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Wednesday, 26 October 2005 |
 Kaal
Released: 2005
Character: Krish Thapar
Krish (John Abraham) is a tiger expert. The kind that runs after
anaconda-esque snakes and gives them bear hugs, not letting go of the
jhappi when National Geographic calls to tell him to go to Orbit
National Park (yes, that's what they've named the Jim Corbett National
Park) where a man-eating tiger has killed a foreign expert. Adjusting a
part of the snake around his arm, he hangs up to tell his wife Riya
(Esha Deol), 'Holiday over.'
Dev (Vivek Oberoi) is a yuppie who loves all things gizmo. He revs his
SUV on a holiday with his girlfriend Ishika (Lara Dutta) and two
friends Sajid and Vishal (Kushal Punjabi and Vishal Malhotra), says
'cut the crap' at every near-death experience and ignores his
mini-skirted girlfriend's advice that running over a black cat on a
Friday is 'ashubh.'
Dev's Lexus goes kaput and he hires an ominous looking driver and his
jeep to continue the joyride. The spooky driver spots Sajid's revolver
(which he keeps caressing the way Krish caresses anacondas) and asks
them if they want to go to Orbit, which is big game country.
The two Orbit-bound teams meet in the middle of tiger country when
Krish's hired car goes kaput and Dev's drunk driver rams into it.
All the while, ominous sounds and camera angles convince you, as Sherlock Holmes would have put it, that 'the game is afoot.'
Soon, it becomes clear why. A growl and Krish's erstwhile driver
vanishes. The same night, the guide -- who has been waxing
eloquent about his jungle skills -- is dragged away into the jungle, to
be discovered later without his head.
Meanwhile, Dev, Krish and party move around in the 'core area' of the
tiger infested jungle, stopping where they want to, or where their car
wants to, armed with a revolver that would do some serious damage to a
fly, were it to sit on a tiger's back.
They meet a stick wielding, mysterious figure Kaali Pratap (Ajay
Devgan). Mysterious because there's shloka chanting in the background
every time he appears and
he saves the tourists from three tigers. Obey the rules of the jungle
or the jungle will kill you, is Kaali's advice to the tourists.
Run, run, while you can, the forest officer tells the now scared group.
But routes out of the jungle are closed because of landslides, and only
Kaali can show them the way out.
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