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Summer 2007	Suhail Tatari	Sikandar Kher, Gul Panag, Neetu Chandra, Susan Brar, Uvika Choudhary

Summer 2007

CBFC: U/A

2008 ‧ Bollywood/Thriller ‧ 2h 46m

6.3/10 · IMDb

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A group of five medical students live a carefree life. After their day in the sun, they head back to a village that has witnessed many farmer suicide cases and try to restore their faith.

Release date: 13 June 2008 (India)

Director: Suhail Tatari

Editor: Bobby Bose

Screenplay: Gourov Dasgupta, Vibha Singh, Bijesh Jayarajan, Ritesh Shah, Ujjaiyinee Roy

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Summer 2007 is a 2008 Indian drama film directed by the debutant Suhail Tatari. The film deals with five medical students who undergo a rude awakening of ...

Produced by‎: ‎Atul Pandey

Release date‎: ‎13 June 2008

‎Plot · ‎Production

Summer 2007 is a 2008 Indian drama film directed by the debutant Suhail Tatari. The film deals with five medical students who undergo a rude awakening of sorts after visiting a Maharashtrian village and witnessing the misfortune of villagers. The film stars Sikandar Kher, Gul Panag, Yuvika Chaudhary, Arjan Bajwa and Alekh Sangal. Ashutosh Rana and Divya Dutta play the supporting roles.

Plot

Rahul (Sikandar Kher), Priyanka (Yuvika Chaudhary), Qateel (Arjan Bajwa), Bagani (Alekh Sangal) and Vishaka (Gul Panag) are medical college students with carefree attitudes. Rahul and Priyanka's failed relationship is shown in flashbacks. Rahul argues with an independent candidate and plans to make a political party and contest the college elections. Later he patches up with a bigger political party and gets the independent candidate arrested in fraud case of suicide attempt by his girlfriend. After that Rahul doesn't want to back off from elections. To avert this they plan to go for internship. The group goes to a village in rural Maharashtra that is struck by farmer suicide. There they work as medical interns in the village hospital. The group plans a vacation to Goa until they are awoken to the plight of the poverty-ridden villagers by the village doctor, Mukya (Ashutosh Rana). In addition to their torment, a cruel zamindar (Vikram Gokhale) and his son (Prosshant Narayanan) trouble the villagers with excessive interest rates.
As a solution, a reformed criminal (Sachin Khedekar) offers monetary aid to the oppressed in form of microcredit loans. This comes as an able ally to students who vow to help the villagers. However, naxalites and corrupt politicians complicate their efforts. How these socially-awakened students rise above these problems forms the rest of the story.

Cast

Sikandar Kher as Rahul
Yuvika Chaudhary as Priyanka/Pepsi
Arjan Bajwa as Qateel
Gul Panag as Vishaka/Mother-T
Ashutosh Rana as Dr. Mukya
Vikram Gokhale as Wagh
Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Digambar
Prosshant Narayanan as Wagh's son
Sachin Khedekar as Shankya
Divya Dutta as Dancer

Production

"We are always talking about India being a superpower, and just 70 km away from any of us, the reality is something else, where 70 per cent of the people are unhappy." —Suhail Tatari, director, while speaking about the choice of the subject.^[1]

Suhail Tatari, had previously directed features for Doordarshan's Surabhi, a popular programme in the 1990s.^[1] He continued his association with television by directing soap operas such as Reporter, Kanyadaan, Kashmeer and Don.^[2] After making an award-winning documentary on breast cancer, Tatari felt the urge to venture into commercial cinema. After meeting producer Atul Pandey, who was contemplating on a story about college students, Tatari convinced him to make it more relevant to the farmer suicides.^[1]
Actress Gul Panag treated Tatari as her mentor who moulded her into an actress. Hence, she thought it was obvious that she acted in his first film.^[3] Coming from a modest beginning, Yuvika Chowdhary was happy that her stint in the television industry helped her to adjust well to films.^[4] While shooting a cameo appearance in Farah Khan's Om Shanti Om, Yuvika was offered a role in this film. She was, however, unsure of committing to it because of the number of newcomers. However, Shahrukh Khan admonished her for the reason and cited examples from his own professional career. Chowdhary, after completing the shoot, was happy for her decision to act in this film.^[5] Being the son of veteran Bollywood character actors, Anupam Kher and Kirron Kher, Sikander Kher considered himself lucky that directors readily gave him their time if he sought an appointment.^[6] Kher, whose debut was first with Woodstock Villa, thought that Yuvika Chaudhary was a glamorous and a fun-loving person and this helped him enjoy working with her. Being cast opposite two newcomer actress, Chowdhary and Neha Oberoi (in Woodstock Villa), Kher thought he cared more for the character than being cast alongside established actots. He was grateful to the director for choosing him to work in the film.^[7] Alekh Sangal, the son of veteran filmmaker Ambrish Sangal, thought that despite four other characters sharing screen space with him, he was happy with the way his character was sketched out. He was also quite happy working with Kher and Panag and felt that the movie was a good learning experience for him.^[8]
The story, which is based on the agrarian crisis of the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, was written by Bijesh Jayarajan. While talking about the extremities in the urban and rural parts of India, Jayarajan said that the focus of his story was on how money-lenders are exploiting the helpless farmers.^[9] One of the characters, which Jayarajan created was inspired by Muhammad Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of Grameen Bank, Bangladesh's biggest microcredit institution.^[10] About what he termed as success for the film, Jayarajan said:

The mainstream media in the country has made a conscious effort to shield people, especially youngsters living in metros, from the rural realities. If those watching Summer 2007 at multiplexes realise this, and wonder why they never bothered about Vidarbha, the film will have achieved its goal.^[9]

Due to technical and logistic reasons, the film was shot in Wahi instead of the originally planned setting of Vidarbha.^[9] Throughout the shoot of 45 days, the cast was aware of the farmer suicides. Panag became emotional during their discussions during filming breaks.^[3]

References

Summer 2007
Promotional poster for the film
Directed by	Suhail Tatari
Produced by	Atul Pandey
Written by	Bijesh Jayarajan
Starring	Sikandar Kher Yuvika Chaudhary Gul Panag Arjan Bajwa Ashutosh Rana Sachin Khedekar Divya Dutta Swetha Menon Vikram Gokhale Nawazuddin Siddiqui Prosshant Narayanan Sachin Khedekar
Music by	Kalyani Malik Toshi-Sharib
Cinematography	Attar Singh Saini
Release date	13 June 2008
Country	India
Language	Hindi

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Director:

Sohail Tatari (as Suhail Tatari)

Writers:

Gourov Dasgupta (lyrics), Bijesh Jayarajan (screenplay) | 4 more credits »

Stars:

Ahraz Ahmed, Punit Aneja, Arjan Bajwa | See full cast & crew »

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