder Kaur was the daughter of Sir Sobha Singh, who was a noted civil contractor, and made a substantial fortune during the building of New Delhi in the early decades of the 20th century...

  • Parmeet Sethi
    Parmeet Sethi
    -Personal life and education:Parmeet was educated in Mumbai. He passed out of Sydenham college of commerce. He married Archana Puran Singh, a film and television actress, on 30 June 1992. They have two sons...

  • Minnisha Lamba
    Minnisha Lamba
    Minissha Lamba is an Indian actress who appears in Bollywood films. Her notable films include Yahaan, Bachna Ae Haseeno, Kidnap, Shaurya and Well Done Abba.-Early life:...

    • Synopsis: Amrita's daughter Minisha has just been engaged and her father is out on business once again leaving the ladies alone. Amrita has led a loveless life and on this particular day her daughter adorns her mother with a colourful dupatta and comments on how pretty she looks. Amrita realizes that it is the night of full moon and her lover promised he would be waiting outside the door. For once she decides to open it and let her desire take over her. After spending the night with him in the fields she returns home while many villagers notice the colourful dupatta on her head and mistake her for her daughter. When the villagers came to break the marriage describing the incident, Minissha gets to know that it was not she but her mother and in despair jumps into the well.


Strangers in the Night (Directed by Sanjay Gupta
Sanjay Gupta (Director)
Sanjay Gupta is a Bollywood writer-director known for his dark thrillersSanjay Gupta comes from an affluent business family of South Mumbai. He completed his studies at Palm Beach School at Napean Sea Road and Sydenham College at Churchgate in Mumbai. He has frequently worked with Sanjay Dutt. The...

)
  • Mahesh Manjrekar
    Mahesh Manjrekar
    Mahesh Manjrekar is an Indian director, actor, writer and producer. He is credited with directing the critically acclaimed films Vaastav: The Reality , Astitva and Viruddh... Family Comes First . He has won a National Film Award and two Star Screen Awards...

  • Neha Dhupia
    Neha Dhupia
    Neha Dhupia is an Indian actress who appears in Bollywood films. She is a former beauty queen and winner of Femina Miss India 2002.-Early life:...

    • Synopsis: Both Mahesh and Neha have the habit of discussing past distractions in their relationship on their anniversaries. Mahesh forces Neha to tell about her experience and she does so with passion about the guy's whose hands she kissed and by whom she was so taken in a railway station's waiting room alone in the night and with whom she would have done anything. As we see Mahesh getting jealous, Neha unravels the twist in the story. She actually kisses his hand and hugs him to save a child, who was being attacked by religious riots.


Zahir (Directed by Sanjay Gupta
Sanjay Gupta (Director)
Sanjay Gupta is a Bollywood writer-director known for his dark thrillersSanjay Gupta comes from an affluent business family of South Mumbai. He completed his studies at Palm Beach School at Napean Sea Road and Sydenham College at Churchgate in Mumbai. He has frequently worked with Sanjay Dutt. The...

)
  • Manoj Bajpai
    Manoj Bajpai
    Manoj Bajpai , also credited as Manoj Bajpayee, is an Indian film actor, known for playing offbeat and unconventional roles. He first shot into fame with his breakthrough role in Ram Gopal Varma's 1998 film Satya.-Early life:...

  • Diya Mirza
    • Synopsis: Manoj moves into the same apartment as Diya Mirza and they become good friends. Zahir wants to take the relationship to another level but Diya shuns him away. He is ashamed. One night while spending a night with his friends visiting bars in the town Manoj sees Diya who is a dancer in a dance bar. Enraged, Manoj rapes her without hearing her protests when she comes back home from work. Next day he finds a note from her which she left before leaving, in which she reveals that she has AIDS.


Lovedale (Directed by Jasmeet Dhodi)
  • Anupam Kher
    Anupam Kher
    Anupam Kher is an Indian actor who has appeared in nearly 400 films and 100 plays. Though mainly appearing in Bollywood films, he has had roles in some films from other nations as well...

