Cocktail (2012-movie) : Bollywood Hindi Film

Cocktail Movie Details :

Cocktail Movie is an 2012 Indian Bollywood romantic comedy-drama directer is Homi Adajania and producer are Saif Ali Khan and Dinesh Vijan, starring are Deepika Padukone, Saif Ali Khan and debutante Diana Penty as the lead roles, with Boman Irani and Dimple Kapadia and Randeep Hooda as supporting roles. The music composer are Pritam and Salim–Sulaiman.

Cocktail was released worldwide on 13 July 2012, to critical acclaim, garnering high praise for Padukone and Penty’s performances. Made on a budget of 650 million, Cocktail emerged as a commercial success, grossing 1.26 billion worldwide.

• Directer : Homi Adajania
• Producer : Saif Ali Khan,Dinesh Vijan
• Writer : Imtiaz Ali,Sajid Ali
• Starring : Saif Ali Khan,Deepika Padukone,Diana Penty,Dimple Kapadia,Boman Irani,Randeep Hooda
• Music/Songs : Pritam
• Background Score : Salim–Sulaiman
• Cinematography : Anil Mehta
• Editor : Sreekar Prasad
• Production Design : Acropolis,Sumit Basu
• Art Direction : Sandeep Sharad Ravade,Bain Rossouw
• Production Management : Murshid Akhtar,Ashish Chauhan,Jim Edgar
• Special Effects : Prime Focus
• Visual Effects : Ajesh.k.t,Sagar Aphandkar,Babu.Parameswaran,Tathagata Banerjee
• Production Company : Cocktail Film,Eros International,Illuminati Films,Prime Focus,Raj Film Productions
• Distributors : Eros Australia Pty. Ltd.,Eros International,Illuminati Films
• Genres : Comedy,Drama,Romance
• Release date : 13 July 2012
• Running time : 144 minutes
• Country : India
• Language : Hindi

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Star Cast of The Film :

• Saif Ali Khan as a Gautam Kapoor
• Deepika Padukone as a Veronica Malaney
• Diana Penty as a Meera Sahni
• Dimple Kapadia as a Kavita Kapoor
• Boman Irani as a Randhir Malhotra
• Yasmin Tippett as a Tresha Malhotra
• Lottie Dosanjh as a Sara Malhotra
• Tina Desai as a Waitress in Cafe (as Tena Desae)
• Louise Bangay as a Susan Broadbent Malhotra
• Manoj Pahwa as a Lovely Chadda
• Mia Uyeda as a Jayshree (Air Hostess)
• Tim Parker as a Traveller at Airport
• Ray Burnet as a Security Guard
• Shailesh Dubey as a Police Officer
• Dean Bardini as a Kunal’s Collegue
• Randeep Hooda as a Kunal Ahuja
• Charlotte Quita Jones as a Charlotte (Veronica’s Friend 1)
• Alexandros Panagakis as a Busker (Guitarist)
• Matthew Douglas as a Trampoliner
• David Osbourne as a Captain of Yacht
• Raj Awasti as a Restaurant Costumer at Park
• Stewart Bailey as a Cricket fan / Passerby
• Kishore Bhatt as a Night Club Goer
• Ryan Calais Cameron as a Alic
• Darren Charles as a Dancer
• Bern Collaço as a House Party Guest
• Danny Darren as a Police
• Mark Fox as a Diner in Cafe
• Lee Nicholas Harris as a Market Stall Holder
• Anisha Hathi as a Waitress (uncredited)
• Dimple Kumar as a Supporting Artist
• Becki Lloyd as a Walk on Shopper

Story of The Film :

The story revolves around Gautam Khanna (Saif Ali Khan), Veronica D’Costa (Deepika Padukone) and Meera Gupta (Diana Penty). Gautam Khanna (Saif Ali Khan) always had a dream to go to London and have a job. His dream is fulfilled and he gets a job. But his mom, Nita (Dimple Kapadia) says that she has to finalize his marriage to a girl and so he has to wait. She finds her perfect ‘bahu’ in Meera Gupta (Diana Penty). But she does not tell Gautam about this and tells Meera’s parents even to not tell Meera. She tells Gautam to take her friend’s daughter Meera as she has an assignment in London for 3 days. On the flight, Meera and Gautam befriend each other. In London, Meera has some problems completing her assignment and therefore fails to give it on time. She loses her job but then Gautam consoles her. They go on a beach party and there they meet Veronica D’Costa (Deepika Padukone). After some days of living with each other, Gautam falls in love with Veronica. But the thing that Gautam …

Production :

Casting :

“The film is for people aged between 12 and 50. It is about friendship, love, romance and has something for all kinds of audience. It is a love story. The designing of the three characters Veronica (Deepika), Gautam (Saif), Meera (Diana), the cool and contemporary look of the film and its music are its USP”

Priyanka Chopra was the original choice for the role of Veronica, but was ultimately not cast due to creative issues. Deepika Padukone and Imran Khan were initially signed on to play the leads in the film, after their chemistry in the promos of Break Ke Baad struck a chord with the youth. However, the latter declined the film and was consequently replaced by Saif Ali Khan, who decided to also produce the film under his production house Illuminati Films. Padukone was offered both the roles of Veronica and Meera, however the character of Meera was similar to her role in Love Aaj Kal (2009) and so she chose the role of Veronica as a challenge. Model Diana Penty, who was earlier supposed to play the female lead in Imtiaz Ali’s Rockstar (2011), was later signed on to Cocktail instead, on Ali’s suggestion, and thus made her debut in Bollywood.

