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Directed:
Rituparno Ghosh
Music: Debojyoti Mishra
Producer: Shree Venkatesh
Films, Shrikant Mohta , Mahendra Soni
Cast : Ajay Devgan, Aishwarya
Rai, Sameer Dharmadhikari, Mouli Ganguly,
Annu Kapoor, Surekha Sikri |
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The
story involves a romance between two people who encounter
each other years after they last met. The man (Ajay
Devgan) is an entrepreneur now while the woman (Aishwarya)
is married and is in service. In their second encounter
they get to know each other better and rediscover themselves
against the passage of time. Ajay plays a defeated person
who arrives in Kolkata for some work and ends up meeting
Aishwarya. It’s about their relationship.
Celebrated Bengali director
Rituparno Ghosh returns with an intense romantic drama
'Raincoat' starring two of the biggest names in Bollywood,
Ajay Devgan and Aishwaraya Rai, who give virtuoso performances
as two fated lovers.
'Raincoat' is about
two people who share the same village in the backwoods
of Bihar - a young man, Manoj (Ajay Devgan) and a woman,
Niru (Aishwarya Rai). Two people joined by love but
separated by circumstance. Star crossed in a way, but
not in the way that the phrase usually means.
Manoj is a businessman
who has never made the grade in the television business.
He was jilted by his former lover Niru in preference
for her mother's choice of a successful entrepreneur
and is now reduced to begging money off his friends
to set up a new business venture.
The story begins with
Manoj seen leaving his mother to travel to Kolkata in
search of finance. The city of Kolkata has a different
platform of hope for him. A hope to rejuvenate him out
of his financial crises and a hope to meet his beloved,
Niru, rightfully who is no longer his.
He can't forget Niru
though, and one day picks up courage to visit her in
a neighbouring town. The monsoons have arrived and he
lurks outside the house equipped with his friend's old
raincoat, not sure whether to announce his presence
or not. Finally the ex-lovers meet, their grief-stricken
love story is told in flashback as each lovers' current
anguish is also delicately and painfully laid bare.
Told in flashbacks and smooth transitions between past
and present, Raincoat is a story of love between Niru
and Manoj that endures despite circumstances, despite
separation and hopelessness. Narrated against the backdrop
of a rainy afternoon, a Raincoat literally becomes instrumental
in bringing out the love Niru and Manoj have nurtured
within their hearts since childhood for each other.
The chamber piece is
entirely different from anything that Ajay and Aishwarya
have done even in the unbelievably beautiful Hum Dil
De Chuke Sanam .
"That was a different
territory... no doubt very, very beautiful but different,"
asserts Ghosh. "I don't think audiences will get
to see Ash and Ajay in a film like Raincoat again. I
had the time of my life shooting with them."
Raincoat is especially
critical for Aishwarya as it will release two weeks
after the worldwide release of her first international
project, Gurinder Chadha's 'Bride and Prejudice', and
a week before debutante director Leena Bajaj's 'Shabd',
which is Aishwarya's first film with a female director.
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