Tanuja Chandra, director of DUSHMAN and SANGHURSH, has just completed her third film ? YEH ZINDAGI KA SAFAR, also produced by Mukesh Bhatt.
Tanuja is a name well known in the industry for extracting the most intense performances from her artistes. "I'd love to work with her again and again," Amisha Patel tells me, which does speak volumes of Tanuja's prowess.
The plot of YEH ZINDAGI KA SAFAR:
20-year-old Sarena's (Amisha Patel) world is picture perfect ? she has an adorable relationship with her industrialist father Vivek Dewan (Gulshan Grover) and is on the verge of major stardom as a pop singer.
Jai's (Jimmy Shergill) world is, however, poles apart. As the struggling journalist partner of a near bankrupt tabloid, he dreams of one day having an office in Nariman Point. And to reach there, he searches for a sensational story that'll actually get him there.
Jai stumbles upon the secret that pop star Sarena is not the real daughter of industrialist Vivek Dewan, who had taken great pains to ensure that on one knew she was adopted.
Jai realises that this could be the story he was looking for and goes ahead and publishes it, thus incurring the wrath of Vivek Dewan. An enraged Vivek Dewan not only takes legal action against the errant journalist, he also tries to suppress any further information about this being leaked.
Sarena, however, notices her father's anxiety and confronts him, only to discover that Jai, despite his crude ways of going about it, had written the truth about her.
Ignoring her father's protests, Sarena goes in search of her mother. Ironically, at every stage, her companion in her mission is Jai himself, who follows her through the journey from Mumbai to Ooty to get the legal notice withdrawn.
With no headway in her search, Sarena seeks Jai's help, inspired by his go-getting ways. As Sarena discovers layer upon devastating layer of truth behind her identity, Jai too learns many things about love and life.
In the end, both Jai and Sarena fight together to correct the wrong that had been done to Sarena's mother.
Nafisa Ali plays Sister Namrata, a woman whose deeply buried 20-year secret becomes newspaper headlines, creating chaos in the lives of Sarena and Jai.
Rajpal Yadav is Kunwaare Hulyasi Shukla, the owner of the run-down press of which Jai is the editor. He does not approve of Jai's ways of functioning.
Ehsaan Khan plays Commissioner Prashant Marwah, a man who is obsessed with wiping crime out of the city.
CREDITS:-
Presentation: Bharat Shah and Mahesh Bhatt. Producer: Mukesh Bhatt. Director: Tanuja Chandra. Story: Mahesh Bhatt. Music: Daboo Malik. Lyrics: Salim Bijnori. Cinematography: Manoj Gupta. Dialogues: Girish Dhamija.
Release date:- November 16, 2001.
