Patiala House

Patiala House (film)

This article is about the 2011 Bollywood movie. For Delhi court house, see Patiala House Courts Complex.

Patiala House
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Nikhil Advani
Produced by	Bhushan Kumar Mukesh Talreja Krishan Kumar Twinkle Khanna Zoeb Springwala
Screenplay by	Nikhil Advani Anvita Dutt Guptan
Starring	Akshay Kumar Anushka Sharma Rishi Kapoor Dimple Kapadia Armaan Kirmani Hard Kaur
Music by	Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
Cinematography	Santosh Thundiyil
Edited by	Manan Sagar
Distributed by	Hari Om Entertainment T-Series Credence Motion Pictures
Release dates	11 February 2011
Running time	147 minutes[1]
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹26 crore(US$4.1 million)[2]
Box office	₹88 crore(US$14 million)[3]

Patiala House ( Punjabi: ਪਟਿਆਲਾ ਹਾਉਸ Hindi: पटियाला हॉउस) is a 2011 Indiansports drama film directed by Nikhil Advani and starring Akshay Kumar andAnushka Sharma. British Asian actor Armaan Kirmani makes his debut in this film as Akshay's brother. It was produced by Bhushan Kumar, Mukesh Talreja, Krishan Kumar and Twinkle Khanna under the banner of People Tree Films, Credence Motion Pictures and Hari Om Entertainment. The film released on 11 February 2011.^[4] The theatrical trailer of was premièred withFarah Khan's Tees Maar Khan on 24 December 2010. Akshay Kumar plays the role of a fast bowler,^[5] loosely based upon Monty Panesar^[6] and its concept was conceived by Rahul Nanda, son of writer Gulshan Nanda^[7][8]

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Plot[edit]

The movie is about Parghat Singh Kahlon alias Gattu / Kaali (Akshay Kumar) who is living the life his father Gurtej Singh Kahlon (Rishi Kapoor) chose for him. Gattu had been good at cricket and wanted to play for England though his dad would never let him become a member of the England team. His dad had told him if he played he would commit suicide. His siblings hated him as he was an exemplary in the house. He was always alone until Zeeshan and Simran (Anushka Sharma) come into his life.

In the present day, Gattu gets another chance to fulfil his dream and Simran and his siblings convince him to give it a shot. If he gets on the team, their father might be able to realise that the world isn't as racist as it used to be. As he gets on the team, they hide the fact that Gattu is on the team but their father eventually finds out. Seeing his son on a team he despises gives him a heart attack and he ends up in the Emergency Room. Gattu plays cricket anyway for his siblings. He is deeply hurt to be disgraced by his father but he also loves cricket and hopes to change his father.

The people of Southall all come together and try to convince Gurtej that it is okay to be a cricket player for England. He locks himself inside the house where his wife tells him that she has never acted as a mother, only as a wife and often forgot she was both. She turns on the T.V. wanting to see her son fulfil his dream. Gurtej watches with her and realises how badly he had treated his son. The family comes back in the house and Gurtej requests for one of them to drive him to the stadium. Gattu is playing poorly because he is so upset that his father disgraced him. Only at the last ball of the game, Gattu manage to win the championship for England. His father compares his bowling to Late Lala Amarnath. His father apologises to him and Gattu's siblings are now able to follow their dreams.

Cast[edit]

• Akshay Kumar as Parghat Singh Kahlon alias Gattu / Kaali
• Anushka Sharma as Simran Chaggal
• Rishi Kapoor as Gurtej Singh Kahlon (Bauji)
• Dimple Kapadia as Mrs Kahlon
• Armaan Kirmani as Jaskaran Singh Kahlon (Jassi)
• Hard Kaur as Komal Chatwal
• Nasser Hussain as Himself
• Andrew Symonds as Himself

Reception[edit]

Critical reception[edit]

The film met with mixed reviews. At one end of the scale, Kunal Guha of Yahoo! Movies and Rajeev Masand of CNN IBNgave the film 1.5/5 stars, with Masand arguing that Patiala House was "lacking subtleties and nuances" that could have made it truly heartfelt.^[9][10] Similarly, Mayank Shankar of Hindustan Times gave the movie 2/5,^[11] and Sonia Chopra of Sifyawarded the movie 3/5 stars and described it as "predictable".^[12] A similar score was awarded by Anupama Chopra ofNDTV who also gave it 3.5/5 stars but the reviewer described it as the "best work director Nikhil Advani and Akshay Kumar have done in recent years" and argued that the movie "never soars but it is a notch better than the mediocre fare that we see every week."^[13]

