Mujhse Shaadi Karogi
| Mujhse Shaadi Karogi | |
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| Directed by | David Dhawan |
| Written by | Anees Bazmee Rumi Jaffery Rajan Agarwal |
| Produced by | Sajid Nadiadwala |
| Starring | Akshay Kumar Salman Khan Priyanka Chopra |
| Cinematography | Sanjay F. Gupta |
| Edited by | Nitin Rokade |
| Music by | soundtrack Sajid-Wajid Anu Malik background score Salim-Sulaiman |
| Distributed by | Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment Pvt. Ltd |
Release date | 30 July 2004 |
Running time | 159 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Box office | ₹565 million (US$6.8 million)[1] |
Mujhse Shaadi Karogi (English: Will You Marry Me?) is a 2004 Indian romantic comedy film directed by David Dhawan and produced by Sajid Nadiadwala. The film stars Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar, and Priyanka Chopra in the lead roles, making it the second collaboration between Kumar and Chopra after Andaaz and the first collaboration between Khan and Chopra. It also stars Amrish Puri, Satish Shah and Rajpal Yadav in the supporting roles. The film was released on 30 July 2004 to positive reviews praising the direction, the performances by its cast, the music, the cinematography, the art direction, the costumes and styling.
The film opened to strong collections at the box-office and went on to gross ₹565 million (US$6.8 million) worldwide. It was the third highest grosser of 2004 and was declared a "Hit" by Box Office India.
The film takes some inspiration from the Hollywood film Anger Management starring Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson, particularly for the climax.
Plot
Sameer (Salman Khan) is a hot-tempered person with terrible anger management issues ever since his parents died in his childhood. After he beats up a group of goons who tried to assault his girlfriend Roma (Amrita Arora), she breaks up with him due to his bad temper. Thus, as per his horoscope, he is very unlucky in love. With a heavy heart and in order to get away from everything, he leaves for Goa to take up a job as a lifeguard.
On the train to Goa, he meets a man named Suraj Prakash (Satish Shah). He lures Sameer into believing that he could be a thief by asking him where he kept the more important things, such as money, in his luggage. Sameer ends up staying awake the whole night in order to avoid being robbed while Suraj Prakash sleeps peacefully the whole night, having conned Sameer into guarding his own luggage. This is also something he admits to Sameer the next morning at the station in full overconfidence. Sameer later finds out that the former is a security guard at the very resort he is working in and had retaliates by putting Suraj Prakash on guard duty for night times for 3 months, with the threat that he would lose his job if he ever slept even a wink on night duty. This causes Suraj a lot of trouble since he has never done night duty before and instead devotes night times to spending quality time with his wife. Having had a taste of his own medicine, he tries to desperately apologise to Sameer, later even with the help of his wife, but Sameer does not relent.
In Goa, he meets Rani (Priyanka Chopra), an upcoming fashion designer and instantly falls in love with her. After many attempts at befriending her and a rough start with her father, (Amrish Puri), a former colonel in the military, Rani and Sameer become friends. However, Sameer's ill fated luck comes into play as he still has some rough incidents with her father and Rani, too gets angry with him since she overhears him saying bad things about her to Pandit ji (Rajpal Yadav).
Further trouble arrives in the form of Sunny (Akshay Kumar), who moves into the same house as Sameer and shares a room with him. He too meets Rani, falls in love with her and decides to cause further trouble by getting closer to her through the mistakes Sameer makes. This causes a lot of trouble between the two. It is evident that Sunny is out to ruin Sameer's relationship with Rani so that he can steal Rani away from him. Sameer helps Rani with money that she urgently needs for a fashion show, but makes the mistake of calling himself her "well-wisher" while doing so. Rani wins the fashion show and while being felicitated for her victory, makes an open offer to her "well-wisher" to meet her so that she can thank him in person. Sameer, who had selflessly given Rani the money which he was supposed to pay for both his grandmother's eye surgery and his sister's wedding, goes to meet her but Sunny gets there first and claims to be the well-wisher and takes her away with him. Sameer follows on his motorcycle and ends up injuring the colonel severely. Sunny goes to the extent of taking credit for a painting of Rani that Sameer made. He kidnaps Rani's dog, Tommy and blames Sameer for it. Sameer buys an identical dog from a pet shop and goes to the colonel, claiming that he has found Tommy. His ruse is later discovered by the colonel when the dog bites him and runs away.
These actions aggravate Sameer and ignite his temper, making his relationships rocky, but he somehow manages to reconcile with Rani with the help of a magician at a New-Year's eve party. Sunny strikes back by conveniently placing a bar dancer in Sameer's room one morning. Rani who happens to go there to invite him for breakfast, sees the dancer there and assumes that they had sex, eventually not heeding to Sameer's frantic pleas of innocence and walking out in tears.
