Delhi Belly (2011-movie) : Bollywood Hindi Film

Delhi Belly Movie Details :

Delhi Belly Movie is an 2011 Indian Bollywood action comedy film writter is Akshat Verma and directer is Abhinay Deo. It film stars are Imran Khan, Kunaal Roy Kapur, Vir Das, Poorna Jagannathan and Shenaz Treasurywala. It is a Hinglish-language film, with seventy percent of the dialogue in English and thirty percent in Hindi. The film is produced by Aamir Khan Productions and UTV Motion Pictures. The theatrical trailer of the film premiéred with Aamir Khan’s Dhobi Ghat on 21 January 2011 while the film was released on 1 July 2011, along with a Hindi dubbed version. The film was given an ‘A’ certificate for its profanity and sexual content. The film was remade in Tamil as Settai.

• Directer : Abhinay Deo
• Producer : Aamir Khan,Kiran Rao,Ronnie Screwvala,Jim Furgele
• Writter : Akshat Verma
• Starring : Imran Khan,Vir Das,Kunaal Roy Kapur,Poorna Jagannathan,Shenaz Treasurywala
• Music : Ram Sampath
• Cinematography : Jason West
• Editer : Huzefa Lokhandwala
• Casting : Aadore Mukherjee,Rohit Rai
• Production Design : Shashank Tere
• Art Direction : Baban Adagale
• Costume Design : Niharika Bhasin
• Makeup Department : Ayesha DeVitre,Vicky Salvi
• Special Effects : Devendra Bhave
• Visual Effects : Wasim Ali,Mukherjee Aniruddha,Vishal Bansal
• Action Directer : Sanober Pardiwalla,Wayne Smith
• Production company : Aamir Khan Productions
• Distributer : UTV Motion Pictures
• Genres : Action,Comedy,Crime
• Release date : 1 July 2011
• Running time : 100 minutes
• Country : India
• Language : Hindi

Star Cast of The Film :

• Imran Khan as a Tashi Malhotra / Tashi Dorjee Lhaloo
• Vir Das as a Arup
• Kunaal Roy Kapur as a Nitin
• Shenaz Treasury as a Sonia
• Poorna Jagannathan as a Menaka
• Kim Bodnia as a Vladimir Dragunsky
• Paresh Ganatra as a Manish Chand Jain
• Vijay Raaz as a Cowboy
• Manoj Bakshi as a Father
• Krishna Bansal as a Man Drinking Tea
• Dhaval Barbhaya as a R. Balachandar
• Bugs Bhargava as a Arup’s boss
• Divya Bhatia as a Tashi’s father
• Zeena Bhatia as a Mother
• Nikita Bhatt as a Leena
• Renuka Bondre as a Anjali Jain
• V.K. Chanana as a Grandfather
• Neville Dadachanji as a Keval Maharaj
• Pranil Darzi as a Mohit Kohli
• Rajesh D. Desai as a Dead Body With Flower
• Mansee Deshmukh as a Ritu Kohli
• Ayesha DeVitre as a VJ Sohaya’s Hair Stylist
• Anusha Dhandekar as a VJ Sophaya
• Nayani Dixit as a Ambika
• Lushin Dubey as a Sonia’s Mother
• Sashi Gupta as a Police Driver

Story of The Film :

Delhi-based Sonia agrees to deliver a package for Vladimir Dragunsky and asks her rather unkempt and debt-ridden fiancé, Tashi Malhotra, to do it for her. Tashi, in turn, asks one of two of his room-mates, Nitin. But Nitin forgets to do so due to an upset stomach ailment commonly known as ‘Delhi Belly’ as well as his plan to blackmail their landlord, Manish and asks the third roommate Arup to deliver the package. A gangster, Somayajulu, who was the recipient of this package, starts by brutally questioning Vladimir, and finds out that the package may be in the possession of the trio. While Tashi must deal with his attraction for Journalist Menaka and incur the wrath of her husband, Rajiv, he still has to fully come to terms whether or not he wants to marry Sonia. And the entry of ruthless Somayajulu and his gang seriously jeopardizes any plans Tashi and his friends may have for the future.

