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  • release date

    May 25, 2007 (India)

  • language

    Hindi

  • genre

    Comedy, Drama, Romance

Grouchy, uptight, 64 year old Buddhadev Gupta lives a fairly wealthy lifestyle in London, England, along with his widowed TV and wrestling-addicted mom. He is the owner of 'Spice6' one of London's restaurants that specializes in East Indian dishes. One day a customer, Nina Verma, complains about the Zafrani Pulav, and Buddhadev does not take it well, only to subsequently find out that the Pulav was indeed imperfect. He decides to make amends to Nina and lends her his umbrella during a rainy day. Both subsequently become friends, fall in love and decide to get married. She is introduced to Buddhadev's mom, who instantly approves of her. Nina, who lives in Delhi with her widower dad, cuts short her visit when her dad becomes ill. Buddhadev and his mom also travel to India so that Buddhadev can ask for Nina's hand from her now fully recovered dad. Buddhadev does get meet with Nina's dad, and after considerable hesitation does manage to ask for Nina's hand and is abruptly refused - for Nina is only 34 years of...

Grouchy, uptight, 64 year old Buddhadev Gupta lives a fairly wealthy lifestyle in London, England, along with his widowed TV and wrestling-addicted mom. He is the owner of 'Spice6' one of London's restaurants that specializes in East Indian dishes. One day a customer, Nina Verma, complains about the Zafrani Pulav, and Buddhadev does not take it well, only to subsequently find out that the Pulav was indeed imperfect. He decides to make amends to Nina and lends her his umbrella during a rainy day. Both subsequently become friends, fall in love and decide to get married. She is introduced to Buddhadev's mom, who instantly approves of her. Nina, who lives in Delhi with her widower dad, cuts short her visit when her dad becomes ill. Buddhadev and his mom also travel to India so that Buddhadev can ask for Nina's hand from her now fully recovered dad. Buddhadev does get meet with Nina's dad, and after considerable hesitation does manage to ask for Nina's hand and is abruptly refused - for Nina is only 34 years of age, and Buddhadev is 6 years older than Nina's dad. When Nina and Buddhadev insist on getting married, her Gandhian dad decides to undertake a fast unto death (Satyagraha). The question remains will Buddhadev and Nina continue their relationship, and how will this Satyagraha impact Mr. Verma's life?

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The script was written twoandahalf years before it started production.

Shooting was completed in 45 days.

Director R. Balki, a Tamilian and isnt fluent in Hindi, had a friend who helped in the translation of his directiondialogs from Tamil into Hindi.

Art Director Julie Bonnet recreated the whole London restaurant on a studio set.

R. Balkis directional debut.

Paresh Rawal was the last team member to join the cast, when the cast was being finalized he was out of the country and when he returned he asked the director "he had to be in the film"

At the end of every take Zohra Sehgal used to ask R. Balki where her whiskey was. On her birthday, Amitabh Bachchan presented her a crate of champagne and she was overjoyed.

R. Balki wanted Amitabh Bachchan to support a ponytail for his character; Amitabh Bachchan was asked by the media whos idea was the ponytail, to which he said "This was Balkis idea, he himself does not have any ponytail so he made his character sport them."

All the tracks composed by Ilayaraja have been used by him in Tamil and Kannada cinema. Ilayaraja recycled his original work and polished them up for this movie.

The film was shown at Cannes for a private screening with the cast and crews close associates and some media people, before the national release date.

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    Best Actress - Critics ( Filmfare Award - 2008 ) (Winner)

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