Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006-movie) :Bollywood Hindi Film

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Lage Raho Munna Bhai is a 2006 Bollywood comedy-drama film directer is Rajkumar Hirani and producer is Vidhu Vinod Chopra. It is2nd part of 2003 film Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. with Sanjay Dutt reprising his role as Munna Bhai, a Mumbai Bombay underworld don. In Lage Raho Munna Bhai, the eponymous lead character starts to see the spirit of Mahatma Gandhi. Through his interactions with Gandhi, he begins to practice what he refers to as Gandhigiri a neologism for Gandhism to help ordinary people solve their problems.

The film won High critical acclaim from critics and had a number of prominent screenings. It was a box office success and received a “blockbuster” rating by the website Box Office India after grossing over 1.27 billion rs. worldwide. It was the recipient of a number of awards, including four National Film Awards. Lage Raho Munna Bhai was the first Hindi film to be shown at the United Nations, and was screened at the Tous Les Cinema du Monde section of the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. The film popularised the term Gandhigiri. Vidhu Vinod Chopra submitted the film as an independent entry for the 2007 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. It was later remade in Telugu as Shankar Dada Zindabad (2007).

Directer : Rajkumar Hirani
Producer : Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Screenplay : Rajkumar Hirani,Abhijat Joshi
Story : Rajkumar Hirani,Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Starring : Sanjay Dutt,Arshad Warsi,Vidya Balan,Boman Irani,Dilip Prabhavalkar,Dia Mirza,Jimmy Sheirgill,Kulbhushan Kharbanda,Saurabh Shukla
Music : Shantanu Moitra
Cinematography : C. K. Muraleedharan
Edited : Rajkumar Hirani
Distributed : Vinod Chopra Productions
Release date : 1 September 2006
Running time : 144 minutes
Country : India
Language : Hindi

Lage Raho Munnabhai Trailer :

Story of the film :

Murli Prasad Sharma(Sanjay Dutt) alias Munna Bhai is a gangster in love with the voice of Janhavi(Vidya Balan), a radio jockey. He devises a plan to meet her when she announces a quiz contest featuring the life and beliefs of Mahatma Gandhi, to be aired on 2 October, the birthday of Gandhi. To prepare for the contest, Munna’s friends Circuit (Arshad Warsi) kidnaps and bribes a group of professors to provide the answers for Munna. After winning the contest, Munna is granted an interview with Janhavi wherein he presents himself as a professor of history and a Gandhi specialist. Janhavi subsequently asks Munna to present a lecture on Gandhi to a community of senior citizens who live in her home, called the ‘Second Innings House’. To prepare, Munna engages in intense study at a Gandhi institute. For three days and nights without food or sleep, Munna reads about the life and ideologies of Gandhi.

Munna studies so much that Gandhi appears as an hallucination to offer help and advice. Gandhi encourages Munna to tell the truth to Janhavi, but Munna resists. With Gandhi’s help, Munna succeeds in impressing Jahnavi and cultivates a new lifestyle based upon Gandhism. Munna starts to co-host a radio-show with Janhavi and Gandhi’s image, guiding his audience to use Gandhigiri to solve everyday problems.

Lucky Singh(Boman Irani), an unscrupulous businessman, employs Circuit and Munna to conduct underworld activities for him. His daughter Simran is engaged to marry Sunny, the son of the powerful businessman Kkhurana. Kkhurana is superstitious and his activities are controlled by his astrologer, Batuk Maharaj, whose particular use of numerology led Kkhurana to add an extra “K” to his real name (Khurana) as well as to the conclusion that the ‘Second Innings House’ would be the most auspicious place for Sunny and Simran to live. Maharaj also convinces Kkhurana to reject the marriage between Simran and Sunny when it is revealed that Simran is considered to be a manglik (an individual whose Vedic astrological makeup is believed by some to be devastating for marriage, mostly leading to the death of the spouse after a certain calculated period of marriage). Lucky tricks Kkhurana by saying that one of his typists had entered the wrong time of birth. Lucky appropriates the ‘Second Innings House’ by sending Munna, Jahnavi, and the Second Innings senior citizens to Goa and then blackmailing Munna to let the matter pass or risk losing Janhavi. In response, Munna launches a “non-violent” protest to reclaim the house. He calls this protest “Get Well Soon, Lucky” and asks his radio show’s audience to send Lucky flowers to help him recover from the “disease of dishonesty”.

