| Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge | |
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Promotional poster |
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| Directed by | Nupur Ashtana |
| Produced by | Ashish Patil |
| Screenplay by | Rajesh Narasimhan and Anvita Dutt Guptan |
| Starring | Saqib Saleem Saba Azad Nishant Dahiya Tara D’Souza |
| Music by | Raghu Dixit |
| Studio | Y-Films |
| Release date(s) | October 14, 2011 |
| Running time | 106 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Box office | 5.12 crore (US$0.97 million) (nett)[1] |
Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge is a 2011 Hindi film directed by Nupur Asthana, starring debutant actors in the lead roles. The film is the second production of Y-Films, a subsidiary of Yash Raj Films. It released on October 14, 2011. It also marked the debut of Indian folk rocker Raghu Dixit in Bollywood. The film is inspired by the popular social networking site Facebook.[2]
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University students Vishal [Saqib Saleem] and Preity [Saba Azad] hate each other. Vishal’s goodlooking friend Rahul [Nishant Dahiya] is a singer and popular among the girls in their college. Vishal writes the lyrics for Rahul’s songs. Preity is the president of the Photography Club and she loves photography. Preity’s goodlooking friend Malvika [Tara D’Souza] is fashion designing student. Malvika’s parents live abroad and she lives with Preity and her mom. Rahul ignores a lot of friend requests from girls [on Facebook] and Malvika ignores a lot of friend requests from guys. Vishal likes Malvika and Preity likes Rahul. Vishal sends friend request to Malvika and Malvika ignores it and leaves the room leaving her Facebook account on. Preity uses her friend Malvika’s account and sends friend request to Rahul. Rahul is not interested. Vishal uses his friend Rahul’s account and accepts friend request from Malvika. Vishal talks to Malvika pretending to be Rahul. But, he is actually talking to Preity because she is pretending to be Malvika and she thinks she is talking to Rahul. Vishal and Preity are busted by their friends and they request their friends Rahul and Malvika to go on a date. Rahul and Malvika starts liking each other after seeing that they have a lot in common. They go on a double date, Malvika with Vishal and preity with Rahul. The college is celebrating its silver jubilee. The theme for the festival is a photographic documentary (idea of Preity) of the romantic history of the college (idea of Vishal). Vishal and Preity have to work together. They have a lot in common and they are both immature and they argue a lot. Slowly, after spending time together they start liking each other. At Rahul's birthday party, Vishal finds Rahul kissing Malvika. Preity is unaware that she chats with Vishal, and not Rahul. However she learns the truth later. Vishal fights with Rahul for cheating him when Preity tries to tell him that it’s not Malvika but actually she is the one who has chatted with him all these days. At the College's Silver Jubilee festival, Vishal finally tells Preity that he loves her in front of the audience and they kiss, celebrating the new generation of romance.
On April 1, 2011 the film was unveiled publicly as the second production venture of Y-Films and the cast of the film met the press along with the actors from Y-Films' other venture, Luv Ka The End.[3]
The film received a good response from most of the critics. Leading Bollywood portal Movie Talkies quoted "Y-Films' latest outing is a must watch. And with characters like Vishal, Saba and Hacky, who stay with you long after you've left the theatre hall, this is one 'fraaandship' request everyone should accept instantly!" and rated Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge with 3.5 stars.[4] Popular Bollywood portal Glamsham gave the movie 3.5 stars.[5] Fullhyd.com rated it 6 out of 10, stating that the film is likely to hit it off with you if you're approximately 18 years old. [6]
Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge was decent at the box office, and scored high over the other releases like Aazaan and My Friend Pinto. The film collected about 50 lakh (US$95,000) on the first day of its release adding it to first weekend collection of about 2.25 crore (US$427,500) in the opening weekend. It was declared an average grosser by Box Office India.[7][8]
Most of the film's music is composed by Raghu Dixit. Taran Adarsh of Bolywood Hungama gave the soundtrack three stars out of five and praised it for the variety Dixit brought in the five songs he composed. He also said the album has the kind of songs that should not be dependent upon the theatrical run of the movie and is expected to find listeners even after the movie releases.[9]
| Track listing | |||||||||
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| No. | Title | Singer(s) | Length | ||||||
| 1. | "Dheaon Dheaon" | Vishal Dadlani, Aditi Singh Sharma, Machas With Attitude (Rap) | |||||||
| 2. | "Uh-Oh Uh-Oh!" | Ash King, Shilpa Rao | |||||||
| 3. | "Baatein Shuru" | Joi Barua, Shefali Alvaris | |||||||
| 4. | "Chu Le" | Suraj Jagan | |||||||
| 5. | "Har Saans Main" | Raghu Dixit | |||||||
| 6. | "Dheaon Dheaon (The Seeti Seeti Bang Bang Mix)" | Vishal Dadlani, Aditi Singh Sharma | |||||||
| 7. | "Uh-Oh Uh-Oh! 2.0" | Ash King, Shilpa Rao | |||||||
| 8. | "Chu Le (The Big Bang Mix)" | Suraj Jagan | |||||||