Bunty Aur Babli

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Bunty Aur Babli
Directed by Shaad Ali
Produced by Aditya Chopra

Yash Chopra
Written by Aditya Chopra

Jaideep Sahni
Starring Abhishek Bachchan

Rani Mukerji Amitabh Bachchan
Music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
Cinematography Aveek Mukhopadhyay
Editing by Ritesh Soni
Distributed by Yash Raj Films
Release date(s) 27 May 2005
Running time 169 mins
Country India
Language Hindi
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Bunty Aur Babli (Hindi: बंटी और बब्ली, Urdu: بنٹی اور ببلی, translation: Bunty and Babli), released in 2005, is an Indian Bollywood film directed by Shaad Ali and starring Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and Rani Mukerji. It was the first film to feature both Amitabh Bachchan and his son Abhishek Bachchan, and featured guest appearances by Aishwarya Rai and Tania Zaetta. It was one of the biggest hits of the year.[1]

The plot, although it draws on the idea of two rather lovable crooks, much on the same lines as the 1967 Hollywood film Bonnie and Clyde, which starred Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, does not contain much violence. In fact each of the adventures of Bunty and Babli are thoroughly Indianised, like the fake selling of the Taj Mahal.

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[edit] Synopsis

Vimmi Saluja (Rani Mukerji) and Rakesh Trivedi (Abhishek Bachchan) are two people from small towns where their dreams are written off as outrageous daydreaming. Vimmi wants to be a famous model and actress, whereas Rakesh keeps dreaming of the day when one of his business plans will make him an overnight millionaire.

Reality hits them both and they realise their dreams are about to be crushed, when Vimmi's marriage gets arranged to a local village guy and Rakesh's father (Raj Babbar) continues to force him into a 9-5 job.

They run away from their respective homes then bump into each other at a train station. Initially they both try to achieve their dreams but end up conning a businessman who cheats Rakesh in order to get some money. They decide to be scam artists in order to raise money to make it in Bombay.

Unfortunately for India, they find the lifestyle too exciting to give up. Adopting the fake names of 'Bunty' and 'Babli', they successfully pull off scam after scam, looting and conning rich people dressed as local guides, religious priests, health inspectors etc. Their flamboyant antics make them famous in newspapers nationwide. Soon their friendship leads to romance and they decide to continue scamming the rich as husband and wife.

Little do they know that ACP Dashrath Singh {Amitabh Bachchan} is catching up with their scams and pranks, getting closer each time. He relentlessly pursues them across India in the hopes of putting them behind bars. To complicate matters, Rakesh and Vimmi have a child, and after a very close call eluding Dashrath they decide to quit conning for their child's sake. Ironically, this decision leads to their capture by Dashrath. While in custody, their heartfelt confessions and conversation soften the detective's heart and he lets them go, certain he has destroyed Bunty and Babli's career as criminals.

Years later, Dashrath rescues them from their mundane and domestic lives to work for the nation thwarting the activities of other scammers.

[edit] Music

The music of Bunty Aur Babli was written by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy and lyrics were provided by Gulzar. There are total number of six songs in the film.

  1. "Dhadak Dhadak" - Udit Narayan, Sunidhi Chauhan, Nihira Joshi
  2. "Chup Chup Ke" - Sonu Nigam, Mahalaxmi Iyer
  3. "Nach Baliye" - Shankar Mahadevan, Somya Raoh, Loy Mendonsa
  4. "Bunty Aur Babli" - Sukhwinder Singh, Jaspinder Narula, Shankar Mahadevan, Siddharth Mahadevan
  5. "BnB" - Blaaze, Shankar Mahadevan, Loy Mendonsa
  6. "Kajra Re" - Alisha Chinai, Shankar Mahadevan, Javed Ali

[edit] Awards

The film received seven nominations at the Filmfare Awards, winning three altogether. It won the awards in the female playback, music director and lyricist categories.

[edit] References

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