Countering these, more positive reviews came from other sources. Aniruddha Guha from Daily News and Analysis and Sukanya Verma from Rediff Movies each awarded it 3 stars out of five, with Verma acknowledging Akshay's role: "Patiala House rests on Akshay's restraint and valiant performance".^[14] Smriti Sharma of India Today gave it 3.5/5 stars, describing it as an emotional journey, and Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama awarded the film four stars, concluding that the "hallmark" of the film was the "merging of its engaging drama with cricket" and describing it as a "compelling watch".^[15]

On the review aggregator website ReviewGang, Patiala House has received a score of 8.5/10 from 21 users.^[16] On IMDB.com, the film has also received a mediocre rating average of 5.5/10 from over 1000 users.^[17]

Soundtrack[edit]

Patiala House
Soundtrack album by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
Released	11 February 2011
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Length	140 minutes
Label	T-Series
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy chronology
We Are Family (2010) Patiala House (2011) West Is West (soundtrack) (2011)

The music of the film is composed by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy. Lyrics are penned by Anvita Dutt Guptan.

Track listing
No.	Title	Artist(s)	Length
1.	"Laung Da Lashkara"	Jasbir Jassi,Mahalakshmi Iyer, Hard Kaur	5:07
2.	"Kyun Main Jagoon"	Shafqat Amanat Ali	5:45
3.	"Rola Pe Gaya"	Shankar Mahadevan,Mahalakshmi Iyer, Hard Kaur, Earl, Master Saleem	4:31
4.	"Aadat Hai Woh"	Vishal Dadlani	4:21
5.	"Baby When You Talk To Me"	Suraj Jagan, Alyssa Mendonsa	4:28
6.	"Tumba Tumba"	Hans Raj Hans	3:01
7.	"Aval Allah"	Richa Sharma	2:30
8.	"Kyun Main Jagoon ( Remix )"	Shafqat Amanat Ali	2:27
9.	"Role Pe Gaya ( Remix )"	Shankar Mahadevan,Mahalakshmi Iyer, Hard Kaur, Earl, Master Saleem	2:48
10.	"Baby When You Talk To Me ( Remix )"	Suraj Jagan, Alyssa Mendonsa	2:07
11.	"Laung Da Lashkara ( Remix )"	Jasbir Jassi,Mahalakshmi Iyer, Hard Kaur	2:51

Reviews[edit]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Bollywood Hungama	[18]
Rediff.com	[19]

The album received positive reviews upon release. Joginder Tuteja ofBollywood Hungama gave the soundtrack 4 out of 5 stars, saying "Patiala House delivers more than what one expected from the album.[..]it is obvious that listeners could well be picking up the first popular album of the new decade in the Millennium."^[18] Rediff in a 3.5 star review said: "Akshay Kumar-Anushka Sharma starrer Patiala House is S-E-L's first release of the year, and it's good news for everyone concerned. You won't feel cheated for having brought an original copy of this CD."^[19]

Fly Away Solo

Fly Away Solo
Fly Away Solo
Directed by Neeraj Ghaywan
Produced by Drishyam Films
Phantom Films
Macassar Productions
Sikhya Entertainment
Written by Neeraj Ghaywan
Varun Grover
Starring Richa Chadda
Vicky Kaushal
Sanjay Mishra
Shweta Tripathi
Music by Indian Ocean
Cinematography Avinash Arun Dhaware
Edited by Nitin Baid
Production
company
Drishyam Films
Phantom Films
Macassar Productions
Sikhya Entertainment
Release dates
19 May 2015 (Cannes)
24 July 2015 (India)
Running time
120 minutes
Country India
Language Hindi
Fly Away Solo (Hindi title: मसान, Masaan) is a 2015 Indian Hindi[1][2] drama film directed by Neeraj Ghaywan.[3] The directorial debut film is an Indo-French co-production produced by Drishyam Films, Macassar Productions, Phantom Films, Sikhya Entertainment, Arte France Cinema and Pathé Productions.[4] It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival winning two awards.[5][6][7]

Ghaywan previously assisted Anurag Kashyap on Gangs Of Wasseypur.[8][9]

PlotEdit
Set in present day Banaras, the plot of Masaan follows two seemingly separate story arcs that eventually converge.[10]

