Mumbai Express
| Mumbai Express | |
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Poster
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| Directed by | Singeetam Srinivasa Rao |
| Produced by |
Kamal Haasan Chandrahasan |
| Written by | Kamal Hassan |
| Starring | Kamal Haasan Manisha Koirala |
| Music by | Ilayaraaja |
| Cinematography | R. Siddharth |
| Edited by | Ashmith Kunder |
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Release date
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15 April 2005 |
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Running time
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152 min. |
| Country | India |
| Language | Tamil |
Mumbai Express is a 2005 Tamil language comedy film directed by Singeetam Srinivasa Rao and written and produced by Kamal Haasan. It stars Kamal Haasan himself in the lead role alongside Manisha Koirala, while Nassar, Pasupathy, Sharat Saxena and Santhana Bharathi amongst others play pivotal role. The music was composed by Ilayaraaja, while Siddharth and Ashmith Kunder handled the cinematography and editing respectively. This movie was dubbed in Telugu as well with the same name.
The film was simultaneously made in Hindi with different cast except lead pair as Mumbai Xpress and released on the same date in April 2005.
Three amateur thieves plot to kidnap the young son of wealthy Chettiar (Santhana Bharathi) from school. They do a trial run. However, on the eve of the kidnap, the guy whose job is to operate a crane in this plan is hospitalized. The services of Avinasi a.k.a. Mumbai Xpress (Kamal Haasan), brother of Kovai Sarala, a deaf stunt man performing daredevil bike acts, is roped in. Twists and turns take place where the other two gang members are hurt and invariably our Mumbai Xpress is left to perform the task all by himself. He kidnaps a wrong boy, Daddu (Hardhik), the illegitimate son of Ahalya (Manisha Koirala) and police officer Rao (Nassar), but manages to get a huge ransom from Chettiar by default.
A brawl takes place between the original kidnap planners - Chidambaram (Pasupathy), Johnson (Vaiyapuri) and Avinasi - in handling Ahalya's child, but Avinasi delivers the child unhurt to his mother. He eavesdrops into her tele-con with Rao where Rao wants to settle both the ransom and sever his ties with her. Ahalya pleads and coaxes him to help her get the ransom which Rao is willing to pay. The child takes a fancy to Avinasi and wants him to be the man in their life, and gets him to agree (or else he would throw himself from a multi-storied building).
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