Emraan Hashmi Humaima Malik Paresh Rawal Kay Kay Menon Movie Bollywood New Movies Raja Natwarlal

Emraan Hashmi Humaima Malik Paresh Rawal Kay Kay Menon Movie Bollywood New Movies Raja Natwarlal
Raja Natwarlal is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language crime thriller film directed by Kunal Deshmukh and produced by Siddharth Roy Kapur under UTV Motion Pictures. The film features Emraan Hashmi in the title role, alongside Humaima Malik, Paresh Rawal, Kay Kay Menon and Deepak Tijori.[3] The film was released on 29 August 2014 and received positive reviews from critics.
Mithilesh Kumar Shrivastava a.k.a. Raja (Emraan Hashmi) is a small-time conman who cons people for a living along with his partner in crime Raghav Desai (Deepak Tijori). He is in love with a bar girl Ziya (Humaima Malik). Feeling sorry for her, Raja decides he wants to go for a big catch so that he can marry his lady love and she won't have to work in a bar anymore. That's when the trouble starts. Along with Raghav, Raja makes a grand plan to swindle a huge amount of money from two baddies. The plan is successful and Raja decides to celebrate.

This is when Varda Yadav (Kay Kay Menon), a billionaire based in Cape Town, enters. The money actually belonged to him and upon realizing it has been stolen by two street cons Varda orders them to be killed. Varda's men find Raghav and kill him. Raja witnesses this and decide to avenge the loss.

He seeks the help of a seasoned crook Victor Singhal alias Yogi (Paresh Rawal), whom Raghav used to talk about before his murder. After a lot of persuasion, Yogi agrees to help Raja have his payback. Later it is revealed that Yogi is actually Raghav's older brother. Yogi trains him, and eventually, they form a team of crooks and set out to Cape Town to finish off Varda where he takes his revenge.

Cast
Emraan Hashmi as Mithilesh Kumar Srivastava aka Raja Natwarlal
Paresh Rawal as Victor Singh Khan alias Yogi
Humaima Malik as Ziya
Kay Kay Menon as Varda Yadav
Deepak Tijori as Raghav "Raju" Desai
Prachi Shah as Raghav's wife
Ashiesh Roy as Kaashi
Namit Shah as Vicky
Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub as Jojo
Shakti Sinha as Waliya
Sumit Nijhawan as Inspector Singh
Prasad Oak as Sub-Inspector Mhatre
Vaibhav Mathur as Customer at the dance bar
In May 2013, it was first reported that Kunal Deshmukh's next project would be produced by UTV Motion Pictures.[4] Deshmukh selected Emraan Hashmi for the lead role, collaborating with him for the fourth time.[5] The film was titled Shaatir and Hashmi was revealed to play the character of a 'shaatir' conman in the film.[6] In April 2014, the film's title was changed to Raja Natwarlal inspired by the 1979 Amitabh Bachchan film Mr. Natwarlal.[7]

In June, it was reported that Abhishek Bachchan would play another lead role besides Hashmi.[8] But he opted out and next month Paresh Rawal was signed for the role.[9] Jacqueline Fernandez and Priyanka Chopra were approached to play the lead female role, but both actresses could not accommodate the dates.[8] In November 2013, Pakistani model and actor Humaima Malick was cast as the female lead.[10] Deepak Tijori was signed for a role in the film in December.[11] Kay Kay Menon was signed for an important role and Deshmukh stated that his character named Vardha Yadav had been modelled on the Sahara India Pariwar chief Subrata Roy.[12] Pritam Chakraborty, who had composed the music for all of Deshmukh's films, was supposed to work on this film's music, too,[5] but was replaced by Yuvan Shankar Raja.[13][14] Deshmukh later stated that Pritam wanted to take a break and that it was Pritam himself who referred Yuvan Shankar Raja to him.[15]

Deshmukh had planned to start the first schedule of the film early 2014 but since Hashmi's other film Badtameez Dil had been postponed, the start of the film's shoot was advanced to October 2013.[16] Principal photography commenced on 20 October 2013. Hashmi took special dance training for the film under choreographer, Raju Khan. The film's soundtrack was composed by noted Tamil film composer Yuvan Shankar Raja who made his debut in Hindi films with the film.[19] The soundtrack album consists of six tracks: four romantic numbers including one reprise, one dance number and in Hashmi's words, "a dhinchak tapori" song.[20] The lyrics were written by Irshad Kamil. The tracks were unveiled on 30 July 2014 and premiered at Radio City.[21] The reprise "Tere Hoke Rehenge" was the first song to be released, although it was the last song to be recorded.[15]

Joginder Tuteja from Rediff.com gave the album 3 out of 5 stars and wrote, " Raja Natwarlal's music grows on you slowly", further adding, "Since debutant Yuvan Shankar Raja brings in a new sound with this album, he deserves a few hearings before one pronounces judgment".[22] Bollywood Hungama gave 2.5 stars out of 5 and wrote, "Yuvan Shankar Raja has absorbed the ethos of the contemporary Hindi film song with far more accuracy, acumen and sharpness than any colleague down South with the exception of that redoubtable genius, M.M. Kreem.

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