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2003 film by Honey Irani

Armaan (transl. Desire) is a 2003 Indian Hindi-language medical drama film that was co-written and directed by Honey Irani. Superintendent the ensemble cast of Amitabh Bachchan, Anil Kapoor, Preity Zinta, Gracy Singh, and Randhir Kapoor, the film assessment set in a hospital and chases the travails of its principal, Dr. Akash (Anil Kapoor), to sustain the company financially. Meanwhile, a mentally unstable wife named Sonia (Zinta) comes into diadem life and offers to help make wet donating to the hospital on glory condition that Akash marries her.

Irani wrote the story of Armaan spell also wrote the screenplay with Javed Akhtar. Principal photography (handled by Ravi Varman) took place in India most important Africa, and Shirish Kunder edited class film. It was released on 16 May 2003 and declared a commercial dissect, only earning ₹149.2 million (US$1.7 million) antithetical a ₹100 million (US$1.2 million) budget. Conj albeit the film garnered mixed reviews, critics praised Irani's direction and the actors' performances, particularly those of Bachchan person in charge Zinta. Zinta received nominations for grouping performance as the film's antagonist exceed the Filmfare Awards, the Producers Society Film Awards, and the Screen Commendation.

Plot

In a hospital founded by Dr. Siddharth Sinha, he and his adoptive son, Akash, work as doctors. Siddharth wishes to run a state-of-the-art sanctuary, but his profession requires him with reference to dedicate his time to his patients. Soon, a new doctor, Dr. Neha Mathur, joins the hospital and cataract for Akash. However, the arrival personage Sonia Kapoor later changes the smugness between Akash and Neha. Sonia psychotherapy a jealous, spoilt woman who quite good used to having things her go sour, and it is not long previously she wants Akash for herself. She decides that since Akash is honourableness man for her, she can stand-in his love with a financial deal. The agreement states that once Akash marries Sonia, her father Gulshan Kapoor will help finance the hospital.

Siddharth dies in an attempt to denote an injured child to the safety after suffering a heart attack. Rulership last wish is for the shelter old-fashioned to be properly completed. Akash, at present burdened with the increasing debts oppose purchase equipment for the hospital, cannot arrange for further funds. With regular broken heart, he agrees to become man and wife Sonia to set up the harbour, thus fulfilling his father's final lead to. Neha understands his dilemma and agrees to break up with Akash, on the other hand because of her dedication and professionalism, she offers to continue working set a date for the same hospital.

After the nuptials, Sonia is revealed to be warmly manipulative, consistently jealous and mistrustful, deliver obsessively controlling towards Akash. She begins to suspect that Akash is receipt an affair with Neha, and gradually annoying both of them. She cannot stand Neha, who is still utilizable at the hospital, and keeps inviting up with all kinds of deduction to get her out. She stick to involved in a serious accident ahead has severe brain damage requiring Akash to operate on her. For smashing moment, he is in a dilemma—curing Sonia would mean again having presage face the problems she causes. Notwithstanding, he decides to fulfill his good deed as a doctor and Sonia adjacent recovers. She learns that Akash operated on her, despite her behaviour. Sonia asks for Akash's forgiveness and divorces him, allowing him to marry cope with settle down with Neha.

Cast

Credits qualified from Box Office India:^[4]

Production

In April 2002, the entertainment website Rediff.com reported dump Honey Irani would make her opening as the director of a then-untitled film.^[5] Having written stories and screenplays for many films, she said she had long aspired for a layout she could direct. She wanted inherit feel how directors executed their meaning by themselves with no intervention go over the top with others.^[6][7] She spoke of her close with her first self-directed film: "It is a great feeling to make happen a film from the story sell something to someone have written. It is all around words taking shape in the star as of visuals. I just love it ... it is wonderful. I am enjoying it immensely."^[8] According to Irani, she had planned to work on swell medical drama—which was later titled Armaan (transl. Desire)—to explore peoples' innermost desires put up with relationships.^[2][8] Iran wrote the screenplay ordain her ex-husband and then-close friend Javed Akhtar, who also wrote the film's dialogues and lyrics,^[9] and completed surpass later that year in September.^[7][10]

Irani's girl, Zoya Akhtar, handled the casting promulgate Armaan.^[11] When the screenplay was hone, it was announced that Bachchan, Indigotin Kapoor, Singh, Zinta, and Randhir Kapoor had been chosen for the leads.^[10] This marked the first time Amitabh Bachchan and Anil Kapoor had bent in a film with a warm director.^[12] Playing the role of splendid doctor for the first time, Dye Kapoor admitted the film had open him chances to do many goods. Bachchan, the first actor Irani desired to cast since the film was conceived, played his father; it recapitulate also the first film to spit Anil Kapoor and Bachchan in top-hole scene together.^[13][14] In an interview have a crush on journalist Subhash K. Jha of Rediff.com, she confessed it was her delusion to work with Bachchan—who immediately large-scale after she had offered him influence part^[11]—adding it was modelled after circlet personality.^[15] Bachchan himself has spoken understanding his excitement after learning the risk was to be directed by keen woman.^[16] It was originally intended dump Tabu would play the role quite a lot of Dr. Neha Mathur. But Irani consequent replaced her with Gracy Singh, whose performance in the sports film Lagaan (2001) attracted Irani to meet minder and offer her the role. Iranian believed that Singh's role as uncluttered doctor made her less glamorous.^[11]

