Aisha is a 2010 Bollywood romantic comedy-drama film directer is Rajshree Ojha, starring Abhay Deol and Sonam Kapoor in the main roles and Cyrus Sahukar, Arunoday Singh, Ira Dubey and Amrita Puri in supporting roles.
It is set in the upper class society of Delhi, India and is an adaptation of Jane Austen’s 1815 novel Emma with the same tone as the 1995 cult Hollywood film Clueless which is also an adaptation of Austen’s novel. The choreographer of this film is Neerav Bavlecha.
The film released on 6 August 2010, to a moderate critical response, eventually becoming an “average” grosser at the box office.
Directer : Rajshree Ojha
Producer : Sunil Manchanda,Rhea Kapoor,Anil Kapoor
Writer : Devika Bhagat (dialogue),Ritu Bhatia (dialogue)
Screenplay : Devika Bhagat
Starring : Sonam Kapoor,Abhay Deol,Ira Dubey,Amrita Puri,Arunoday Singh,Cyrus Sahukar,Lisa Haydon
Music : Amit Trivedi
Cinematographer : Diego Rodriguez
Editor : Sreekar Prasad
Production company : PVR Pictures,Anil Kapoor Films Company,MAD Entertainment Ltd.
Distributor : Eros International
Release date : 6 August 2010
Running time : 126 minutes
Country : India
Language : Hindi
Budget :19 crore
Box office : 28.65 crore
Story of the film:
Aisha (Sonam Kapoor) is a Beautiful ,young, rich, upper class woman who believes that she is perfectly suited for match-making – amongst her friends group. Her superficial lifestyle and match-making schemes are constantly criticized by her friend/neighbor Arjun (Abhay Deol), who advises her to stop meddling with the lives of other people. Soon, she has a new project – trying to make a match between her middle class, small town friend Shefali (Amrita Puri) and a rich business owner, Randhir (Cyrus Sahukar).
Aisha try various circumstances to make Shefali and Randhir fall in love. During one such occasion, she meets her aunt’s step-son Dhruv Singh (Arunoday Singh), whom she becomes attracted to. In the mean-time, Arjun introduces Aisha to one of his colleagues, Aarti Menon (Lisa Haydon), who is from New York. Aisha feels threatened by Aarti’s presence and is very antagonistic towards her.
Randhir organizes a river rafting camp for everyone, and Aisha uses this as a chance to get Randhir and Shefali to spend more time together. One night during the camp, Randhir takes Aisha for a walk and then confesses his love for her. Confused and taken aback by Randhir’s feelings for her, Aisha starts to doubt her match making skills.
Arjun comes to know of the incident and gets angry at Aisha, criticizing her for once again meddling with the lives of others, and playing with Shefali’s feelings. Aisha tries to console a heart broken Shefali, who had previously turned down a marriage proposal in order to be with Randhir, on Aisha’s advice. As time passes, Pinky (Ira Dubey), Aisha’s best friend, starts to develop feelings for Randhir and eventually they are engaged. This causes a problem between Pinky and Aisha, and they stop speaking to each other.
Disheartened with her previous failed match making attempt, Aisha tries to match up Shefali with Dhruv. Shefali comes to know of Aisha’s plan and confronts her, telling Aisha that she never viewed her as a friend, rather as a project, someone who she tried to mold and fix. Shefali then declares that she has feelings for Arjun. This greatly confuses and hurts Aisha, since she realises that she has been in love with Arjun all this time. Aisha realises that she has been selfish and arrogant all along, playing with the emotions and feelings of her friends. She goes back to her best friend, Pinky, and apologizes for her actions. Dhruv and Aarthi get engaged, but Aisha chooses not to attend since she thinks that Arjun will be there with Shefali. After a late night conversation with her father, Aisha decides spontaneously to go to the engagement and declare her feelings to Arjun.