The first of these tells the story of Devi. The film opens with her and her fellow student, Piyush, checking into a hotel room. They are interrupted when the police bursts in, accusing them of indulging in “indecent behaviour”. As the inspector records barely clad Devi on his mobile phone, the boy locks himself in bathroom and commits suicide. Devi and her family are subjected to blackmail by the police, particularly one Inspector Mishra, who demands a hefty bribe from Vidyadhar Pathak, Devi’s father. While he struggles to fulfill his demand, she responds in a dignified manner to the 'stigma' forced on her switching jobs. She eventually gets a government job in railways in banaras. Marred by the parochial mindset of people she leaves banaras and joins a course in Allahabad..[11]

The second narrative concerns Deepak, a young boy (also from Banaras) from a low-caste corpse burners family working at the Burning ghat with funeral pyres.Despite a Corpse Burner Deepak wants to fly from the barrier subjected to a corpse burner and he studies Civil Engineering at a Polytechnic and here Deepak meets and falls in love with Shaalu, an upper caste girl.They start meeting each other and in one trip to Allahabad at the banks of Ganga, Shaalu falls for deepak and accepts her proposal, back to Varanasi deepak tells her about his caste and the work he does of burning corpse, but Shaalu remains firm and tells him that she is with him even if her parents refuse and asks him to attend his placement session well and bag a job.Even as she reaffirms her commitment to him she meets with an accident during a pilgrimage trip along with her family and dies ending up at the same cremation ground. The shattered Deepak loses all purpose in his life for a while. But eventually comes to cope with the support of his friends. He gets a job in railways also landing up in Allahabad.[12][13]

The film reaches its climax as Devi comes to the bank of Ganga to immerse the gift her boyfriend had given to her on the fateful day in the hotel. Deepak notices her crying and offers her water to drink. A boatman beckons offering them a ride on the boat towards Sangam. Both board the board striking a conversation. Devi tells Deepak that this is her first time she is going towards Sangam. Deepak tells her he has been there earlier once but adds that there is a belief one should accompany someone if visiting it for second time.

CastEdit
Richa Chadda as Devi Pathak
Vicky Kaushal as Deepak Chaudhary
Sanjay Mishra as Vidyadhar Pathak
Shweta Tripathi as Shaalu Gupta
Pankaj Tripathi as Sadhya Ji
Nikhil Sahni as Jhonta
Satya Kam Anand as Vikram Mallah
Vineet Kumar as Doctor Chaudhary
MusicEdit
Masaan: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by Indian Ocean
Released July 2015
Length 18:07
Language Hindi
Label Zee Music Company
The soundtrack album and

Blood Money

Blood Money (2012 film)

Blood Money
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Vishal Mahadkar
Produced by	Mukesh Bhatt
Story by	Upendra Sidhye
Starring	Kunal Khemu Amrita Puri Teeshay Puja Gupta
Music by	Jeet Ganguly Sangeet Siddharth Pranay.M.Rijia
Cinematography	Nigam Bomzan
Distributed by	Vishesh Films Viacom 18 Motion Pictures
Release dates	30 March 2012
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	70 million
Box office	90 million

Blood Money is a 2012 Bollywood crime thriller film directed by Vishal Mahadkar and produced by Mahesh Bhatt.^[1] The film stars Kunal Khemuopposite Amrita Puri in lead roles. It released on 30 March 2012, and received mostly positive response from critics. Blood Money managed to perform above average business at the box office. Many critics compared the film to the Blood Diamond (2006), The Firm (1993) and to Bhatt's earlier directorial film Naam (1986).^[2]

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Plot[edit]

The story is about Kunal (Kunal Khemu) who believes he can do anything by trying his hardest. He receives a job offer through his friend Teeshay and his wife Nadini (Puja Gupta) in Cape Town and moves there with his wife Aarzoo (Amrita Puri). They live a happy life together, until Kunal becomes extremely workaholic. Kunal's this nature irritates Aarzoo which leads to frequent outbursts and quarrels. Kunal becomes the most trusted employee of his boss Dharmesh Zaveri (Manish Chaudhary). Kunal advances in his job. Soon Dharmesh is revealed to be an underworld gangster. The company Kunal works in deals with exporting diamonds; Kunal has no idea that it happens illegally. His boss, Mr. Zakaria, sends his hot colleague Rosa to charm Kunal and take him away from his wife. The plan works, and Kunal begins to work with Zakaria, with Aarzoo having no idea of this. Soon enough, Kunal realises the crime he is a part of and decides to and leave Cape Town. However, Zakaria knows that Kunal is aware of the illegal business and the only way to keep him silent is to kill him. Kunal gets fooled by a police officer who is joined with zakaria. Kunal decides to fight against him not knowing of the fact that the police officer has met up with zakaria. Kunal does everything against zakaria but when he reaches the plane area he gets to know about zakarias plan. Then kunal reveils to zakaria that it was his plan to do all this. Zakaria is then arrested and then it is shown at the end that kunal and aarzoo move back to madh island and kunal is shown reading hansel and gretel to little kids and the movie ends with a song.

