1. Plot

2. Cast

3. Production

4. Soundtrack

5. Notes

6. External links

Qayamat: City Under Threat is a 2003 Indian Hindi romantic thriller film directed by Harry Baweja. It is a remake of the 1996 film The Rock.^[2] Neha Dhupia's voice was dubbed by dubbing artist Rajanika Ganguly Mukherjee as the director thought her voice did not suit her character perfectly.

The film was a box office hit upon its release, providing Ajay Devgn with a hit after a series of unsuccessful films. The action scenes and story of the movie were so highly praised that the demand from fans for a sequel was quite high. The film completed 100 days on single screen theatres in Mumbai, Indore, Bhopal, Delhi and Ujjain. The Elphinston Jail of Mumbai copy describe in it was originally situated in Diu Island, Daman & Diu, U.T, India.^[3]

Plot

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has assigned the case of three terrorists to Akram Sheikh (Sunil Shetty). The three terrorists are two brothers Ali and Abbas Ramani expert chemical and software engineers (Sanjay Kapoor and Arbaaz Khan) and their common girlfriend Laila (Isha Koppikar). They are accomplices of a plan masterminded by an evil Pakistani military man named Brigadier Rashid (Deep Dhillon) who is leader of ISI(Inter-Services Intelligence). Ali, Abbas and Laila hitch a plan to extort money from the Indian government, leave in a ship to Pakistan and take asylum from them. They take control of Elphinston Jail, in the city of Mumbai and using the help of a corrupt scientist, Gopal (Chunky Pandey) (a part of a team headed by Rahul (Aashish Chaudhary), investigating the effects of a deadly virus which could kill any living organism within a 3-kilometer radius.), they load three missiles with the virus. They then take a group of 213 tourists hostage in the jail and demand a ransom of 1500 crores from the government within 24 hours, failing which they will release the missile into major water bodies in Mumbai, thus creating an apocalypse (Qayamat).

Akram asks the Chief Minister to allow him to release Rachit (Ajay Devgn), a man who has previous experience of escaping from Elphinston Jail, a feat which has never been accomplished in history, to get help in entering the jail, through the very route which he had used to escape. Rachit is a man who has been silent for a long time now, owing to the fact that the love of his life, Sapna (Neha Dhupia) was killed the night he was arrested. The main point of note here was that Rachit was an associate of Ali and Abbas and had been double-crossed by them, leading to his arrest. In turn, they had killed Sapna. However, unknown to Rachit, she was still alive. Akram and his team, which includes Rahul use all the help, they can to enter the jail through, first, an underwater route, and then a maze of tunnels through which Rachit had escaped. they successfully get to the septic tank of the jail but a mole in the CBI gives the news of the team's arrival to Ali and Abbas, whose men kill the whole team in a brutal gunfight, resulting in Akram's death as well. Rahul and Rachit are the only ones that are alive.

Rachit suffers from severe mental trauma, the effects of which can be seen every 12 hours, whereby he starts hallucinating and sees odd shadows everywhere. He has even lost his power of speech due to this. These effects are taken away, when Sapna, who is now at the CBI headquarters, calls him on a walkie-talkie and assures him of her true love and the fact that she is indeed alive. This is enough for Rachit as he gets up and single-handedly takes out all of Ali and Abbas's men, one by one.

Meanwhile, Rahul is also able to disarm the missiles one by one. However, while Rachit is taking out some more of the men, Ali gets to the last missile and tries to release it. Laila captures Rahul on gunpoint saying she will kill Rahul if Rachit does not leave Abbas. Rahul asks Rachit to let him die, but, Rachit shoots Rahul in the leg. Rahul falls down and Rachit shoots Laila in the head. Laila dies. Rachit disarms the missile and kills Ali after firing the rocket straight at him. Thus, the city is saved in the nick of time. At the end of the film, Rachit reunites with Sapna and reveals that he can talk.

Cast

• Ajay Devgn as Rachit
• Sunil Shetty as Akram Sheikh
• Neha Dhupia as Sapna
• Sanjay Kapoor as Abbas
• Arbaaz Khan as Ali
• Isha Koppikar as Laila
• Aashish Chaudhary as Rahul
• Riya Sen as Sheetal
• Chunky Pandey as Gopal
• Ayub Khan as Billu
• Raveena Tandon (Special appearance)

Production

Soundtrack

The music is composed by Nadeem Shravan and the lyrics are by Sameer. According to the Indian trade website Box Office India, with around 21,00,000 units sold, this film's soundtrack album was the year's fifth highest-selling.^[5]

Notes

External links

• {{IMDb title|id=0364621|title=Qayamat: City Under Threat}}

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