Official Trailer of Maazii Movie - 2013

MAAZII has been produced by Jaideep Chopra and it is directorial debut of Nitin Shingal who has worked on films like MUNNABHAI MBBS, PARINEETA and FANAA. The lead role is played by Sumit Nijhawan who was earlier seen in the films like CONTRACT, PHAS GAYE RE OBAMA, SARKAR RAAJ, JANNAT 2 etc., and the music has been scored by Agnel Roman and Faizan Hussain and lyrics by Swanand Kirkire. Rahat Fateh Ali Khan was so much enthused by the musical score of MAAZII that he gave it top priority for the songs to be recorded, pushing his other assignments into the background. Here is the trailer of Maazii movie. This movie releasing today on 27th September 2013.

Maazii literally mean past, and it is a term that had been popularized by Gulzar through his scores of poems and now a full length feature film with the same title MAAZII is going to hit the cinema halls shortly. MAAZII is a film that has been primarily shot in the Western part of UP and has been completed within a time span of one month, shooting started in end October and the film was wrapped up by end November 2012.

It was Vishal Bhardwaj through his OMKARA who had brought the world of Western UP with all its ruggedness and rustiness to the fore, and now MAAZII would be taking it one more step forward.

It could be the first film which would try to capture the enigmatic beauty of the queen of hills Mussoorie in the recent times, and the film has been shot extensively in and around Mussoorie, famous Dhanaulti forms a part of the background, and city of Dehradun along with the rustic part of Meerut forms the backdrop for the MAAZII to unfold. As the title suggests, the film is an attempt to grapple with the past, and it is a violent past that comes to haunt the characters. MAAZII has been extensively shot on the Sahastradhara road, Landour Bazaar and Cloud's end, iconic landmarks around Mussoorie.