'36 China Town' in town

Abbas Mustan, the director famous for his Bollywood suspense thrillers like 'Soldier', 'Ajnabee', 'Humraaz', 'Tarzaan' and 'Aitraaz' made his latest '36 China Town' now screening at Quinlon, Nugegoda.

The film is set in Goa, where 36 China Town is the address of one of the characters.

The story of the plot revolves around the murder of the owner of Bungalow No. 36 situated in the thick of Goa's 'China Town'. There are three main suspects. Shahid Kapoor - a struggling actor who is spotted leaving the bungalow, Kareena Kapoor - who lands at the bungalow after she runs away from home as her boyfriend ditched her on the day of their wedding, Upen Patel - a Casanova-type found loitering in the vicinity

Sonia Chang (Isha Koppikar), the rich and famous owner of many a casino is distraught, as her only child is missing. Even as her lawyer and the local playboy Rocky (Upen Patel) pay her a courtesy visit, she gets a phone call that her child is well and will be delivered to her soon. The child incidentally has been discovered in Mumbai by a struggling actor Raj (Shahid) and a runaway girl (Kareena). These two form an alliance of convenience, and set out for Goa, to deliver the child and earn a reward. On the way, they run into a whole lot of loony characters, including a compulsive gambler (Johnny Lever) and his wife Tanaz Currim, a rich but mentally unstable husband (Paresh Rawal) and his under dressed pouting wife Payal Rohtagi. Even as they reach Goa and head to 36 China Town where Sonia stays, they encounter her corpse in the dead of the night. Flabbergasted and scared out of their wits, they run away and inform the police. Unfortunately, Priya's bag is left behind at the murder venue, as when Raj goes to retrieve it, he gets arrested. Soon, four or five others who could possibly have a motive are hounded by the police inspector (Akshaye Khanna), and rounded up.

'36 China Town' is a Subhash Ghai production of an Abbas-Mustan directed film that has music by Himesh Reshammiya.

The film's concept came to director Abbas-Mustan while watching the detective thriller Chinatown (1974). This film is thus partly based on and partly a tribute to that film.