Musafir (2004 film)

Traveller) is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language neo-noir action thriller film written, directed and produced by Sanjay Gupta, starring Anil Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt, Sameera Reddy, Aditya Pancholi, Mahesh Manjrekar, Shakti Kapoor, and introducing Koena Mitra in her film debut.

[8][9] Lucky (Anil Kapoor) is a small-time criminal, hoping to retire with his girlfriend Lara (Koena Mitra) after one last job.

He is to go to Goa and meet Whacko Jacko (Shakti Kapoor) and sell him a bag of unknown contents.

When her husband, Lukka (Mahesh Manjrekar), shows up, they retrieve her car from the road, and go home.

That night Lukka tries to sexually assault Sam after she refuses to remove her blouse when he asks her to.

Tiger and Lucky start fighting, but Billa intervenes and strikes a final deal.

After going a short distance, he stops and drops the bag to the ground in a brief act of generosity and then leaves.

The TV presenter Konnie Huq appears as an extra in the club scene of the film.

According to him, director Sanjay Gupta tackled themes of infidelity, incest, ill luck, paranoia, mistrust, murder, deception, fraud, money and the mafia.

He also went to label it "provocative and graphic", and noted how it examined the mind of several immoral men, which he believed was "a lane not many 'play safe' Bollywood filmmakers would want to venture into.

The background score was composed by Ram Gopal Varma collaborator Sandeep Chowta.

Dev Kohli, Kumaar, Vishal Dadlani and Milap Zaveri provided the lyrics.

The compositions of Vishal–Shekhar heavily used techno, and trance beats, and the album itself was divided into two CDs—"Club" and "Longue".

Songs like "Ishq Kabhi Kario Na", "Saaki", and "Door Se Paas" were highly popular among the youth.

According to the Indian trade website Box Office India, with around 18,00,000 units sold, this film's soundtrack album was the year's seventh highest-selling.