Hacked is a 2020 Indian psychological thriller film directed by Vikram Bhatt written by Govind Bhana and produced by Krishna Bhatt, Amar Thakkar and Jatin Sethi under their banner Loneranger Productions. The film stars Hina Khan, Rohan Shah and Mohit Malhotra. The story revolves about a boy's love for an older girl and how it turns into an obsession with him hacking her Life.
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| Directed by | Vikram Bhatt |
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| Story by | Govind Bhana |
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| Cinematography | Prakash Kutty |
| Edited by | Kuldip Mehan |
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| Distributed by | Zee Studios |
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Running time | 118 minutes[1] |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | ₹4.50 crore[2] |
| Box office | ₹1.82 crore[2] |
Principal photography commenced in August 2019. The film was theatrically released in India on 7 February 2020.[3][4]
Plot
editSameera "Sam" Khanna works at a magazine company; her neighbour is a 19-year old cute and innocent looking hacker Vivek Tiwari who has a crush on her. Sam has a fragile and intimate relationship with her boyfriend, a film actor named Om Kapoor, as he reciprocates feelings whenever he likes. During Sam's birthday party at her apartment where all her friends and colleagues are invited, she is broken when Om doesn't attend the party. Vivek helps clean her flat, and Sam suddenly breaks down and reveals everything about her and Om's relationship to Vivek in a drunken stupor. Vivek tries to console her, and Sam kisses him. Vivek then reciprocates, and they have passionate sex. The next morning, Sam wakes up and is shocked to see Vivek sleeping next to her. Om rings the doorbell, and Sam panics. Vivek says it's okay, to which Sam says she will talk to him later.
Sam is still thinking about the previous night in the office meeting, to which her boss shouts at her for being absent-minded. Vivek, who is outside, hears this and, in response, gets food for Sam and sends everyone else for lunch. Sam is disturbed and tells Vivek that whatever happened the previous night was a mistake, and warns him from interfering in her personal life. The next day, however, Sam sees that she cannot enter her office when her boss informs her that some personal files of the company have been hacked from her laptop. Confused, Sam receives a call from Vivek, who reveals that he hacked Sam's laptop and leaked the company's files to teach Sam's boss a lesson. Vivek had previously hacked into the police records and uploaded a mobile vendor's name as most wanted because he refused to repair Sam's phone. Sam calls Vivek to a cafe and asks him to revert what he has done. Vivek reveals that he loves her and can do anything for her, in response to which Sam slaps him in front of everyone and warns him to stay away from her. Vivek gets enraged at the humiliation. He makes the tech experts at Sam's company believe that Sam leaked the files, which gets her fired. Om takes Sam on vacation in Goa for Sam to relax. Vivek captures images of Sam and Om getting intimate and leaks them on to the internet. Om publicly denies their relationship, which leaves Sam heartbroken. Sam agrees to remove the life support of her dying mother as she had no chance of living. Along with her neighbor Rohan Mehra, she then lodges a complaint against Vivek for his activities.
The police arrest Vivek in front of his grandmother. He is then sent for interrogation, but in the process, threatens a police officer by hacking into his phone and tells him he will reveal his adultery to his wife. The officer is forced to release Vivek, who later hacks Sam's social media accounts and puts up a post saying that her life is not going well and she is depressed. Enraged, Rohan goes over to Vivek's house and beats him up. In the series of incidents that follow, Sam finds out that Rohan was her childhood friend. Sam feels suspicious about Vivek's maid as she has an expensive Yves Saint Laurent bag and also knew that Vivek was not rich enough to buy that bag. Sam encounters the maid, Riya, who explains to Sam that Vivek is actually a shameless and cruel person who used to stalk her, and when she rejected his love, Vivek threatened to release some of her secrets on the internet, which could ruin her life. Vivek forced Riya to work as a maid so that no one would get suspicious. She also says that he had ruined his classmate Sheetal's life like this, which caused her to commit suicide and make Vivek drop out of college.
