By Tricitynews Reporter
Chandigarh
13th December:- This is a comedy portraying the
antics of three brothers – Paaji, Rajveer and Ravi who get involved in a
situation which exposes the truth of dera babas and the events happening in
their ashrams in Punjab. The eldest brother Paaji is a misogynist (he hates
women). He has an over active imagination and always thinks of everything in an
extreme manner. His younger brother Rajveer is a lazy, good for nothing,
perpetually in search of a good job. Binding them together is the third brother
Ravi who is actually their maasi’s son. He loves both the brothers, respects
and obeys Paaji but also gets swayed over by Rajveer’s mad cap ideas.
Paaji and Ravi run a garage as their
livelihood whereas Rajveer’s search for a good job often takes him to different
towns. One day Rajveer brings a scheme to Ravi wherein they remodel a broken
down bus in their garage into a travel and tours bus. According to him, they
would drive this bus along various routes thus making a lot of money through
their passengers. As usual Ravi is completely convinced and he persuades Paaji
to get onboard. Then Rajveer gets the bus into a contract with a much loved and
powerful babaji whose disciples are moving towards the hills for the summer.
Some of the disciples including two of the babas main guys Swami and Deepak
travel by Paaji’s bus and their baggage is put on top of the bus. That night
whilst driving Ravi has to break for some reason and everyone is shocked to see
a girl’s body under the wheels.
Here begins the comedy of errors. Now
the brothers and Swami and Deepak – the two disciples, independent of each
other, try to dispose of the body in various places. But somehow the body keeps
coming back into the bus. Amazingly and suddenly the girl climbs into their bus
alive. Here on, truth about drugs, money laundering and other criminal
activities within the baba’s ashram starts unraveling.
Motor Mitraan Di talks about the
values of family, loyalty, love and cautions people against being cheated by
unscrupulous and corrupt dera babas or godmen who have ruined countless lives. But
says everything with a smile or a laugh..........
MOTOR MITRAAN DI Directed by Amitoj
Mann Starring Gurpreet Ghuggi, Happy Raikoti, Vikram Singh Ranjha, Sonia Mann
and Yograj Singh. Stellar Cast includes Sardar Sohi, Harsharan Singh, Anita
Meet, Gurmeet Sajan, PRakash Gadhu, Gurpreet Toti, Jagdeep Lamba, Surinder
Angural.
AMITOJ MANN: Combining a literary and
film background, his father Babu Singh Mann is a renowned poet and lyricist in
Punjab and has received five lifetime achievement awards. Amitoj worked with
Nadira Babbar’s theatre group EKJUT in Mumbai evolving into becoming an actor
and honing his creative talents as a director and writer too.
In 1992, the living legend of Indian
cinema Dilip Kumar signed up Amitoj as the hero for his directorial debut film
`Kalinga’ opposite Meenakshi Seshadri. Unfortunately the film was not released
due to unforeseen circumstances. Amitoj turned his vision from enacting dreams
to creating dreams for the silver screen.
After directing more than 20 music
video albums and winning awards for them, he wrote and directed a Hindi film
titled Hawayein. The film emerged from the consequences of the Blue Star
Operation and depicted the heart rending aftermath of Mrs Indira Gandhi’s
assassination leading to the riots and victimisation of Punjab and its people.
This film was the honest exploration of the reasons which led to this angst of
the youth of Punjab and the turmoil suffered by their families. It is the only
celluloid depiction of this dark chapter of Indian history. Hawayein released
in August 2003 and was crtically acclaimed worldwide. Hawayein gathered awards
and applause in Canada and created box office history there with record
breaking collections and was well received in India too.
His tryst with truth oriented movies
continued with Kaafila, a film based on the issue of illegal immigration – an
issue affecting millions of Indians and Asians. This film is the story of the
mad rush of people opting to leave their motherland in search of their Utopian
dreams of a better life abroad in Western countries. An intelligent humourous
and though provoking film, based on real life experiences of people, it exposes
how innocent people are duped by a worldwide nexus of agents showing them
dreams of a wonderful life in foreign lands and making them sell their lands
homes and livelihood here in a futile pursuit of that dream. The star line up
included Sunny Deol, Amitoj Mann, Sudesh Berry, Sana Nawaz and Mona Laizza –
both top ranking film and TV actresses of Pakistan respectively and other
actors from India and Bulgaria. Kaafila released worldwide in August 2007 and
was shot in Mumbai, Punjab, Ladakh and Bulgaria.
His last released film is a Punjabi
film Haani – which means your companion. Haani is the story of the true men of
the soil the Jats who are defined by their simplicity, honesty, courage, good
looks and above all – for honouring their commitments lifelong, be it for love,
friendship or even enemity. A romantic saga spanning two generations from 1964
to 2013 Haani tells the story of love, friendship and honour immortalised by
commitment. Haani starred Harbhajan Mann, Sarbjit Cheema, Anuj Sachdeva,
Mehreen Kaleka, Sonia Mann and others and released on Sept 6, 2013 to worldwide
acclaim and success. Haani received five awards at the annual PTC Awards for
excellence in Punjabi cinema held on March 3, 2014.
His second Punjabi film titled Gadaar
– the traitor starring Harbhajan Mann, Manpunit, Girija Shankar and others was
a story of one man’s search for the truth to redeem himself. Now readying for
a 30 December 2016 release is his third Punjabi film Motor Mitraan Di
which is a comedy expose of the self styled Godmen in Punjab. It stars Gurpreet
Ghuggi, Happy Raikoti, Vikram Singh Ranjha, Sonia Mann and Yograj Singh. He
dreams for a living and his scripts are subjects combining a personal vision
with the requirements of a modern and entertaining film thus ensuring a global
reach for it.