  • Aftab Shivdasani
    Aftab Shivdasani
    Aftab Shivadasani is an Indian actor who appears in Bollywood films. He started as a child actor in commercials and has performed in over 40 films. He also co-wrote and helped produce the film Aao Wish Karein. He started his career as a child artist in the movie Mr. India. Shivdasani is currently...

  • Neha Oberoi
  • Anuradha Patel
    Anuradha Patel
    -Early life:She was born in Mumbai. She is the maternal grand daughter of famous Hindi actor Ashok Kumar.-Personal life:She is married to actor Kanwaljit Singh. They have two sons Sidharth and Aaditya and a god-daughter, Mariam, who resides in the United States....

    • Synopsis: Neha meets a lady on the train on her way home where she was getting engaged. The lady gives her an earring and vanishes at the next station which happens to be Lovedale. Neha wanting to return the earring alights and follows the road to a house where Aftab is painting. They become acquainted. Aftab attends Neha's engagement and feels hurt. Neha is also unhappy and her father questions her doubt. Neha tells about Aftab and her father tells her his flashback about how he met a lady on the train to whom he had gifted one earring before the train left the station. Neha and her father compare the earrings and decide that her meeting Aftab was no coincidence and she breaks the engagement to join Aftab. However, the story unfolds with a vicious climax. Aftab notices the earrings that Neha was wearing, and on questioning, he is informed that it was the earring that was given to her by the lady in the train. Aftab shows her a picture of the lady, being his mother who died 10 years ago!


Sex on the Beach (Directed by Apoorva Lakhia
Apoorva Lakhia
Apoorva Lakhia is an Indian film director.Before becoming a film director, Apoorva was an assistant director for Ashutosh Gowariker's period epic film Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India and as second assistant director for the film Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love...

)
  • Dino Morea
    Dino Morea
    Dino Morea is an Indian actor who appears in Bollywood films and a former model.-Early life:Dino Morea was born in Bangalore to an Italian father and an Anglo Indian mother. He is the second of three brothers. Nicolo Morea is his older brother, and Santino Morea is his younger brother. His family...

  • Tarina Patel
    • Synopsis: Dino picks up a book on the beach with the title 'Life' and writes his name and date of birth as instructed and starts to read the book. A seductress steps out of a jet ski and sits down next to him and she invites him over to her house for dinner. Dino goes over well prepared with wine and condoms only to see the girl also very eager...but when Dino falls into a short sleep after the girl tells him that she will return in a few minutes dressed more provocatively which he would love taking off. He wakes up to see her dead with him throat slit open. When he leans down to examine her closely she opens her eyes and he understands that she was actually a soul whose wishes had been left unfulfilled. He flees, the ghost following him. Finally he drowns in the sea.


Rice Plate (Directed by Rohit Roy
Rohit Roy
Rohit Roy is an Indian television star known for his role in Hindi television serials, such as Des Mein Niklla Hoga Chand and Swabhimaan. Besides working in television series, Rohit has also acted in some of the Bollywood movies, such as Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena, Plan, etc...

)
(based on the 1990 short film The Lunch Date
The Lunch Date
The Lunch Date is a 1990 short film directed by Adam Davidson. It was Davidson's directorial debut.-Awards:It was entered into the 1990 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Short Film Palme d'Or. It later went on to be selected as "Dramatic Achievement" in the Student Academy Awards competition...

)
  • Shabana Azmi
    Shabana Azmi
    Shabana Azmi is an Indian actress of film, television and theatre. An alumna of the Film and Television Institute of India of Pune, she made her film debut in 1974 and soon became one of the leading actresses of parallel cinema, an Indian New Wave movement known for its serious content and...

  • Naseeruddin Shah
    Naseeruddin Shah
    Naseeruddin Shah is an Indian / Bollywood film actor and director. He is considered to be one of the finest actors of Indian cinema. In 2003, the Government of India honored him with the Padma Bhushan for his contributions towards Indian cinema.-Early life:...

