| Salaam-E-Ishq | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Nikhil Advani |
| Produced by | Mukesh Talreja Sunil Manchanda Nikhil Advani |
| Screenplay by | Nikhil Advani Saurabh Shukla Suresh Nair |
| Story by | Nikhil Advani |
| Starring | Salman Khan Anil Kapoor Govinda Akshaye Khanna John Abraham Sohail Khan Priyanka Chopra Juhi Chawla Shannon Esra Ayesha Takia Vidya Balan Ishaa Koppikar |
| Music by | Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy |
| Cinematography | Piyush Shah |
| Editing by | Arti Bajaj |
| Distributed by | Orion Pictures MAD Entertainment Ltd |
| Release date(s) | January 26, 2007 |
| Running time | 216 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | 35 crore (US$6.65 million) |
| Box office | 44,98,00,000 |
Salaam-e-Ishq: A Tribute To Love (Hindi: सलाम-ए-इश्क़, Urdu: سلام عشق, English: A Salute To Love) is a 2007 Bollywood film, directed by Nikhil Advani and featuring a huge cast of stars including Salman Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Anil Kapoor, Juhi Chawla, Akshaye Khanna, Ayesha Takia, John Abraham, Vidya Balan, Govinda, Shannon Esra, Sohail Khan and Isha Koppikar in lead roles. The movie weaves a number of love stories together thanks to the relationships of the people within it. The film was Advani's second directorial venture after Kal Ho Naa Ho. The shooting for the film begun in November 2005 and was finished by July 2006. The movie released on 25 January 2007.
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Story 1: Kamini and Rahul Born in Dehra Dun, temperamental and ambitious Kamna changes her name to Kamini (Priyanka Chopra), hires Babu (Tinnu Anand) as her manager and becomes one of the most sought-after heroines in Bollywood. As a publicity stunt to change her image from item queen and also to get the attention of filmmaker Karan Johar she says she is in love with a man named Rahul. In London a man saying he is Rahul (Salman Khan) poses as her childhood sweetheart and future husband and Kamini has to play along otherwise she will not get the film deal she was looking for with Karan Johar. This results in a dilemma for her as Rahul reveals he loved her back when she was Kamna and she has to choose between her career and Rahul.
Story 2: Gia and Shiven Gia Bakshi (Ayesha Takia) lives with her dad, Col. Bakshi (Prem Chopra) and is in love with Shiven Dungarpur (Akshaye Khanna), both are to get married shortly, but Shiven starts to get cold feet thanks to a few misleading words about marriage from his friend Juggy (Vishal Malhotra). He decides to disappear from her life, leaving Col. Bakshi no alternative but to arrange Gia's marriage with Rohit Chhada (Kushal Punjabi).
Story 3: Seema, Vinay, and Anjali Gia's sister, Seema (Juhi Chawla), who lives in Britain, has been married to Vinay Malhotra (Anil Kapoor) for 15 years, and they have two children. Vinay sees his life as boring and dull, until a woman named Anjali (Anjana Sukhani) comes into his life. The two start to meet and an affair starts, but while preparing to travel to India for Gia's marriage, Seema finds out that about Vinay's affair - leaving her heartbroken.
Story 4: Ashutosh and Tehzeeb Ashutosh Raina (John Abraham) is a Hindu, but falls in love and gets married to Tehzeeb Hussain (Vidya Balan), who is Muslim, much to the chagrin of his father (Anang Desai) who will not have anything to do with him. Tehzeeb is a TV news reporter, and while traveling on an inaugural train route, the train derails, Tehzeeb survives but loses her memory, and is unable to recall who Ashutosh is - and may end up leaving him and returning to her parents' home.
Story 5: Raju and Stephanie Raju (Govinda) is a taxi driver who comes to the assistance of a Caucasian woman, Stephanie (Shannon Esrechowitz), who is frantically trying to hunt down her lover, Rohit Chhada (Kushal Punjabi). While Raju drives her around all of Northern India finding Rohit he falls in love with her and finally drops her of to the venue where Rohit is getting ready to marry to Gia.
Story 6: Ramdayal and Phoolwati Ramdayal (Sohail Khan) weds attractive Phoolwati (Isha Koppikkar) and would like to spend some intimate moments with her, but comical circumstances prevent him from doing so.
The music for the film was released on 2 December 2006 and has seven songs composed by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy with lyrics by Sameer.
The music was generally approved of by Rediff.com as "awesome".[1]
The film, however, garnered a tepid response from the critics. Film critic Taran Adarsh called "a disjointed script, abstract style of narrating the story and excessive length" as the film's main deficiencies.[2] Rediff.com's Sukanya Verma called it "an ode to mediocrity, not love or cinema".[3] However, Poonam Joshi of Channel 4 praised the film for its "clever storytelling, parody and brazen wit".[4] The film received a 1.5-star rating from IndiaFM[2] and a 4-star rating from Channel 4.[4] The film was declared a flop in India although it was a hit overseas.
Though the film suffered from poor reviews, it performed well at the box office, earning approximately US $1,000,009 in the United States alone, grossing £349,000 in the U.K. and approximately 850,000 Australian dollars in Australia.
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