Pyaar Impossible!
| Pyaar Impossible! | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Jugal Hansraj |
| Written by | Uday Chopra |
| Produced by | Uday Chopra |
| Starring | Uday Chopra Priyanka Chopra Advika Yadav Dino Morea Anupam Kher |
| Cinematography | Santosh Thundiyil |
| Edited by | Amitabh Shukla |
| Music by | Salim–Sulaiman |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Yash Raj Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 141 min |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | ₹14 crore[1] |
Pyaar Impossible! (transl. Love Impossible!) is a 2010 Indian romantic comedy film directed by Jugal Hansraj that was released under the banner of Yash Raj Films. It features Uday Chopra and Priyanka Chopra playing the leads with Advika Yadav, Anupam Kher, and Dino Morea in supporting roles.
The movie marked Priyanka Chopra's first collaboration with Yash Raj Films,[2] Advika Yadav's debut as a child artist, and the penultimate big screen appearance of Uday Chopra.
Plot
[edit]At Ankert University, California, Alisha (Priyanka Chopra) is the most beautiful girl on campus, with plenty of admirers. Awkward, nerdy Abhay (Uday Chopra) is in love with her, although she is unaware of his existence. One night, Alisha is partying with her friends and accidentally falls into a river. Abhay jumps in and rescues her from drowning, but her friends take her away before she regains consciousness. Abhay is further prevented from seeing Alisha the next day when her outraged father comes and removes her from college.
Abhay nurses dreams of uniting with Alisha for seven years as he moves on with his life. He invents a revolutionary software program that cross integrates all operating systems. He meets with an investor to try to sell it, and he excuses himself to call his father and ask for advice. While he is gone, the investor copies the files onto a drive and steals them. Abhay discovers that this investor is unscrupulous software salesman Siddharth 'Siddhu' Singh (Dino Morea), and he is now marketing the stolen software to a Singaporean firm as his own invention. Abhay goes to Singapore to confront Siddhu and sees Alisha at the company headquarters where she works as its PR representative. Still besotted, he follows her home. Due to a misunderstanding, she mistakes him for a nanny she was expecting from an employment agency. She is divorced and in search of another nanny for her unruly daughter named Tanya (Advika Yadav) who drives everyone away. Abhay decides to become Tanya's nanny and keeps his identity a secret to stay close to Alisha.
Abhay takes care of the house mostly by paying contractors to clean it and he eventually wins over Tanya when he buys her the Rockband video game so she can become a rockstar. Tanya nicknames him "Froggy" because of his nerdy looks. Things become complicated when Siddhu shows up trying to romance Alisha and sells the stolen software to her company. Abhay finds out that Siddharth's real name is Varun Sanghvi and tries to hide from Varun even while he grows closer to Alisha. She confides in Abhay, and he dresses her up in glasses and old clothes to show her how differently people are treated when they appear to be unattractive. Alisha feels sorry for Abhay.
As the launch date for the software approaches, Abhay is unmasked by Varun who claims he is a delusional stalker and was never a nanny. Alisha is angry that he lied and orders Abhay out of the house without giving him a chance to explain.
She finds out from her daughter that Abhay is the mysterious person who rescued her in college; she realizes that when Abhay told her about the girl he loved in college for seven years, he was talking about her.
Alisha finds Abhay and apologizes to him saying that she has fallen in love with him. Abhay tells her that he created the software Varun is taking the credit for. They rush to the software launch to stop Varun who is easily discredited when he doesn't know the password to Abhay's software. Abhay is able to prove that it is his creation by entering the password. Abhay tells Alisha that she already knows the password: it is her name: A-L-I-S-H-A. Alisha and Abhay live happily with Tanya.
Cast
[edit]- Uday Chopra as Abhay "Froggy" Sharma
- Priyanka Chopra as Alisha Merchant
- Advika Yadav as Tanya Merchant
- Anupam Kher as Mr. Udesh Sharma
- Dino Morea as Varun Sanghavi alias Siddharth "Sidhu" Singh
- Rahul Vohra as C.P.
- Madhura Naik as Alisha's friend
- Shefali Rana and Arjun Sablok as Jaspreet & Jaspreet
- Saidah Jules as Madelyn
- Jugal Hansraj as the showroom manager
- Nataliya Kozhenova
- Creighton Mark Johnson as Alisha's neighbor in a deleted scene
Soundtrack
[edit]Released on 14 December 2009, the soundtrack for the film has been composed by Salim–Sulaiman with lyrics penned by Anvita Dutt Guptan, song recording & mixing by Vijay Dayal, and Abhijit Vaghani remixing two scores. Ahmed Khan was appointed as the director of choreography for each number.
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| Soundtrack album by | ||||
| Released | 14 December 2009 | |||
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
| Label | YRF Music | |||
| Salim–Sulaiman chronology | ||||
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- Track listing
| No. | Title | Performer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Alisha" | Anushka Manchanda, Salim Merchant | 04:50 |
| 2. | "10 on 10" | Anushka Manchanda, Mahua Kamat, Naresh Kamat | 03:30 |
| 3. | "Pyaar Impossible!" | Dominique Cerejo, Vishal Dadlani | 04:04 |
| 4. | "Ek Thi Ladki" | Rishika Sawant | 04:32 |
| 5. | "You and Me" | Neha Bhasin, Benny Dayal | 3:48 |
| 6. | "Alisha" (Remix) | Abhijit Vaghani | 03:57 |
| 7. | "Pyaar Impossible!" (Remix) | Abhijit Vaghani | 03:55 |
| Total length: | 28:36 | ||
Reception
[edit]Box office
[edit]As maintained by Box Office India, a worldwide grossing of almost ₹9 crore was collected, making the film a commercial failure.[3]
Critical response
[edit]Rachel Saltz of The New York Times gave a positive review, writing, "Pyaar Impossible shouldn’t work, but does. It’s sweet, and as formula goes, deftly done and satisfying. (It’s also an extended ad for Apple products.)."[4]
Conversely, Frank Lovece of Associated Press wrote, "Despite a few cute moments, the beauty-and-the-geek tale "Pyaar Impossible!" is a vanity project that shows that while love may or may not be impossible, nepotism is eternal."[5] Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express gave the film 1 out of 5, writing, "How do you watch a film you know will pan out exactly as you think it will from its first frame? By sitting stoically through Pyar Impossible."[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Pyaar Impossible! – Movie". Box Office India. Archived from the original on 18 June 2022. Retrieved 18 June 2022.
- ^ "Priyanka signs her first Yash Raj movie". Hindustan Times. 16 June 2009. Archived from the original on 2 November 2023. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
- ^ "Pyaar Impossible! – Movie – Box Office India". Box Office India. Archived from the original on 18 June 2022. Retrieved 18 June 2022.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 29 July 2017. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
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