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An anthology of ten short films dealing with diverse subjects such as infidelity, companionship, lust and a spectrum of human emotions.
Release date: 7 December 2007 (India)
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Dus Kahaniyaan (English: Ten Tales) is a 2007 anthology Indian 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.
Box office: ₹350 million (US$5.4 million)
Produced by: Sanjay Gupta
Language: Hindi
Budget: ₹200 million (US$3.1 million)
Plot · Matrimony · Zahir · Rice Plate
Dus Kahaniyaan (English: Ten Tales) is a 2007 anthology
Indian 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. The film was declared an above average grosser at the box office.[1] The film is inspired from the Hollywood movie The Ten.
The bored wife of an MNC vice president (Arbaaz), Mandira, has an extramarital affair with an army officer she met on a chatroom. 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 genuine love and consideration. As it turns out, her lover has to report to his post and gives 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 jeweler and hands over the necklace with an arrangement that she be given a coupon, which under the pretext of a lucky draw 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 jeweler. Her cell phone does not get reception, so she turns to her husband's secretary and asks her to dial the number, only to spot the necklace on the secretary. The secretary mentions that it is from her "boyfriend" revealing that her husband is also having an affair with his secretary however since she cannot confront him without revealing her own affair she is "hoisted with her own petard".
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 Jimmy feeling responsible, slashes his wrists and dies. Masumi cries by his bed.
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 realises that it is the night of full moon, and her lover promised her long ago that he would be waiting outside the door every full moon night. 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 in the morning; many villagers notice the colourful dupatta on her head and mistake her for her daughter. When the villagers come to break the marriage describing the incident, Minisha learns that it was her mother who went to meet the man. She cannot recite what has happened, as it would defame her mother, but she in unable to bear the taunts of the villagers and thus she commits suicide by jumping into the well.
Dino finds a book on the beach and picks it up. The title of the book is 'Death'. He 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. Wearing a golden swimsuit she invites him for dinner at 7 pm. Dino is on time and goes over well prepared with wine and condoms. When he is about to open her dress she tells that she will be back within two minutes with more provocative clothing and surprises which he would love taking off. But Dino falls into a nap and wakes up with a sound. He sees her dead in the bathroom. 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 and chases him to the beach. She starts running after Dino which seems that she is a ghost. The process goes the whole night and in the morning Dino is found dead in the beach. All are surrounded him, the girl comes and saves Dino and asks him to come along with her. Dino goes with her leaving his earthly body behind.
Anita and Rohit are newlyweds on a bus who start a small quarrel. 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 that 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; it is revealed that his wife is dead. She realizes that he loved his wife, and still does, yet she will now never be with him. She returns to the bus and sits beside Rohit, and they do not quarrel. The essence of the story is that life is too short to be wasted away on silly fights.
The film's soundtrack was released on 1 November 2007. Joginder Tuteja from bollywoodhungama.com gave the music 4 out of 5 stars.[2]
Contents
Plot
The plot is divided into ten storiesMatrimony
Crew- Cast: Arbaaz Khan, Mandira Bedi & Sudhanshu Pandey
- Directed by Sanjay Gupta (story inspired by Roald Dahl's short story "Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat")
The bored wife of an MNC vice president (Arbaaz), Mandira, has an extramarital affair with an army officer she met on a chatroom. 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 genuine love and consideration. As it turns out, her lover has to report to his post and gives 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 jeweler and hands over the necklace with an arrangement that she be given a coupon, which under the pretext of a lucky draw 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 jeweler. Her cell phone does not get reception, so she turns to her husband's secretary and asks her to dial the number, only to spot the necklace on the secretary. The secretary mentions that it is from her "boyfriend" revealing that her husband is also having an affair with his secretary however since she cannot confront him without revealing her own affair she is "hoisted with her own petard".
High on the Highway
Crew- Cast: Jimmy Sheirgill & Masumeh Makhija
- Directed by Hansal Mehta
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 Jimmy feeling responsible, slashes his wrists and dies. Masumi cries by his bed.
Pooranmasi
Crew- Cast: Amrita Singh, Parmeet Sethi & Minnisha Lamba
- Directed by Meghna Gulzar
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 realises that it is the night of full moon, and her lover promised her long ago that he would be waiting outside the door every full moon night. 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 in the morning; many villagers notice the colourful dupatta on her head and mistake her for her daughter. When the villagers come to break the marriage describing the incident, Minisha learns that it was her mother who went to meet the man. She cannot recite what has happened, as it would defame her mother, but she in unable to bear the taunts of the villagers and thus she commits suicide by jumping into the well.