Vivek kills his grandmother after she threatens him with exposing his manipulative nature because he dropped out of college and has been lying to his family for months. In the end, Sam manages to make a plan and takes revenge by killing him just after he wipes all the evidence which would prove that Sam was with him. With no evidence to prove who killed Vivek, the case is closed. Sam is shown walking out of the office with Rohan, seemingly indicating that Sam has started a new life.
Cast
edit- Hina Khan as Sameera Khanna aka Sam
- Rohan Shah as Vivek Tiwari : Sam's Hacker
- Sid Makkar as Om Kapoor : Sam's ex Boyfriend
- Mohit Malhotra as Rohan Mehra : Sam's Childhood Friend
- Pravina Deshpande as Mrs. Tiwari (Vivek's grandmother)
- Sheetal Dabholkar as Nandini Sahai (Sam's boss)
- Garrvil Mohan as Dr. Ravi Sinha
- Tanvi Thakkar as Riya (Vivek's maid)
- Ashfaq Abidi as Vivek Tiwari : Sam's Hacker (Earlier, he was offered this film but due to some issues with him, Roshan got this film)
Music
edit| Hacked | |||||
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| Released | 13 January 2020[5] | ||||
| Recorded | 2019 | ||||
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack | ||||
| Length | 26:53 | ||||
| Language | Hindi | ||||
| Label | Zee Music Company | ||||
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The film's music is composed by Arko, Jeet Gannguli, Chirantan Bhatt, Sunny and Inder Bawra and Amjad Nadeem Aamir, with lyrics written by Arko, Amjad Nadeem, Shakeel Azmi, Manoj Yadav and Kumaar.
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Singer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Mehfooz" | Arko | Arko | Arko | 3:14 |
| 2. | "Ab Na Phir Se" | Amjad Nadeem | Amjad Nadeem Aamir | Yasser Desai | 4:07 |
| 3. | "Tu Jo Mili" | Shakeel Azmi | Jeet Gannguli | Yasser Desai | 3:40 |
| 4. | "Lavkar Love Karuya" | Manoj Yadav | Chirantan Bhatt | Apeksha Dandekar | 2:57 |
| 5. | "Tujhe Hasil Karunga" | Kumaar | Sunny and Inder Bawra | Stebin Ben | 3:56 |
| 6. | "Hacked Theme" | - | Sunny and Inder Bawra | - | 1:21 |
| 7. | "Ab Na Phir Se" (Version 2) | Amjad Nadeem | Amjad Nadeem Aamir | Nikhita Gandhi | 4:23 |
| 8. | "Mehfooz" (Version 2) | Arko | Arko | Akanksha Sharma | 3:15 |
| Total length: | 26:53 | ||||
Release
editThe film was theatrically released in India on 7 February 2020.
Reception
editMoumita Bhattacharjee of Rediff.com gave the film 2.5 out of 5, writing, "Hacked has plenty of highs for Hina Khan fans but apart from that, there's not much to look for in the film."[6] Mrinal Rajaram of The New Indian Express wrote, "Hacked follows the tried-and-tested formula of the stalker trope with a whole lot of tech stuff thrown in for good measure (half of which seems wildly implausible). The film, though largely overdone and melodramatic, does touch upon a relevant theme not explored enough in mainstream Hindi cinema. This theme is that of the Internet, and how you never really have your privacy once connected to the near-indispensable world wide web."[7]
References
edit- ^ "Hacked". The Times of India. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
- ^ a b "Hacked – Movie". Box Office India. Archived from the original on 7 February 2023. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- ^ "Vikram Bhatt ropes in a popular television actor opposite Hina Khan for his film Hacked". Bollywood Hungama. 9 August 2019. Archived from the original on 7 February 2020. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ "Vikram Bhatt's 'Hacked' to release on February 7". Deccan Herald. 8 January 2020. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ "Hacked - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack". Jio Saavn. 13 January 2020.
- ^ Bhattacharjee, Moumita (7 February 2020). "Hacked review". Rediff.com. Archived from the original on 7 June 2023. Retrieved 11 September 2024.
- ^ Rajaram, Mrinal (8 February 2020). "'Hacked' review: A so-so film that speaks of internet era's predatory behaviour". The New Indian Express. Archived from the original on 27 November 2020. Retrieved 11 September 2024.