Waqt: The Race Against Time

Plot synopsis:
Ishwarchand Thakur (Amitabh Bachchan) and Sumitra Thakur (Shefali Shah) are a married couple who run a toy factory together. They have a son named Aditya Thakur (Akshay Kumar) who does not have any interest in responsibility or what he wants to do in life. It gets even worse when he elopes with his girlfriend, Pooja (Priyanka Chopra), the daughter of Natu (Boman Irani).
When Pooja gets pregnant, both Ishwar and Sumitra decide to make Aditya realise his responsibilities, as he will have to take care of his wife and child. They take drastic measures and throw Aditya out of the house along with Pooja. As a result, Aditya and Pooja live in a room at the back of the house in the garden. The force becomes so bad that Aditya begins to hate his father and they do not speak to each other for a long time. At the same time Aditya becomes aware of his role in life.
However, Ishwar has done all this for a reason and is hiding something. Ishwar is trying to make sure that his son is secure but because he is suffering from lung cancer and he wants his son to be responsible. Aditya succeeds in becoming a responsible man and also finds out the truth about his father when his father comes for his performance on the stage. He steps on the stage but instead he asks the audience to pray to god to give a minute of their lives to keep his father alive until his son's birth. His father is alive until his son is born and he names the baby boy 'Ishwar' after himself and he dies. The movie reaches its climax with Aditya welcoming children at his father's toy factory and playing with an alone, disabled boy like Ishwar did at the start of the film with his family there including his toddler Ishwar. The spirit of Ishwar touches Sumitra's flowers in her hair and it reminds her of the old times.

Tags: romantic

Review:
I cried.This movie made me express all the emotions I could possibly express during the film.What I loved the most about this movie was the Father-Son relationship that had been portrayed.
I felt as if I was watching someone acting out the relationship that I shared with my father.After having seen the movie, I would say that I was educated as to how I could be more nice towards my parents in all possible ways.
My dad does love me, and Akki's behavoiur in the film made me realize how I might have hurt him in some way or the other.Waqt was a great family entertainer....Less to speak of & more to admire!!!!.
The broth unfortunately has lost its actual taste thanks to all the excess dilution and garnishing that went into its making.What's surprising and disappointing about WAQT is that it comes from a director who stayed away from the usual clichés of Hindi cinema in his first venture but who in his second outing gives in for all the stereotype film formulas.
While Vipul Shah had the conviction to show something as implausible as blind men robbing a bank in AANKHEN, he just fails to induce life in the entire packaging of WAQT that is based on something as conceivable as a father-son relationship.
Ishwar Chand Sharawat (Amitabh Bachchan) who has established his entire empire on his own from the scratch leads an affluent life with his wife Sumitra (Shefali Shah).
Their only son Aditya (Akshay Kumar) never had the need to strive for anything since he got everything tailor-made and spoon-fed in life.
He starts turning into an independent man but the rift in the relationship between him and his father grows.The story is simplistic while the uncomplicated screenplay has a very elementary approach.
If you are not one of the two, you at least might have come across individuals like them somewhere in real life.Add to it director Vipul Shah's easy handling of the screenplay.
With a family affair like this, any other director in his place would have added in tons of melodrama in the proceedings as per the cinematic laws of Bollywood family dramas, turning the film into a compulsive tearjerker.
However Shah excels in the effortless handling of emotions for most part of the film.Clear-cut example of his unpretentious direction is palpable in the pre-interval scene where the father expels the son from his house in a rather frivolous manner.
Also the editing pattern could have been reversed to conceal the father's reason for the change in attitude towards his son.Anu Malik's music is fine though unnecessary in the proceedings.
Aatish Kapadia has come up with some good dialogs for dramatic moments.Boman Irani and Rajpal Yadav make up or the light moments in the film very efficiently.
While Rajpal Yadav has been going overboard with his comic histrionics in many films off lately, this time he underplays his character and is completely restrained.
Priyanka is gorgeous and performs her part well.Of course the major applause deserves are Akshay Kumar and Amitabh Bachchan.
