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Raanjhanaa
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAnand L. Rai
Screenplay byHimanshu Sharma
Story byHimanshu Sharma
Produced byKrishika Lulla[2]
StarringDhanush
Sonam Kapoor
Abhay Deol
CinematographyNatarajan Subramaniam
Vishal Sinha
Edited byHemal Kothari
Music byA. R. Rahman
Production
company
Colour Yellow Pictures
Distributed byEros International
Release dates
  • June 21, 2013 (2013-06-21)
(Hindi)
  • June 28, 2013 (2013-06-28)
(Tamil)[1]
Running time
140 minutes
LanguagesHindi
Tamil
Budget₹35 crore (US$4.2 million)
Box office₹52.72 crore (US$6.3 million) (net two-week total)[3]

Raanjhanaa is a 2013 Indian romantic drama film, directed by Anand L. Rai and written by Himanshu Sharma. The film is produced by Krishika Lulla under the banner Eros International. It stars actor Dhanush in his Bollywood debut, Sonam Kapoor and Abhay Deol in its lead roles.[4] The film was released on June 21, 2013 worldwide,[5] while the dubbed Tamil version titled Ambikapathy[6] was released a week after its Hindi counterpart.[7][1] The dialogue of the Tamil version was written by John Mahendran.

The background score and soundtrack was composed by A. R. Rahman. The Hindi lyrics of the tracks were penned by Irshad Kamil, whereas the Tamil lyrics were written by Vairamuthu.

Within a week of its release, its collections surpassed ₹34 crore (US$4.1 million). Box Office India declared the film a hit in India.[8]

Cast

Plot

Kundan Shankar (played by Dhanush) is a strong believer of God and the son of a Tamil priest. Since his childhood days, Kundan has had a strong one-sided love for Zoya Haider (played by Sonam Kapoor), a Muslim girl residing in Varanasi whose father is a professor. Being kids and having crushes makes it pointless but a few years later, Kundan is steadfast in his love for Zoya. When she is at school, he always attempts to be around her and hold her hand but gets slapped several times in the process. Zoya finally changes her mind because of Kundan's constancy of affection and attraction. Zoya's family is Muslim, preventing the lovers from being together. By the time Zoya moves to Aligarh for her further studies, Kundan harmonizes with Zoya's family, assisting them with various works especially pertaining to house. The film shifts its centre when Zoya gets into Jawaharlal Nehru University and through her, the idealistic and political culture of the Delhi is explored. She discovers a long-lost strength as she confronts and then falls for student leader Jasjeet Singh Shergill (disguised as Akram Zaidi to marry Zoya; played by Abhay Deol) in Delhi.

After a period of eight years, Zoya returns to Varanasi. Kundan again attempts to ask Zoya for her love but she is reluctant, revealing that she is in love with Akram. Zoya then urges Kundan to convince her family about her marriage with Akram. Initially refusing the plans because he still loves her, Kundan eventually agrees to it. Kundan gets his work done and the wedding of Zoya and Akram is arranged. Kundan promises Zoya that he will also tie the knot with another girl and will forget her. Kundan proposes to his childhood friend Bindiya (Swara Bhaskar), who has had a crush on Kundan since their childhood days, for marriage.

On the day of their marriage, Kundan finds out through a newspaper article that Akram is a Hindu, whose actual name is Jasjeet Singh Shergill. This enrages Kundan as Zoya had used their religious differences to convince him that their match was not possible. In a separate flashback it is shown that Zoya, despite Jasjeet's misgivings about the plan, convinced him to portray himself as Muslim to marry her. Enraged again, Kundan reveals everything to Zoya's parents thereby interrupting their marriage ceremony. Later, Kundan is informed by his friend that Zoya tried to commit suicide and is in a critical condition. He rushes to the hospital where he is also informed that Jasjeet was mercilessly beaten by Zoya's relatives and is also critical. Later Jasjeet's parents take him back to his village and thank Kundan for helping him. Kundan tries to redeem himself by taking Zoya to Jasjeet's village. However, he is devastated to find that Jasjeet has succumbed to injuries, finally making Kundan understand that his one-sided love has resulted in an innocent man's death. Kundan also forgets about his own marriage with Bindiya, which was supposed to happen the same day as that of Zoya and Jasjeet. For this reason, Kundan's family disowns him.

Kundan then becomes homeless and begins visiting various religious places and volunteering in their activities so that he can atone for his sins. During one such visit to the banks of Ganga, a man advises him to do the right thing rather than running away from his sins.