    • Synopsis: Shabana plays a staunch Brahmin widow on her way to visit her grandchildren by train. In a hurry she forgets her wallet in her house and heads to the station. She misses her train and her next train is after two hours. She goes to a canteen and orders a plate of rice with the change she has and leaves her table to wash her hand. When she comes back she sees Shah eating it. Angry that Shah was stealing her plate Shabana forgets that Shah is a Muslim starts eating out the plate. Later she realizes it and leaves the place. At the railway station she notices that she had left her luggage and handbag in the canteen and goes back. There she finds her belongings near a table and a rice plate on it. Then she realizes that she was mistaken and ate from Shah's plate. Later in the station, she offers place to a Muslim family, which shows that she had changed her attitude.


Gubbare (Directed by Sanjay Gupta
Sanjay Gupta (Director)
Sanjay Gupta is a Bollywood writer-director known for his dark thrillersSanjay Gupta comes from an affluent business family of South Mumbai. He completed his studies at Palm Beach School at Napean Sea Road and Sydenham College at Churchgate in Mumbai. He has frequently worked with Sanjay Dutt. The...

)
  • Nana Patekar
    Nana Patekar
    Vishwanath "Nana" Patekar is an Indian actor and filmmaker.-Biography:Born Vishwanath Patekar in Murud-Janjira, Maharashtra, to Dinkar Patekar and his wife Sanjanabai Patekar. He is an alumnus of the Sir J.J...

  • Rohit Roy
    Rohit Roy
    Rohit Roy is an Indian television star known for his role in Hindi television serials, such as Des Mein Niklla Hoga Chand and Swabhimaan. Besides working in television series, Rohit has also acted in some of the Bollywood movies, such as Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena, Plan, etc...

  • Anita Hassanandani
    • Synopsis: Anita and Rohit are newlyweds on a bus who start a small quarrel and Anita moves away from Rohit to sit adjacent to Nana who is carrying 11 smiley balloons with him. On questioning he tells her how he has to present his wife with the balloons every time he has angered her and how she bakes a cake if she angers him. He explains to her how life is too short to spend fighting. When getting down at the stop he forgets to take with him the sorry card that he had written for his wife. Anita follows him to give it to him and she notices him speaking to his wife's grave and she is dead. She realizes how much in love with his wife the man is and returns to the bus. She sits beside Rohit and they do not quarrel.


Rise & Fall (Directed by Sanjay Gupta
Sanjay Gupta (Director)
Sanjay Gupta is a Bollywood writer-director known for his dark thrillersSanjay Gupta comes from an affluent business family of South Mumbai. He completed his studies at Palm Beach School at Napean Sea Road and Sydenham College at Churchgate in Mumbai. He has frequently worked with Sanjay Dutt. The...

)inspired by Ching Po-Wong's Blood Brothers
Jiang Hu (film)
Jiang Hu is a 2004 Hong Kong film about Hong Kong gangs. It was directed by Wong Ching-Po and stars Andy Lau and Jacky Cheung.-Title:...

  • Sanjay Dutt
    Sanjay Dutt
    Sanjay Dutt is an Indian Hindi film actor and politician. Dutt, son of Hindi film actors Sunil and Nargis Dutt, made his acting debut in 1981.-Personal life:...

  • Sunil Shetty
    • Synopsis: The story begins with Sunil Shetty telling Sanjay Dutt that someone is going to kill him. Sanjay Dutt says that if there could be anybody who could kill it would be Sunil Shetty. The story cuts to a flashback. It shows two young kids. One of them gets paid to kill a person. They both kill the person. These two kids are Sanjay Dutt and Sunil Shetty. As kids they rise and as adults they fall because of two children shooting them as in the flashback they are now the dons.

Crew

  • Banner: White Feather Films
  • Produced By: Sanjay Dutt
    Sanjay Dutt
    Sanjay Dutt is an Indian Hindi film actor and politician. Dutt, son of Hindi film actors Sunil and Nargis Dutt, made his acting debut in 1981.-Personal life:...

     & Sanjay Gupta
    Sanjay Gupta (Director)
    Sanjay Gupta is a Bollywood writer-director known for his dark thrillersSanjay Gupta comes from an affluent business family of South Mumbai. He completed his studies at Palm Beach School at Napean Sea Road and Sydenham College at Churchgate in Mumbai. He has frequently worked with Sanjay Dutt. The...

