Everyone knows that most Indian movie equals song and dance with some melodramatic crying thrown in between. Well, I am proud to say that once every few years someone has the balls to make a movie that does not rely on song, dance and elaborate badly choreographed fight sequences to make a entertaining piece of cinema. Two ex software engineers who made a movie called flavors a few years ago to accolades from festivals and the public alike finally decided to take the plunge into Bollywood to make their next film after 4 years of hitting the pavement and using up all their savings they finally got financing to make their next film called 99.

Set in the year 99 around Y2k threat and Indian Cricket gambling controversy based on or around true events is a story of 2 hustlers caught up in a world of gambling and gangsters, oh yeah he also runs into true love. 99 is an original story inspired by real events - well, very liberally inspired - it is more fiction than fact. It is the story of two men in two cities, who are bound by a common feeling of always being stuck at ‘99′. They never seem to make it to a ‘century’ - in life. It is an unpredictable and hilarious ride spread over two cities with colorful characters, unbelievable circumstances, small-time crooks, big-time conspiracies, fateful car crashes, a briefcase full of money… and a historical controversy brewing in the background.

The film will be released in NY on May 15th. Sorry but the trailer does not have subtitles.
http://www.99thefilm.com/