Aabra Ka Daabra

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Aabra Ka Daabra
Directed byDheeraj Kumar
Written byRaghuveer Shekhawat (dialogues)
Story byJ. K. Nirmal,
Iqbal Katchi
Produced byZuby Kochhar
StarringAthit Naik
Satish Kaushik
Hansika Motwani
Nupur Mehta
CinematographyAjay Tandon
Edited byBallu Saluja
Music byHimesh Reshammiya
Production
companies
Creative Eye Studios
Namah Shivay Enterprises
Release date
  • 31 December 2004 (2004-12-31)
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget8 crore[1]
Box office₹1.06 crore[2]

Aabra Ka Daabra is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language fantasy film.[3]

Plot

Shanu, a 12-year old boy lives with his mother Shivani Singh and father Rahul Singh. His father, Rahul Singh is a magician who is expert in doing Houdini Tricks. Once doing such a trick, he locks himself in a closed box and drops the box in sea but he failed to come out of the box and disappears mysteriously. The sudden disappearance of Rahul drives Shanu and his mother to live in worse conditions. People used to tease Shanu saying 'Son of loser'. However Shanu wins a competition by which he gets admission in any school he wishes. He takes admission in Abra Ka Dabra: School Of Magic where he meets Pinky and Limbu. He also meets the strict school principal of Abra Ka Dabra school, Rang Birangi also called as RB. He studies many magic tricks in school and becomes an expert magician. While in school he comes to know that RB used to go somewhere at night in the forest. Shanu and his friends chase RB by eating an invisibility pill given by Limbu where he finds his father being imprisoned by RB. RB wants Rahul, Shanu's father to make Amarsanjivani (An Immortality Potion) for her which he made once when he was a teacher in Abra Ka Dabra School. RB sees Shanu and injects him with poison. Rahul, to save his son, continues to make the potion. Meanwhile he cures his son, Shanu and both stand against RB and a good magical fight happens, in which RB gets defeated promising to come back for revenge and dies. Shanu takes her magical wand and give it to Dilbaug Singh the guardian of Shanu. Everyone celebrates the strict-free environment in Abra Ka Dabra. Meanwhile the magical wand of RB disappears magically leaving the audience in suspense and at last Zulu, the demon-winged servant of RB questioned about comeback of RB and mystery of disappearance of magical wand pointing at the audience. And thus the movie ends.

Cast

Soundtrack

Aabra Ka Daabra
Feature film soundtrack
ProducerHimesh Reshammiya
Himesh Reshammiya chronology
Aitraaz
(2004)
Aabra Ka Daabra
(2004)
Dil Maange More
(2004)

Music composed by Himesh Reshammiya. The album has 8 tracks.[5]

Song Title Singers
"Shiv Om"
Prabhudeva
"Chutkan Gang" Udit Narayan, Children
"Love Hoya" KK, Hema Sardesai, Jayesh Gandhi
"Aabra Ka Daabra" Instrumental
"Tara Ram Pam" Kunal Ganjawala, Children
"Aabra Ka Daabra" (Theme Music) Instrumental
"Didave" Anuradha Sriram
"Zindagi Zindagi" Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik

Reception

IndiaFM gave the film 2 out of 5, writing "AABRA KA DAABRA revolves around the kids and all of them come up with decent performances. Master Athit is adorable, followed by Vishal. Hansika and Esha are effective. Tiara enacts her part well. Anupam Kher goes over the top. Satish Kaushik, Archana Puransingh, Navin Bawa and Johny Lever are adequate. Shweta Tiwari and Krrishna Sonie are fair. On the whole, AABRA KA DAABRA caters to the kids mainly and releasing it during the vacations is a step in the right direction."[6]

References

  1. ^ Sharma, Arti (19 July 2003). "Will Dheeraj Kumar's foray into films work?". Rediff.com. Archived from the original on 29 April 2023. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
  2. ^ "Aabra Ka Daabra 3D". Box Office India. Archived from the original on 26 January 2022. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  3. ^ Wright, Neelam Sidhar (2015). Bollywood and Postmodernism. Edinburgh University Press. p. 215.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i "As Harry Potter turns 20, here's looking at its cringe-worthy Hindi cousin Aabra Ka Dabra". 17 November 2021. Archived from the original on 26 January 2022. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  5. Tribune India (published 15 January 2004). 22 January 2004. Archived
    from the original on 29 April 2023. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
  6. from the original on 17 November 2022. Retrieved 29 April 2023.

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