Strangers in the Night
Crew- Cast: Mahesh Manjrekar & Neha Dhupia
- Directed by Sanjay Gupta
Zahir
Crew- Cast: Dia Mirza & Manoj Bajpayee
- Directed by Sanjay Gupta
Lovedale
Crew- Cast: Anupam Kher, Aftab Shivdasani, Neha Oberoi & Anuradha Patel
- Directed by Jasmeet Dhodi
Sex on the Beach
Crew- Cast: Dino Morea & Tarina Patel
- Directed by Apoorva Lakhia
Dino finds a book on the beach and picks it up. The title of the book is 'Death'. He 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. Wearing a golden swimsuit she invites him for dinner at 7 pm. Dino is on time and goes over well prepared with wine and condoms. When he is about to open her dress she tells that she will be back within two minutes with more provocative clothing and surprises which he would love taking off. But Dino falls into a nap and wakes up with a sound. He sees her dead in the bathroom. 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 and chases him to the beach. She starts running after Dino which seems that she is a ghost. The process goes the whole night and in the morning Dino is found dead in the beach. All are surrounded him, the girl comes and saves Dino and asks him to come along with her. Dino goes with her leaving his earthly body behind.
Rice Plate
Crew- Cast: Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah & Anup Soni
- Directed by Rohit Roy
Gubbare
Crew- Cast: Nana Patekar, Rohit Roy & Anita Hassanandani
- Directed by Sanjay Gupta
Anita and Rohit are newlyweds on a bus who start a small quarrel. 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 that 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; it is revealed that his wife is dead. She realizes that he loved his wife, and still does, yet she will now never be with him. She returns to the bus and sits beside Rohit, and they do not quarrel. The essence of the story is that life is too short to be wasted away on silly fights.
Rise & Fall
Crew- Cast: Sanjay Dutt & Sunil Shetty
- Directed by Sanjay Gupta
- Inspired by Ching Po-Wong's Blood Brothers
Music
| Dus Kahaniyaan | |
|---|---|
| Soundtrack album | |
| Released | 1 November 2007 |
| Genre | Film soundtrack |
| Label | White Feather Films |
| Song | Singer(s) | Lyricist | Music Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aaja Soniye | Shweta Vijay, Sudhanshu Pandey | Virag Mishra | Gourov Dasgupta |
| Bhula Diya | Anand Raj Anand | Ibrahim Ashq | Anand Raj Anand |
| Bin Tum | KK | Panchhi Jalonvi | Anand Raj Anand |
| Dus | Aanchal, KK | Virag Mishra | Gourov Dasgupta |
| Jaaniye | Aanchal, Sunidhi Chauhan | Virag Mishra | Gourov Dasgupta |
| Kaala Peela | Shafqat Ali Khan | Virag Mishra | Shafqat Ali Khan |
| Mushkil Kushaa | Kshitij | Panchhi Jalonvi | Bappi Lahiri, Bappa B. Lahiri |
| Nach Le Soniye | Mika Singh | Virag Mishra | Gourov Dasgupta |
| O Maahiya | Shweta Vijay, KK | Panchhi Jalonvi | Gourov Dasgupta |
| Vichodeya Ne | Shafqat Ali Khan | Ambar Hoshiyarpuri | Shafqat Ali Khan |
Critical Response
The movie ended up with mostly negative reviews with some average reviews. Elvis Dsilva of rediff gave the movie 2.5 stars saying "it failed to create a watchable compendium of stories".[3] Sonia Chopra of Sify gave the movie 1.5 stars calling the movie balderdash.[4] Times of India rated the movie 3.5 out of 5.[5]References
| Dus Kahaniyaan | |
|---|---|
Official poster of Dus Kahaniyaan
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| Directed by | Sanjay Gupta Apoorva Lakhia Meghna Gulzar Rohit Roy Hansal Mehta Jasmeet Dhodhi |
| Produced by | Sanjay Gupta |
| Starring | Diya Mirza Sunil Shetty Arbaaz Khan Jimmy Sheirgill Amrita Singh Nana Patekar Minnisha Lamba Sudhanshu Pandey Anupam Kher Aftab Shivdasani Naseeruddin Shah Sanjay Dutt Manoj Bajpayee |
| Distributed by | White Feather Films |
Release date
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Running time
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114 mins |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | ₹200 million (US$3.1 million) |
| Box office | ₹350 million (US$5.4 million) |
Dus Kahaniyaan (2007) - IMDb
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Rating: 5.8/10 - 1,342 votes
Crime ... Dus Kahaniyaan
Poster. After five years of being married to wealthy executive Rahul
Sarin, Pooja has a secret and intimate affair with Lt. Col. Aditya Singh
every Thursday, on the pretext of visiting ..... Trivia. Saif Ali Khan
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After five years of being married to wealthy
executive Rahul Sarin, Pooja has a secret and intimate affair with Lt.
