Alag
- Director
- Ashu Trikha
- Studio
- Subi Samuel Movies Pvt. Ltd.
- Release Date
- 15 June 2006
- Running Time
- 123 min
- Language
- Hindi
- Country
- India
- Budget
- ₹8.00 Cr
- Box Office
- ₹0.56 Cr
Review
Ashok Nanda's "Alag" grapples with genuinely intriguing thematic material—the isolation of a gifted child, parental control masquerading as protection, and the burden of being fundamentally different—yet squanders these premises through muddled execution and inconsistent tonal shifts. Randeep Hooda brings a certain withdrawn intensity to Hemant's backstory, but the narrative struggles to balance psychological realism with the sudden introduction of telekinetic superpowers, a pivot that feels unearned rather than revelatory. The film wants to be both a intimate character study and a superhero origin tale, but it commits fully to neither, resulting in a disjointed viewing experience that recalls the more ambitious failures of early-2000s Bollywood fantasy cinema without capturing their campy charm or narrative coherence.
Where "Alag" stumbles most critically is in its treatment of Tejas himself. Rather than allowing us to genuinely understand this extraordinary teenager's interior world—how isolation has shaped his psychology, his relationship to his newfound autonomy—the film opts for spectacular set pieces and melodramatic rescues that feel borrowed from Hollywood tentpoles without the technical sophistication to justify them. Compared to films like "Rang De Basanti" or even Nanda's contemporaries who attempted genre-blending, "Alag" lacks the thematic clarity needed to make its outsider narrative resonate. Purva's rehabilitation arc and the Rana family subplot introduce nar
Storyline
So there's this guy named Hemant who lives alone in this beautiful hill station, but it turns out he's been hiding a massive secret his whole life. When he suddenly dies, the police discover his son Tejas locked away in the basement—and get this, the kid has spent his entire life down there because he's extremely sensitive to sunlight. His dad kept him hidden away with just books and his own company, thinking it was necessary for his health.
After his father's death, Tejas gets sent to this rehabilitation institute run by a woman named Purva. This is basically his first real interaction with the outside world and other people, which is obviously pretty intense for him. It becomes clear pretty quickly that Tejas isn't your average teenager—he's got these strange telekinetic abilities that freak everyone out and cause some serious problems at the institute.
Things start looking up when Tejas helps bring Purva's mother out of a coma, and he becomes part of the wealthy Rana family. But his newfound acceptance gets threatened when doctors and scientists start hunting him down, desperate to study his powers. When someone actually kidnaps him to exploit his abilities, things spiral into a crazy situation that forces Tejas to finally unleash what he's truly capable of.
