Movies - Kaal

	Movies - Kaal

Kaal is a Hindi movie released in India on April 29, 2005. The movie is directed by Soham Shah, who has also written its dialogue and screenplay. The movie is based around the story of a Wildlife expert, his wife and a group of friends who battle against supernatural creatures in the Jim Corbett National Wildlife Park for their lives. It stars Lara Dutta, Vivek Oberoi, Ajay Devgan, John Abraham and Esha Deol.

Plot

Krish Thapar (John Abraham), a coservationist for the International Wildlife Welfare, and his wife Riya (Esha Deol), are asked to find out the reason behind the mysterious deaths caused by man-eating Tigers in the past two months in Jim Corbett National Parkin India.

Dev (Vivek Oberoi) with his group of friends including his girlfriend (Lara Dutta) came for an adventure trip at the weekend. Blocked roads divert them from going to the farmhouse they had planned too. Instead, they are taken towards India's biggest jungle to hunt on Sajjid's (Kushaal Paunjabi) insistence.

The two groups bond together but the same night the fear that revolved around the jungle comes alive. Their friends and guide are butchered by unknown creatures and thus starts a journey with fear, panic and trauma as death is felt in the air.

The gang comes across Kali Pratap Singh (Ajay Devgan) who takes the challenge of helping them escape out of the jungle, which has never been so alive. In this run for life the only escape is to escape the time of death - Kaal.

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Trivia

This was meant to be Kajol
's comeback venture, alongside her husband Ajay Devgan
. However, she couldn't accept due to other commitments.

Karan Johar claims he was inspired to do a thriller instead of his usual family film by Aditya Chopra, who had broken Yash Raj Films out of their romantic film mold by doing the action film Dhoom
(2004). He paid tribute to Chopra by casting that film's stars, John Abraham and Esha Deol
.

The protagonist's name, Kali Pratap Singh, is a reference to Veer-Zaara
(2004), where Shahrukh Khan
and Karan Johar had respectively acted and designed the costumes.

Features Shahrukh Khan
and Malaika Arora Khan
in an item number at the very beginning of the movie.

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