Issaq should not be confused with Issac.
| Issaq | |
| Director: | Manish Tiwary |
| Producer: | Dhaval Gada Shailesh R Singh |
| Starring: | Prateik Babbar Amyra Dastur Ravi Kishan Makarand Deshpande Neena Gupta Prashant Narayanan Sudhir Pandey Prashant Kumar Amit Sial Vineet Kumar Yuri Suri Malini Awasthi |
| Music: | Songs: Sachin–Jigar Sachin Gupta Krsna Background score: Prashant Pillai |
| Cinematography: | Vishal Sinha |
| Studio: | Pen India Limited |
| Country: | India |
| Language: | Hindi |
| Budget: | ₹ 250 million |
| Gross: | ₹ 53.7 million[1] |
Issaq is a 2013 Indian Hindi romantic film directed by Manish Tiwary and produced by Dhaval Gada and Shailesh R. Singh. The film, written by Padmaja Thakore-Tiwary, Manish Tiwary and Pawan Sony, was released on 26 July 2013. The film features Prateik Babbar, Amyra Dastur, Rajeshwari Sachdev, Ravi Kishan and Makarand Deshpande as main characters. According to BoxOfficeIndia.com, the film was a box office disaster.[1]
This is the story based on two land mafias of Banaras: Kashyaps and Mishras. They have a throat-cutting competition to gain control over the land and fight brutally over it.
The film was promoted in TV serial Amita Ka Amit.[3] [4] The producers promoted the movie through Banarasi paan at the leading malls in Mumbai.[5]
Sachin–Jigar composed the songs while the background score was composed by Prashant Pillai.
| Issaq | |
| Type: | Soundtrack |
| Artist: | Sachin–Jigar |
| Released: | 22 June 2013 |
| Genre: | Film soundtrack |
| Label: | Zee Music Company |
| Producer: | Shailesh R Singh |
| Prev Title: | Ramaiya Vastavaiya |
| Prev Year: | 2013 |
| Next Title: | Shuddh Desi Romance |
| Next Year: | 2013 |
The movie received generally negative reviews. Piyasree Dasgupta, in a review for Firstpost, summed it up as: "One wonders … what is a greater tragedy—Romeo and Juliet or what Issaq made of that classic love story."[6] Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express find it to be "without a singular voice of its own" and that ultimately "it drowns in its own noise."[7] The review in The Times of India calls out the poor acting by Babbar and Dastur's lack of charisma. "Manish Tiwary's Issaq lacks vibe, soul or depth needed for a classic love story. With incoherent narrative, unsketched characters, wispy (sometimes embarrassing) dialogues, one good melody in the whole ditty (Issaq tera); pointless shooting (mostly in the dark), gold-plated bandooks and bombs galore—Tiwary misses every target. There are movies beautifully adapted from Shakespeare's works in the past, but none that tragically assault your creative, poetic or cinematic senses."[8] Sarit Ray, writing for the Hindustan Times, thinks "seldom have [Shakespeare movie adaptations] been associated with as nonsensical a mess as Manish Tiwary's Issaq" and that "It's a pity that Issaq joins remarkable films like Maqbool, Omkara and Angoor on the list of Bollywood adaptations of Shakespeare. In a time when works of literature are judged by their TV and film versions, it could even give the Bard a bit of a bad rep."[9]