Production :
Development :

This film was writter is Akshat Verma, a Los Angeles based writer, who first wrote the screenplay as a part of his studies at Screenwriting programme at UCLA, under the title Say Cheese. Subsequently, after he lost his job as a copywriter in US, around 2005, he revived the script. Akshat had to compile 15 drafts before the movie went on floors. It took him more than three years to finish writing the story. He visited Mumbai along with Jim Furgele, to unsuccessfully pitch the film to various film producers, eventually after submitting a draft to Aamir Khan Productions, he left. The script was thrown into a pile of scripts in Aamir Khan’s office, where Kiran Rao randomly picked it, read it and began to laugh. Soon it was read by Aamir Khan who contacted the writer who was initially hesitant that it might ruin the “clean, family entertainment” tag of Aamir Khan Productions, though Aamir had produced two A-certificate films before, Peepli Live and Dhobi Ghat.

Film Casting :

Earlier, Ranbir Kapoor and Chitrangada Singh were to star in the film. After both of them backed off, Aamir signed his nephew Imran Khan for the lead role following the tremendous success of his debut film Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na. Shooting for the film began in August 2008 in Delhi. Indian comedian Vir Das was also signed to star in the film. According to director Abhinay Deo, “Delhi Belly is an ensemble piece. It’s not a film about Imran Khan. He is only one of the several protagonists. There are others whose characters are just as important. There is Kunal Roy Kapoor, Vir Das and Poorna Jagannathan, an Indian actress from LA”. The film was stuck at the editing table for a long time. Initially, Aamir was to spearhead the editing but he got busy with his own films.

Release :

On 3 July 2011, the Government of Nepal banned screening of the movie citing the reluctance by the cinema halls to remove offensive scenes from the film. However, Nepal’s censors later agreed to clear the film for viewing by theatre goers above 16 years. An offending scene showing one of the protagonists, played by Kunaal Roy Kapur, visiting a brothel, was cut and some expletives in two scenes were muted. The film was selected for being screened in the Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School as a part of the Harvard India Conference 2012. Director Abhinay Deo was invited as a guest.

Delhi Belly Movie Songs / Music :

The music of the film was composer is Ram Sampath while the lyrics were penned by Amitabh Bhattacharya, Munna Dhiman, Ram Sampath, Akshat Verma and Chetan Shashital. The song “Bhaag D.K. Bose” created controversy upon its release. ‘D K Bose, D K Bose,’ juxtaposed and sung at a quick pace forms a popular expletive in North India.Akshat Verma came up with the idea of using the phrase ‘D K Bose’. Abhinay Deo and Aamir Khan gave their nod to the song as they felt the catch phrase went with the young and irreverent theme of the film.

• “Bhaag D.K. Bose” – Ram Sampath
• “Nakkaddwaley Disco, Udhaarwaley Khisko” – Keerthi Sagathia
• “Saigal Blues” – Chetan Shashital
• “Bedardi Raja” – Sona Mohapatra
• “Jaa Chudail” – Suraj Jagan
• “Tere Siva” – Ram Sampath, Tarannum Mallik
• “Switty Tera Pyaar Chaida” – Keerthi Sagathia
• “I Hate You” (Like I Love You) – Keerthi Sagathia, Shazneen Arethna, Sona Mohapatra, Aamir Khan
• “Bedardi Raja” (Remix) – Sona Mohapatra
• “Switty” (Punk) – Keerthi Sagathia, Ram Sampath

“Switty Tera Pyaar Chaida” Full Video Songs :

• Song : Switty Tera Pyaar Chaida
• Singer : Keerthi Sagathia
• Music : Ram Sampath
• Lyrics : Amitabh Bhattacharya, Munna Dhiman, Ram Sampath, Akshat Verma

“I Hate You” Full Video Songs :

• Song : I Hate You
• Singer : Keerthi Sagathia, Shazneen Arethna, Sona
• Music : Ram Sampath
• Lyrics : Amitabh Bhattacharya, Munna Dhiman, Ram Sampath, Akshat Verma

Delhi Belly Movie Review :

This film review are Mostly Positive from Critics, IMDB Public Reviewing site give7.6 Star Out Of 10 Star with Reviewers are 27437.

Bollywood has taken a big bold step with this movie , and once again , it was Aamir Khan who showed the way! He not only gave a movie that will be talked about for quite a long time , but again came to Imran’s rescue, to give him a re-launch he desperately needed!

Every thing new has been tried , with the language being 90% English , the occasional Hindi comes out in the forms of those “terms of endearment” , and the lingo is something that we all dig! This one has fresh comedy, is stylish , and is worth a repeat view! All the performances were worth-watching ,especially the trio and Vijay Raaz ‘s !

Watch out for the “Ja Churail” number, its frigging hilarious!! And the one-liners too!

Critics Rating by Taran Adarsh, from Bollywood Hungama give 4.5 star out of 5 Star.

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