title: Sau Jhooth Ek Sach
text: # Sau Jhooth Ek Sach
  
  Sau Jhooth Ek Sach (transl. A hundred lies, one truth) is a 2005 Hindi-language indie thriller film directed by Bappaditya Roy, the film marks Bappaditya Roy's directorial debut. Produced by Amitabha Singh through the production house Think 16. The film stars Mammootty and Vikram Gokhale. Gokhale plays an industrialist. The film was screened at the 7th Mumbai International Film Festival. The film was a failure at the box office.
  
  ## Plot
  
  The films follows Inspector Vivek as he inspects the case of a girl's suicide. He crosschecks members of industrialists Vikrant Pradhan's family. The next day to Pradhan's family surprise, they realize that there is nobody named Vivek and that no girl died.
  
  ## Cast
  
  ### Main
  
  * Mammootty as Inspector Vivek
  * Vikram Gokhale as Vikrant Pradhan
  * Lilette Dubey as Moushami Pradhan
  * Joy Sengupta as Amabareesh Khanna
  * Neha Dubey as Zoya Pradhan
  * Kiran Janjani as Vikram Pradhan, Vikrant Pradhan's son
  
  ### Supporting
  
  * Rita Joshi as Chawl woman
  * Richa Nayyar as Sandhya Sawant
  * Meghna Kothari as Anjali
  * Tisca Chopra as Anjali
  * Sonia Filinto as Anjali
  * Shweta Gautam as Lakshmi
  
  ## Music
  
  The music for the film was composed by Faizal Qureshi.
  
  ## Production
  
  The film marks actor Mammootty's return to Hindi cinema.Mammootty said about his role that "Mine is a very difficult and challenging role; so very unlike a typical Hindi movie cop. In fact, it is completely non-action, and probably my best in the national language." Music Department was handled by Faizal Qureshi, Story written by Pankaj Kapoor and the dialogues by the Director Bappaditya Roy himself.
  
  ## Reception
  
  ### Critical response
  
  Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama wrote that "On the whole, SAU JHOOTH EK SACH - THE UNINVITED has something for the festival circuit, but nothing for the masses". A critic from Sify wrote that "Sau Jhooth Ek Sach' is a film about all of us". Film critic Subhash K. Jha wrote that "Debutant director Bappaditya Roy's morality tale is an arresting ensemble piece" and gave the film two stars out of five. Webindia 123 wrote that "Overall this offbeat film is surely not for the masses but for the select few who dig this genre".
  
  ### Box office
  
  According to Box Office India the movie has collected ₹25 Thousand on its first day. The first weekend gross was ₹1 lakh and from one week the movie has collected ₹10 Lakh. Final worldwide gross was ₹50 Lakh. Considering the budget ₹50 Lakh the movie was average at the box office.
  
  