Genre: Thriller
Director: Vishal Pandya
Producer: ASA Productions, Mirah Entertainment
Banner: ASA Productions
Music Director: Chirantan Bhatt
Star Cast: Aashish Chaudhary, Nausheen Ali Sardar, Akshay Kapoor
Release Date: September 4, 2009
This week had two surprises lined up for the audience, in the form of ‘Chintu Ji’ and ‘Three’. Both of them are low key productions and without any high profile names in the star cast, but managed to rise 
above the average. While ‘Chintu Ji’ wooed you with its simplicity, ‘Three’ impresses you with its edge-of-the-seat scenes. Thrillers have always been the forte of Vikram Bhatt and his Vishal Pandya seems to have learnt well from him. In fact, not even once in the film do you feel that it is Pandya’s debut venture.
above the average. While ‘Chintu Ji’ wooed you with its simplicity, ‘Three’ impresses you with its edge-of-the-seat scenes. Thrillers have always been the forte of Vikram Bhatt and his Vishal Pandya seems to have learnt well from him. In fact, not even once in the film do you feel that it is Pandya’s debut venture.‘Three’ has been based in a simple setting, though its story is anything but that. The relationships are too complicated, while each of the characters is in the race to outdo the other, in doubling-crossing. There are many twists and turns in the thriller, with each of them taking you by surprise. In fact, ‘Three’ mainly scores on its unpredictability. As the secrets come tumbling out, one after the other, you get more and more involved in the plot. Though the first half is a bit slow, the fast pace of the second half makes up for that.
The background score is quite effective, adding to the overall suspense. Even the music is not bad, but fails to the reach the high standard set by Vikram Bhatt movies. Here, Bhatt surely deserves a special mention for writing crisp and innovative dialogues as well. Still, the movie had its share of hiccups. For instance, the cash-strapped heroine seems to be moving around in swanky cars (we don’t know how!). Even though she is an independent, modern woman, she bears with domestic violence on two instances (so much for women liberation).
Apart from these loopholes, the writing could have been made more effective and the editing a bit tight. The climax, though interesting, could have done with a fewer knotty twists and turns. As for the performances, Nausheen came as a surprise. She fit into her role well and gave a good performance, save a few sequences. Ashish Chowdhry seemed to have matured as an actor. Akshay Kapoor was also laudable, while Achint Kaur was first rate. ‘Three’ is one thriller that you will not mind spending money on, if you are not looking for big names!
Three - Love, Lies and Betrayal Pre-release Review
Three - Love, Lies and Betrayal Pre-release Review
Adding a new name to the list of thrillers wooing Bollywood audience in the present times is Vishal Pandya’s latest directorial venture - ‘Three - Love, Lies and Betrayal’. Starring Nausheen Ali Sardar, last seen as the lead actress of Sony’s Kkusum, along with Aashish Chaudhary and Akshay Kapoor, the movie has been set for a September 4 release. Produced under ‘ASA Productions’ and ‘Mirah Entertainment’, it has Chirantan Bhatt as the music director.
‘Three - Love, Lies and Betrayal’ is the story of Rajeev Dutt (Akshay Kapoor), his wife Mrs. Anjini Dutt (Nausheen Ali Sardar), and Sanjay (Ashish Chowdhry). Rajeev and Anjini live in a house, located at Purple Lake, which belonged to the latter’s parents. Anjini is a violin teacher and the house runs on whatever income she earns from her music classes. Her husband, not too successful financially, has been living on her income for quite sometime now. This has resulted in anger and frustration creeping into their relationship.
One fine day, after mulling over the issue for many days and trying to gather the courage to say it, Rajeev asks Anjini to sell the house they are living in and let him invest the sale proceeds in the business. Being the only connection with her late parents, the house means a lot of Anjini and she refuses to part with it. However, in order to help her husband and his business, she decides to rent one portion of the house and give the monthly rental to Rajeev, to invest in his business and become financially independent.
Now, Sanjay enters the picture, as the tenant at the Purple Lake house. It does not take him much time to understand the whole situation, especially the tension between the couple. As Sanjay sympathizes with Anjini and shows her some care, she starts falling in love with him (especially because her own marriage is completely devoid of love, warmth and companionship). Is Sanjay really in love with Anjini or playing some game? What will Anjini do now? Will this relationship cost her, the house or even her own life? Will the game of love, lies and betrayal come to an end? If yes, then who will be the winner?
