KAAL BENGALI MOVIE

Kaal

For the 2007 Bengali film, see Kaal (2007 film).

Kaal
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Soham Shah
Produced by	Karan Johar Shahrukh Khan
Screenplay by	Soham Shah Karan Johar
Story by	Soham Shah
Starring	Ajay Devgan John Abraham Vivek Oberoi Lara Dutta Esha Deol
Music by	Salim-Sulaiman Anand Raj Anand
Cinematography	Santosh Thundiyil
Edited by	Sanjay Sankla
Distributed by	Dharma Productions Red Chillies Entertainment
Release dates	29 April 2005
Running time	127 mins
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Kaal (Hindi: काल, translation: the time of doom) also known as Kaal: The Jungle is a Bollywood natural horror film directed by Soham Shah, and jointly produced by Karan Johar and Shahrukh Khan. The film stars Ajay Devgan, John Abraham, Vivek Oberoi, Esha Deol and Lara Dutta in lead roles. It released on 29 April 2005.
The story relates the struggle of wildlife expert Krish Thapar (Abraham), his wife Riya Thapar (Deol) and a group of friends, who battle against a ghost in the fictional Orbit National Park (alluding to the world-famous Jim Corbett National Park, Nainital, Uttarakhand) for their lives. The film sends out the message on protecting the precious wildlife of India.

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Contents

• 1 Plot
• 2 Cast
• 3 Production
• 4 Reception
• 5 Soundtrack
  • 5.1 Track listing
• 6 References
• 7 External links

Plot

Two British nationals are killed by a ferocious tiger in corbett National Park in India. This incident follows several other tiger attacks, and many deaths result, prompting National Geographic to send a correspondent, Krish Thapar (John Abraham) to the national park and ascertain what really happened. Thapar is accompanied by his wife Riya (Esha Deol). A group of youngsters, consisting of Dev Malhotra (Vivek Oberoi), Ishika (Lara Dutta), Sajid (Kushal Punjabi) and Vishal (Vishal Malhotra), on a hunting trip also arrive in corbett National Park in the hopes of sighting and shooting some big prey.
Both the Thapars and the youngsters meet with each other, and seek the guidance of a local called Kaali (Ajay Devgan) after he saves them from a streak of tigers. On their way out from the national park, some of the members of the group are mysteriously killed. Kaali tells them about a recent story of how hunting was destroying the jungle. One local guide got very upset by this and started leading tourists astray and getting them killed by tigers. When this started affecting the tourism, other villagers and local guides beat that guide and threw him to the tigers. The local villagers now believe that his ghost is killing everyone who breaks the jungle's rules.
It is finally understood that Kaali is the spirit of the dead tourist guide and is responsible for the recent deaths. Somehow Krish, Dev, Ishika manage to get out of the national park.

Cast

• Ajay Devgan as Kaali Pratap Singh
• John Abraham as Krish Thapar
• Esha Deol as Riya Thapar
• Vivek Oberoi as Dev Malhotra
• Lara Dutta as Ishika
• Kushal Punjabi as Sajid
• Vishal Malhotra as Vishal
• Vineet Sharma as Bagga
• Parmeet Sethi as jungle officer
• Daya Shankar Pandey
• Shahrukh Khan in a special appearance in song "Kaal Dhamaal"
• Malaika Arora in a special appearance in song "Kaal Dhamaal"

Production

Soham Shah, the writer-director of Kaal had earlier assisted Karan Johar in Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... (2001). 25 Litres of real blood was used in the film.^[1] The idea of using computer-generated tigers was dropped because of the lack of its realism.^[1] The three tigers shown in Kaal were also used in the hollywood film Gladiator (2000).^[2] Scenes involving tigers were shot in Bangkok, where they used to roam free on sets.^[1] Vivek Oberoi earlier wanted to do Devgn's role, but later accepted the one offered.^[2] The film was shot at the Jim Corbett National Park.^[3]

Reception

The film received mostly positive reviews from critics noting it to be a different type of horror film.^[4][5] At the box office it performed moderately well, grossing an approx Rs.19 Crores and was given the final verdict of an above-average grosser.^[6] It was also the tenth highest grossing film of 2005.