Mudda – The Issue
2003 film by Saurabh Shukla
Mudda – The Issue is a 2003 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Saurabh Shukla and produced by Raju Mavani. The film stars Arya Babbar, Prashant Narayanan, Aditya Srivastava, Rajat Kapoor, Dolly Ahluwalia and Rekha Vedavyas.
Plot
Perplexed and frustrated with life in Mumbai's corrupt colleges, Lecturer Siddharth Archarya decides to relocate to a small town called Samaypur, where he feels he will get some satisfaction in teaching youngsters who are not influenced by politics. Alas, he is wrong. Student union rivalry and hatred have encompassed the entire town; fights break out frequently, mostly between two rival student leaders, Pratap and Rajbir, who are children of local political leaders, Harphool Singh and MLA Balli Tai. Siddharth decides to garner their energy positively by making them renovate the college building - with disastrous results - and no hopes for a reconciliation. Things get even more complicated when both young men fall for a colleague, Sundari, who wants to marry Pratap. It is then that the parents of both Rajbir and Pratap meet secretly and decide what their sons' and Samaypur's fate is going to be.
Cast
Music
The music of the film is composed by Jeet Gannguli and Pritam while the lyrics are written by Chandrani Gannguli, Saurabh Shukla and Sanjay Swami.
Reception
Taran Adarsh of IndiaFM gave the film 1+1⁄2 stars out of 5, writing, "Director Saurabh Shukla is a fairly good story teller, but he seems to have got confused midway, whether to make a realistic film or a love triangle, with songs aplenty.
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