After the fiasco with the bar dancer, Sameer still decides to make another attempt at apologising. When he goes to Rani's house, he is surprised to see Suraj Prakash there and is shocked to learn that he is Rani's uncle, who now knows that he loves Rani. He tries to clear the earlier misunderstanding by apologising for his indiscretion and taking Suraj Prakash off night duty. Also another misunderstanding occurs when Sameer's grandmother who is partially blind arrives and mistakes Rani's mother for Rani while trying to persuade her into marrying Sameer. Sameer, who goes to sort out the situation gets caught in an embarrassing position with Rani's mother. Rani, who is shocked and disgusted is later advised by her mother that Sameer had not been at fault in that situation. She also says that Rani should carefully deliberate on whom she loves more- Sameer or Sunny.
Disgusted and completely out of hope and patience, Sameer decides to leave Goa forever. As he is leaving, Sunny arrives and taunts him on how he got close to Rani through the latter's mistakes. Sameer says that he has had enough of dreaming of Rani and wishes Sunny all happiness as he leaves. Sunny however tries to have the last laugh as he taunts Sameer again. This time, Sameer loses his temper completely. He rounds on Sunny and chases him through the streets right through to a crowd at a cricket stadium, where India and Pakistan are supposed to be playing a friendly match. Deciding to have one last try, he enters the field after breaking through security, takes the mike from Kapil Dev, the guest of honour, and uses it to apologise to Rani and her parents very sincerely for his past mistakes. Saying so, he confesses his love for her and asks her to marry him in front of the whole crowd, coupled with motivation from spectators and players alike. Rani runs out to the field and embraces him, thus reuniting with him. At the end, Sunny arrives and reveals that he is actually Arun, Sameer's childhood friend who had come to Goa, for a cure to Sameer's anger management issues. He had gone to visit Sameer the first thing after coming back from America after 19 years and had met the latter's grandmother, who had told him about Sameer's heartbreak and subsequent departure for Goa. At that point, he had decided to help Sameer, but by posing as his enemy. He had revealed the same to Rani and her parents earlier. Sameer is then reunited with his old friend as well.
The film ends with Arun conducting Sameer and Rani's marriage.
Cast
- Salman Khan as Sameer Malhotra
- Priyanka Chopra as Rani Singh
- Akshay Kumar as Arun Khanna A.K.A Sunny
- Amrish Puri as Colonel Jugraj Singh
- Amrita Arora as Roma
- Satish Shah as Suraj Prakash
- Rajpal Yadav as Raj Purohit Jyotshi/Paul
- Vindu Dara Singh as eagle gang member
- Kapil Dev as Himself
- Supriya Karnik as Rama Jugraj Singh
- Kader Khan as Mr. Duggal
- Rajesh Vivek as Chutki Baba
- Shashikala as Grandma Malhotra
- Upasana Singh as Mrs. Suraj Prakash
- Parth Dave as Young Sameer
- Shefali Zariwala as Bijili
- Kurush Deboo as Rustom Dogs Seller
The following also made cameos appearances as themselves: Irfan Pathan, Javagal Srinath, Ashish Nehra, Harbhajan Singh, Parthiv Patel, Mohammad Kaif, Navjot Singh Sidhu, Sajid Khan
Reception
Mujhse Shaadi Karogi received positive reviews from critics. It was a commercial success, becoming the fourth highest grossing film of the year, grossing ₹565 million (US$6.8 million) in India. The film was declared a "Hit" by Box Office India.[2][3]
The film received 5 out of 5 stars from Bollywood Hungama[4] and 10 out of 10 from Planet Bollywood.[5] Akshay kumar's performance was too much praised by critics as well as audiences and because of him the film has become a cult classic comedy film.
