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Madhoshi (English: Intoxication) is a 2004 Indian Hindi psychological thriller film. It was directed by Tanveer Khan and stars Bipasha Basu, John Abraham, Shweta Tiwari and Priyanshu Chatterjee.

Madhoshi
Directed by	Tanveer Khan
Written by	Tanveer Khan
Produced by	Anil Sharma
Starring	Bipasha Basu John Abraham Priyanshu Chatterjee Naina Dhaliwal
Cinematography	Damodar Naidu
Music by	Roop Kumar Rathod
Distributed by	Shweta International
Release date	24 September 2004 (2004-09-24)
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Synopsis

Anupama Kaul is a woman whose sister lives in New York. One day she gets a call from her sister and while they are talking on the phone, her sister is killed by the September 11 attacks. Anupama is devastated. A few years later Anu is happily engaged to Arpit Oberoi then Arpit leaves for America for business reasons and Anu is wooed by a man named Aman. When Arpit comes back from America, Anu tells him that she is in love with Aman and she can't marry Arpit. Then Arpit starts asking questions: Who is Aman? Where does he live? She can answer these questions but there's no evidence to support her answers, which leads Arpit to ask "Does he even exist?" The truth is Aman doesn't exist. He is just a figment of Anupama's imagination. Her friends and family try to explain to her that Aman doesn't exist. Anupama refuses to listen. Then, suddenly, Aman comes and everyone can see him. On Anupama's and Aman's wedding day Aman confesses that he is really Arpit and that he got plastic surgery. The only way that his face looks exactly like Aman's is that Arpit got the drawings from Anupama's sketchbook. Anupama doesn't believe him and still believes that he is truly Aman. Anupama's best friend asks her to show proof. Anupama shows pictures of her and Aman at the movies when Arpit is still in America without even taking a second glance at the pictures. Her friend shows the pictures to her and she sees that Aman wasn't there. Later, it is revealed that she was the victim of schizophrenia and Aman was just a part of her imagination. Arpit and Anupama soon get married.

Cast

• Bipasha Basu as Anupama "Anu" Kaul
• John Abraham as Aman Joshi
• Priyanshu Chatterjee as Arpit Oberoi
• Shweta Tiwari as Tabbasum
• Sudhanshu Pandey as Student in Train Scene (John Abraham's Old Entry Scene)
• Dolly Bindra
• Murali Sharma
• Vikram Gokhale as Dr. Pradhan
• Palak Tiwari as Anupama's friend
• Greg Roman as Kirus
• Adi Irani as Anupama’s brother in law
• Anang Desai as Vishal Oberoi, Arpit's father
• Rajeev Verma as Rajeev Kaul, Anupama's father
• Smita Jaykar as Sumitra Rajeev Kaul, Anupama's mother
• Nandita Puri as Mrs. Oberoi, Arpit's mother
• Dinesh Kaushik as Nakul

Soundtrack

The soundtrack is composed by Roop Kumar Rathod. It consists of 4 songs crooned by singers such as Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik, Sadhana Sargam, Sonu Nigam and Roop Kumar Rathod.

Track No	Song	Singer(s)
1	O Jaane Jaana	Udit Narayan and Sadhana Sargam
2	Pyar Ka Khumar	Alka Yagnik
3	Yeh Ishq Hai Gunah	Roop Kumar Rathod
4	Madhoshi	Roop Kumar Rathod
5	Chale Bhi Aao	Sonu Nigam

Critical response

Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave the film 1.5 stars out of 5, writing "On the whole, MADHOSHI could've found all-round appreciation had the makers chosen a better climax. At the box-office, the film won't find many takers, partly due to its inappropriate ending and partly due to its clash with a number of films in the same week."[1] Anupama Chopra writing for India Today gave a negative review stating "Each plot twist contends for Bollywood's worst ever - Chatterjee does a face/off with incredible ease and then reverts to his original face once Basu is cured; a thoughtful psychiatrist listens to two minutes of the patient's history and solemnly declares: she is suffering from schizophrenia. Basu, statuesque in bustiers and ethnic skirts, quivers in her best imitation of Hindi movie madness. It's death by cinema."[2]

Rujuta Paradkar of Rediff.com wrote "Madhoshi takes recourse in the tried and the tested Bollywood formula of imitating several Hollywood scripts in a desperate attempt to create something 'different.' " and gave the film three stars stating "Yet, I would, very generously, give Madhoshi three stars -- after all, anything is possible in Bollywood!."[3]

See also

• List of cultural references to the September 11 attacks

References

External links

• Madhoshi at IMDb

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