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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Akeli<br />
| image = <br />
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| director = Vinod Pande<br />
| producer = Vinod Pande<br />
| screenplay = <br />
| narrator = <br />
| starring = [[R. Madhavan|Madhavan]]<br>Nandini Ghosal<br>[[Anupam Shyam]]<br />
| music = Jeetu-Tapan<br>Nilesh Bhatia <br />
| cinematography = Sudhir Gowda<br />
| editing = Bobby Bose<br />
| studio = Cine Images Production<br />
| distributor = <br />
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|2014|08|22|[[YouTube]] release}}<br />
| runtime = 165 mins<br />
| country = India<br />
| language = Hindi<br />
| budget = <br />
| gross = <br />
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'''''Akeli''''' is a 2014 Hindi film produced, written and directed by Vinod Pande. The film featured [[R. Madhavan|Madhavan]] in his first full-length role in a Hindi film, alongside danseuse Nandini Ghosal and [[Anupam Shyam]]. Despite being completed and censored in August 1999, the film remained unreleased before the makers chose to release it via [[YouTube]] in August 2014.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
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* [[R. Madhavan|Madhavan]] as Avinash<br />
* Nandini Ghoshal as Meera<br />
* [[Anupam Shyam]] as MLA Pathare<br />
* Sujata Sanghamitra as Rosie<br />
* Prerna Agarwal as Ameeta<br />
* Asha Sharma as Meera's mother<br />
* [[Aashish Kaul]] as Rohit<br />
* [[Raj Kiran (Bollywood actor)|Raj Kiran]] as Avinash's first boss<br />
* Vinod Pande as Avinash's boss<br />
* Brij Gopal as Railway constable<br />
* [[Shakti Singh (actor)|Shakti Singh]] as Pawar <br />
* [[Abha Parmar]] as Meera's sister-in-law<br />
* Chandra Mohan as Meera's brother<br />
* Vipin Kansal as Ravi<br />
* Rakesh Shrivastava as Mishraji<br />
* Jharna Dave as Pratibha<br />
* Kailash Kaushik as D K<br />
* Raj Joshi as Rohit's father<br />
* Suman Pednekar as Laxmibai, Meera's maid<br />
* Chaitanya as Ranjan<br />
* Samina as Rajjo<br />
* Ritwika Dey as Guesthouse landlady<br />
* Sheela Mishra as Rohit's mother<br />
* [[Murali Sharma]] as Meera's boss<br />
* Shahnaaz Dhillon as woman outside telephone booth<br />
* Ramprakash Arora as Rohit's uncle<br />
* Sunil Kumar Singh as pandit in wedding<br />
* Nimai Das as Pathare's driver<br />
* Snehal Vilankar as receptionist<br />
* Tanvir Siddique as Damle<br />
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==Production==<br />
The project materialised in late 1997, with [[R. Madhavan|Madhavan]] agreeing to make his acting debut in Hindi films with the project. He signed the film while he was shooting for the Kannada venture, ''[[Shanti Shanti Shanti]]'' (1998), as well as a series of television dramas.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20010605223722/http://www.rmadhavan.com/filmography.html</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ahmedabad-times/maddy-cool/articleshow/1278036573.cms|title=Maddy Cool|work=The Times of India}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/2000/04/21/stories/09210228.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150420105558/http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/2000/04/21/stories/09210228.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2015-04-20|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=2000-04-21|title=Star in the making}}</ref> Danceuse Nandini Gopal was selected to play the leading female role, while [[Anupam Shyam]] was picked to play another supporting role. The film was censored on 10 August 1999, but was unable to find a distributor for a theatrical release.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sify.com/movies/bollywood/preview.php?ctid=5&cid=2419&id=6006713#.VAvgnoif-uo.facebook |title=Archived copy |access-date=20 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050115185606/http://sify.com/movies/bollywood/preview.php?ctid=5&cid=2419&id=6006713#.VAvgnoif-uo.facebook |archive-date=15 January 2005 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2000, a corporate group considered purchasing the first copy of the film, but Vinod Pande decided to delay the venture until Madhavan's ''[[Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein]]'' (2001) was released. The film then geared up for release in 2002 through [[Yash Raj Films]], but plans were suddenly cancelled at the final moment and the project remained indefinitely on hold.<br />
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==Release==<br />
In 2014, Vinod Pande chose to release the film directly on to [[YouTube]] citing he did not want the film to get "lost", and that another of his unreleased films, ''Chaloo Movie'', had found itself online illegally. It was later played at the Festival du Film d'Asie du Sud Transgressif in [[France]] in February 2015, with Vinod Pande in attendance.<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{IMDb title|4596284|Akeli}}<br />
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