| Ghayal Once Again | |
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| Directed by | Sunny Deol |
| Written by | Vishal Vijay Kumar Sanjay Masoom Sunny Deol |
| Story by | Sagar Pandya Shaktimaan Talwar Sunny Deol |
| Produced by | Dharmendra Jai Dev Banerjee |
| Starring |
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| Cinematography | Ravi Yadav |
| Edited by | Chandan Arora |
| Music by | Score: Vipin Mishra Songs: Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy |
Production companies | Vijayta Films Indigo Creation Production |
| Distributed by | |
Release date |
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Running time | 127 minutes[2] |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | ₹50 crore[3] |
| Box office | ₹45.35 crore[4] |
Ghayal: Once Again (transl. Wounded: Once again) is a 2016 IndianHindi-languageaction drama film directed bySunny Deol and produced byDharmendra underVijayta Films. The film, a directsequel toGhayal, stars Sunny Deol,Om Puri,Soha Ali Khan,Shivam Patil, Rishabh Arora, Abhilash Kumar,Neha Khan, Aanchal Munjal andNarendra Jha.[5][6][7] The soundtrack and musical score were composed byShankar–Ehsaan–Loy and Vipin Mishra, while cinematography and editing were handled byRavi Yadav andChandan Arora.
Ghayal: Once Again was released worldwide on 5 February 2016.[8]
After the events of the previous film, Ajay Mehra gets released from prison and begins a new career as a reporter for an independent newspaper He also works as a vigilante who assists the police with their hard-to-prosecute cases (including cases where the accused are prominent and influential members of society). One such case involves small town reporter Renu who was drugged and assaulted bymedia baron Aditya Rajguru. Renu committed suicide and Rajguru's men covered up the matter, implicating her innocent boyfriend. Ajay swings into action and abducts Rajguru, soon forcibly obtaining hisDNA. Rajguru is then arrested and Ajay is declared a sensational hero. However, Ajay still suffersanxiety attacks from the painful memories of his past, and his psychiatrist girlfriend Riya helps him with his problems.
Joe D'Souza has retired and is now a social activist. Ajay often collaborates with him and helps him out. However, D'Souza is killed in a traffic accident inPanvel. A blogger named Zoya Saigal is shocked to discover that Joe was actually shot dead. She had accidentally captured the murder on video, committed by Kabir Raj Bansal, who is the son of business mogul Raj Bansal. Zoya and her friends panic and want to take the video to the cops, but Zoya's friend Anushka's grandfather infers that Raj Bansal had staged the road accident (where 8 other innocent people were killed) and stops them, due to Bansal's power. It is further revealed that D'Souza had visited Raj Bansal and directly accused him ofillegal land acquisition. Bansal tried to bribe him, but an argument ensues, where Kabir shot D'Souza in a fit of rage and the accident was covered up.
Bansal realizes that Kabir is still a bratty kid and decides to enrol him into amilitary school. Following her grandfather's advice, Anushka turns the video over to their friend Rohan's father lawyer, Kriplani in order to ensure the children remain safe. However, Kriplani quietly returns it to Bansal and Rohan realizes that his father has given up the video and thus urges Zoya to reach Ajay Mehra. As the children hurry to reach Ajay, they are intercepted by Bansal's thugs. A chase ensues and Ajay saves the children, recovering the video. Riya takes the children to the hospital, but they are yet again abducted by Bansal's men. Ajay finds that Anushka is his own daughter as her grandfather had kept the secret to shield her from Ajay's past. Kabir tortures the children until Bansal, tired of his son'stantrums, warns him away.
Bansal holds Anushka and releases the other children. He tells Ajay that his daughter will henceforth stay with Bansal in order to ensure the safety of Kabir. Bansal's mother objects, but Bansal, locked in moral conflict, waves her away. Bansal orders theHome Minister to arrest Ajay. Ajay overcomes the cops and mounts an attack on the Bansal mansion to rescue Anushka. After a fierce fight, Ajay rescues Bansal's family who gets trapped in the debris. Ajay then goes to the chopper landing, where he sees Kabir torturing Anushka and beats him up. He is about to kill him when Bansal apologizes to Ajay and Anushka where he, along with Kabir surrenders to the police. Ajay and Anushka recover in the hospital surrounded by their friends.
Meenakshi Seshadri,Raj Babbar,Moushumi Chatterjee, andAmrish Puri appear as Varsha Sahay, Ashok Mehra, Indu Mehra and Balwant Rai respectively from the archive footage fromGhayal (1990).
In 2013 producerDharmendra expressed his interest to work on the sequel to 1990 filmGhayal, and actorSunny Deol was supposed to direct the movie, with the titleGhayal Once Again.[9][10]
All songs composed byShankar–Ehsaan–Loy with lyrics byAmitabh Bhattacharya.
| Ghayal Once Again | ||||
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| Soundtrack album by | ||||
| Released | 29 December 2015 | |||
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
| Language | Hindi | |||
| Label | Zee Music Company | |||
| Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy chronology | ||||
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| No. | Title | Singer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Lapak Jhapak" | Armaan Malik,Siddharth Mahadevan, Yashita Sharma | 4:15 |
| 2. | "Khuda Hai Tere Andar" | Arijit Singh | 5:12 |
| Total length: | 9:27 | ||
The film had grossed Rs 72.0 million on its first day of release[11] and an estimated Rs 232.5 million by the end of its first weekend, according to film analystTaran Adarsh.[12]
After the release of this film, Sunny Deol expressed his interest to make a third part of this franchise.[13]