Sau Jhooth Ek Sach

Sau Jhooth Ek Sach is a 2005 Hindi-language indie thriller film directed by Bappaditya Roy, the film marks Bappaditya Roy's directorial debut. Produced by Amitabha Singh through the production house Think 16. The film stars Mammootty and Vikram Gokhale. Gokhale plays an industrialist. The film was screened at the 7th Mumbai International Film Festival.

Plot

The film follows Inspector Vivek as he inspects the case of a girl's suicide. He crosschecks members of industrialist Vikrant Pradhan's family. The next day, to Pradhan's family surprise, they realize that there is nobody named Vivek and that no girl died.

Cast

Main

Mammootty as Inspector Vivek
Vikram Gokhale as Vikrant Pradhan
Lilette Dubey as Moushami Pradhan
Joy Sengupta as Amabareesh Khanna
Neha Dubey as Zoya Pradhan
Kiran Janjani as Vikram Pradhan, Vikrant Pradhan's son

Supporting

Rita Joshi as Chawl woman
Richa Nayyar as Sandhya Sawant
Meghna Kothari as Anjali
Tisca Chopra as Anjali
Sonia Filinto as Anjali
Shweta Gautam as Lakshmi

Music

The music for the film was composed by Faizal Qureshi.

Production

The film marks actor Mammootty's return to Hindi cinema.Mammootty said about his role that "Mine is a very difficult and challenging role; so very unlike a typical Hindi movie cop. In fact, it is completely non-action, and probably my best in the national language." Music Department was handled by Faizal Qureshi, Story written by Pankaj Kapoor and the dialogues by the Director Bappaditya Roy himself.

Reception

Critical response

Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama rated one out of five stars and wrote that "On the whole, SAU JHOOTH EK SACH - THE UNINVITED has something for the festival circuit, but nothing for the masses". A critic from Sify wrote that "Sau Jhooth Ek Sach' is a film about all of us". Film critic Subhash K. Jha wrote that "Debutant director Bappaditya Roy's morality tale is an arresting ensemble piece" and gave the film two stars out of five.

Box office

According to Box Office India, the film collected 25,000 on its first day, 75,000 on its first weekend, and 1 lakh in one week. Final worldwide gross was 1.8 lakh. It was made on a budget of 50 lakh. Box Office India called it a "disaster".