Motivated, Kundan locates Zoya to Jawahar Lal Nehru University, where she is spearheading the activities of the political party "All India Citizen Party" (AICP), created by Jasjeet. Kundan joins the nearby canteen and serves the people of the party, all the while trying to get Zoya's attention. Over time, Kundan becomes popular among the party due to his simple nature. In between Kundan also helps the party in negotiating some tough situations by using his simple yet witty tricks. Slowly, he emerges as a popular face of the party, disturbing Zoya. She holds a grudge that the person who is responsible for Jasjeet's death is now taking his place. She also tries to instigate party members against Kundan but Jasjeet's sister Rashmi (played by Shilpi Marwaha), who is also Zoya's best friend, tells Kundan to continue, as he is the best choice for fulfilling Jasjeet's dreams.

Kundan, however, only wants Zoya to forgive him. He silently follows Zoya's instructions despite them resulting in harm coming to him. The Chief Minister (played by Sujata Kumar) tells Zoya she must seek revenge on Kundan so as to take the place Jasjeet/Akram held for the AICP. To get back the position, she tells her to let Kundan get injured as he delivers his campaign speech for the party. Zoya gets brainwashed by this plan and as the Chief Minister desired, Kundan is hurt badly and sent to ICU, thus fulfilling Zoya's revenge.

Zoya slowly begins to understand the extent of Kundan's love and at a press meet following Kundan's injury, reveals that the plan was plotted by her and the Chief Minister. Zoya leaves the press meet in agony and finds out through a policeman that Kundan was aware of the plot and still let himself be injured. Shocked by this fact and ultimately realizing her love for Kundan, she rushes to the hospital to finally confess her feelings to him. However, Kundan dies.

In a final voice over, Kundan says he can be born again and again in the same Benaras with the same surroundings, fall in love with a girl like Zoya again, and become a Raanjhaana with her love.

Production

Development

In late 2011, Shahid Kapoor and Sonakshi Sinha were signed as the lead pair for the film. Apparently, they dropped out of the project after not being able to convince the director that they had the depth to pull off such complex characters on screen.[9] In late January 2012, actor Dhanush, making his Bollywood debut, signed onto the film[10] for the character of Kundan. The actor reportedly underwent training for fluency in Hindi language to obtain the role. Actress Sonam Kapoor was signed on for the role of the female lead after March 2012.[11][12] In April 2012, the actress and the director visited the JNU Campus of Delhi for the former to imbibe more for her role.[13] Sonam Kapoor also attended acting workshops with prominent theatre director Arvind Gaur to learn the nuances of street theatre.[14] The director chose to cast actors who could also play younger versions of themselves. In an interview the director stated the film was an intense love story, and its characters would travel to Delhi, Punjab and Chennai, and that actor Abhay Deol would be seen in a special appearance in the film.[15] Urmila Sharma, well known for her Hindi TV serial roles was signed to play the character of Kundan's mother in the film.[16] Initially, Aditi Rao Hydari was supposed to play the role of Kundan's childhood friend but she opted out due to lack of availability, being replaced by Swara Bhaskar.[17]

Characters

Actor Dhanush plays the character Kundan who has a passion for his city Banaras and Zoya (played by Sonam Kapoor). It depicts him a young boy and a teen who turns into a sensitive adult. Sonam Kapoor quoted her character as, "'Zoya' is child-like and unpredictable. She can be cold and at the same time, objective. She has every quality that makes her desirable to a man." In an interview, Kapoor revealed that for playing the role of a school girl in the film, she drew inspiration from the character Jaya Bachchan played in the 1971 film Guddi.[18] Actor Abhay Deol as Akram plays a secure yet confident university student, socialist and a budding politician.[19]

Filming

After main casting announcements, filming was substantially delayed; the reason was speculated to be composer A. R. Rahman's music being denied outright by the film director.[20] Filming officially began in Varanasi, India in early September 2012 and continued for 40 days in and around the city. As per reports, the leading duo were also seen essaying the role of 17-year-old teenagers.[21] In mid-September 2012, the schedule of filming was put on hold as actor Dhanush fell ill on the sets in Varanasi.[22] While filming in October 2012, the actor injured his shoulder during the filming of an action sequence for his Tamil outing Maryan. The consequences led to the scheduled shooting of dance sequences to be postponed and were shot in Varanasi on December 19, 2012.[23][24] On November 4, 2012, Sonam Kapoor and Abhay Deol shot the song "Tu Mun Shudi" at India Gate, Delhi,[25] and their dialogue scenes were shot at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication campus in Delhi by early December 2012. Permission to shoot inside was denied to the director by the college authorities. So, the unit shot some scenes in Amity International School, Noida. To avoid footage leaks, over a hundred potential crew members were made present at the filming venue. Certain filming was also done in Gurgaon and Faridabad.[26] The title track of the film was shot on December 27, 2012.[5] The final schedule of filming began in Delhi on January 7, 2013.[27] In March 2013, the film's crew shot several scenes at the Pataudi Palace in Haryana over two days.[28]

