Runway (2009 Film)
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''Runway'' is a 2009 action thriller directed by Suneil and Praful Tiwari.


Plot

With a hand on the trigger and an eye on the casino owner Victor, Allan goes to Mauritius. Back home in Daman is the reason he has turned into a contract killer, Melvyna Bajaj, a victim of drug abuse. Mauritius is full of colourful characters like Shaina, a dancer in the casino; Khalid, an assassin on Interpol's wanted list and David, a casino owner. As the story unfolds we find out if Allan saves Melvyna, outsmarts the smartest crooks around and hits his target.


Cast

* Amarjeet Shukla as Allan * Tulip Joshi as Shaina *
Lucky Ali Maqsood Mahmood Ali (born 19 September 1958), better known as Lucky Ali, is an Indian singer, songwriter, and actor. He is considered an important artist to popularize pop culture and albums in Indian music and is considered one of the finest a ...
as Khalid Azmi * Deepal Shaw as Melvyna Bajaj *
Shawar Ali Shahwar Ali is an Indian actor and model who appears primarily in Bollywood, Tollywood and Sandalwood films. Early life and career Sarwar Ali was born and raised in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. His father was a farmer in Bhopal. He shifted to M ...
as David *
Sharat Saxena Sharat Saxena (born 17 August 1950) is an Indian actor who appears in Hindi films along with Telugu, Malayalam and Tamil films. He has acted in more than 250 Bollywood films. Saxena started his career in the early 1970s and has mainly played ...
as Anthony *
Rauf Lala Rauf Lala (Urdu: رؤف لالہ; born 1970) is a Pakistani comedian, actor, writer, and producer. Working in Pakistani media for over three decades, he is well known for his comedic talent and stage work. Lala has also worked in India, winning ...
as Rauf *
Ishrat Ali ''Sarkar'' () is a 2005 Indian Hindi-language political crime thriller film directed by Ram Gopal Varma. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Kay Kay Menon, Katrina Kaif, Tanishaa, Supriya Pathak, Kota Srinivasa Rao, and Anupam ...
* Vida Samadzai * Dayanand Shetty *
Nagesh Bhonsle Nagesh Bhosale is an Indian film, television and theatre actor. He acted in ''Anuja'' which is nominated at the 97th Academy Awards (Oscar 2025) in the live action short film category. He also worked on the 2018 film ''Hotel Mumbai'', alongs ...


Music


Tracks

* Khuda Ke Liye - Mustafa Zahid * Khuda Ke Liye (Remix) - Mustafa Zahid * Pyaasi Machuriya -
Sunidhi Chauhan Sunidhi Chauhan (pronounced ; born Nidhi Chauhan, 14 August 1983) is an Indian playback singer. Known for her Bold vocal range, she has recorded songs for films in several Indian languages and List of awards and nominations received by Sunidhi ...
* Roshan Dil Ka Jahan - Shaan,
Sunidhi Chauhan Sunidhi Chauhan (pronounced ; born Nidhi Chauhan, 14 August 1983) is an Indian playback singer. Known for her Bold vocal range, she has recorded songs for films in several Indian languages and List of awards and nominations received by Sunidhi ...
* Roshan Dil Ka Jahan (Dance Mix) -
Sunidhi Chauhan Sunidhi Chauhan (pronounced ; born Nidhi Chauhan, 14 August 1983) is an Indian playback singer. Known for her Bold vocal range, she has recorded songs for films in several Indian languages and List of awards and nominations received by Sunidhi ...
* Teri Yaadein - KK * Teri Yaadein (Remix) - KK


Reception

Taran Adarsh Taran Adarsh (born 13 June 1965) is an Indian film critic and trade analyst. He is best known for giving trade figures and box office updates on social media, as well as his reviews for Bollywood Hungama. Career Taran Adarsh started his journ ...
of
Bollywood Hungama Bollywood Hungama (lit. "Bollywood Madness" in Hindi), previously known as IndiaFM (or IndiaFM.com), is an Indian entertainment website, owned by Hungama Digital Media Entertainment, which acquired the website in 2000. The website provides n ...
gave the film 1.5 out of 5, writing, "On the whole, RUNWAY is saddled with a weak script and therefore, has limited chances." Minty Tejpal of
Pune Mirror ''The Times of India'' (''TOI'') is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by the Times Group. It is the third-largest newspaper in India by circulation and largest selling English-language daily i ...
wrote, "The cinematography is below average, with no composition or framing, and seems to have been shot on Super 16. Worse, the film is edited in a very jerky manner. To make up for the poor scripting and cinematography, the background score seems to be scored on acid, having a life of its own."
Shubhra Gupta Shubhra Gupta is an Indian film critic who writes for ''The Indian Express''. She received the Ramnath Goenka Award for Best Writing on Cinema in 2012. She was a member of the Central Board of Film Certification from 2012 to 2015. She is the au ...
of
The Indian Express ''The Indian Express'' is an English-language Indian daily newspaper founded in 1932 by P. Varadarajulu Naidu. It is headquartered in Noida, owned by the ''Indian Express Group''. It was later taken over by Ramnath Goenka. In 1999, eight y ...
gave a negative review, calling the film "a puzzle from the first to last."


References


External links

* 2009 films 2000s Hindi-language films Films scored by Shamir Tandon {{2000s-Hindi-film-stub