  • Executive Producers: Gary Van Shipley, Dipti Jindal, Parth Arora
  • Directors: Apoorva Lakhia
    Apoorva Lakhia
    Apoorva Lakhia is an Indian film director.Before becoming a film director, Apoorva was an assistant director for Ashutosh Gowariker's period epic film Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India and as second assistant director for the film Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love...

    , Sanjay Gupta
    Sanjay Gupta (Director)
    Sanjay Gupta is a Bollywood writer-director known for his dark thrillersSanjay Gupta comes from an affluent business family of South Mumbai. He completed his studies at Palm Beach School at Napean Sea Road and Sydenham College at Churchgate in Mumbai. He has frequently worked with Sanjay Dutt. The...

    , Jasmeet Dhodi, Meghna Gulzar
    Meghna Gulzar
    Meghna Gulzar is a Hindi Film Director, and is the only daughter of famous lyricist and poet Gulzar and actress Rakhee.She directed her first film Filhaal in 2002, starring Former Miss Universe Sushmita Sen and Tabu. Her second movie was Just Married in 2007.-References:...

    , Rohit Roy
    Rohit Roy
    Rohit Roy is an Indian television star known for his role in Hindi television serials, such as Des Mein Niklla Hoga Chand and Swabhimaan. Besides working in television series, Rohit has also acted in some of the Bollywood movies, such as Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena, Plan, etc...

     & Hansal Mehta
  • Music Directors:Gaurav Dasgupta, Anand Raj Anand
    Anand Raj Anand
    Anand Raj Anand is an Indian music director, composer, lyricist and playback singer in the Hindi film industry.-Early life:Anand was born in Delhi to a family of jewellers...

    , Bappi Lahiri
    Bappi Lahiri
    Bappi Lahiri or Alokesh Lahiri , born 27 November 1952, is a music director in the Hindi film industry. He pioneered the use of disco music in Indian cinema and sang some of his own compositions. He was popular in the 1980s with films like Disco Dancer, Namak Halaal and Sharaabi among others.-Early...

    , & Shafqat Ali Khan
    Shafqat Ali Khan
    Shafqat Ali Khan is a Ghazal singer.The youngest son of Salamat Ali Khan, Shafqat Ali Khan is a master of the Ghazal tradition of Indian classical music...

  • Background Score: Rohit Kulkarni, Amar Mohile
  • Lyricists: Virag Mishra, Ibrahim Ashq & Panchhi Jalonvi
  • Cinematography: Amit Roy, Hemant Chaturvedi
    Hemant Chaturvedi
    Hemant Chaturvedi is an Indian cinematographer in the Hindi film industry, he received great critical acclaim for his first feature, Company . "His frames thrive on the sense of realism, wrote The Hindu, "and the colours capture the gore, dust and highways of the crime world effectively"...

    , Sanjay.F.Gupta, Vikas Nowlakha, Anshuman Mahaley, Mahesh Aney, Sachin Krishna Kumar & Chirantan Dus
  • Story Writers: Shivani Tibrewala, Gulzar
    Gulzar (lyricist)
    Sampooran Singh Kalra , known popularly by his pen name Gulzar , is an Indian poet, lyricist and director. He primarily writes in Hindi-Urdu and has also written in Punjabi and several dialects of Hindi such as Braj Bhasha, Khariboli, Haryanvi and Marwari.Gulzar was awarded the Padma Bhushan in...

    , Javed Akhtar
    Javed Akhtar
    Javed Akhtar is a poet, lyricist and scriptwriter from India. Some of his most successful work was done in the late 1970s and 1980s with Salim Khan as half of the script-writing duo credited as Salim-Javed...