Col. Aditya Singh every Thursday, on the pretext of visiting an ailing
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Arbaaz Khan | ... | Rahul Sarin (segment "Matrimony") | |
| Mandira Bedi | ... | Pooja (segment "Matrimony") | |
| Sudhanshu Pandey | ... | Lt. Col. Aditya Singh (segment "Matrimony") | |
| Jimmy Sheirgill | ... | Kabir (segment "High on the Highway") (as Jimmy Shergill) | |
| Masumeh Makhija | ... | Kaamna (segment "High on the Highway") | |
| Amrita Singh | ... | Mala (segment "Pooranmashi") | |
| Parmeet Sethi | ... | Lover (segment "Puranmashi") | |
| Minissha Lamba | ... | Mini (segment "Puranmashi") | |
| Mahesh Manjrekar | ... | (segment "Strangers in the Night") | |
| Neha Dhupia | ... | (segment "Strangers in the Night") | |
| Manoj Bajpayee | ... | Saahil (segment "Zahir") (as Manoj Bajpai) | |
| Dia Mirza | ... | Sia (segment "Zahir") (as Diya Mirza) | |
| Aftab Shivdasani | ... | Aman (segment "Lovedale") | |
| Neha Uberoi | ... | Anya (segment "Lovedale") | |
| Anupam Kher | ... | Anya's dad (segment "Lovedale") | |
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After five years of
being married to wealthy executive Rahul Sarin, Pooja has a secret and
intimate affair with Lt. Col. Aditya Singh every Thursday, on the
pretext of visiting an ailing aunt, not realizing that Rahul is aware of
this; Kabir and Kaamna get high on the highway - and encounter thugs;
Mini is accused of being intimate with a male just before her marriage; A
husband questions his wife for trying to seduce a terrorist; After
re-locating to a flat in Versova, struggling write, Sahil, falls in love
with his Missouri-born attractive neighbor, Sia; After a chance
encounter with Aman, Anya has second thoughts of getting married to her
fiancé, amidst a confession from her dad that he loved another woman;
Dino is lured by a beach nymphet with a dark secret; A Hindu
Tamil-speaking Mumbai-based maternal grandma, on her way to Pune by
train, has encounters with people from different religious faiths; While
traveling by bus with her husband, Simran meets a male taking eleven
balloons...
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Brave Attempt
Dus Kahaniya falls in
the line of the daring attempts made by few directors of presenting
different stories of different people in one movie. But this was the
most unique of all them, till today. Dus Kahaniya is just like somebody
buying a short story book from a book shop which comprises for 10
different stories. But the real flaw, which i think was, i was never
attemted to establish a link between these stories which may also be
said as the unique point of the movie. But i don't think this gamble
paid off.
Also i would certainly mention about a few stories which i personally liked, from the flock presented,were Rice Plate(Nassir Sahab and Shabana Aajmi ji,directed by Rohit Roy), Zahir (Manoj Bajpai and Dia Mirza, Directed by Sanjay Gupta) and Puranmasi(Amrtia Singh,Minnisha Lamba and Permeet Sethi, directed by Meghana Gulzar).
I would certainly say that people should watch the movie and if you don't watch it expecting links between the stories this one you will certainly like.
Here i would also mention that the most disappointing person was Apporv Lakhiya. I think the story was not new to the public, for me at least. I expect more form him after seeing some of his brilliant work.
Also i would certainly mention about a few stories which i personally liked, from the flock presented,were Rice Plate(Nassir Sahab and Shabana Aajmi ji,directed by Rohit Roy), Zahir (Manoj Bajpai and Dia Mirza, Directed by Sanjay Gupta) and Puranmasi(Amrtia Singh,Minnisha Lamba and Permeet Sethi, directed by Meghana Gulzar).
I would certainly say that people should watch the movie and if you don't watch it expecting links between the stories this one you will certainly like.
Here i would also mention that the most disappointing person was Apporv Lakhiya. I think the story was not new to the public, for me at least. I expect more form him after seeing some of his brilliant work.
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