Traffic (2016 film)

Traffic
File:Official Traffic First Look.jpeg First look poster
Directed by	Rajesh Pillai
Produced by	Deepak Dhar Sameer Gogate Sameer Rajendran
Screenplay by	Suresh Nair
Story by	Bobby Sanjay
Starring	Manoj Bajpayee Jimmy Shergill Prosenjit Chatterjee Parambrata Chatterjee Sachin Khedekar Amol Parashar Vishal Singh Divya Dutta Nikita Thukral Richa Panai Kaveri
Music by	Songs: Mithoon Background Score: Vinayak Netke
Cinematography	Santhosh Thundiyil, Anil Lal
Edited by	Nishant Radhakrishnan, Mahesh Narayanan
Production company	Endemol India
Distributed by	Fox Star Studios
Release dates	6 May 2016 (2016-05-06)
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Traffic is a 2016 Hindi thriller road movie, directed by Rajesh Pillai. It is a remake of the 2011 Malayalam film of same name. Originally written by brothers Bobby and Sanjay, the film's screenplay has been adapted into Hindi by Suresh Nair, while the dialogues were penned by Piyush Mishra. The cinematography is by Santhosh Thundiyil and music is by Mithoon. The film features an ensemble cast consisting of Manoj Bajpayee, Jimmy Shergill, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Parambrata Chatterjee, Divya Dutta, Amol Parashar and debutant Richa Panai. The film was released on 6 May 2016 to positive reviews.

Plot

The story of Traffic, takes place over the course of a single day and is inspired by a real-life incident from Chennai, as shown in the credits. In Pune, superstar Dev Kapoor's daughter is sick and needs an urgent heart transplant. Elsewhere in Mumbai, trainee journalist Reyhan meets with an accident and is declared clinically dead. Reyhan's parents decide to donate his heart to Dev's daughter. However, rains and low visibility conditions make it impossible to transport the heart by air and the only option is to traverse the 150 km by road. Though initially apprehensive, Joint Traffic Commissioner Raghubir Singh accepts the challenge and seeks a volunteer from among his men to drive at 120 kph, through the busy Mumbai streets. Disgraced traffic constable Godbole (who has just rejoined the force after being suspended for taking a bribe to help his sister) puts up his hand and thus begins the journey. He is joined by Reyhan's friend Rajeev and Dr Abel, a surgeon, who is battling his own personal demons.

The movie is a remake of Rajesh Pillai's Malayalam thriller of the same name. Traffic has been released after a long delay. Unfortunately, director Rajesh Pillai passed away before he could see the fruit of his efforts onscreen.

Cast

• Manoj Bajpayee as Godbole, a traffic police constable
• Jimmy Shergill as the City Traffic Commissioner
• Prosenjit Chatterjee as superstar Dev Kapoor
• Parambrata Chatterjee Abel, a cardiac surgeon
• Jishnu as Abel's friend
• Vishal Singh as Reyhan, a journalist trainee
• Sachin Khedekar as Reyhan's father
• Kitu Gidwani as Rehan's mother
• Amol Parashar as Rajeev, Rehan's friend
• Kaveri as Abel's sister
• Divya Dutta as Dev Kapoor's wife
• Divya Unni as Godbole's wife
• Nikita Thukral as Reyhan's girl friend
• Richa Panai as Abel's wife
• Janeshwar Shukla as Dr. Dastur, a cardiac surgeon
• JASBIR THANDI as Traffic cop
• Sandra Jaichandr
• Tuhin Chakrabarty

Production

Endemol India that has produced several local television shows ventured into feature films, after they acquired the remake rights for the Malayalam film Traffic. Rajesh Pillai who directed the film in Malayalam was retained as director too. Suresh Nair did the Hindi adaptation of the script of Traffic, stating "slight enhancements have been made in the feel and action content, to ensure commercial viability. But the script still remains the brilliant script that the original is".

Manoj Bajpai was signed to play the male lead in April 2013.

Two Bengali actors, Parambrata Chatterjee and Prosenjit Chatterjee were also signed in. The director confirmed that Manoj Bajpai would play the role of a constable, Parambrata Chatterjee would play a doctor and Prosenjit Chatterjee would play a superstar.

Divya Dutta signed the film in August, playing Lena's part from the original.

Amol Parashar, a popular face through ad films, is said to play Asif Ali's character and Malayali actor, Jishnu is said to be playing the role played by Krishna in the original version.

Vishal Singh signed in August and Kitu Gidwani has been given the role of Vishal Singh's mother.

Rajesh Pillai confirmed that Nikita Thukral was roped in for a role, the role played by Sandhya in Malayalam and which was offered to Vishakha first. Richa Panai was roped in in September 2013 and she will be paired with Parambrata in the film. In November 2013, it was reported that Malayali actress Kaveri would reprise the role portrayed by Roma Asrani but that she will portray a mature and introvert personality as opposed to a bubbly Miriam from the original.

Mithoon was signed as the music composer and had already recorded three songs for the film by May 2013.

Pillai stated that the film would be entirely shot on the Mumbai Pune Expressway and Hyderbad. In late August, the first schedule had been completed at Hyderabad. The final schedule started on 2 September at Mumbai.

External links

• Traffic at IMDb