Issaq

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This is the story based on two land mafias of Banaras: Kashyaps and Mishras. They have a throat-cutting competition to gain control over the land and fight brutally over it.

• Prateik Babbar as Rahul Mishra (Romeo)
• Amyra Dastur as Bachchi Kashyap (Juliet)
• Ravi Kishan as Teeta Singh (Tybalt)
• Rajeshwari Sachdev as Paro Kashyap, Bachchi's step- (Lady Capulet)
• Makarand Deshpande as Baba (Friar Laurence)
• Neena Gupta as Amma (Nurse)
• Prashant Narayanan as Naxal leader
• Sudhir Pandey as Vishwanarayan Kashyap, Bachchi's (Capulet)
• Sandeep Bose as Manohar Mishra, Rahul's (Montague)
• Prashantt Guptha{{Cite web |url=http://www.indiannewsandtimes.com/2015/12/07/two-films-and-much-more-in-the-kitty-for-actor-prashantt-guptha/ |title=Two films and much more in the kitty for actor Prashantt Guptha |date=7 December 2015 |website=www.indiannewsandtimes.com |access-date=16 April 2018 |archive-date=19 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191019150817/http://www.indiannewsandtimes.com/2015/12/07/two-films-and-much-more-in-the-kitty-for-actor-prashantt-guptha/ |url-status=dead }} as Preetam (Paris)
• Amit Sial as Murari (Mercutio)
• Vineet Kumar Singh as Bihata (Benvolio)
• Yogesh Suri as Prince
• Malini Awasthi as Manorama
• Evelyn Sharma as Roza (Rosaline)
• Yuri Suri as Minister
• Akhilesh Jha as Mahender
• Saurabh Yadav as Paras
• Mehdi as Nandkishore
• Ishtiyak Khan as Reporter
• Parvez Fazal Khan as Surta
• Pradeep Ghosh as Mishrilal

The film was promoted in TV serial Amita Ka Amit.{{Cite web |url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/gallery/pratiek-babbar-and-amyra-dastur-on-the-sets-of-amita-ka-amit/1/9716.html |title=Pratiek Babbar, Amyra Dastur promote Issaq on Amita ka Amit |website=India Today |date=7 July 2013 |language=en|access-date=16 April 2018}}{{Cite news |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tv/news/hindi/Prateik-Amyra-play-cupid-for-Amita-and-Amit/articleshow/21020308.cms |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130714103625/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-07-12/tv/40515335_1_amita-issaq-amyra-dastur |url-status=live |archive-date=14 July 2013 |title=Prateik-Amyra play cupid for Amita and Amit |date=12 July 2015 |work=The Times of India |access-date=16 April 2018}} The producers promoted the movie through Banarasi paan at the leading malls in Mumbai.{{Cite news |url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/issaq-makers-promote-film-through-paan-113071600595_1.html |title=Issaq makers promote film through paan |date=16 July 2013 |work=Business Standard India|access-date=16 April 2018}}

Sachin–Jigar composed the songs while the background score was composed by Prashant Pillai.

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| type = Soundtrack

| artist = Sachin–Jigar

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| released = 22 June 2013

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| label = Zee Music Company

| producer = Shailesh R Singh

| prev_title = Ramaiya Vastavaiya

| prev_year = 2013

| next_title = Shuddh Desi Romance

| next_year = 2013

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{{track listing

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| title1 = Issaq Tera

| extra1 = Mohit Chauhan

| music1 = Sachin–Jigar

| lyrics1 = Mayur Puri

| length1 = 3:16

| title2 = Issaq Tera (Duet)

| extra2 = Mohit Chauhan, Vibha Saraf

| music2 = Sachin – Jigar

| lyrics2 = Mayur Puri

| length2 = 2:12

| title3 = Jheeni Re Jheeni

| extra3 = Rashid Khan, Pratibha Baghel

| music3 = Sachin – Jigar

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| length3 = 7:25

| title4 = Bhole Chale

| extra4 = Rahul Ram, Sachin Gupta

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| title5 = Aag Ka Dariya| extra5 = Ankit Tiwari

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| title6 = Enne Unne

| extra6 = Keerthi Sagathia, Mamta Sharma, Tarun Sagar, Papon

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| title7 = Aag Ka Dariya (Unplugged)

| extra7 = Sachin Gupta

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| title8 = Tarse Naina

| extra8 = Sukhwinder Singh, Malini Awasthi

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| length8 = 5:19

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The movie received generally negative reviews. Piyasree Dasgupta, in a review for Firstpost, summed it up as: "One wonders … what is a greater tragedy—Romeo and Juliet or what Issaq made of that classic love story."{{cite web |title=Issaq Review: How Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet was murdered |last=Dasgupta |first=Dasgupta |date=28 July 2013 |access-date=16 April 2018 |url=https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/issaq-review-how-shakespeares-romeo-and-juliet-was-murdered-989197.html |ref=none}} Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express find it to be "without a singular voice of its own" and that ultimately "it drowns in its own noise."{{cite web |title=Movie review Issaq: Shakespeare would not be grateful for this representation |last=Gupta |first=Shubhra |website=The Indian Express |date=26 July 2013 |access-date=16 April 2018 |url=http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/movie-review/movie-review-issaq-shakespeare-would-not-be-grateful-for-this-representation/ |ref=none}} The review in The Times of India calls out the poor acting by Babbar and Dastur's lack of charisma. "Manish Tiwary's Issaq lacks vibe, soul or depth needed for a classic love story. With incoherent narrative, unsketched characters, wispy (sometimes embarrassing) dialogues, one good melody in the whole ditty (Issaq tera); pointless shooting (mostly in the dark), gold-plated bandooks and bombs galore—Tiwary misses every target. There are movies beautifully adapted from Shakespeare's works in the past, but none that tragically assault your creative, poetic or cinematic senses."{{cite web |title=Issaq Movie Review |website=The Times of India |date=26 April 2016 |access-date=16 April 2018 |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/movie-reviews/issaq/movie-review/21303105.cms |ref=none}} Sarit Ray, writing for the Hindustan Times, thinks "seldom have [Shakespeare movie adaptations] been associated with as nonsensical a mess as Manish Tiwary's Issaq" and that "It's a pity that Issaq joins remarkable films like Maqbool, Omkara and Angoor on the list of Bollywood adaptations of Shakespeare. In a time when works of literature are judged by their TV and film versions, it could even give the Bard a bit of a bad rep."{{cite web |title=Sarit Ray's review: Issaq |last=Ray |first=Sarit |website=Hindustan Times |date=27 July 2013 |access-date=16 April 2018 |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/movie-reviews/sarit-ray-s-review-issaq/story-WwmJGPULsbHrju5Tps9jdP.html |ref=none}}

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Category:2010s Hindi-language films

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Category:Films shot in Varanasi