| Release Date: |
Jan 2008 |
| Genre: |
Action / Crime / Drama |
| Cast: |
Ajay Devgan (Ashfaque Khan / Sameer Khan), Vidya Balan (Sneha), Pankaj Kapur (Siddhu), Darshan Jariwala (Ganpatrao Gaekwad (as Darshan Zariwala)), Abhay Bhargav ((as Abhhay Bhaargava)), Shiva Natrajan (), Anjan Srivastav (Amanullah Khan (as Aanjjan Srivastava)), Sulabha Arya (Nazma Khan), Iqbal Dosani (Police Commissioner), Deepak Pandit (ACP Rathod), Sitaram Panchal (), Sanjay Mishra ((as Sanjai Mishra)), Anupam Shyam ((as Anupam Shayam)), Viju Khote (Mangesh (as Vijoo Khote)), Sanaa Khan ((as Sannah Khan)), Rushita Singh (), Amay Kadakaia (Rohit Khan (as Master Amay Kadakaia)), Sanatan Mody ((as Sanatan Modi)), Rahul Kanawat ((as Rahul Kanhwat)), Manoj Khalatkar ((as Manoj Kolhatkar)), Mithilesh Chaturvedi (), Manish Verma ((as Maneesh Verma)), Vishal Vijay (), Parth Akerkar (), Nini Andreas Ayach (Spectator), Kabir Bedi (Himself), Sayali Bhagat (Herself), Rajat Bhatia (), Ruby Bhatia (), Nilanjana Bhattacharya (), Sanyogita Chavan (), Prabhu Chawla (Himself), Sukanya Chawla (), Milind Dastane (), Deepak Desai (), Bharat Kumar Dhingra (), Pankaj Dubey (), Ashique Hussain (), Javed Jaffrey (Himself), Arvind Jayant (), Rajiv Jha (), Boney Kapoor (Himself), Kareena Kapoor (Herself), Ranjit Kapoor (Himself), Rishi Kapoor (Himself), Tusshar Kapoor (Himself), Raja Kapse (), Jahangir Kerketta (), Vinod Khanna (Himself), Neeraj Khetrapal (), Jaswinder Kohli (), Urvashi Krishna (), Dr. Ajit Kulkarni ((as Ajit Kulkarni)), Rajesh Kumar (), Nimesh G. Mehta (), Prem Mishra (), Pahlaj Nihalani (Himself), Prasad Pandit (), Deepak Patel ((as Deepak Patil)), Surinder Premi (), Saheb Das Manik Puri (), Bablu Shah ((as Babloo Shah)), Asha Sharma ((as Aasha Sharma)), Neeru Sharma (), Om Prakash Sharma (), Andrew Shemin (Spectator), Shilpa Shetty (Herself), Garima Shrivastava (), Jackie Shroff (Himself), Jarnail Singh (), Sadhana Singh (Herself), Sridevi (Herself), Surekha (), Anurag Swami (), Swati (), Mustan Tambawala (), Lekh Tandon (), Dilip Tiwari (), Mukesh Tiwari (), Ajay Verma ((as Ajay Kumar Verma)), Shivkumar Verma ((as Shiv Kumar Verma)), Neeraj Vora (Himself), Arshad Warsi (Himself), Preity Zinta (Herself) |
Ashfaque (Ajay Devgan) is a small town boy aspiring to be a film star in the Hindi film industry. He joins a street theatre group run by a reformed dacoit Sidhu (Pankaj Kapur) who uses street theatre as a medium to bring about an awakening in the masses. Ashfaque struggles to give a creative vent to the actor in him in order to realize his dreams. Ashfaque's determined struggle pays off and he gets a break in films. He gets a new screen name - Sameer Khan. With the passage of time, the roles start becoming better and he moves up the success ladder in a very short time. Soon, he becomes Sameer Khan the superstar - one who can enact any role with finesse, get under the skin of any and every character with ease and walk away with audience applause. Sadly, amidst all adulation and applause, he slowly loses his own identity. He forgets his real self and imbibes all characteristics of the various roles essayed by him on screen. Corruption takes over his entire system, alienating him from all loved ones, including his wife Sneha (Vidya Balan). A shocking incident at a party changes everything, rocking Sameer Khan's lifestyle. He gets caught between his human self on one side and his corrupted superstar image on the other. Whether the conflict within him gives way to good sense and whether he is able to discard his corrupted image and emerge as a true life hero, becomes an integral part of this true life cinema.
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