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Shaadi Mein Zaroor Aana
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Wikipedia article
'Shaadi Mein Zaroor Aana' is a 2017 Indian Hindi-language romance-drama comedy film directed by Ratnaa Sinha. The film features Rajkummar Rao and Kriti Kharbanda in lead roles, while K. K. Raina, Alka Amin, Vipin Sharma, Govind Namdev, Navni Parihar, Nayani Dixit, Manoj Pahwa featured in supporting roles. The story revolves around two individuals viz. Satyendra Mishra IAS and Aarti Shukla and relates their journey from how they are brought together by a marriage proposal and fall in love with each other but on the night of their marriage, destiny, and individual decisions, takes the two of them in two different directions.
Made on a budget of , the film earned in its first week eventually collecting a lifetime worldwide gross of . It had a worldwide release on 10 November 2017 with a mixed response from the critics. Its music was composed by Anand Raj Anand, JAM8, and Arko with lyrics written by Kumaar.
Plot
Hailing from a conservative family, Aarti Shukla, an intelligent and educated girl from Kanpur, meets Satyendra "Sattu" Mishra, an inspector in the Excise Department, on her parents' persistence who are trying to fix an arranged marriage for her. Aarti finds Sattu's off-traditional views charming and places only one issue in front of him, that after marriage, her in-laws will allow her to have a job. Sattu is mesmerized by Aarti's beauty, and agrees to this. Sattu and Aarti decide to move forward and they fall in love.
On the day of the wedding, before the ceremony is held, Aarti learns that she has cleared the Provincial Civil Service exam. Her sister Aabha warns her that if she marries, her in-laws won't let her pursue the career dreams because first her mother-in-law believes that daughters-in-law are not meant to have careers and opposes her having a post higher than Sattu's. On Aabha's and her maternal uncle Jogi Sinha's instigation, Aarti decides to run away from her house without informing Sattu or his family. Jogi tells the groom's family that Arti ran away after learning that they have taken dowry from her father. This leaves Sattu and his family shocked. This is a thorough and public humiliation for them, in front of their social circle. Sattu is left heartbroken. And Jogi Sinha picks a loud and even physical quarrel with Sattu's family to return the dowry money immediately. But much of it had already been spent on wedding preparations. To repay it, the family is restricted to an austere life, and his mother sells all her jewellery. Meanwhile, Arti tries to contact Sattu but the latter does not respond and blocks her number.
Five years later, Aarti, now a PCS Officer, is successfully moving up the career ladder. She even helps her best friend Neelam Gupta get a job in the same office. Arti was expecting her promotion but is accused of taking a bribe and selling a Government property and she is suspended until her case is resolved. During the investigation, Aarti discovers to her horror that the officer in charge of her case is Satyendra, who has now become an IAS officer and is now the District Collector. Satyendra had used his humiliation as a motivation to reach a higher cadre than Aarti. He worked diligently, and cleared the UPSC CSE to become an officer of the Indian Administrative Service, the all India state cadre which outranks Aarti's state cadre. Satyendra is filled with anger, hatred and revenge towards his old enemies, Aarti and her entire family members.
Aarti finds that Satyendra has no sympathy for her at all. Throughout the investigation, the evidence that Satyendra uncovers tends towards Aarti taking a bribe. He makes matters worse for Aarti by hinting that opportunism and money-mindedness are old traits of her character. She then confronts him privately. Satyendra gives her an option to pay him a large bribe. Aarti tells him, quite truthfully, that she does not have the money for it. Aarti's father and uncle go to Satyendra's residence and plead with him for mercy and to forgive them for humiliating Satyendra and his family, but Satyendra does not listen to them and turns a deaf ear to their pleas. Aarti goes to Kukreja, who is Neelam Gupta's husband and a rich builder by profession. She asks him to give her money so that she could pay Sattu, and she says that Kukreja owes this to her morally, because after all, she had moved heaven and earth to get Neelam a job which she did not deserve. Kukreja refuses outright to pay her anything, and advises her not to pay any bribe, saying that nothing will happen to her anyway. Their conversation was being secretly recorded, and as Satyendra watches it, he orders that Aarti be arrested for trying to manipulate the investigation.
During the trial, Satyendra replays the video that was recorded of Aarti and Kukreja. The video is actually longer than expected, and it continues to play after Aarti leaves Kukreja's house. It is revealed that after her departure, the husband-wife duo of Kukreja and Neelam plot together to get Aarti murdered because of the danger and drama that Satyendra and Aarti were causing for them. It is revealed by Satyendra's explanation of the video that Kukreja, Neelam, and a broker named Rakesh were cronies and that they have been selling unused government land to businesses under Aarti's name. They were able to do this because of Neelam misusing Aarti's trust and getting papers signed in her ignorance. As the trial ends, Aarti is found to be innocent and Kukreja, Neelam, and Rakesh are arrested. Aarti is shocked to realize that Sattu had actually saved her life by sending her to prison, and also saved her from jail time by revealing the truth.
