Dus Kahaniyaan

Dus Kahaniyaan ( दस कहानियां)

Dus Kahaniyaan (Hindi: दस कहानियां Das Kahāniyāṃ, English: Ten Tales) is a 2007 anthology Indian film comprising ten short films telling ten different stories which are directed by a host of six directors. Some of the stories have twisted ending and bring supernatural elements and have similarities with other supernatural series like Tales from the Crypt.

Main cast (listed by story)"Matrimony" (Directed by Sanjay Gupta, inspired by Roald Dahl's short story "Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat")

Arbaaz Khan
Mandira Bedi
Sudhanshu Pandey
Synopsis: The bored wife of an MNC vice president (Arbaaz), Mandira, has an extramarital affair with an army officer. She meets him every Thursday on the pretext of visiting her aunt. At home she is a doting and dutiful wife. She describes her affair as not only for sex but also for love and consideration. As it turns out, her lover has to report to his post and gives her a beautiful diamond necklace. She loves it but is hesitant to take it. When the officer insists, she devises a plan. She goes to a jeweler and hands over the necklace with an arrangement that she be given a coupon, which under the pretext of a lucky draw and she'd be given her necklace. The next morning, her husband goes to collect the "prize". He calls her from his office and asks her to come over to see what she has got. She goes with great enthusiasm, but to her utter dismay finds a small diamond ring. She comes out of his cabin and tries to call the jeweler. Her cell phone does not get reception, so she turns to her husband's secretary and asks her to dial the number, only to spot the necklace on the secretary. The secretary mentions that it is from her "boyfriend".

"High on the Highway" (Directed by Hansel Mehta)

Jimmy Shergill
Masumeh Makhija
Synopsis: Two college graduates who are in love with each other have a habit of getting high and taking a walk along the highway. On the night after their graduation when they are walking down the road a bunch of goons try to kidnap Masumeh and succeed in spite of Jimmy putting up a fight. Masumeh gets helped by the cops but what happens to Jimmy??? Jimmy slashes his wrists, feeling responsible, and dies. Masumi cries by his bed.

"Pooranmasi" (Directed by Meghna Gulzar)

Amrita Singh
Parmeet Sethi
Minnisha Lamba
Synopsis: Amrita's daughter Minisha has just been engaged and her father is out on business once again leaving the ladies alone. Amrita has led a loveless life and on this particular day her daughter adorns her mother with a colourful dupatta and comments on how pretty she looks. Amrita realizes that it is the night of full moon, and her lover promised he would be waiting outside the door. For once she decides to open it and let her desire take over her. After spending the night with him in the fields she returns home; many villagers notice the colourful dupatta on her head and mistake her for her daughter. When the villagers came to break the marriage describing the incident, Minissha learns that it was not she but her mother and in despair jumps into the well.

Strangers in the Night (Directed by Sanjay Gupta)

Mahesh Manjrekar
Neha Dhupia
Synopsis: Mahesh and Neha have the habit of discussing past distractions in their relationship on their anniversaries. Mahesh forces Neha to tell about her experience and she does so with passion about the guy's whose hands she kissed and by whom she was so taken in a railway station's waiting room alone in the night and with whom she would have done anything. As we see Mahesh getting jealous, Neha unravels the twist in the story. She actually kisses his hand and hugs him to save a child, who was being attacked by religious riots.

Zahir (Directed by Sanjay Gupta)

Manoj Bajpai
Diya Mirza
Synopsis: Manoj moves into the same apartment as Diya Mirza and they become good friends. Zahir wants to take the relationship to another level but Diya shuns him away. He is ashamed. One night while spending a night with his friends visiting bars in the town Manoj sees Diya who is a dancer in a dance bar. Enraged, Manoj rapes her without hearing her protests when she comes back home from work. Next day he finds a note from her which she left before leaving, in which she reveals that she has AIDS.

Lovedale (Directed by Jasmeet Dhodi)

Anupam Kher
Aftab Shivdasani
Neha Oberoi
Anuradha Patel
Synopsis: Neha meets a lady on the train on her way home where she was getting engaged. The lady gives her an earring and vanishes at the next station: Lovedale. Neha wanting to return the earring alights and follows the road to a house where Aftab is painting. They become acquainted. Aftab attends Neha's engagement and feels hurt. Neha is also unhappy and her father questions her doubt. Neha tells about Aftab and her father tells her his flashback about how he met a lady on the train to whom he had given one earring before the train left the station. Neha and her father compare the earrings and decide that her meeting Aftab was no coincidence and she breaks the engagement to join Aftab. However, the story unfolds with a vicious climax. Aftab notices the earrings that Neha was wearing and, on questioning, he is informed that it was the earring that was given to her by the lady in the train. Aftab shows her a picture of the lady: his mother who died 10 years ago!