Cast[edit]

• Kunal Khemu as Kunal Kadam
• Amrita Puri as Aarzoo
• Manish Choudhary as Dharmesh Zaveri / Rajan Zakaria
• Mia Uyeda as Rosa
• Karan_Mehra as Inspector Bobby Kapadia^{[citation needed]}
• Sandeep Sikand as Dinesh Zaveri
• Shekhar Shukla as Paresh
• Teeshay as Kunal's colleague

Development[edit]

The film was earlier titled Kalyug 2 and was to be a sequel to 2005's Kalyug. Director Vishal Mahadkar did not appreciate the title and changed it to Jannat 2, making it a sequel to the 2008 hit Jannat. When the public's feedback to this title turned out to be even more negative, it was finally renamed to Blood Money.^[3][4]

Reception[edit]

Promotions of Blood Money at R City Mall, Ghatkopar, Mumbai

Critical[edit]

Blood Money received mixed to positive response but Kunal Kemmu received positive response from critics. Jeeturaaj of radio mirchi gave it 3.5/5 stars saying "interesting insight into diamond trade and brilliant songs".^[5] Martin D'souza of glamsham.com said "There are a few flaws, but I'd rather not dwell on those because the overall impact is massive" awarding it 3.5/5 stars.^[6] Madhureeta Mukherjee of Times of India said "Debutant director, (Vishal S Mahadkar), tells the story well".^[7]

Sukanya Verma of Rediff.com gave it 1/5 stars and wrote "Blood Money is exceptionally hollow in its aspirations".^[8] Writing for FilmiTadka, Janhavi Patel gave the film 2.5 out of 5 stars and said, "Blood Money starts off decently but goes downhill in the second half with a laughable climax. Spend your money elsewhere".^[9] Blessy Chettiar of DNA awarded 2 out of 5 stars and said, "Wait for Blood Money's television premier. Or else, watch the trailer. Why waste 2.5 hours on something you can watch in 2.05 minutes?"^[10]

Box office[edit]

The film had an average opening at the box office. Usually, Vishesh Films' collections are a net gross of about Rs. 250 million: Blood Money collected a full 90 million in its full theatrical run, which is a very high and profitable gross for the Bhatt's nevertheless it was declared an above average by Box Office India.^[11]

Soundtrack[edit]

Blood Money
Studio album by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Mustafa Zahid, Rana Muzumder
Released	19 February 2012
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Label	Sony Music

Blood Money's soundtrack was released on 19 February 2012. It was composed by Jeet Ganguly, Pranay, Sangeet Haldipur and Siddharth Haldipur; lyrics were penned by Sayeed Quadri, Kumaar.

Tracklist[edit]

No.	Title	Music	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Chaahat"	Jeet Ganguly	Rahat Fateh Ali Khan	4:24
2.	"Gunaah"	Jeet Ganguly	Mustafa Zahid	4:49
3.	"Teri Yaadon Se"	Pranay	Mustafa Zahid	4:36
4.	"Jo Tere Sang"	Jeet Ganguly	Mustafa Zahid	5:06
5.	"Aarzoo"	Sangeet Haldipur, Siddharth Haldipur	Clinton Cerejo	4:17
6.	"Gunaah (Unplugged)"	Jeet Ganguly	Rana Muzumdar	5:38
7.	"Teri Yaadon Se (Remix)"	Pranay; remixed by Kiran Kamath	Mustafa Zahid	5:14
8.	"Jo Tere Sang (Remix)"	Jeet Ganguly; remixed by Dj Savio		6:18

Reception[edit]

The album received positive reviews from critics. Joginder Tuteja from Bollywood Hungama gave the album a 3.5/5 stars picking "Teri Yaadon Se (remix)", "Gunaah (unplugged)" and "Chaahat" as his favourites. Musicaloud gave the album 3/5 stars picking "Chaahat" and "Gunaah" as their favourites.^[12] Times of India states that "Blood Money, like all previous Bhatt films, has some great music that will help take the movie to a different level altogether".^[13]