Life Partner

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Life Partner

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Rumi Jaffery
Produced by Abbas-Mustan
Hussain Burmawala
Screenplay by Yunus Sejawal
Story by Rumi Jaffery
Starring Govinda
Fardeen Khan
Tusshar Kapoor
Genelia D'Souza
Prachi Desai
Music by Pritam Chakraborty
Sachin - Jigar
Cinematography Sameer Arya
Editing by Hussain Burmawala
Sanjay Sankla
Distributed by Burmawala Partners
Viacom 18 Motion Pictures
Release dates
  • 14 August 2009 (2009-08-14)
Country India
Language Hindi
Budget INR140 million (US$2.2 million)
Box office INR270 million (US$4.3 million)

Life Partner is a 2009 Bollywood romantic comedy film. It stars Govinda, Fardeen Khan, Tusshar Kapoor, Genelia D'Souza and Prachi Desai in lead roles. The film is written and directed by Rumi Jaffery and produced by Abbas-Mustan under their banner, Burmawalla Bros. It released on 14 August 2009, and received positive reviews upon release, though it was an average grosser at the Indian Box Office

Plot

Karan (Fardeen Khan) and Bhavesh (Tusshar Kapoor) are close friends living in Cape Town, South Africa. Karan is in a comfortable relationship with his beautiful yet childish and pampered girlfriend Sanjana (Genelia D'Souza), who changes her profession every six months, e.g. singing to painting, almost always very disastrously (this is something Karan always puts up with, as much as he hates it). Her father (Anupam Kher) always tries to keep her happy and supports her in whatever she does. Bhavesh wishes for an arranged marriage and keeps a diary of all the beautiful things he will do to his wife after marriage. His father Darshan Manibhai Patel (Darshan Jariwala) is a strict autocrat, patriarch and a tough follower of the Hindustani, especially Gujarati, principles in a foreign land. Jeet (Govinda) does not believe in marriage or love. He flirts with every woman he meets and encourages married women into divorcing their spouses so that his living as a divorce lawyer is uncompromised.

Bhavesh's father treats him as young and incapable of marriage, but on his wife's (Shoma Anand) insistence, he travels with his family, along with Karan and Sanjana to Gujarat to find Bhavesh a bride. In Gujarat, they stay at the palatial home of a friend of Bhavesh's father, Vijay Singh Jadeja (Vikram Gokhale). Bhavesh meets some girls, all of whom are unsuitable, and then ends up falling for Prachi (Prachi Desai), Vijay Singh's daughter, when she views Bhavesh's ideals such as not drinking, virginity - as good. He confesses his love for her and they get married. During the wedding rituals, Sanjana says "Yes" to Karan's long-asked question (will she marry him?) and they get married the same night.

The movie then switches to the present, where both couples are at court. The judge declares the divorce between Karan and Sanjana and between Bhavesh and Prachi valid. Outside the court, while they wait for the final papers to arrive, the story again goes back to 6 months earlier, showing what led to the divorces after the weddings, when they came back to Cape Town from India.

After marriage, Karan and Sanjana's family life deteriorates badly, with Karan wanting domestic stability and Sanjana being a horrible home maker. This is shown when she burns his apartment down while "trying" to switch off a washing machine. Bhavesh is happy with Prachi but Prachi is stifled at the old fashioned ideals and many rules of Bhavesh's father, who dislikes and sneers at her for doing so. She, without her father-in-law's knowledge, applies for a job - the very idea of which angers him. Bhavesh, taking sides with his father, slaps her at the same time Prachi's father arrives. While the latter tries to diffuse the tension, Bhavesh, bound by his father's old fashioned ideas, is unable to stand by his wife. These situations conclude in very unpleasant divorces, with Prachi divorcing Bhavesh on the spot and Sanjana sending a notice of divorce to Karan after she leaves following an argument after the fire that burned down his apartment.

Meanwhile, Jeet changes his lifestyle when he meets Anjali (Amrita Rao in a special appearance), who turns out to be different from all the other girls he has ever met. He decides to get married to her, much to Karan and Bahavesh's chagrin. They shout themselves hoarse at him when he tries to justify his getting married. However, Jeet states that the fact remained that his hatred for love and marriage had caused them to separate from their wives. Karan and Bhavesh finally accept his explanation when he admits that he was wrong in taking a negative view of love and marriage and also says that wives or "life partners" always stood by their husbands in times of joy and sorrow, thus it is never worth it to break up such a relationship for any reason whatsoever.

At Jeet's wedding ceremony, Sanjana enters the party, wearing a "bomb", shouting that Jeet was happily getting married when he had caused her divorce. With five minutes left for the bomb to explode, Karan and Sanjana have an argument as to why their divorce took place and whose fault it was in the argument that had culminated after the fire. Sanjana's father intervenes by saying that he had been against the relationship from the start and he had sent the divorce papers not only from Sanjana to Karan but also from the latter to the former. With only seconds left, Bhavesh's father also apologises to his friend, Prachi and all the family members present for imposing his traditional and old fashioned values on them, admitting that this had been the root cause of Bhavesh and Prachi's divorce. However, the "bomb" turns out to be fake. When this is revealed to be a plan concocted by Jeet and Sanjana to bring everyone forward and admit their mistakes, Bhavesh reconciles with Prachi and Karan not only reconciles with Sanjana but also with her father who finally accepts him as his son-in-law.

At the end, Bhavesh's father parts with his strict ideals, and a changed Jeet becomes marriage counsellor, now reuniting his former clients, while Karan teaches Sanjana to cook.

Cast

Reception

Life Partner netted INR17.5 million (US$280,000) overseas in its opening week[1] while it netted INR180 million (US$2.9 million) domestically by the third week.[2] It was elevated to average verdict by Box office India.

In the United States the film grossed $110,240 while it obtained $347,100 from New Zealand, Fiji, the United Kingdom & Malta.[3]

Music

Both Sachin - Jigar and Pritam have composed the music for this film. Lyrics have been written by Javed Akhtar. Film has 7 songs featuring two remixes.

The song Gunji Aangna Mein Shehnai is composed by Sachin - Jigar.[4]

Track Song Artist(s) Duration
01 Kuke Kuke Shaan, Debojeet Dutta, and Antara Mitra 04:22
02 Teri Meri Yeh Zindagi Soham Chakraborty and Shreya Ghoshal 04:32
03 Aage Aage Mika Singh, Shakti Singh, Ajay Jhingaran, Soham Chakraborty, and Antara Mitra 03:59
04 Gunji Aangna Mein Shehnai Sunidhi Chauhan and Keerthi Sagathia 05:11
05 Poorza Poorza Sunidhi Chauhan and Kunal Ganjawala 04:41
06 Kuke Kuke (Remix) Shaan, Debojeet Dutta, and Antara Mitra 05:01
07 Poorza Poorza (Remix) Sunidhi Chauhan and Kunal Ganjawala 04:26

References

  1. ↑ "Kaminey Good Life Partner Poor In International Markets". Box Office India. 18 August 2009. Retrieved 22 August 2009. 
  2. ↑ "Life Partner Steady In Week Three". Box Office India. 4 September 2009. Retrieved 8 September 2009. 
  3. ↑ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=lifepartner.htm
  4. ↑ http://www.thefilmstreetjournal.com/2009/08/review-of-life-partner/

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