Sex on the Beach (Directed by Apoorva Lakhia)

Dino Morea
Tarina Patel
Synopsis: Dino picks up a book on the beach with the title Life and writes his name and date of birth as instructed and starts to read it. A seductress steps out of a jet ski and sits down next to him and she invites him over to her house for dinner. Dino goes over well prepared with wine and condoms only to see the girl also very eager… but when Dino falls into a short sleep after the girl tells him that she will return in a few minutes dressed more provocatively which he would love taking off. He wakes up to see her dead with him throat slit open. When he leans down to examine her closely she opens her eyes and he understands that she was actually a soul whose wishes had been left unfulfilled. He flees, the ghost following him. Finally he drowns in the sea.

Rice Plate (Directed by Rohit Roy) (based on the 1990 short film The Lunch Date)

Shabana Azmi
Naseeruddin Shah
Synopsis: Shabana plays a staunch Brahmin widow on her way to visit her grandchildren by train. In a hurry she forgets her wallet in her house and heads to the station. She misses her train and her next train is in two hours. She goes to a canteen and orders a plate of rice with the change she has and leaves her table to wash her hand. When she comes back she sees Shah eating it. Angry that Shah was stealing her plate, Shabana forgets that Shah is a Muslim and starts eating out the plate. Later she realizes it and leaves the place. At the railway station she notices that she had left her luggage and handbag in the canteen and goes back. There she finds her belongings near a table and a rice plate on it. Then she realizes that she was mistaken and ate from Shah's plate. Later in the station, she offers place to a Muslim family, which shows that she had changed her attitude.

Gubbare (Directed by Sanjay Gupta)

Nana Patekar
Rohit Roy
Anita Hassanandani
Synopsis: Anita and Rohit are newlyweds on a bus who start a small quarrel. Anita moves away from Rohit to sit adjacent to Nana who is carrying 11 smiley balloons with him. On questioning he tells her how he has to present his wife with the balloons every time he has angered her and how she bakes a cake if she angers him. He explains that life is too short to spend fighting. When getting down at the stop he forgets to take with him the sorry card that he had written for his wife. Anita follows him to give it to him and she notices him speaking to his wife's grave. She realizes how much in love with his wife the man is and returns to the bus. She sits beside Rohit, and they do not quarrel.

Rise & Fall (Directed by Sanjay Gupta; inspired by Ching Po-Wong's Blood Brothers)

Sanjay Dutt
Sunil Shetty
Synopsis: The story begins with Sunil Shetty telling Sanjay Dutt that someone is going to kill him. Dutt says that if there could be anybody who could kill it would be Shetty. The story cuts to a flashback. It shows two young kids. One of them gets paid to kill a person. They both kill the person. The kids are Dutt and Shetty. As kids they rise and as adults they fall because of two children shooting them as in the flashback they are now the dons.

CrewBanner: White Feather Films
Produced by: Sanjay Dutt & Sanjay Gupta
Executive Producers: Gary Van Shipley, Dipti Jindal, Parth Arora
Directors: Apoorva Lakhia, Sanjay Gupta, Jasmeet Dhodi, Meghna Gulzar, Rohit Roy & Hansal Mehta
Music Directors:Gaurav Dasgupta, Anand Raj Anand, Bappi Lahiri, & Shafqat Ali Khan
Background Score: Rohit Kulkarni, Amar Mohile
Lyricists: Virag Mishra, Ibrahim Ashq & Panchhi Jalonvi
Cinematography: Amit Roy, Hemant Chaturvedi, Sanjay.F.Gupta, Vikas Nowlakha, Anshuman Mahaley, Mahesh Aney, Sachin Krishna Kumar & Chirantan Dus
Story Writers: Shivani Tibrewala, Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, Kamlesh Pandey and Vishal Bharadwaj
Editor: Bunty Nagi
Production Designer: Meghna Gandhi, Sunil Nigvekar, Chokas Bhardwaj, Bijon Das Gupta and Aparna Sood
Sound Design: Resul Pookutty and Rishi Oberoi
Publicity Designer: Epigram

Music Dus Kahaniyaan

Studio album
Released 1 November 2007 (India)
Genre: Feature film soundtrack
Label White Feather Films

The film's soundtrack was released on 1 November 2007. Joginder Tuteja from Indiafm.com gave the music 4 out of 5 stars.

01. Aaja Soniye - Shweta Vijay, Sudhanshu Pandey - Virag Mishra - Gourov Dasgupta

02. Bhula Diya - Anand Raj Anand - Ibrahim Ashq - Anand Raj Anand

03. Bin Tum - K.K - Panchhi Jalonvi - Anand Raj Anand

04. Dus - Aanchal, K.K - Virag Mishra - Gourov Dasgupta

05. Jaaniye - Aanchal, Sunidhi Chauhan - Virag Mishra - Gourov Dasgupta

06. Kaala Peela - Shafqat Ali Khan - Virag Mishra - Shafqat Ali Khan

07. Mushkil Kushaa - Kshitij - Panchhi Jalonvi - Bappi Lahiri

08. Nach Le Soniye - Mika Singh - Virag Mishra - Gourov Dasgupta

09. O Maahiya - Shweta Vijay, K.K - Panchhi Jalonvi - Gourov Dasgupta

10. Vichodeya Ne - Shafqat Ali Khan - Ambar Hoshiyarpuri - Shafqat Ali Khan