Race (2008/I)

Directors:

Abbas Alibhai Burmawalla
Mastan Alibhai Burmawalla

Writers:

Shiraz Ahmed (screenplay)
Shiraz Ahmed (story)
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Release Date:

20 March 2008 (Kuwait)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Thriller

Plot:

Ranvir and Rajiv are half brothers who own a huge stud farm in South Africa. Ranvir is a very shrewd and aggressive man while Rajiv is laid back...

Plot Keywords:

Alcoholic | Secretary | Murder | Detective | Bimbo

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Bipasha Basu	...	Sonia
Gurpreet Guggi
Katrina Kaif	...	Sophia
Anil Kapoor	...	Inspector Robert D'Costa
Akshaye Khanna	...	Rajiv Singh
Saif Ali Khan	...	Ranvir Singh
Johnny Lever	...	Max - Marriage Registrar
Sameera Reddy	...	Mini
Dalip Tahil	...	Kabir Ahuja
Melissa Brouard	...	Nun at funeral (uncredited)
Matt Dworzanczyk	...	Office Worker (uncredited)

Directed by
Abbas Alibhai Burmawalla		(as Abbas-Mastan)
Mastan Alibhai Burmawalla		(as Abbas-Mastan)

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Shiraz Ahmed		screenplay
Shiraz Ahmed		story
Jitendra Parmar		dialogue
Anurag Prapanna		dialogue

Produced by
Dilip Advani	....	line producer
Ramesh Sadhuram Taurani	....	producer (as Ramesh S. Taurani)

Original Music by
Pritam Chakraborty

Cinematography by
Ravi Yadav

Film Editing by
Hussain A. Burmawala

Production Management
Varun Lalwani	....	executive in charge of production
Kevin Travaskis	....	production manager: South Africa

Sound Department
Leslie Fernandes	....	sound re-recording mixer
Ganesh Gangadharan	....	sound effects editor

Visual Effects by
Faheem Ahmed	....	smoke artist
Praveen Bareria	....	digital compositor: Prime Focus
Vishal Bengare	....	digital effects artist: Prime Focus
Anish Holla	....	render wrangler/render support
Ashutosh Khandelwal	....	render wrangler/render support
Chandra Prakash	....	digital effects artist: Prime Focus
Raghvendra Shrivastava	....	compositor
Avdesh Shukla	....	compositor
Rahul Vishwakarma	....	digital effects artist: Prime Focus

Music Department
Apache Indian	....	playback singer
Atif Aslam	....	playback singer
Sunidhi Chauhan	....	playback singer
Kay Kay	....	playback singer
Mona	....	playback singer
Shantanu Mukherjee	....	playback singer (as Shaan)
Neeraj Pandit	....	playback singer
Taz	....	playback singer

Production Companies

• Tips Films Pvt. Ltd.
• Tips Industries
• UTV Motion Pictures

Special Effects

• Prime Focus

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Ireland:12A | India:A

Filming Locations:

South Africa

Company:

Tips Films Pvt. Ltd.

Trivia:

Ajay Devgan was first offered the role of Robert D'costa, and loved the script, but turned down the movie because he wasn't keen on doing an intense action film.

Goofs:

Continuity: A BMW 6 series is shown 3 times in the film and they were all different models each time: M6, 645i, and 650i.

Movie Connections:

Followed by Race 2 (2010)

Soundtrack:

Zara Zara Touch Me

Wastage of Time Money & Lots of Energy

The movie is full of twists and turns....true! But, every such 'twist & turn' proves out to be very stressful as a viewer. Now thats what we want the last thing while watching a thriller. 10 minutes into this movie and one starts to feel heavily bored. The acting was horrible by everyone. In fact, it was so hard to believe that its the same Saif and Akshay whom many of us have seen so good in few other such movies.....e.g. Saif in Ek Haseena thi was excellent...and Akshay was too good in Humraaz (surprisingly from the same director duo). But, this movie lacks in every way...overall very bad music barring a couple of really good songs, terribly bad story, awfully bad length of the movie too came in its way of providing satisfying entertainment. The stars/actors were used less for acting and more as dumb fashion models. Women had absolutely nothing to offer as actors...in fact had demeaning roles, especially pitiable was Sameera Reddy's cop's assistant character. Anil Kapoor, one of the surviving versatile actors of Hindi film industry (remember Eeshwar & Virasat) was also used just as wastefully as by many other directors now a days. The outward appearance for the movie had South Africa, as it was shot there...but in a very distasteful manner you find everyone...from doctor to police officers to estate agents to even marriage registrar(!!!) as Indians. The movie actually made it seem that South Africa is some other Indian federal state! Cummon directors Abbas-Mustan...another viewing of your Baazigar, Humraaz...even Soldier will make us feel better....this 'Race' proved out to be nauseating! Just one plus point....the three ladies in the movie really LOOKED stunning and smashingly good all through. All in all, missing out on this 'RACE' in life will be a good victory for all fortunate non-viewers!