Chocolate (2005 film)

Chocolate
Directed by	Vivek Agnihotri
Produced by	Vibha Bhatnagar Ragini Sona jai Prakash Upadhyay
Written by	Rohit Malhotra Vivek Agnihotri
Starring	Anil Kapoor Sunil Shetty Irrfan Khan Arshad Warsi Emraan Hashmi Sushma Reddy Tanushree Dutta Emma Bunton
Narrated by	Irrfan Khan Tanushree Dutta
Music by	Pritam Chakraborty
Cinematography	Attar Singh Saini
Edited by	Vivek Agnihotri Satyajeet Gazmer
Distributed by	Inspired Movies Spice Team Entertainment
Release dates	16 September 2005
Running time	162 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Box office	31,357,897[1]

Chocolate is a 2005 Bollywood crime thriller film starring Anil Kapoor, Sunil Shetty, Arshad Warsi, Emraan Hashmi, Tanushree Dutta, Sushma Reddy, Irrfan Khan and the British recording artist Emma Bunton in the lead roles. Most of it was shot in London. The story borrows heavily from 1995 Hollywood film The Usual Suspects.^[2][3]

Plot

Following the 11 September 2001 attacks in the U.S.A., an explosion in a motorboat shatters the peace on Christmas Eve in London, UK. Following this incident is a daring robbery on an armoured vehicle carrying billions of pounds. The police suspect two Indians: PP (Irrfan Khan) and Sim (Tanushree Dutta). They are interrogated extensively amidst allegations that they may be linked to Al-Qaeda.

Crime journalist Monsoon Iyer (Sushma Reddy) learns about their plight, meets them, and asks her boyfriend advocate Krishan Pundit (Anil Kapoor) to represent them. Krishan meets with the two, listens to their side of the incidents, is convinced of their innocence, and is quite sure that the two incidents — as well as the deaths of three of PP and Sim's friends (Chip (Arshad Warsi), Deva (Emraan Hashmi) and Rocker (Sunil Shetty)) — were the actions of a notorious terrorist named Murtaza Arzai.

Cast

• Anil Kapoor as Advocate Krishan Pundit
• Sunil Shetty as Rocker
• Irrfan as PP
• Arshad Warsi as Chip
• Emraan Hashmi as Devaa
• Tanushree Dutta as Simran
• Emma Bunton as Tabetha Gagoh
• Sushma Reddy as Monsoon Iyer
• Murli Sharma as Bilal
• Raj Zutshi as Roshan Gandhi
• Jagmohan Mundhra as Vivek Agnihotri
• Kelly Dorjee as Roshan Abbas
• Vishwajeet Pradhan as Honey
• Ashwin Mushran
• Yasmin Haines

Soundtrack

Chocolate
Soundtrack album by Pritam
Released	23 July 2005
Genre	Feature Film soundtrack
Length	44:06
Label	T-Series
Producer	Pritam
Pritam chronology
Agnipankh (2004) Chocolate (2005) Garam Masala (2005)

The soundtrack of Chocolate was composed by Pritam. The songs "Halka Halka" and "Zahreeli Raatein" were chartbusters.

Track No	Song	Singer	Music	Lyrics
1	Halka Halka	Sonu Nigam	Pritam	Mayur Puri
2	Zahreeli Raatein	K.K.	Pritam
3	Jhuki Jhuki	Kailash Kher & Sunidhi Chauhan	Pritam
4	Mummy	Sunidhi Chauhan	Pritam	Mayur Puri
5	Panhaoon Mein Mohabbat Ki	Kunal Ganjawala	Pritam
6	Bheega Bheega	Indee, Sunidhi Chauhan	Pritam
7	Halka Halka (Remix)	Sonu Nigam	Pritam	Mayur Puri
8	Khalish	Kunal Ganjawala & Suzanne D'Mello	Pritam	Mayur Puri
9	Chocolate Theme Music	Instrumental	Pritam

• Track "Zahreeli Raatein" wasn't used in the movie due to a copyright dispute with Jal and Atif Aslam's "Aadat")
• A duet version of "Zahreeli Raatein" was later created to promote the movie, sung by K.K. and Shreya Ghoshal. Originally composed by Jal and written by Atif Aslam, the track is an adaptation of the song "Aadat", sung by Aslam.
• Incidentally, the rights of song "Aadat" were purchased by Mahesh Bhatt for his movie Kalyug (2005 film) which released in same year. The song was picturised on actor Emraan Hashmi who was featured in "Zehreeli Raatein" too. Singer Atif Aslam rendered his voice to the track.

References

1. http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/moviemicro/boxoffice/id/538487
2. "Shahid Khan review of Chocolate". Planet Bollywood. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
3. "Jaspreet Pandohar review of Chocolate (Deep Dark Secrets) (2005)". BBC. Retrieved 4 March 2012.

External links

• Chocolate at the Internet Movie Database