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The stars of Rajkumar Santoshi's Halla Bol are all set to perform street plays across India. Theatre actor Om Katare has written and directed these plays.
Ajay Devgan, Vidya Balan and Pankaj Kapur will be seen participating in street plays across the country to promote their film Halla Bol. The aim of the plays is to put across a positive message regarding several issues plaguing the common man in cities across the country. Om Katare has been roped in to write and direct these skits and plays. Katare has had several meetings with Rajkumar Santoshi and producer Abdul Sami Siddiqui and it's only then that he wrote a basic script of the play. Santoshi and Siddqui loved it and thought that there was no better way to promote the film. Devgan, Balan and Kapur will soon be flying to various cities to perform the street plays. The cities which have been targeted by the makers include Delhi, Chandigarh, Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Kolkata, Jaipur, Patna and Mumbai. Devgan will promote the film in Delhi, Chandigarh and Lucknow while Vidya and Kapur have yet to decide on the cities where they will promote the film. Katare will look into the specific issues concerning the particular city and weave a story around it. According to Siddiqui, the idea of promoting the plays through street plays came about during the filming of the film. In the film, Devgan is shown doing street plays as a struggling acto
Rajkumar Santoshi's forthcoming film Halla Bol is reportedly based on the murder of Jessica Lal. If sources are to be believed, the director has borrowed heavily from the 1999 sensational murder case. Halla Bol stars Ajay Devgan and Vidya Balan as its leading actors.
The story of Halla Bol revolves around a small town boy who aspires to make it big in Bollywood. He realizes his dream very soon. In keeping with his status, he acquires a few vices as well along the way. But a conflict arises when a shocking murder at a party changes his life. The film centres around the conflict in the mind of the character played by Devgan and how he is helped by his wife (Vidya Balan) and mentor (Pankaj Kapur) to take a stand on the issue. Santoshi, however, insists that the film is based on an original story. He says that even though the murders are similar, his film is not based on the Jessica Lal case.
The much awaited Rajkumar Santoshi film starring Ajay Devgan, Vidya Balan and Pankaj Kapur was to be release on 21st December along with Welcome and Aamir Khan’s directorial debut Taare Zameen Par, has been shifted to 11th Jan.
Halla Bol is a film with a message and will see a promotional strategy unlike the ones being followed by all the other film makers. The producers on the film want to stick to the ethos of the film and have crafted a promotional strategy in sync with the message the film wants to send across. Halla Bol promotions will see a series of street play contests being activated around the country to garner momentum for the film and the cause.
The film now releases on 11th Jan along with Mukta Arts’ Bombay to Bangkok and My Name is Anthony Gonsalves
Ashfaque (Ajay Devgan) is a small town boy aspiring to be a film star in the Hindi film industry. He joins a street theatre group run by a reformed dacoit Sidhu (Pankaj Kapur) who uses street theatre as a medium to bring about an awakening in the masses. Ashfaque struggles to give a creative vent to the actor in him in order to realize his dreams. Ashfaque's determined struggle pays off and he gets a break in films. He gets a new screen name – Sameer Khan. With the passage of time, the roles start becoming better and he moves up the success ladder in a very short time. Soon, he becomes Sameer Khan the superstar – one who can enact any role with finesse, get under the skin of any and every character with ease and walk away with audience applause.Sadly, amidst all adulation and applause, he slowly loses his own identity. He forgets his real self and imbibes all characteristics of the various roles essayed by him on screen. Corruption takes over his entire system, alienating him from all loved ones, including his wife Sneha (Vidya Balan). A shocking incident at a party changes everything, rocking Sameer Khan's lifestyle. He gets caught between his human self on one side and his corrupted superstar image on the other.Whether the conflict within him gives way to good sense and whether he is able to discard his corrupted image and emerge as a true life hero, becomes an integral part of this true life cinema.
Movie Name : Halla Bol
Year of Release : 2008
Release Date : 11 January 2008
Genre : Drama
Banner : Sunrise Pictures Pvt Ltd, Indian Films
Producer : Adbol Samee Siddiqui
Director : Rajkumar Santoshi
Cast : Ajay Devgan, Vidya Balan, Pankaj Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Ruby Bhatia, Mukesh Tiwari, Lekh Tandon, Darshan Jariwala
Special Appearance : Sridevi, Boney Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Pahlaj Nihalani, Neeraj Vora, Tusshar Kapoor, Ranjit Kapoor
Music Director : Vanraj Bhatia
Lyricist : Dushyant Kumar, Sameer, Mehboob
Cinematographer : N. Nataraja Subramaniam
Story Writer : Rajkumar Santoshi
Dialogue Writer : Rajkumar Santoshi, Ranjit Kapoor
Screenplay Writer : Rajkumar Santoshi
Editor : Steven Bernard
Art Director : Nitish Roy
Action Director : Abbas Ali Moghul
Sound Designer : Rakesh Ranjan
Choreographer : Ganesh Acharya
Playback Singer : Sukhwinder Singh, Harshdeep, Amjad Farid Sabri, Sneha Pant
Publicity Designer : Himanshu Nanda, Rahul Nanda