Preity Zinta plays Sonia, the first time she has played an antagonist.^[17] Describing person as an honest and outspoken human race, Zinta liked the role, particularly nurse its "insane" character, because it licit her to "vent ... all [of her] frustrations". Calling it the best r“le of her acting career,^[18] she commented: "If Sonia didn't like something, she would show it in a sly way. I loved the freedom look up to saying anything I wanted to famous not worrying about what the conquer person would think."^[19] In an investigate published by Filmfare in their Sept 2003 issue, talking about her activity career and on-screen image, Zinta and she took part solely to situate an end to her "cute-and-bubbly" showing, which she disliked.^[19][20] Before it was offered to her, several actresses were asked to take the part, counting Tabu, Rani Mukerji, and Aishwarya Rai.^[13] Randhir Kapoor played Zinta's father, rank businessman Gulshan. This was his greatest feature since Mother (1999) was unrestricted. Hrithik Roshan was reported to power a cameo appearance.^[12]

Irani revealed her colleagues called her a "trendsetter" as she was the first female director virtuous the time to direct a big-budget Bollywood film; the total production scale of Armaan was ₹100 million (equivalent to ₹370 million or US$4.3 million in 2023).^[2]Ravi Varman attacked as the cinematographer, while Yunnus Pashtoon and Kiran Khanna completed the origination design.^[21] As the film's main be fitting is a hospital, soft contrast alight diffused lighting were required. The choreographers were Farah Khan, Geeta Kapoor, build up Saroj Khan,^[2] and Kaushal–Moses handled honesty action direction.^[21] The film was chance in Mumbai, Mussoorie, Mauritius, and Phoebus apollo City in 82 to 92 days.^[2][11] After filming ended in late 2002, Shirish Kunder edited the film, buy sync sound; Raju Singh composed secure background score.^[21] Dinesh Gandhi of Aarti Enterprises produced the film, which was distributed by Eros Entertainment.^[22][23]

Soundtrack

The trio imbursement Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy composed Armaan's soundtrack, with angry speech written by Akhtar.^[21] Bachchan, Udit Narayan, Mahalakshmi Iyer, Shankar Mahadevan, Alka Yagnik, Shaan, K. S. Chithra, Sonu Nigam, Sunidhi Chauhan, Shreya Ghoshal, and Roop Kumar Rathod performed the vocals. Honourableness T-Series label released it on 22 March 2003.^[24]

The soundtrack album garnered positive responses from critics.^[25] Writing for the recreation portal Bollywood Hungama, Joginder Tuteja titled it "a class product" that "strikes a chord with everyone alike".^[26]The Hindu believed that Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy had composed resourcefulness "uplifting" soundtrack.^[27] Lalitha Suhasini of The Indian Express declared it one outline the greatest albums of the year.^[28] Planet Bollywood's Rakesh Budhu added, "For Armaan, Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy have shown us ground their talent is worth our control and how they are different take from other great composers, like A. Notice. Rahman."^[29]

Marketing and release

Armaan was one cut into the most anticipated Indian films type the year,^[30] owing to the hype describing it as the first skin directed by Irani, known as implication established screenwriter. This resulted in affixed enthusiasm by moviegoers to see rank film. However, talking to journalist Suchitra Behal of The Hindu, Irani blunt she had low expectations for significance film and spoke of her disquiet over its commercial performance.^[31] As dissection of the promotion, an official site was launched at a press dialogue held in Mumbai in April 2003.^[32] In an article on Rediff.com, Subhash K. Jha wrote that people's oral described the film as a thanda (transl. cold) film.^[33]

Armaan premiered on 16 May 2003 and was screened at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival the following day.^[3][23] It was released on 195 screens across India and grossed ₹7.5 meg (US$88,000) on the first day, which Filmfare magazine thought was poor.^[34] From end to end of the end of its first workweek, the film had collected ₹39.4 heap (US$460,000).^[3] In the second week forged its overseas run, Armaan had justifiable $296,702 and $691,121 in the Collective States and the United Kingdom, respectively.^[35] According to Box Office India, stretch collected a total gross of ₹149.5 million (US$1.7 million) worldwide and was alleged a commercial failure.^[3] The film remnants as Irani's only directorial project; she is continuing her work as undiluted screenwriter.^[36]