Akshay is especially expressive in the scene where his doting father intentionally berates him to make him aware of his responsibilities.
Though Bachchan goes a bit dramatic in a couple of scenes, his brilliance strikes throughout the film.To sum up, WAQT is like a soup whose ingredients are both tasty and nutritional but the final recipe somehow isn't as much appetizing..
Time For A Hit!Waqt Dir- Vipul Amrutlal Shah Cast- Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Priyanka Chopra, Shefali Shah, Rajpal Yadav and Boman Irani.
Replete with all the necessary ingredients of a commercial Bollywood fare, 'Waqt' has all that it takes for a movie to click with the Indian audiences.
Ishwar(Amitabh Bachchan), the postman-turned-millionaire(don't ask how!...there's something about selling toys while delivering letters and all thatseriously- who gives a damn!), married to Sumi(Shefali Shah) is a doting father to Aditya(Akshay Kumar).
However, when faced with a situation that will test his race against time, Ishwar has no alternative but to throw Aditya out of the house- hoping that the new predicament might make him more conscientious of his own life.
Writer Aatish Kapadia(he also penned the original Gujarati play 'Aavjo Vhala Fari Malishu' on which the film is based) does a good job of keeping the narrative fluid.
But gauging from the audience reactions, it was working to the hilt.Finally, 'Waqt' is all about its performances which amount to one whole point in the overall rating!
Ironically, his previous best endeavour was in 'Aankhen'- with the same director and Big B at his side!'Waqt' is by no means a memorable movie.
And at a time when the industry is waiting desperately for a universal hit, 'Waqt' might just do the trick!Abhishek BandekarTrivia- This is Akshay Kumar's second consecutive film after 'Bewafaa', in which he performs on stage during the climax!Rating- **** Poor ** Average *** Good **** Very Good ***** Excellent22nd April, 2005.
Great story and superb performances, be it Amitabh, Akshay, Shefali, Priyanka, Boman or Rajpal.
Hindi film industry is going shameless with Mallika and Co, this movie is totally vulgarity free and therefore bound to fail in vulgarity addicted our Indian society.
Anu Malik is worst musician around and he thinks himself popstar but this is not the movie where is presence was required-He looks only good with Govinda style songs.
I felt some nice serious music with couple of good Ghazals or sad songs could have made this movie more memorable..
Shri Amitabh Bachchan ji and Shri Akshay Kumar ji are both megastars, and this movie proves exactly why.
Everybody else including Boman Irani and Rajpal Yadav have done a exemplary job and given the movie its share of laughs.
Good film with powerful emotions.
I liked the combination of Amitabh and Akshay much more in this film than in Ek Rishtaa.
Vipul Shaw made his indelible mark with "Ankhen", one of the best Comedy Hindi movies.
In Bollywood when a movie is put together the first thing a Bollywood Director is prone to do is sign up a music director and this guy (mediocre Malik in this instance)is obligated to drum up six songs to fulfill his contract.
So even a good Director like Vipul Shah has to use them to appease the Finacier and the Grandma's who just cant get enough of these numbers.
No Music director can churn out good songs relentlessly as clearly evident in this movie.
The duelling and role playing the Father and Son is good acting by Bachachan and Akshay Kumar.
A good director surrounds himself with good actors and he is willing to wait till a good story comes along as in this super movie.
Father and son movie.
is this a time travel film science fiction crap.But,this film is nothing to do with that this film is a story about the love of father to his son this film make me cry I really like the main actor he really give us what a superb acting performance I don't want to spoil anything watch this movie yourself I give it 10/10 5 star movie a brilliant family movie..
this movie was rather awful Vipul Shah's last movie was good this one was just bad although it's a good story and is handled in a great way Aatish Kapadia who adapted this movie from another gujarati play "Avjo Wahala Fari Malishu" made a good but slow pianful 2 and a half hours to watch there are a lot of flaws in this movie but it's still a entertainer songs are rather bleaked out and don't work well but they're still good overall not a movie you would enthusiastically watch it's still a story to take in to account and it's good if you're the relationship type pretty good movie with loads of flaws and humor that's really not needed even one bit.
