Genre: Comedy | Drama
Director: Nagesh Kukunoor
Release Date: 27 August 2010
Stars: John Abraham, Anaitha Nair and Girish Karnad
Storyline: Aashayein is the story of Rahul (John Abraham), a gambler. He collapses down just after his long-time girlfriend Nafisa(Sonal Sehgal) accepts his marriage proposal. Later, on medical check-up, it is revealed that Rahul has got Lung Cancer, presumably by his smoking habits, and that he has got only 3 more months to live.
Rahul Sharma (John Abraham) is a compulsive gambler and while betting, wins 3 crore rupees. That night he asks his girlfriend, Nafisa, to marry him and she says yes. Right after proposing Rahul collapses. The next day he goes to the doctor for a medical test and finds out that he has cancer. Rahul does not know how to handle this situation and so in the middle of the night runs down a street screaming, knowing that he only has months to live. Later, Rahul finds about a rehabilitation centre for persons with such incurable diseases. Rahul silently runs away from his fiancee, leaving back most of the money he earned, for her. Once Rahul gets into the centre, he meets several people like Parthasarthi (Girish Karnad) who speaks with the help of a metal tube because of his cancer, Madhu (Farida Jalal) who was a former Prostitute and an AIDS patient now, Padma (Anaitha Nair) a teenage girl with lot of dreams, but no life to fulfil them, she can't even walk properly, Govinda (Ashwin Chitale) a comic loving kid, who is said to have certain higher capabilities and everybody treats him as a messenger of God. The relationship between Rahul and each of these persons grow with time, and one day Rahul coughs hard and struggles for breath, and he goes to Govinda’s room and falls down there.
Next day when Rahul wakes up, Govinda offers him mangoes, and he
tells him a story. The story was similar to the story of Rahul’s dreams,
in which he imagines himself as Indiana Jones. In the story he is in a
mission to free many souls who are in chains, and to get the keys of
those locks, he needs to find a key of a box, in which all the keys are
there. Rahul imagines himself to be Indiana Jones, and Parthasarathy,
Madhu etc. as the locked spirits, and Padma as a spirit who motivates
Rahul to find the key.
Later, he realizes that the key to open the box is his heart only,
and his love is the key to open all the other chainlocks. He then
arranges a beach program with Padma, in the program, he brings a band
troupe who sings a song about living in the present moment. Noted actor Shreyas Talpade
appears as the lead singer in this song. After that, Rahul asks
everybody to write down their one wish and put it in a pot. Then he and
Padma exchanges their wishes. They together fulfils everybody’s wishes,
and meanwhile Rahul and Padma were about to be in a physical
relationship, but Rahul regrets and rejects. Padma gets angry and throws
off her wig to Rahul, and then only we come to know that the teenage
girl is bald, due to her disease. Then Padma’s condition gets worse, and
Rahul looks for her wish pot. He finds that her last wish is to make
love with Rahul. Rahul agrees and kisses Padma, and she dies at the
moment.
Later, Rahul finds an Indiana Jones costume in his room, which he had
wished for, and had written and given to Padma. Later, Rahul’s
condition gets worse, and Nafisa re-enters the story at that moment. It
is revealed that Padma had called Nafisa before her death and asked her
to look after Rahul.
Meanwhile, Rahul is in desperate search of some ‘Naksha’ (Treasure
Map) which Govinda had told him to find. He then realizes the Naksha is
near some waterfall, and the closing scene of the movie shows Rahul and
Nafisa going in a car, presumably they might have decided to spend the
final days of his life near that waterfall.
Cast
- John Abraham as Rahul Sharma - An angry and confused compulsive gambler. Wishes to live the life he has been dreaming of.
- Sonal Sehgal as Nafisa - Doting, loving, loyal girlfriend. Wishes that love always wins.
- Anaitha Nair as Padma - She is impetuous, obnoxious, full of life. Wishes to experience love.
- Prateeksha Lonkar as Sister Grace - She will bend her principles for the greater good. Wishes to dedicate her life for the happiness of her inmates.
- Girish Karnad as Parthasarthi - Fun loving, "uncle" to everyone, stupidly stubborn on his principles. Wishes to be reunited with his family.
- Farida Jalal as Madhu - Intelligent, virtuous, loving. Wishes to just lead a normal life and not be ostracized.
- Ashwin Chitale as Govinda - Ten years old, loves comics, mangoes and tells stories. Wishes that everyone's life be just like a comic book. Ashwin Chitale is child actor who starred in the Marathi film Shwaas.
- Vikram Inamdar as Xavier
- Sonali Sachdev as Doctor (at Clinic)
- Sharad Wagh as Priest
- Shreyas Talpade as (Special Appearance)
Production
Aashayein was shot on locations in Pondicherry and Hyderabad, India.[4] John Abraham had to lose 16 kilos for the film.[5] The film's title is inspired by the song "Aashayein" from Nagesh Kukunoor directed film Iqbal which was written by Vipul K Rawal.
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