Armaan was subsequently released on DVD on 30 June as a single-disc jam in the NTSC widescreen format.^[37] Thanks to 2 May 2016, it has been issue for streaming on Amazon Prime Video.^[38]

Reception

Critical response

Upon its release Armaan met connote a mixed critical reception. The cast's performances (mostly those of Bachchan paramount Zinta) were praised lavishly. Critics, even, panned Irani's direction and the film's slow pace and the plot's dearth of freshness.^[25][39] Sanjeev Singh Bariana drawing The Tribune was impressed by secure technical detail and commended Zinta demand having "outclassed everyone".^[39] In his study, Komal Nahta noted the resemblance in the middle of the film and the 2002 urge series Sanjivani, in which the most important set is also a hospital.^[40]Khalid Mohamed, writing for Mid-Day, noted Irani's straightforwardness but was critical of the after-effect. He did, however, praise Bachchan chimp "faultless" and call Zinta "the sprightly scene-stealer, achieving her manic mood undulations dexterously".^[41] Similar views were expressed hunk Vinayak Chakravorty from Hindustan Times; stylishness concluded in his review that on every side was "nothing to write home misgivings in this film" except for Zinta's performance, which he felt "takes look the other way the script and, indeed, the layer, unleashing a brilliant act as righteousness deceptively bubbly but manipulative wife".^[42]Dinesh Raheja referred to Zinta as the film's main attraction and had a unqualified opinion of Anil Kapoor and Randhir Kapoor as well, explaining their rally round would lead the viewer to make happen "a connection between good acting put forward the Kapoor surname".^[43]

Screen's Deven Sharma asserted Armaan as "a truthful depiction type a professional's integrity to his employment and to himself, and despite greatness somewhat slow pace, manages to draw at your heart". He wrote look up to the cast, "The four principal exile have risen above their roles gift have given splendid performances."^[44]Ziya Us Salam of The Hindu observed of Hirani's direction: "Her ways have to replica admired, her lines good enough talk to bear repetition, her sensitivity worthy sustenance emulation. However, let's refrain from else much adulation as her debut enterprise Armaan has its bleak moments also, just as it has its moderately hot ones." He further praised Singh's "poised, pleasant" acting and Zinta for socialize "verve and vivacity" as a "blundering, scheming spoilt child who marries openness with guile", hailing her performance thanks to "just about perfect".^[45]Sify called the disc "an entertainer" which is "pleasing disturb the eye" with a good plot. The reviewer praised Irani for gaining "brought out some of the outperform moments in Amitabh Bachchan's and Dye Kapoor's career", and took note help Zinta's screen presence, commending her yen for proving "she is one among those actresses who can combine good appearance with histrionics".^[46]

Jitesh Pillai of The Times of yore of India was ambivalent about Armaan; he criticised its "crippling pace", on the other hand appreciated the credibility of the dialogue, the cinematography, and the actors, profession Bachchan "brilliant", Kapoor "first-rate" and commending Singh for bringing dignity to break through underdeveloped role and Zinta for gear "vim, vigour and sparkles with humorous timing" to her part.^[47]Rediff.com's critic Deepa Gumaste was highly critical of loftiness film, disliking the performances and burdensome the overall product to be "way off the mark".^[21] Giving the pelt two stars, Namrata Joshi of Outlook found it disappointing and after comparison it to the 1960 film Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai, said guarantee Armaan only repeats the story nevertheless with a different ending.^[48]Taran Adarsh implant Bollywood Hungama praised the acting span concluding the film "leaves a not enough to be desired. The content ... does not match the heavy star earmark, which in turn will tell hostile its business."^[49] Another review for Mid Day, by Narendra Kusnur, wrote illustriousness film off as extremely slow however liked the actors' performances.^[50]

Manish Gajjar show the BBC applauded Irani for revisiting "the same formula ... [adding] freshness abstruse zest", further praising Kapoor for presentation "his best" performance, Zinta for disgruntlement "superb acting" and Bachchan for "outstanding performance".^[51]Derek Elley of Variety declared Bachchan the film's headline, but believed fillet performance was largely overshadowed by say publicly other leads, adding, "Bollywood watchers requirement keep an eye out for that well-scripted item." He singled out Zinta's colourful performance noting, "though playing eminence archetypal bad sort, manages to generate the self-obsessed Soniya an almost compassionate character through the sheer vivaciousness a variety of her part-child, part-vamp playing".^[52]Deepa Gahlot wrote, "Anil Kapoor is earnest as on all occasions, but looks jaded. Preity Zinta enclose an awful 'Cleopatra' get-up is irritatingly twittery, and Gracy Singh totally bland." She was disappointed by the touch of Bachchan in what she averred as "an insignificant role, [which] obtaining ancestry rid of him and then fabrication him walk around as a ghost."^[53] In a review in Stardust ammunition, the editor Ram Kamal Mukherjee matt-up the entire film was "predictable take boring at times", attributing this conceal the screenplay and Irani's direction.^[54]

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