Ishwar (Amitabh Bachchan) and his wife Sumitra (Shefali Shah) run a toy factory that is successful enough for Iswar to spoil their son Aditya (Akshay Kumar) in every way.
When illness strikes Ishwar, he makes the hard decision to throw Aditya out of the house to force him to become responsible and dependable.This drama had the potential to be a moving and emotional film, but fell short.
Bachchan and Shah were especially good in their roles, while Kumar and Chopra gave their usual level of performance.
'waqt' race against time, more like race out of the cinema doors.
The father is dying and does what any good parent does...kick his son out the son with his PREGNANT wife.
This film is an INSulT to our intelligence I really cant believe i contributed financially to the 'people' who made this film by taking my family to see it, we left the cinema with a frown, please do not subject yourself to this mess to watching this take my advice and do not waste your 'waqt'..
OK so first you spoil your kid,then you teach him a lesson wow we are so ignorant of this fact whoever said its a brilliant new concept probably is some other species other than human alright fine let me come comment like humans do movie has a nice message to be given but it could well have been given by a stranger sitting besides you in the bus rather than you going for such a wasteful movie to learn it Hindi movies have proved it a lot already and also i cant waste my time writing about waste anyway!.
PROS: Akshay Kumar's performance(is it just me or does this guy always manages to trump AB in their movies together?).
Let me get this straight, he believes brutally insulting his son's soul in every possible way(that will likely ruin their relationship beyond repair) is a better way for him to make Akshay finally take some responsibility then actually telling him the truth??
Easily the movie's biggest flaw.Akshay becoming a stunt man.
the whole thing.Bottomline: Waqt is just too dumb to be called a good movie.
This movie's full title is "Waqt: Race Against Time".
If my father, who raised me, and who I love dearly, treated me like Big B did Akshay, I'd shoot him myself.
Waqt - It's your 'Time' that is wasted.
Director Vipul Shah should look elsewhere instead of Gujarati Theatre when making a Bollywood production.
Now he's adapted another Gujarati play and named it Waqt - a race against time.
For example, the role play between father and son is best left to Gujarati Theatre - don't bring it in a Hindi film.
After the superb AANKHEN(2002) which was a remake of a Gujarati play he comes with WAQT which too looks like a stage playIn stage plays, we have characters shouting, overacting here too the sameThe first half shows Amitabh almost kidding the 40+ Akshay Kumar who acts too funny like a small nerdThe film has a good message how not to spoil your son but sadly the way Amitabh wants to make Akki responsible is absolutely fakeEven his reason for hiding his sickness, his runnign from the hospital and the melodramatic speech by Akki is a put offSome emotions do touch you but most are too over the topRajpal's comedy is hilarious but too stretched in second half Direction by Vipul Shah is too overdone though some scenes are good Music is okayAmongst actors Amitabh overdoes it in the first half but is superb in emotional scenes Akshay Kumar too does his part well but looks umcomfortable in some too weepy scenes His chemistry with Bachchan is matchless Rajpal is a highlight, he makes you laugh without overacting and just his presence and his dumb behaviour and deadpan humour he is a riot Boman is good in some comic parts but too loud at places Priyanka is the heroine so nothing to do, this is her last film with Akki so far Shefali is awesome though she looks too young for Bachchan.
take a look at Russia, Iran, china and Latin America, look at the brilliant films they have and we get crap like Kisna!!get real people, no wonder the international community in general laughs at Indian cinema..
Best Movie Ever In Bollywood History.
i don't know how come the rating of the movie is 7.3 it should be 9.3 but anyways no one else can make this movie and the acting by Akshay is just outstanding the second half of the movie makes u cry and the movie has a really good unexpected ending which makes the movie perfect.
Anyways i love this movie and it's not just sad and funny but it also gives u a really good meanings and what u should be doing so i think this is one of the best movie in the bollywood history.
the only thing i don't like about this movie is the music well the background music is good but the songs are not good enough i think the music would be better if A R Rahman would be the music director but anyways we can't do anything about that so ya..
