Rush

<p>The story follows media, politics, crime, and sex at the point of life and death. Samar Grover ( ) is a struggling news reporter. Even though his talk show is at the pinnacle of success, his personal life has turned upside down due to problems with his wife ( ). Seeing no way out, he accepts an assignment offered by a dynamic media tycoon named Lisa ( ), which he believes can make him millions. However, along with Lisa, one of India’s richest men, Roger Khanna ( ), they play a game on Samar, which plunges him into a vortex of violence in a deadly game of cat and mouse. Beneath the veneer of glamour, money, power, and the enviable life of media lays a truth that is at once unbelievable and shocking. The film was announced in late 2010 by original director Desai. After casting and , it started filming under the title of . However, after the death of director Desai in January 2011, the film was reported to be cancelled. In October 2011, Desai’s wife Priyanka announced that she will be completing the film, and it was renamed to . In mid-2012, it was finally announced that the film has been completed, and will be titled . The soundtrack is composed by . It consists of 6 songs and lyrics penned by , , Ashish Pandit and . The soundtrack received positive to average reviews from critics as well as public. gave a very positive review saying, “Rush has some really good songs, chhup chhup ke and Mumkin Nahi are must listen. Rest aren’t bad too. Worth a try for all, and worth a buy if you’re a music lover.”<br /> Suhail of Gomolo gave the soundtrack justifying the soundtrack as ‘An Everlasting Package’ with tracks that are too hard to drop-out. Rush soundtrack is a Highly outrageous travel!. There were average reviews as well. One of them was given by who gave the album an average rating of “5.5 out of 10 stars” and commented, “After a superlative effort in Barfi, surprisingly unremarkable score from Pritam for Rush”. One of the negative review was given by who gave the album a negative rating of “2 out of 5 stars” and also commented that, “I found the soundtrack to Rush to be a frail attempt on Pritam’s part. After having recently composed some truly spectacular songs for his last album ‘Barfi!,’ Pritam has delivered here an album which has two great songs with the rest being very average.” was to be initially released on 26 October but for some reasons it was then pre-poned to 24 October. However the film was again postponed from 24 to 26 October due to lot of films being released around the same time and the emergence of successful run of Karan Johar’s Student of the Year. The film was finally released on . Rush released in 850 cinemas across the entire country. Rush received mostly negative to below average reviews.<br /> Apurv Bhatia of gave it 1.5 stars “Rush is a half baked, uninspiring flick that evokes no response.” wrote Apurv. Social Movie Rating site gave it a rating of 2.4 putting it in category. Taran Adarsh of gave it 2 stars. Rohit Khilnani of Rediff gave it 1.5 stars.</p>