Aarti develops respect for Sattu. She tries her best to make amends to marry him, but he refuses to marry her. Aarti finally tells him that she will marry a prospective new groom, Sharad Shukla. Sattu and his family are also invited to the wedding. On the day of the wedding, Sattu realizes his love for Aarti and gate-crashes into her wedding. Angrily, Sattu attacks Sharad and holds him at gunpoint with his official IOF .32 Revolver in order to kill Sharad, ignoring the pleas from Aarti and the other guests at the wedding. It is revealed that Sharad is her brother-in-law and that the wedding was only a drama planned by both the families to make Sattu realize his true feelings. The film ends with Aarti and Sattu's marriage and a romantic song.
Cast
* Rajkummar Rao as Satyendra Mishra IAS, District Collector, a very strict, upright officer
* Kriti Kharbanda as PCS Officer Aarti Shukla (suspended on charges of bribery and corruption)
* Navni Parihar as Manju Shukla (Aarti's mother)
* Govind Namdev as Shyam Sunder "S. S." Shukla (Aarti's father)
* Nayani Dixit as Aabha Shukla (Aarti's sister)
* Manoj Pahwa as Jogi Sinha (Aarti and Aabha's maternal uncle or 'mamaji')
* K. K. Raina as Professor Jugal Kishore "J. K." Mishra (Sattu's father)
* Alka Amin as Shanti Mishra (Sattu's mother)
* Vipin Sharma as Mahesh Kumar (Sattu's maternal uncle or 'mamaji')
* Abhijeet Singh as Ranjan Sinha (Jogi's son and Aarti and Aabha's cousin brother)
* Neha D. Bhriguvanshi as Neelam Gupta Kukreja (Kukreja's wife and Aarti's colleague)
* Ashish Kapoor as Builder Kukreja (Neelam's husband)
* Mahesh Chandra Deva as Rajesh Yadav Landbroker
* Rakesh Dubey as Sattu's PSO
* Sanath Gaur as Mahesh's uncle
* Karanvir Sharma as Sharad Shukla (Aabha's husband and Aarti's brother-in-law), he was about to be killed by Satyendra
* Vivek Yadav as Biker Boy
* Ashok Kumar as Sattu's official bungalow servant and best friend
* Ajitesh Gupta as Priyansh Yadav (Sattu's best friends friend )
Production
Development
In February 2017, producer Vinod Bachchan made the official announcement about his film 'Shaadi Mein Zaroor Aana' with Rajkummar Rao and Kriti Kharbanda in lead roles. For the role of Aarti Shukla, the first choice of filmmaker Ratna Sinha was Taapsee Pannu who had reportedly came on board to do the film but later on decided against doing so citing lack of dates. She was replaced by Kriti Kharbanda.
Filming
The principal photography of 'Shaadi Mein Zaroor Aana' began in March 2017 in Allahabad. The scenes that were included in the movie was that of Hanuman Mandir in Civil Lines, Allahabad, the Lord Curzon Bridge near Naini and beautiful sights of the Triveni Sangam side. Following which there was a 30-day schedule in Lucknow while the final schedule of the film took place in Kanpur. Some famous scenes of Lucknow include the Ambedkar Memorial Park. A set worth 20 million was created in Lucknow by art director Arup Adhikari, set designer Shabiul Haasan and their team to film a wedding sequence that formed the climax of the film.Soundtrack
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The soundtrack album of 'Shaadi Mein Zaroor Aana' comprises eleven songs composed by Arko Pravo Mukherjee, Kaushik-Akash-Guddu (KAG) For JAM8, Zain-Sam-Raees, Anand Raaj Anand and Rashid Khan while the lyrics were written by Kumaar, Shakeel Azmi, Gaurav Krishna Bansal, Arko and Kunal Verma. Vocals on the album's eight tracks were performed by several singers mainly Yasser Desai, Arijit Singh, and Shafqat Amanat Ali. It was produced under the Zee Music label.
The song "Pallo Latke" is a remake of a popular Rajasthani folk song.
Bollywood Hungama gave 3 out of 5 stars and noted in its music review that, "What works for the music of Shaadi Mein Zaroor Aana is the fact that there is a constant 'sur' right through its playing time which doesn't cause a distraction. The sound is uniform and helps the album to play on well through its duration." Vipin Nair of 'The Hindu' in his review said that the soundtrack is "entirely missable" and gave it a rating of 2.5/5.
Reception
Box office
'Shaadi Mein Zaroor Aana' premiered on 10 November 2017 across India.Critical response
Namrata Joshi of The Hindu was impressed with the acting performances of all actors but criticized the implausible revenge story that the film becomes in its second half. Urvi Parikh of Rediff was critical of the weak storyline of the film and its slow pacing. The critic gave the film a rating of 1.5 out of 5. Bollywood Hungama praised the concept of the film but criticized its uninspired execution and gave the film a rating of 2 out of 5. The website appreciated the acting performance of Rajkummar Rao but was critical of the writers for their confused presentation of his character.Kriti Tulsiani of News18 praised the acting performances of all actors but criticized the poorly written script which she felt was not just unreasonable but also out-dated. Kriti gave the film a rating of 2 out of 5. Rachit Gupta of Filmfare applauded the makers for taking up issues that are very relevant to our society but was critical of the way they were handled. Rachit felt that the film suffers a lot from the usage of outdated clichs and too much melodrama and gave it a rating of 2.5 out of 5. Meena Iyer of DNA India praised the acting performance of Rajkummar Rao but felt that the film lacked conviction and could not tap its entire potential. Meena gave the film a rating of 2.5 out of 5.
Awards and nominations
References
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