Soundtrack

Main article: Raanjhanaa (soundtrack)

The music and the background score for the film was composed by A. R. Rahman. The soundtrack's original version has lyrics penned by Irshad Kamil whereas the Tamil version by Vairamuthu. In an interview with Hindustan Times, Rahman stated that he had emphasized the folk-classical genre as the film brings out a fascination for Benaras through the music[29] and hence, most of the songs are character-driven. The soundtrack composition was completed by early March 2013.[30] In all, the soundtrack album has nine original tracks.[31] The original version of the soundtrack was released on the co-branded record labels Sony Music and Eros Music.[32] on May 31, 2013 and the Tamil version on June 19, 2013. The soundtrack received generally positive critical reception.

Marketing

On 10 May 2013, a grand event was held at a set resembling Varanasi at Film City in Goregaon, Mumbai. The lead actors made their entry riding a chariot and performed the title track of the film. The producer stated that the event was promoted in Benarasi style so as to represent the essence of the film and its setting.[33] The film's music was promoted at the Radio Mirchi Studios in Mumbai on May 27, 2013.[34][35] Dressed in typical South Indian attire, Dhanush and Sonam Kapoor promoted the Tamil version of Raanjhanaa in Chennai. The leading duo promoted their film in Mumbai, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Lucknow and Jaipur from mid-May to June 2013.[36]

Release

The first look of the characters in the film was revealed as a poster with no credits and film name on the day of Holi 2013.[37][38] The first theatrical trailer was released on 24 April 2013.[38][39] The Hindi version of the film released worldwide on June 21, 2013 with the estimated number of release screens being 1,000. The film opened to an occupancy of 20-25%, the highest compared to other Bollywood films released on the same date.[40]

Critical reception

India

Raanjhanaa opened to positive critical reception.

Critic Komal Nahta responded positively and said, "On the whole, Raanjhanaa is an interesting, entertaining and a fairly different love story. It is like heady wine and its effect will only grow."[41] Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN wrote, "For its immensely entertaining first half, a winning score by AR Rahman, but most of all for Dhanush, this is a film that's worth your time. I'm going with three out of five for Raanjhanaa. It's not perfect, but it'll do."[42] Resham Sengar of Zee News gave the film 4 out of 5 stars and summarized, "Raanjhanaa is a love story that does not fall within the confines of a clichéd Bollywood romance."[43] Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave the film 3.5 out of 5 and stated, "On the whole, Raanjhanaa encompasses romance and myriad emotions most wonderfully, besides bravura performances and a popular musical score from the maestro." Adarsh also called it "a film that touches the core of your heart" and said it was "definitely worthy of a watch".[44] At NDTV, Saibal Chatterjee gave it 3.5/5 and opined in the review, "The film defies the expectations of the audience at several crucial junctures and holds out absolutely no apologies for springing abrupt surprises. A love story with a huge difference that benefits no end from a clutch of exceptional performances."[45] Sukanya Verma of Rediff Movies gave 3 out of 5 stars and claimed, "Raanjhanaa isn't easy viewing. Kundan and Zoya aren't easily likeable. They have flaws. They make mistakes. Blunders, really but Rai shows them for what they are; he never paints a pretty picture. And this brutal honesty coupled with a commanding Dhanush is what works."[46] Meena Iyer of The Times of India claimed, "Raanjhanaa is a love story that has a Shakespearean touch and is mounted on a lavish scale". She noted, "You may not like this film if you cannot digest brooding love stories", and gave it 3.5 out of 5.[47] Kaushik Rmesh of Planet Bollywood gave the film a 7 on 10 and summarized, "A realistic romance that brims with impressive elements (including and especially the enchanting music), Raanjhanaa is surely a winner at the end and must be watched for its unconventional handling and freshness".[48]