She meets Shefali, who tells her that love cannot be forced or planned, and also reveals that she has found her love in Saurabh, her childhood friend whose proposal she had previously turned down. Later that night, Arjun and Aisha meet and reminisce about their childhood and friendship, and ultimately declare their love for each other. The movie ends one year later, at Dhruv and Aarthi’s wedding, where Aisha states that love is spontaneous and never goes according to plan.
Star Cast of the film:
- Abhay Deol as Arjun Burman
- Sonam Kapoor as Aisha Kapoor
- Ira Dubey as Pinky Bose
- Cyrus Sahukar as Randhir Ghambir
- Lisa Haydon as Aarti Menon
- Arunoday Singh as Dhruv Singh
- Amrita Puri as Shefali Thakur
- Anand Tiwari as Saurabh Lamba
- Yuri Suri as Col. Singh
- M. K. Raina as Mr. Kapoor
- Sameer Malhotra as Karan Burman
- Anuradha Patel as Chitra Kanwar Singh
- Masood Akhtar as Sant Ram
- Vidhushi Mehra as Aalia Kapoor/Burman
Trailer Of Aisa film:
Music / Song of the film:
The Aisha film music composer is Amit Trivedi, with lyrics writer is Javed Akhtar.
- “Suno Aisha”……………………….Ash King, Nakash Aziz, Amit Trivedi
- “Gal Mitthi Mitthi”…………………Tochi Raina
- “Shaam”………………………….Nikhil D’Souza, Amit Trivedi, Neuman Pinto
- “Behke Behke”………………Anushka Manchanda, Samrat Kaushal, Raman Mahadevan
- “Lehrein”………………………..Anusha Mani, Neuman Pinto, Nikhil D’Souza
- “By The Way”…………………..Anushka Manchanda, Neuman Pinto
- “Gal Mithhi Bombay Bounce Dhol Mix”……………..Tochi Raina
- “Lehrein Bombay Bounce Lounge Mix”………………Anusha Mani, Nikhil D’Souza, Neuman Pinto
“Shaam” song:
Review of the film:
Taran Adarsh of One India awarded the movie 3.5/5, concluding that “Aisha holds appeal for the youth mainly and there’s a strong likelihood that this segment of movie-going audience will fall for its charms.”
Kaveree Bamzai of India Today awarded the movie 3/5, commenting that “It’s trashy but it’s beautifully trashy. Almost like the food and conversation at a long Delhi brunch.”
Komal Nahta of DNA India awarded the movie 2/5, stating that “Aisha was never meant for the single-screen and small-town audiences but it doesn’t cut ice with the multiplex and city audience either.”
Aniruddha Guha of DNA India awarded the movie 2.5/5, stating that “Aisha leaves you with mixed feelings. It, however, might be the ideal date flick.”
Nikhat Kazmi of The Times of India awarded the movie 4/5, saying that “Sweet love, substantial performances, super fun, slick ‘n stylish, Aisha is a-ha stuff.”
Box – office collection of the film:
Aisha had a poor opening at the box office, with collections of around 30–35% and collected rs. 29.1 million net in its first day. The movie collected rs. 103 million in its first weekend. The movie went on to collect rs. 128 million net in its first week and rs. 24.8 million in its second week.
The movie grossed rs. 215 million in its lifetime run. The movie was declared as a below average grosser, collecting rs. 161 million nett in its entire run.
Aisha collected $350,000 in its first weekend at the overseas box office and was declared as an average grosser, collecting around $1,000,000 in its entire run.
- First Day : rs. 2.62 crores
- Saturday : rs. 2.74 crores
- Sunday : rs. 3.36 crores
- First Weekend : rs. 8.73 crores
- Monday : rs. 1.40 crores
- Tuesday : rs. 1.10 crores
- First Week : rs. 12.64 crores
- Second Week : rs. 2.36 crores
- Third Week : rs. 0.56 crores
- Lifetime India (net) : rs. 16 crores
- Worldwide Gross : rs. 26 crores
