Introduction

Introduction

Apna Asmaan Theatrical trailor

Details

• The name of the movie: Apna Asmaan• Duration: 110 min • Genre: Drama, Family • Release Date: 7 September 2007 (India)• Country: India• Language: Hindi• Filming Locations: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India• Box Office Budget: INR 20,000,000(estimated)• Censor Certificate No: CIL/1/85/2007

Cast

• Irrfan Khan as Ravi Kumar• Shobana as Padmini Kumar• Anupam Kher as Dr. Sathya• Rajat Kapoor as Dr. Sen• Dhruv Piyush Panjuani as Buddhi/Aryabhatta

Rest of the cast

• Nassar Abdulla as Mr. Sharma• Barkha Singh as Pinky Sharma• Lalit Parashar...Shop Keeper• Utkarsha Naik...Mrs. Sharma

Other Crew

• Director: Kaushik Roy• Producer: Kaushik Roy & Umang Pahwa• Music Director: Lesile Fernanades &

Leslie Lewis• Lyrics: Mehboob• Story: Kaushik Roy• Screenplay: Kaushik Roy• Cinematographer: Barun Mukherjee

Other Crew

• Editor: Amitabh Shukla• Playback Singer: Leslie Lewis, Sukhwinder

Singh, Shreya Ghoshal, Sunidhi Chauhan, Shaan, Chitra

• Assistant Editor: Kunal Moitra• Banner: Imaginationworks

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

• Bilbo Dasgupta...first assistant director• Kulla Kanjan...first assistant director• Harshavardhan Kulkarni...associate director• Indraynee Mukherjee...first assistant director

Sound Department & Visual Effects

• Rajendra Hegde...sound recordist• Anchal Srivastava...sound re-recording mixer• Himanshu Gohil...film scanning• Prasad Sutar...visual effects supervisor

Camera and Electrical Department & Editorial Department

• Dharmendra Bhurji...key grip

• Kunal Moitra...assistant editor• Joginder Singh Varna

Special thanks

Orko Roy...special thanks for inspiration

Music

Plot Summary• Ravi and Padmini share a strained relationship due to their teenage son

Buddhi's intellectual handicap. Buddhi, a mildly autistic slow learner displays his flair for art but his parents, with their middle-class insecurities, neither recognize nor encourage his talent. Driven by Padmini's social insecurities and Ravi's guilt for dropping Buddhi as a baby, the parents chase an unreal dream of seeing their son as a normal good student who, like others, must become an engineer or a doctor. While Dr Sen, the neurologist, tries hard to make Padmini accept the reality, Ravi's accidental meeting with Dr Sathya - the maverick scientist, leads him to the experimental "Brain Booster" that can make Buddhi a genius. The magic drug has a side effect - Amnesia, which Ravi thinks is a blessing since Buddhi has no good memories to talk about. Initially, Ravi hesitates to administer the drug but one night, in an inebriated state, he is sufficiently provoked by Padmini to inject Buddhi with the Brain Booster.

• The immediate effect seems like the end of their son's life but he eventually recovers from the shock to emerge as a newly born Buddhi - smarter, brighter but very confused and aloof. While the parents celebrate their new life, they overlook the consequences of a child who has no emotional bond with his parents. As Buddhi begins to show signs of being a genius, news breaks out about Dr Sathya's dark past and the ill effects of his magic Brain Booster. Soon the parents then begin to realize the perils of transforming their son to someone that he was not meant to be.

Story

• The film begins with Ravi (Khan) and Padmini (Shobhana) living as a happily married couple with a baby boy named Buddhi Raj (Dhruv Piyush Panjnani),who has a mental disorder.Padmini blames Ravi for the child's condition because she believes he dropped him when Buddhi was a young child. While Buddhi is good at drawing, his mother wants him to be good at mathematics since she was a gold medalist during her college days. Feeling helpless she starts taking Buddhi to temples, churches and priests frequently hoping for a miracle.

• During the same period Ravi meets a Research Scientist Dr Satya (Anupam Kher) who has recently discovered a brain booster drug and begins treating Buddhi with this medicine. As time goes by Buddhi's brain power improves and he becomes a very good mathematician. However Buddhi starts experiencing side-effects and he starts to forget his own parents during the process that creates a fresh trouble for them though his parents feel this a blessing for them. Buddhi receives media fame and becomes extremely popular on other hand.

• Now Buddhi starts to misbehave with his parents which they had never experienced. Buddhi's parents learns that the drug effects led to form him another personality "Aryabhatt". They are searching Dr. Sathya for the antidote. Meanwhile they find him in a mental asylum. Buddhi's parents pleads him for antidote which Sathya gives them finally. Now as Buddhi starts to attack his father, his mom knocks him out and injects with antidote. Now Buddhi is normal and Ravi & Padmini accepts his talent and film ends on a happy note

Reviews:

• As per my opinion I would like to give 4 stars out of 5. The movie was very inspirational. It teach us that if a mentally-challenged person can be an artist that it is not necessary that it should be normal.