Nabanita of One India gave the film 3 out of 5 and wrote, "Raanjhanaa works, and yes, the movie has maximum possiblities to strike the right chords amongst the audience, only and only because of Dhanush and his heart-touching performance."[49] Rachit Gupta of Filmfare called the film a "great love story" and concluded, "Grab a ticket, clutch the hand of your loved one and go fall in love. This time with great cinema".[50] Critics at Indicine gave a score of 65 out of 100 and summarized, "The intentions of Aanand L Rai seem genuine. He wants to show us the world where he grew up in, wants to romanticize the feeling of nostalgia and unrequited love."[51] Tushar Joshi writes for DNA India, "Raanjhanaa works because of Dhanush's ability to make you believe in his love for Zoya. You might not agree with his approach, but deep down you cheer and root for him each time Zoya plants a slap on his face."[52] At Deccan Chronicle, Khalid Mohamed mentioned, "Raanjhanaa: Playing ping pong with love", and gave it three stars out of five.[53] India Today rated the film 3/5 and judged, "Raanjhanaa harks back to the way Bollywood used to make love stories once upon a time. With some imagination, the effect would have been nostalgic, too."[54] Shubha Shetty Saha of Mid-Day assigned 3.5/5 to the film and praised actor Dhanush and stated, "And then the second half is when the pace dips, the sincerity of the storyline gets somewhat hazy and the film gets wee bit disappointing. An absolutely believable one-sided romance takes a slightly deceptive political drama twist and I am not sure if that is what you wanted it to be. It is unpredictable, yes, but not in a great, believable way."[51] At Mumbai Mirror, Karan Anshuman pointed, "Raanjhanaa flows like good poetry. It is arguably the best love story of the year so far, the kind of film others in the genre should aspire."[55]

On the contrary to above, critic Mayank Shekhar wrote, "His (Dhanush) character is supposed to be gifted with great inter-personal skills. It doesn't quite show."[52] Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express gave it 2.5 out of 5 and mentioned, "Raanjhanaa is a film which is all of a piece in its engaging first half, and a good Bollywood launchpad for Dhanush. Makes me want to see what he will do in his second pass."[56] At Emirates 24/7, Sneha May Francis said, "While music maestro AR Rahman tunes the track, and leaves us occasionally cheerful, the moments are far too few to erase the horrid after effects of this movie."[57] Critic Manohar Basu at Koimoi stated, "However a sluggish screenplay and lurching script makes Raanjhanaa a half baked effort‬ and hence gets a 2.5/5 from me."[58] Sudhish Kamath of The Hindu concluded, "A dream debut for Dhanush even if the film gets stuck in its messy political subtext that kills the romance."[59]

Overseas

At The Hollywood Reporter, Lisa Tsering left the film unrated and asserted, "The fact that the film marks the Hindi-language debut of South Indian star and YouTube superstar Dhanush is bound to draw interest at the box office, though Rai's firm refusal to play by the rules of the typical Bollywood love story may make it hard to sustain momentum."[60]

Controversy

The Central Board of Film Censors (CFBC) in Pakistan banned the film shortly before its scheduled release. Chief Executive Officer of IMGC Global Entertainment Amjad Rasheed, the importer of Raanjhanaa, revealed that he received a letter from the CBFC with directives to shelve the film's release. The letter from the CBFC stated that the film portrays an inapt image of a Muslim girl (played by Sonam Kapoor) falling in love with a Hindu man and having an affair with him.[61]

Box office

Domestic

The first-day collection was estimated at ₹5.12 crore (US$610,000).[62] The film performed well at multiplexes outside the metros in places like Indore, Kanpur, Banaras, regions of CP Berar, Central India and states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Rajasthan.[63] On its opening day, it grossed more than 5 lakh in the city of Lucknow itself.[64] On Saturday, a day just after release, collections rose to ₹6.25 crore (US$750,000). The film had a growth rate of 25-30%,[65] making its total first weekend collection ₹19.25 crore (US$2.3 million).[66] Within a week of its release, its gross surpassed ₹34 crore (US$4.1 million). Box Office India declared the film blockbuster at the domestic box office.[8] After two weeks of release, the film had collected ₹52 crore (US$6.2 million) at the box office.[3] Raanjhanaa also had the fourth-highest second week collections of the year 2013.[67]

Overseas

Raanjhanaa grossed around $825,000 internationally on its first weekend. Its first weekend gross in the United Kingdom amounted to £72,000, while in North America it made $415,000. The film collected $145,000 in the UAE and $46,000 in Australia.[68]

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