Run (2004)

Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Bhumika Chawla
Music Director: Himesh Reshammiya
Director: Jeeva
Producer:
Lyrics: Sameer
Year: 2004
Genre: Hindi

SYNOPSIS
It's not in the mushy-gory story, hell no! The tale is of a headstrong boy from a town Siddu (Abhishek Bachchan) who falls in love with Jahnavi (Bhumika Chawla)

in the metro with the coy and simpering sister of a monstrously possessive gangster Ganpati (Mahesh Manjrekar) who, we are told, chops off a boy's limb for

teasing his precious sister.

Cinematographer-director Jeeva shoots the entire film in a fading light. Romance, which is generally done in velvety colours, gets a granite treatment.

The romantic songs - tuned by Himesh Reshammiya as self-consciously trendy - are shot innovatively. But they impede the film's fast and furious flow to its

combative end where Siddhu and the girl's obsessive brother battle it out in the fist-to- fist, hand-to-hand climax. What motivates the menacing mood is some

expertly shot action sequences. Watching Abhishek play the larger-than-life hero for the first time is fun. This film depends almost entirely on his charms to see it

through. Abhishek is willing...and stable.