The basic storyline here is, Aditiya (Kumar) is the spoilt son of a millionaire, Ishwar (Bachan) who owns a toy industry, in Ishwar's eyes his son Aditya can do nothing wrong, Aditya's mother Sumitra (Shefali Shah) warns Ishwar to bring his son to the responsible path before it is too late, for Ishwar is a patient of lung cancer and has only 9 months to live, when his son elopes and marries Mitali (Chopra), Ishwar readily forgives Aditya, but when the happy couple Aditya and Mitali come back from a honeymoon, Mitali is pregnant, and this forces Ishwar to kick Aditya out of the house to make him more responsible, Aditya doesn't know his father is suffering from lung cancer, and he also doesn't know that his father has kicked him out of the hose to make him more responsible, Ishwar cannot bring himself to tall Aditya that he is about to die, with a hungry and pregnant wife.
it is a race against time so Aditya does all he can to prove himself to his father, and the climax comes when Aditya gets his big break in the movie industry and his father tells him that he is about to die.This movie is absolutely brilliant, this is the breakthrough in Indian cinema that was needed for the Bollywood industry, Shah's directing is almost flawless, but which movie doesn't have flaws?
The best part if this movie is the father son relationship which is a tearjerker.
the song interludes is just placed at the right time, the scenery is good, the only part where this movie fails is where the jokes between Boman Irani and Rajpal Yadav the jokes are too long and after a bit they are annoying, but overall this is a brilliant movie, i advise anybody Reading this review to go and watch it regardless of other reviews.
The performances by Amitabh Bachchan's role has the dying father is great, because he wants to teach his son how to handle life in case something happens to him and Akshay Kumer was great in his role as the spoiled Aditya Thakur.
Priyanka Chopra was good in her small role she had in the movie.
Ragpal Yadav as the brain-dead servant and Boman Irani as the show-off father-in law have a very good connection and the comedy scene's were hilarious.
yes, It was the really awesome movie I will like that the story of this movie is really fine, and my Favourite star Amitabh Sir & Akshay Sir are Really Amazing Character.
The movie was the Fantastic Priyanka Chopra Role was so Good.The Story Direction was the quiet Good, It was really appreciable.
http://printcalendartemplates.com/ The farce becomes so bad that Aditya begins to hate his father and they do not speak to each other for a long time.
At the same time, Aditya becomes aware of his role in life.
Aditya succeeds in becoming a responsible man and also finds out the truth about his father when his father comes for his performance on the stage.
the movie is good but if some stupid comedy would not part in the movie & some forced songs which are specialty in cinema of Bollywood.
the mother character was short but okay & the character of servant will make you laugh for a minute in the such emotional movie.
my last words are the movie would be excellent if some old formula & forced song would not fill the bill.
Amitabh (Ishwarchand) and Akshay Kumar (Aditya) are father and son, very very close to each other - yes very, they sing and dance together in night clubs, frolic together on beaches...
Turns out father is dying of blood cancer and has not told the son.
There is a pregnant wife (Priyanka Chopra) who has to starve, Aditya is either picking leaves off lawns or being mauled by hungry dogs as a stunt man.
Rated in comparison to movies in general, not just Bollywood.
I think I understood that the relationship between the father and son was more like one between friends than one between a parent and child without having to have it conveyed via a five minute long song.
If a movie tries to elicit tears through the most hackneyed means possible it just isn't meaningful, just a bit embarrassing.*****SPOILER*****Generally if someone has terminal stage lung cancer their son who lives with them would know something was wrong without having to be told.
I spent more time laughing at the stupidity of the movie than the parts that were supposed to be funny.
Waqt - Shameful waste of time.
I cannot believe that the Indian film industry still puts out such third-rate dross as Waqt.
The actors, such as Amitabh Bachchan and Akshay Kumar, will still be revered as Gods by those people who have nothing but blind faith in Bollywood.