    , Kamlesh Pandey and Vishal Bharadwaj
  • Editor: Bunty Nagi
  • Production Designer: Meghna Gandhi, Sunil Nigvekar, Chokas Bhardwaj, Bijon Das Gupta and Aparna Sood
  • Sound Design: Resul Pookutty
    Resul Pookutty
    Resul Pookutty is an Indian film sound designer, sound editor and mixer. He, along with Richard Pryke and Ian Tapp won the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing for the film Slumdog Millionaire...

     and Rishi Oberoi
  • Publicity Designer: Epigram

Music

The film's soundtrack was released on 1 November 2007. Joginder Tuteja from Indiafm.com gave the music 4 out of 5 stars.
Song Singer(s) Lyricist Music Director
Aaja Soniye Shweta Vijay, Sudhanshu Pandey
Sudhanshu Pandey
Sudhanshu Pandey is an Indian model and Bollywood actor. He was born and raised in Uttar Pradesh. After a career in fashion modeling, he debuted in Bollywood in a 2000 movie Khiladi 420.-Filmography:- External links :* * * *...

Virag Mishra Gourov Dasgupta
Bhula Diya Anand Raj Anand
Anand Raj Anand
Anand Raj Anand is an Indian music director, composer, lyricist and playback singer in the Hindi film industry.-Early life:Anand was born in Delhi to a family of jewellers...

Ibrahim Ashq Anand Raj Anand
Anand Raj Anand
Anand Raj Anand is an Indian music director, composer, lyricist and playback singer in the Hindi film industry.-Early life:Anand was born in Delhi to a family of jewellers...

Bin Tum K.K Panchhi Jalonvi Anand Raj Anand
Anand Raj Anand
Anand Raj Anand is an Indian music director, composer, lyricist and playback singer in the Hindi film industry.-Early life:Anand was born in Delhi to a family of jewellers...

Dus Aanchal, K.K Virag Mishra Gourov Dasgupta
Jaaniye Aanchal, Sunidhi Chauhan
Sunidhi Chauhan
Sunidhi Chauhan is an Indian playback singer, best known for her Hindi film songs in Bollywood. She has also recorded songs for Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Assamese and Gujarati films and is credited with over 2000 songs....

Virag Mishra Gourov Dasgupta
Kaala Peela Shafqat Ali Khan
Shafqat Ali Khan
Shafqat Ali Khan is a Ghazal singer.The youngest son of Salamat Ali Khan, Shafqat Ali Khan is a master of the Ghazal tradition of Indian classical music...

Virag Mishra Shafqat Ali Khan
Shafqat Ali Khan
Shafqat Ali Khan is a Ghazal singer.The youngest son of Salamat Ali Khan, Shafqat Ali Khan is a master of the Ghazal tradition of Indian classical music...

Mushkil Kushaa Kshitij
Kshitij
Kshitij is the annual techno-management fest of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India. Kshitij started off in 2004 with the aim of promoting technology and entrepreneurship in India, and in 8 years, it has grown to become the Asia’s largest techno-management fest. The...

Panchhi Jalonvi Bappi Lahiri
Bappi Lahiri
Bappi Lahiri or Alokesh Lahiri , born 27 November 1952, is a music director in the Hindi film industry. He pioneered the use of disco music in Indian cinema and sang some of his own compositions. He was popular in the 1980s with films like Disco Dancer, Namak Halaal and Sharaabi among others.-Early...

Nach Le Soniye Mika Singh Virag Mishra Gourov Dasgupta
O Maahiya Shweta Vijay, K.K Panchhi Jalonvi Gourov Dasgupta
Vichodeya Ne Shafqat Ali Khan
Shafqat Ali Khan
Shafqat Ali Khan is a Ghazal singer.The youngest son of Salamat Ali Khan, Shafqat Ali Khan is a master of the Ghazal tradition of Indian classical music...

Ambar Hoshiyarpuri Shafqat Ali Khan
Shafqat Ali Khan
Shafqat Ali Khan is a Ghazal singer.The youngest son of Salamat Ali Khan, Shafqat Ali Khan is a master of the Ghazal tradition of Indian classical music...


External links

  • Official Movie Site
  • Review at American Online (by Kritika Saxena) http://www.aol.in/bollywood/story/2007120707079019000002/index.html
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