Mubarakan

Mubarakan
Hindi	मुबारकां
Directed by	Anees Bazmee
Produced by	Sony Pictures Networks Productions Murad Khetani Ashwin Varde
Written by	Rajesh Chawla
Screenplay by	Balwinder Singh Janjua Gurmmeet Singh
Story by	Balwinder Singh Janjua Rupinder Chahal
Starring	Anil Kapoor Arjun Kapoor Ileana D'Cruz Athiya Shetty Neha Sharma
Music by	Songs: Amaal Mallik Gourov-Roshin Rishi Rich Background Score: Amar Mohile
Cinematography	Himman Dhamija
Edited by	Rameshwar S. Bhagat
Production company	Cine1 Studios Mark Production
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Networks Productions
Release date	28th July 2017
Running time	156 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹ 50 crores [1]
Box office	₹ 80.63 crores [2]

Mubarakan is a 2017 Indian romantic comedy film directed by Anees Bazmee. It is produced by Sony Pictures Networks Productions, Murad Khetani and Ashwin Varde.^[3][4]

Anil Kapoor, Arjun Kapoor, Ileana D'Cruz and Athiya Shetty will be playing the lead roles in the film. It is a story about twin brothers.^[5] The film was released worldwide on 28 July 2017 in 2350 screens in India and 475 screens overseas.^[6][7]

Plot

The story starts with a couple travelling with their twins in a car who are exhausted and drowsing. Unfortunately, their car crashes and they die but the twins got saved. As the twins' paternal uncle Kartar Singh (Anil Kapoor) is single yet and doesn't want to get married at all, he decides to give one son to his elder sister Jeeto (Ratna Pathak) based in London and the other to his brother Baldev Singh (Pavan Malhotra) who is settled in Punjab whilst he himself enjoys his single, lonely life in London.

Years pass and both twins grow up as Karan (Arjun Kapoor), living with his aunt in London and Charan (Arjun Kapoor) who lives with his uncle in Punjab. Karan is a free man with no responsibilities whilst Charan is a simple, sweet man who is having a car showroom in Punjab. Karan has a girlfriend, Sweety (Ileana D'Cruz) from past 2 years. Unfortunately one day, they both are in the same mall talking on call as Sweety laughs and at the same time Sweety passes from the escalator where Karan's aunt, Jeeto falls, misunderstanding that she was laughing on her. They have a big quarrel with each other including Jeeto accuses her a 'bad character girl' and dislikes her from now.

Meanwhile in Punjab, Charan has also a girlfriend, Nafisa (Neha Sharma) who is a Muslim and studying law. So, trouble starts as Baldev decides to marry Charan with a respectful girl. Jeeto suggests her husband's friend Akalpreet Sandhu (Rahul Dev) who is also willing to marry their daughter Binkle (Athiya Shetty) with a good man.. Jeeto decides to send Karan to Punjab so that he can manage Baldev's restaurant in his absence. So, Baldev takes Charan to London where Kartar welcomes them. Kartar first takes them to his 'Mini Punjab' residence and then to Jeeto's. While in Punjab, Sweety comes with Karan too as her father also lives there. In London, Charan consults with his uncle Kartar that he doesn't want to marry Binkle as he is in love with Nafisa. Stupid Kartar decides to help him with his creative ideas. He suggests him to act as a drug addict in front of Sandhus so that they will refuse themselves. Next day, Charan does the same but as he sees Binkle, he falls in love with her. Binkle takes Charan on a house visit while Kartar drops silly habits of Charan's drug addiction in Manpreet (Karan Kundra), Binkle's brother.

Charan tries to tell Kartar about his sudden feelings but just falls off the window due to signal problems. Due to this incident, Manpreet exposes and confirms Charan's drug addiction on which Baldev opposes and misbehaves. Jeeto and her husband instead of defending Baldev, they persuade him to apologize Mr. Sandhu for his misbehavior but Baldev refuses to do so as he thinks it is against his ego. They return back home and blames Baldev for their disrespect in front of the rich Mr. Sandhu and also offends him of his poor past. Baldev tolerates at his limit and decides to return to Punjab. He challenges Jeeto that he will marry his Charan at exact 25th of December with a girl much more better than Binkle. They end their relationship. Meanwhile, Charan asks Karan to bring Nafisa at the airport so that he could talk about his feelings for her with his adoptive father. When they land in Punjab, Karan does what Charan asked and confronts them with Nafisa, but coward Charan doesn't dare to speak and Baldev misunderstands that Nafisa is Karan's girlfriend. This creats problems for Karan. Baldev overhears Sweety's father pleading for her daughter's marriage soon in gurudwara. So, Baldev takes Charan's purposal for Sweety who misunderstands her bond getting tied with Karan but later realizes it's tied with Charan. She gets upset and persuades Karan to do something about this. While back at London, Jeeto takes proposal of her own Karan to Sandhu on which he agrees. They fix their marriage on 25th December too.

