Mumbai Se Aaya Mera Dost
| Mumbai Se Aaya Mera Dost | |
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| Directed by | Apoorva Lakhia |
| Produced by | Vishal Nihalani |
| Written by | Apoorva Lakhia |
| Narrated by | Amitabh Bachchan |
| Starring | Abhishek Bachchan Lara Dutta Chunky Pandey |
| Music by | Anu Malik Ranjit Barot |
| Cinematography | R.J. Gururaj |
| Editing by | Steven Bernard |
| Distributed by | Rubberband Films |
| Release date(s) | 22 August 2003 |
| Running time | 147 mins |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
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Mumbai Se Aaya Mera Dost is a 2003 Bollywood movie starring Abhishek Bachchan, Lara Dutta, Aditya Lakhia, and Yashpal Sharma. The film is directed by Apoorva Lakhia. The film touched on the subject of influence of television on village life.
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[edit] Synopsis
Dina Nath (Snehal Lakhia) is honored by the Indian Government, which is televised live. While receiving the honors, Dina Nath informs the Government that his village is still without electricity, and he is promised that electricity will be provided in his village immediately. And electricity is provided in the village. Dina Nath's son, Kanji (Abhishek Bachchan), who is in Mumbai, hears of this and returns to the village along with a C-Band ten foot satellite dish and a super flat stereo television. When the satellite is set up, the villagers are thrilled by the TV shows. This helps create a running gag of copying TV culture into the rural lives. The changes lead to the village priest (Akhilendra Mishra) complaining to Chotey Thakur Rudra Pratap Singh (Yashpal Sharma) that the villagers are turning away from his temple and worship. Rudra is not concerned as he himself has a TV set in his home. But when the priest informs Rudra that his sister, Kesar (Lara Dutta) and Kanji are in love, Rudra makes a threat to destroy Kanji and all of the village in the presence of a TV crew filming the whole drama and telecasting it live worldwide. The plot comes to a culmination when, angered by Kanji's antics, Rudra arrives to destroy the village. The villagers stand up to the exploitation and fight Rudra and his goons. Finally Rudra is killed at the hands of Kanji.
[edit] Cast
- Abhishek Bachchan as Kanji
- Lara Dutta as Kesar
- Chunky Pandey as Sanjay
- Aditya Lakhia as Surya
- Yashpal Sharma as Rudra Pratap Singh
- Daya Shankar Pandey as Hari
- Akhilendra Mishra as Priest
- Amitabh Bachchan as Narrator
[edit] Soundtracks
The music was created by Anu Malik. The music response for this movie was very good and some of the songs like "Shaher Ka Jadoo Re" topped some of the Bollywood music charts.
| # | Title | Singer(s) | Length |
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| 1 | Koi Bheega Hai Rang Se | Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik | 06:26 |
| 2 | Shaher Ka Jadoo Re | Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik | 06:20 |
| 3 | Jeetenge Baazi Hum | Sonu Nigam, Mahalakshmi Iyer | 05:20 |
| 4 | Saiiyan | Sunidhi Chauhan | 05:25 |
| 5 | Mujhe Tune Jo Dekha | Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik | 02:45 |
| 6 | The Journey (Instrumental) | 02:20 |
[edit] Audience response
Though not a very successful film at the box office, the performance of Abhishek Bachchan was appreciated.[citation needed] Through this film, he adopted the rough guy look which he has continued to appear with in most of his films. It was Apoorva Lakhia's directorial début who went on to become one of the closest friends of Abhishek Bachchan.