Film Shooting :

Shooting of the film started at the end of May 2011, in London. Many scenes have been shot indoors, although the crew primarily filmed on the streets of London. Locations of the filming in London include Borough High Street, Borough Market, Portobello Road, Leicester Square, Piccadilly Circus, Mayfair, Clapham Junction, Battersea Park, Bank Station, St. Paul’s London, Colville Gardens (Notting Hill) and Brick Lane. The film was also shot in Cape Town, South Africa. Padukone has gyrated to a Punjabi party song (“Main Sharaabi”) at The Clapham Grand nightclub in Clapham Junction, by dancing on a table. This is reminiscent of a dance sequence in the song “Chor Bazaari” from Love Aaj Kal (2009). Whilst security was extra tight on the day to prevent outsiders entering the premises, a DJ was hired for the music and club lights were also used to make the scene look as real as possible.

Trailer :

Earlier, it was reported that the theatrical trailer of the film would be attached to the prints of Khan’s previous home production Agent Vinod (2012), although the makers decided against this for unknown reasons. The official trailer was eventually launched on 21 May 2012, to a phenomenal response from critics and audiences, crossing 1 million hits on YouTube within 3 days.

Cocktail Movie Songs / Music :

The music of Cocktail is composer is Pritam, with lyrics by Irshad Kamil. The rights of a famous Pakistani Sufi song were bought for the film. “Alif Allah” (a celebration of Allah, Islamic prophet Muhammad and other Khalifs), originally sung and popularised by Pakistani Punjabi folk singer Arif Lohar, was revised.

“Angreji Beat”, a Punjabi song sung by Yo Yo Honey Singh and featuring Gippy Grewal, is also used in the title credits, as well as the trailer, though hasn’t been included in the album. One of the songs “Main Sharaabi” has been composed by Singh and sung by Pritam.. The background score is composed by Salim-Sulaiman.

• “Tumhi Ho Bandhu” – Kavita Seth, Neeraj Shridhar
• “Daaru Desi” – Benny Dayal, Shalmali Kholgade, Neeraj Shridhar
• “Yaariyan” – K. Mohan, Shilpa Rao
• “Second-Hand-Jawaani” – Miss Pooja, Neha Kakkar, Nakash Aziz
• “Tera Naam Japdi Phiran” – Javed Bashir, Nikhil D’Souza, Shefali Alvares
• “Luttna (Saif Ul Malook)” – Masuma Anwar, Sahir Ali Bagga, Anupam Amod
• “Alif Allah (Jugni)” – Arif Lohar, Harshdeep Kaur
• “Yaariyan (Reprise)” – Sunidhi Chauhan, Arijit Singh
• “Luttna (Version 2)” – Masuma Anwar, Sahir Ali Bagga, Anupam Amod
• “Tera Naam Japdi Phiran (Remix)” – Javed Bashir, Nikhil D’Souza, Shefali Alvares
• “Main Sharaabi” (Music by: Yo Yo Honey Singh) – Yo Yo Honey Singh
• “Angreji Beat” (Music by: Yo Yo Honey Singh) – Yo Yo Honey Singh, Gippy Grewal

“Tumhi Ho Bandhu” Full Video Song :

• Song : Tumhi Ho Bandhu
• Singer : Kavita Seth, Neeraj Shridhar
• Music : Pritam

“Daaru Desi” Full Video Song :

• Song : Daaru Desi
• Singer : Benny Dayal, Shalmali Kholgade, Neeraj Shridhar
• Music : Pritam

Cocktail Movie Review :

This film review are Mostly Positive from Critics, IMDB Public Reviewing site give 6.3 Star Out Of 10 Star with Reviewers are 13,305.

It could have been a little more better. The movie starts off with an impressive first-half having its fun moments and builds a good interest among the spectators. The second-half looked story-less and a mere drag! It was a decent try to build an emotional scene but wasn’t a very successful attempt. Good performance by the cast of the film. Saif Ali Khan gives a good funny side to this otherwise boring film with the same regular bollywood story! The screenplay and the sound department didn’t really help to keep the spectators interested for the whole movie ! Few of the scenes had no sound effects , No background music for the emotional scenes. A good debut by Diana Penty who plays the role of Meera- The perfect Indian bride very well. Also no one could have played the role of Veronica better than Deepika Padukone. All in all the movie dint live up to the expectations and could have been a little better ! A definite once watch – 6/10 Cheers !

Critics Rating by Taran Adarsh, from Bollywood Hungama give 3 star out of 5 Star.

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