Alag
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| Directed by | Ashu Trikha |
| Produced by | Subi Samuel |
| Written by | Ashu Trikha, Sanjay Masoom, Tagore Almeda |
| Starring | Akshay Kapoor, Dia Mirza |
| Distributed by | Subi Samuel Movies Pvt. Ltd. |
| Release date(s) | 2006 |
| Language | Hindi |
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Alag (Hindi: अलग, Urdu: الگ; English: Different) is a Bollywood movie released in 2006. It stars Akshay Kapoor and Dia Mirza and is directed by Ashu Trikha and produced by Subi Samuel.
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Summary
Hemant Rastogi dies. When the police search his abandoned house, they find his son Tejas (Akshay Kapoor) locked up in the cellar. Tejas has a snow white skin and no hair on his body. He has not left his house for eighteen years, only reading about the world outside of his room. Tejas is sent to a center for orphans and criminal youngsters, run by Purva Rana (Diya Mirza) and her father. Purva is immediately fascinated by Tejas' supernatural powers while he struggles with this new world he has just discovered and finds the world outside is not black and white as in the books, but grey. At the center he attends classes where he clashes with his school mates when he demonstrates his powers and high intelligence.
Being able to heal, the owner of the center (Purva's father) whose wife has fallen into a coma tries to use him to awaken her. He is soon discovered by the men of a greedy scientist who tries to misuse Tejas. Tejas uses his powers to destroy the laboratory, however, Purva gets killed in the process. Tejas tries to use his supernatural powers to bring back her life but fails to do so. In his depression he eventually returns to his life of solace in the cellar of his home.
Cast
- Dia Mirza ... Purva Rana
- Akshay Kapoor ... Tejas Rastogi
- Jayant Kriplani ... Mr. Rana (Purva's father)
- Mukesh Tiwari
- Sharat Saxena
- Yatin Karyekar ... Mr. Rastogi (Tejas' father)
- Beena
- Tom Alter
- Rana Jung Bahadur
Songs
The film features music by Aadesh Shrivastava and Kunal Ganjawala lends his voice in two songs.
- 1) Sabse Alag
- 2) Hai Junoon
- 3) Apun Ki Toli
- 4) Saanjh Ki Pighalti
- 5) Hai Junoon (The DJ Suketu Mix)
- 6) The Soul of Alag
- 7) Sabse Alag
Trivia
- The film is a remake of Powder starring Sean Patrick Flanery
- Poster design strongly resembles The Shawshank Redemption (Poster).
- Features a promotional video titled Sabse Alag, sung by Kunal Ganjawala, Shaan, Hemachandra, Nihira Joshi and Gayatri Ganjawala. The video features appearances from Shahrukh Khan, Preity Zinta, Abhishek Bachchan, Sushmita Sen, Karan Johar, Bipasha Basu, Priyanka Chopra, Arjun Rampal, Bobby Deol and Lara Dutta.
- During the bus ride, the passengers sing "Kajra Re" from Bunty Aur Babli.
