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Shakti: The Power
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Wikipedia article
'Shakti: The Power' is a 2002 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Krishna Vamsi and starring Karisma Kapoor, Nana Patekar and Sanjay Kapoor with Shah Rukh Khan, Deepti Naval, Ritu Shivpuri, Anupam Shyam and Prakash Raj in supporting roles. Aishwarya Rai makes a special appearance in a song. The film is a remake of 1998 Telugu film 'Anthahpuram', which was based on the real-life story of Betty Mahmoody. The original story of real life escape of Betty Mahmoody is depicted in the film 'Not Without My Daughter' (1991) which itself was based on Betty Mahmoody's book of the same name.
It is considered to be one of Karisma Kapoor's career-best performances; with her and Patekar's performances being lauded by fans and critics and received several nominations at a number of award ceremonies. Despite this, commercially it did not perform well as expected. Shah Rukh Khan plays an important supporting role in this film
Plot
Nandini is a carefree young woman who lives happily with her guardian in Canada. She is introduced to Shekhar and they get married quite spontaneously and are expecting a child soon. One day, Shekhar learns that his family is in trouble, back in India. Nandini is confused as she believed that he was an orphan, but Shekhar explains to her that his family belongs to an extremely feudal society, and unable to bear the factions and violence in the community, he migrated to Canada. They decide to travel to India in order to assess the situation.
The couple arrives in Shekhar's home town in Bihar, where his father Narasimha is an influential man with rustic habits, who doesn't find Nandini to be traditional enough for his son. Nandini is uncomfortable with the casual approach to violence that she and her son Raja see in the household. Narasimha's wife is a kind-hearted person who takes care of Shekhar, Nandini and Raja. She requests them to remain in India for a few more days in order to celebrate Shekhar's birthday, and during this time Shekhar is killed by Narasimha's rivals. Nandini is distraught and tries to take her son Raja away from this madness and violence, but Narasimha stops her from doing so. He says Raja must be raised in a traditional way in order to avenge his father's death, and if needed Nandini can leave the town by leaving her son behind. Nandini refuses to allow this and, with the help of Narasimha's family members, she escapes from the house with her son. Jai Singh Drifter, a petty thief, helps Nandini evade Narasimha's man in order to board a train to Jaipur. Jai is killed in the midst of violence whilst trying to protect Nandini and her son. Narasimha continues to pursue Nandini, but ultimately allows her and the child Raja to leave, after emotionally interacting with his grandson.
Cast
*Nana Patekar as Narasimha, Shekhar's father.
*Karishma Kapoor as Nandini, Shekhar's wife.
*Sanjay Kapoor as Shekhar, Nandini's Late husband.
*Shahrukh Khan as Jai Singh Drifter who helps Nandini.
*Deepti Naval as Shekhar's mother
*Divya Dutta as Shekhar's sister
*Rajshree Solanki as Shekhar's sister
*Ritu Shivpuri as Kamli, Shekhar's sister.
*Prakash Raj
*Vijay Raaz as Beeja
*Tiku Talsania as Nandini's uncle
*Jaspal Bhatti as Nandini's uncle
*Chandrakant Gokhale as Narasimha's father.
*Jai Gidwani as Raja, Nandini's and Shekhar's son.
*Anupam Shyam as Maharaj, Narasimha's half brother.
*Aishwarya Rai in the song "Ishq Kamina" as Jai Singh's Dream Girl. (special appearance)
*Prabhu Deva in a special appearance in song Dumroo Baja Re.
*Ganesh Acharya in song Dumroo Baja Re.
*Vijay Gupta as Narasimha's Henchman
*Chris Ippolito as Dancer
*Rocky Verma as Goon
Production
The film was produced by then-retired actress Sridevi (Sanjay Kapoor's sister-in-law) under the banner Sridevi Productions and was supposed to be her comeback film, but she had to find a replacement when she found out she was pregnant. She initially offered her role to Kajol, but she rejected it so Karisma Kapoor was signed instead. Fardeen Khan was the original choice for Sanjay Kapoor's role and the film was originally titled 'Vaapsi'.
Music
Songs were mainly composed by Ismail Darbar, but one song was composed by Anu Malik- "Ishq Kameena" .
Box office
'Shakti: The Power' grossed in India and $1.35 million (6.54 crore) in other countries, for a worldwide total of , against its budget. It had a worldwide opening weekend of , and grossed in its first week. It is the 13th-highest-grossing film of 2002 worldwide.
India
It opened on Friday, 20 September 2002, across 285 screens, and earned nett on its opening day. It grossed nett in its opening weekend, and had a first week of nett. The film earned a total of nett, and was declared "Flop" by 'Box Office India'. It is the 20th-highest-grossing film of 2002 in India.
Overseas
It had an opening weekend of $565,000 (2.74 crore) and went on to gross $770,000 (3.73 crore) in its first week. The film earned a total of $1.35 million (6.54 crore) at the end of its theatrical run. Overseas, It is the 5th-highest-grossing film of 2002.Awards
References
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