Awards
Filmfare Award Nominations
- Filmfare Award for Best Actor in a Comic Role - Akshay Kumar
- Filmfare Award for Best Playback Singer Female - Lal Dupatta Alka Yagnik
- Filmfare Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Akshay Kumar
Screen Weekly Awards
- Best Art Direction Award - Sharmishta Roy
Nominations:
- Star Screen Award for Best Film - Mujhse Shaadi Karogi
- Star Screen Award for Best Choreography - Farah Khan (Lal Dupatta)
- Star Screen Award for Best Cinematography - Sanjay F. Gupta
- Star Screen Award for Best Lyrics - Arun Bhairav (Lal Dupatta)
- Star Screen Award for Best Music - Sajid Ali & Anu Malik
- Star Screen Award for Best Sound - Jitendra Choudhary
- Star Screen Award for Best Actor in a Comic Role - Rajpal Yadav
- Star Screen Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Akshay Kumar
- Star Screen Award for Best Special Effects - Prime Focus
Awards of the International Indian Film Academy
Won:
- Best Art Direction Award - Sharmishta Roy
- Best Background Score - Suleiman Merchant
- Best Choerography - Farah Khan (Lal Dupatta)
- Best Costume Design - Vikram Phadnis
- Best Actor in a Comic Role - Akshay Kumar
Nominations
- Best Film - Mujhse Shaadi Karogi
- Best Actor in a Leading Role - Salman Khan
- Best Actress in a Leading Role - Priyanka Chopra
- Best Director - David Dhawan
- Best Lyrics - Arun Bhairav (Lal Dupatta)
- Best Music - Sajid Ali
- Best Playback Singer Male - Udit Narayan (Lal Dupatta)
- Best Playback Singer Female - Alka Yagnik (Lal Dupatta)
Zee Cine Awards
Nominations:[7]
- Zee Cine Award for Best Audiography - Jitendra Chaudhary
- Zee Cine Award for Best Screenplay - Anees Bazmee
- Zee Cine Award for Best Film - Mujhse Shaadi Karogi
- Zee Cine Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role - Salman Khan
- Zee Cine Award for Best Actor in a Comic Role - Akshay Kumar
- Zee Cine Award for Best Music - Sajid Ali
- Zee Cine Award for Best Song of the Year - Lal Dupatta (Alka Yagnik & Udit Narayan) & Aaja Soniye (Sonu Nigam & Alka Yagnik)
Stardust Awards
- Won -Stardust Award for Superstar of Tomorrow – Female - Priyanka Chopra[8]
Soundtrack
| Untitled | |
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Planet Bollywood |   [9] |
| Bollywood Hungama |   [10] |
| apunkachoice | [11] |
| SmashHits | (favorable)[12] |
The music of Mujhse Shaadi Karogi is composed by Sajid-Wajid, Himesh Reshammiya, except "Jeene Ke Hain Char Din" by Anu Malik. Lyrics are by Arun Bhairav and Jalees Sherwani. All of the songs were picturised on combinations of Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar and Priyanka Chopra.
| # | Title | Singer(s) | Lyricist | Composer | Picturised on | Duration |
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| 1 | "Rab Kare" | Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik | Jalees Sherwani | Sajid - Wajid | Salman Khan, Priyanka Chopra | 04:22 |
| 2 | "Mulhse Shaadi Karogi" | Udit Narayan, Sonu Nigam, Sunidhi Chauhan | Jalees Sherwani | Sajid - Wajid | Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar, Priyanka Chopra | 05:26 |
| 3 | "Aaja Soniya" | Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik | Jalees Sherwani | Sajid - Wajid | Salman Khan, Priyanka Chopra | 04:58 |
| 4 | "Jeene Ke Hain Char Din" | Sonu Nigam, Sunidhi Chauhan | Sameer | Anu Malik | Salman Khan, Priyanka Chopra | 05:21 |
| 5 | "Laal Dupatta" | Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik | Arun Bhairav | Sajid - Wajid | Akshay Kumar, Salman Khan, Priyanka Chopra | 05:14 |
| 6 | "Kar Doon Kamaal" | Sukhwinder Singh, Sunidhi Chauhan | Jalees Sherwani | Himesh Reshammiya | Akshay Kumar, Priyanka Chopra | 04:34 |
| 7 | "Lahoo Banke Aansoon" | Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik, Shabaab Sabri | Jalees Sherwani | Sajid - Wajid | Akshay Kumar | 06:05 |
References
- ^ "Top grossers". Boxofficeindia.com. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
- ^ "Lifetime Worldwide". Box Office India. Retrieved 26 October 2010.
- ^ "Box Office 2004". Box Office India. Retrieved 26 October 2010.
- ^ http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/moviemicro/criticreview/id/54557
- ^ http://www.planetbollywood.com/Film/MujhseShaadiKarogi/
- ^ "Nominees of 50th Filmfare Awards- The 51st Filmfare Awards". Filmfareawards.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000415/2005
- ^ http://www.dnnworld.com/stardust.php
- ^ "Mujhse Shaadi Karogi Music Review". Retrieved 17 October 2011.
- ^ "Mujhse Shaadi Kaorgi Music Review". Retrieved 17 October 2011.
- ^ "THE MUJHSE SHAADI KAROGI MUSIC REVIEW". Retrieved 29 April 2012.
- ^ "MUSIC REVIEW OF MUJHSE SHAADI KAROGI". Retrieved 29 April 2012.
External links
- Mujhse Shaadi Karogi at IMDb
- Mujhse Shaadi Karogi website at NadiadwalaGrandson
- Mujhse Shaadi Karogi at Bollywood Hungama