Kartar is splitted into Jeeto and Baldev's marriage events at the same date. To solve his problem, he suggests Baldev to have a destination marriage in London, where he was insulted. Baldev agrees and everyone flies to London. Kartar accommodates Sweety and her father in a five-star hotel, and Charan and Baldev in front of Jeeto's residence, yet he wants to be alone. Wedding preparations continue with Sweety, Karan and Charan's plans to get rid of their problems. Charan decides to tell Binkle that Charan is marrying her without his consent. So, both families along with their in-laws gather in a mall for shopping. Charan takes advantage of this and reveals Karan and Sweety's realtionship on which she is heartbroken, saying that maybe she has lack of anything as she is refused by every man. She also includes that she can't refuse herself and thought Charan would be revealing his feelings for her. Charan feels sorry for her and falls for her more because of her innocence towards him. Charan refuses to fight for his rights on which Karan invites Nafisa to London, increasing Charan's problems. Karan, Charan, Sweety and Nafisa decides to run with their love. But their plan fails when in the next morning Manpreet falls for Nafisa and Sandhu insists her to live at his residence. For this, Nafisa and Manpreet falls for each other. Nafisa starts ignoring Charan. Charan wants to reveal his feelings for Binkle but at the moment, Nafisa appears and confess her love for Manpreet and leaves. So now, Charan is fully for Binkle. Charan and Karan's marriages are planned at the same gurudwara as the date. Beforehand, Charan and Sweety's engagement is held which Jeeto attends alone from her side. Later, Karan and Binkle's engagement is held which Baldev's family attends alone.

Before Binkle's engagement, Charan confess all the mishaps and misunderstandings happened and he is not drug addict too. He also reveals his feelings to her at last. Kartar dreams of his brother, the twins' father realizing him that he left his children to him and he is ruining their life. After Binkle's engagement, Karan, Sweety, Charan, Binkle, Manpreet, Nafisa and Kartar gather at a place where Kartar declines them to help them and they would have to marry the ones chosen by their parents instead of eloping. So, 25th December arrives when Karan and Charan exchange their sherwanis, disguising each other. At the gurudwara, Sweety reveals her love for Karan kn front of everyone on which everyone including Charan and Karan shocks because of their exchanged identities. Not to cause more trouble and confusion , they both take Kartar in confidential meeting revealing their exchanged identities where Kartar orders them to wear their original identities and never ever discuss this mishap with their wives. So, their families no more oppose their choices and Karan weds Sweety while Charan weds Binkle and they live happily ever after...

Cast

• Anil Kapoor as Kartar Singh Bajwa
• Arjun Kapoor as Karan/Charan Singh Bajwa
• Ileana D'Cruz as Supreet 'Sweety' Gill, Karan's girlfriend and Charan's fiancee
• Athiya Shetty as Binkle Sandhu, Charan's love interest and Karan's fiancee
• Neha Sharma as Nafisa Qureshi, Charan's girlfriend
• Rahul Dev as Akalpreet Sandhu, Binkle's father
• Karan Kundra as Manpreet Sandhu, Binkle's brother
• Ratna Pathak as Jeeto, Karan's adoptive mother and Bua
• Alexx O'Nell as Jolly
• Pavan Malhotra as Baldev Singh Bajwa, Charan's adoptive father and chacha
• Krishan Tandon as Babaji.
• Sanjay Kapoor as Kartar's Brother

Soundtrack

The music rights rights of the film has been acquired T-Series. The music of the fim has been composed by Amaal Mallik, Gourov Roshin, Rishi Rich and while the lyrics have been penned by Kumaar. Its first song "Mubarakan Title Track" was released on 22 June 2017. The second single titled as "Hawa Hawa" which is sung by Mika Singh and Prakriti Kakar was released on 29 June 2017. The whole soundtrack of the film was unveiled on 6 July 2017 by T-Series which consists 6 songs.

Critical reception

Reviews for the film have been average so far. Rohit Vats of Hindustan Times rated it 2.5/5 and felt that the lead actor, Arjun Kapoor, was overshadowed by Anil Kapoor: "It’s just that Anil Kapoor is a pro at it and steals all the limelight from him (Arjun).....You’ll be occasionally laughing, but probably won’t be leaving the theatre with a big smile on your face.^[8]

Meena Lyer of Times of India rated the film 3/5 and concluded: "Anil is the scene-stealer with his half Brit-half Punjabi act lifting the film throughout. Arjun’s double-act allows for some smiles and the girls, Ileana, Athiya and Neha are easy on the eye, though they’re just decorative set-pieces."^[9]

Manju Ramanan of Masala! gave the film 2.5/5 saying, "Loud characters, bright sets, songs and dances and slapstick humour dominate this Anees Bazmee film. But the instances do make you smile.^[10]

Ahana Bhattacharya of Koimoi gave the film 2.5/5 saying, "The story is funny and the film has some really hilarious dialogues. However, sardar jokes are a bit clichéd and Bollywood needs to get over it. I loved the way the film builds up the confusion but it tends to drag towards the climax. Their are moments when you will feel it is patriarchal, racist and regressive. Also, the climax is a bit predictable.^[11]

References

External links

• Mubarakan on IMDb
• Mubarakan at Bollywood Hungama