One by Two (2014 film)

One By Two
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Devika Bhagat
Produced by	Amit Kapoor Abhay Deol Sanjay Kapoor Vikram Khakhar Viacom 18 Motion Pictures
Screenplay by	Devika Bhagat
Story by	Devika Bhagat
Starring	Abhay Deol Preeti Desai
Music by	Shankar Ehsaan Loy
Edited by	Shan Mohammed
Distributed by	Cynozure Networkz
Release dates	31 January 2014 (2014-01-31)
Country	India
Language	Hindi Urdu

One By Two is a 2014 Hindi romantic comedy directed by Devika Bhagat.^[1] It released on 31 January 2014 at multiplexes, showing on approximately 500 screens in India.^[2][3][4] The film features real life couple Abhay Deol and Preeti Desai.^[5][6] This is the story of Amit and Samara who meet each other while living in Mumbai^[7] The music of the film has been composed by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy. The film was heavily panned by critics.^[8]

Cast

• Abhay Deol as Amit Sharma
• Preeti Desai as Samara Patel
• Rati Agnihotri as Amit's mother
• Jayant Kripalani as Amit's father
• Lillete Dubey as Samara's mother
• Anish Trivedi as Samara's father
• Darshan Jariwala as Amit's uncle
• Netarpal Singh Heera as Bunty
• Yudishtir Urs as Jonathan
• Preetika Chawla as Anika
• Tahir Raj Bhasin as Mihir
• Maya Sarao as Shaila
• Yashika Dhillon as Shishika
• Dr. Rajesh Asthana as Mr. Reddy
• Diwakar Pundir as Ranjan Sadanah
• Shrishti Arya as Promila
• Tanvir Singh as Host of dance show
• B.K. Tiwari as ACP Salgaonkar
• Neelam Sharma as Inspector Chowgule
• Hemant Soni as Halwaldar More
• Amit Shukla as Inspector Shetty^[9]

Critical Reception

The film was heavily panned by critics.^[8] However, film critic Subhash K Jha writes that One by Two is "irresistible in parts" and "never disappoints." He says there is a "winsome, bubbly bouncy and ebullient quality to this take on urban aspirations."^[10]

Soundtrack

All lyrics written by Amitabh Bhattacharya. 

Controversy

Abhay Deol had a falling out with music company T-Series after the composers from his film Shankar Ehsaan Loy were asked to sign, what they believed to be illegal clauses which would hand over their [the author's] rights to royalty over to the music company.^[11] Abhay Deol took to social media and blamed T-Series for delaying the music launch of his film as well as not promoting the movie due to him and the composers not agreeing to sign the documents. This allegation was denied by T-Series who claimed that they had uploaded 3 songs from the movie on its YouTube page and claimed "In the absence thereof [of appropriate agreements], we cannot be expected to release music when there is no clarity with respect to the rights granted to the producer" ^[12] In another statement, T-Series expressed the fact that they had been assured by the company Viacom 18 that they owned all the rights (including the music rights) and that they did not understand why they were being dragged into this dispute which should be between Mr. Deol and Viacom 18. ^[13] T-Series eventually relinquished their hold on the music rights after a campaign was run by the composers and artists against the music company. ^[11] Eventually the music for the film was launched after music companies Crecendo and Unisys who took over, with the former releasing the physical copies and the latter releasing the digital copies of the music online. ^[14] The music was released 5 days before the films theatrical release.

Boxoffice

One By Two collected Rs 2.25-2.50 crore nett in its first week, mostly from multiplexes in Mumbai and Delhi. Box Office India called the business "very poor".^[15]

References

External links

• One by Two at the Internet Movie Database