Gulaal
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| Directed by | Anurag Kashyap |
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Raj Singh Chaudhary Anurag Kashyap |
| Starring | Raj Singh Chaudhary Kay Kay Menon Deepak Dobriyal Mahi Gill Ayesha Mohan Jesse Randhawa Aditya Srivastava Piyush Mishra Abhimanyu Singh |
| Music by | Piyush Mishra |
| Cinematography | Rajeev Ravi |
| Edited by | Aarti Bajaj |
| Distributed by | Zee Limelight |
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140 minutes, 154 minutes (uncut) |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | ₹3.2 crore (US$480,000) |
| Box office | ₹7.8 crore (US$1.2 million)(First week), ₹13.2 crore (US$2.0 million) |
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| Soundtrack album by Piyush Mishra | |
| Released | 13 March 2009 |
| Genre | Film soundtrack |
| Label | T-Series |
Gulaal is a 2009 Indian political drama film directed by Anurag Kashyap and starring Kay Kay Menon, Raj Singh Chaudhary, Abhimanyu Singh, Deepak Dobriyal, Ayesha Mohan, Jesse Randhawa, Piyush Mishra and Aditya Srivastava. It explores themes such as pursuit of power, quest for legitimacy, perceived injustices and hypocrisy of the powerful. The film is set in present day Rajasthan, a state in northwestern India. The plot is provided by student politics of a university and a fictitious secessionist movement consisting of former Rajput leaders who have become present-day elite. Gulaal was initially stalled due to financial concerns but was later released with support from Zee Limelight. An uncut version containing a 3 minute sex scene and a 3 minute torture sequence was leaked for a moment but was later taken down.
In the fictional town of Rajpur, Dilip (Raj Singh Chaudhary), a law student who is a Rajput from Bikaner, and his faithful servant, Bhanwar (Mukesh Bhatt), secure housing in an old, run-down British-era pub. Here Dilip meets Rananjay Singh “Ransa” (Abhimanyu Singh), a prince who despises the ideologies of his father and the aristocracy. Ransa's straightforward and fearless personality has quite an effect on the mild-mannered Dilip.
Dilip visits the university hostel where he is ragged by a gang of university thugs, led by Jadwal (Pankaj Jha). They strip him and lock him in a room with Anuja (Jesse Randhawa), a young lecturer in the same university. Dilip and Anuja are released naked. Dilip's brother tells him to ignore the event and that things were the same in his days, effectively stating that the society as a whole hasn’t changed much since his time. But Ransa disagrees and tells Dilip that they should avenge this act. Initially, Dilip is reluctant but gives in and goes with Ransa, after Ransa provokes him to give the thugs a taste of their own medicine. But the tables are turned and Dilip and Ransa are beaten, ragged, and thrown out of the hostel. Ransa meets Dukey Bana (Kay Kay Menon), a local figure who is trying to gather support for the Rajputana separatist movement, who allows them to proceed with the plan to injure Jadwal. Ransa and Dilip ambush Jadwal, but the other thugs corner them in a cinema hall. Dukey Bana intervenes and rescues them. Dukey Bana then convinces Ransa to compete in the General Secretary Elections at the university. Running against Ransa is his father's out-of-wedlock daughter, Kiran (Ayesha Mohan).
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