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Jigyaasa
Directed by	Faisal Saif
Produced by	Raju Chand
Written by	Faisal Saif
Music by	Ram Shankar
Release date(s)	10 March 2006
Running time	140 minutes
Language	Hindi

Jigyaasa released on 10th March 2006 all over was Directed by Faisal Saif[1]. It was called the years most controversial Feature Film. The film was said to be based on the life of Indian sex goddess Mallika Sherawat[2]. This film was a big change in Hrishitaa Bhatt's career as for the first time Hrishitaa Bhatt was seen playing a Title Role in a film. Though Indian Critics did not appreciate this film but the film had its decent share at the Box Office.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Cast 3 Crew 4 Trivia 5 External links

[edit] Synopsis

Story of an innocent girl named Jigyaasa Mathur (Hrishitaa Bhatt) who comes from a middle-class-family and daughter of a school teacher named Malini Mathur (Varsha Usgaonkar). Malini is a woman with principles and emotions. Jigyaasa wants to become a Film Actress and her mother has no objections about it. But Jigyaasa has some other plans. Jigyaasa will go to any limits to reach her goal. Within a time span of five years. Jigyaasa reaches the top and is now India's highest paid Super star. A middle class innocent girl enters Hindi Cinema. And dominates and manipulated the dark world of Hindi Cinema. Based on some actual witnessed events. This roller-coaster ride of a girl's journey to achieve stardom is mixed with Humor, Emotions, Sex, Domination, Dirty Celebrity Gossips, Film-Politics, Abuse, Sadism, Betrayel, Naked-Mobile-Clippings, Drugs, Glamour, Back-Bitching, Molestations, Perversions, Underworld-Connections...All rolled into one!!!

[edit] Cast

• Hrishitaa Bhatt ... Jigyaasa Mathur
• Varsha Usgaonkar ... Malini Mathur
• Kader Khan ... Nand Kishore
• Milind Gunaji ... Subhash Desai
• Vikas Kalantri ... Avinash Chopra
• Jaya Bhattacharya ... Neha Sharma
• Mukesh Tiwari ... Kamaal Hussain
• Rakesh Bedi ... Ashok Kumar Shaayar (The Gay Activist)

[edit] Crew

• Director: Faisal Saif
• Producer: Raju Chand
• Screenplay: Faisal Saif,Mehmood Ali
• Story: Faisal Saif
• Editor: Tirupathi Reddy
• Music: Ram Shankar
• Choreography: Lollypop
• Lyrics: Raju Chand, Ravi Chopra
• Executive Producer: Mahesh Malie
• Director of Photography: Pramod Kumar Sahu
• Music On: Das Music

[edit] Trivia

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• Kamal Hasan fans got upset with one of the character in the film, Faisal was receiving Threats for this.
• Payal Rohatgi was approached for one of the role in the film. But she asked a huge amount for the film.
• The role played by Vikas Kalantri was earlier offered to Sudesh Berry.
• Mithun Chakraborty was supposed to do a Special Appearance in the film.

[edit] External links

• Jigyaasa at the Internet Movie Database