4 Amateur Kidnappers

Aftab Shivdasani as Ajay
A good hearted person and an ex-waiter with an ambition to own the café one day. But the owner had problems with his plans and Ajay found himself without a job.

Chunky Pandey as Raghu
An ex-driver of a rich Sindhi family. His plans to net the Sindhi business man’s daughter were ruined when he was thrown out. He’s a chap who wears his heart on the sleeve.

Snehal Dhabi as Goga
His pan shop was pulled down in a road extension. His ambition is to open a sweet shop. He is a fool who believed that his ideas are the best.

Zakhir Hussain as Abbas
He always had a bent for illegal activities. He was a black ticketer until the movies stopped running houseful. He keeps thinking of new ways to break rules to make money ruthlessly.

1 Poor little rich victim

Isha Sharvani as Isha
She is a rich spoilt brat whose life’s ambition is having fun and more fun. She thinks being kidnapped is an adventure.

1 Vegetarian Family

Ishrat Ali as Shah
He was once rich, now a pauper. He loves only two things in life, money and more money. But he’s also a total family man. He is blunt and straight with his weird sense of humour. His only goal is to get his lost money back.

Smita Jayker as Mrs Shah
A sober, well articulated, moulding natured housewife. Spends most of the time to ceasefire the cold war between her husband and mother.

Padma Rani as Granny
An old babbling woman! Her goal in her life is to make her son-in-law feel guilty about everything he does.

Vijay Singh as Ponkey
A good for nothing kid. He believes that he can expert the art of lip reading.

Tashu as Sheeba
An extra beauty conscious girl. No situation in life can take away her love from her cosmetics and beauty products. She falls in love with simple and lovable Aravind.

35 Uninvited Guests

Manisha Koirala as Julie
A nice person at heart and a street smart sales girl, who falls in love with a kidnapper.

Jeeva as Sharat Shetty
A financer whom Shah owes a lot of money. Basically, he’s a timid man who only looks scary.

Javed as Aravind
Sharat Shetty’s son. A gullible boy, who falls in love with Shah’s daughter, Sheeba.

Divya Dutta as Chameli
A shrewd, smart woman who works as a maid with Shah’s. Her dream is to see her husband as an inspector.

Ravi Kale as Ganapath
Chameli’s husband. He’s a constable and dreams of being an inspector one day. When he gets an opportunity, he comes face to face with his timidity. He looks like a dangerous man but has heart of a chicken.

Nitin Raikwar as Pizza delivery boy
Earns money for survival. He’s fascinated with the underworld and one day he wants to make it big as a gangster.

Raju Mawani as Mushtaq Bhai
He is the boss of Abbas and a dangerous and fierce looking gangster. His business is extortion and kidnapping kids for ransom.

Synopsis

Four men form a gang with a plan of making a quick buck by kidnapping a rich girl for ransom.

Not being prepared for unforeseen situation, they are forced to barge in and take shelter in a house and take the people in the house as hostages.

Bad luck strikes them when they get to know that the father of the kidnapped girl has flown out of the country the very same day.

The kidnappers in the waiting process are forced to take more people as hostages to keep their identity and plan under wraps.

The hostages create a series of situation too complex for the kidnappers to handle.

Resulting in a hilarious mix of laughter and tension.

Director’s Note

Darwaza Bandh Rakho offers entertainment, pure entertainment and just that…..

It explores virgin concept taking the viewers on a hilarious ride…..

The central characters are dead serious about their kidnap task, but after entering Shah’s house they get swept away by wave after wave of funny situation and unwanted guests in the house… they have to deal with the unexpected guests, which leads to a chaotic, bizarre roller coaster ride…

Darwaza Bandh Rakhooffers a new wave of comedy in its own style…

Each character is different from each other with their unique traits and psyche’s as chalk and cheese. But what happens when all these meet under one roof?

The pure intention of Darwaza Bandh Rakho is to leave the audience with an experience of having been entertained and it doesn’t attempt to preach, teach or give any kind of moral education……

If you find any of these elements in this film it’s purely coincidental……..

- Chekravarthy