One night Gandhi tells Munna that the only way to stop Lucky is to reveal the truth to Janhavi himself, saying that this will only help in getting his love back if he continues to practice Gandhigiri. Munna asks Gandhi when he can tell Janhavi the truth, and Gandhi tells Munna to tell her the next day at 6:00 am. Via letter, Munna does so. Heartbroken, Janhavi leaves Munna. Munna receives another setback when he is tricked by Lucky into revealing his conversations with Gandhi before a public audience, after a person, who is revealed to be Munna’s psychiatrist, asks him five questions about Gandhi, only two of which Munna is able to answer, with Gandhi’s help, but as Gandhi does not reply to the other three, Munna cannot either. Munna finds that only after he has learned something about the real Gandhi’s life can the Gandhi image talk about it, which serves as proof for a psychiatrist in the audience that Munna is hallucinating.

Later, Munna and Circuit decide to leave the city, when Munna realizes that he has to host one last radio show to apologize to Janhavi. Meanwhile, during Sunny and Simran’s(Dia Mirza) wedding, it is revealed to Simran by Lucky’s wife that she is a manglik and she goes to the railway station adorned in her wedding dress to commit suicide as she does not want to start a relationship based on a lie, and is devastated to learn about her father’s wrongdoings, because she always loved her father. But the taxi driver is Victor D’Souza, a man whose problem was solved on Munna’s radio show. He explains to her that suicide is not the right choice and contacts Munna for advice. Munna and Circuit come directly to the wedding and cleverly question the astrological Maharaj, saying that if Maharaj can predict others’ futures, then why can he not predict his own future, and attempts to persuade Kkhurana to allow the marriage to happen. However, Kkhurana is not convinced and tells Sunny to leave with him in the car. Sunny objects and Simran and Sunny exchange garlands. Munna and Circuit ask the police to take them to jail.

Gandhi’s monologue at the end of the film, however, questions this conclusion. Munna, despite these defeats, continues to use Gandhigiri, a decision that transforms Lucky, and revives Janhavi’s affection when she reconciles with Munna in jail. Lucky, happy that Sunny and Simran are married, gives up the Second Innings house. A Second Innings couple adopt Circuit as their son and Sunny and Simran had a happy life. Lucky then begins studying Gandhism, Gandhi and Gandhigiri, resulting in him too hallucinating Gandhi. Kkhurana has also removed the extra K in his name to become Khurana only, denying Maharaj’s false prediction.

Production:

• The Munna Bhai series started after Vidhu Vinod Chopra agreed to produce Rajkumar Hirani’s 2003 film Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. when no one else would (Rajkumar had worked as an editor on Chopra’s 2000 film Mission Kashmir). They also collaborated on the script. Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. was a runaway success that prompted the duo to contemplate a sequel. The sequel was initially known as Munnabhai Meets Mahatma Gandhi and was later titled Munnabhai 2nd Innings before the title Lage Raho Munna Bhai was finalised.

• Rajkumar said in an interview that he felt the burden of expectation while writing the screenplay for Lage Raho Munna Bhai, as he had to create “something to match” the first film. Initially there was some effort to incorporate scenes or characteristics of the first film into the sequel (such as the idiosyncratic laugh of Asthana, portrayed by Boman Irani in the first part), but the risks of repetition were consciously averted.

Release:

Screening:

• Screened on 10 November 2006 in the United Nations auditorium, Lage Raho Munna Bhai was the first Hindi film to be shown at the UN.The film was introduced by Shashi Tharoor, UN Under-Secretary General for Communications and Public Information. Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama observed that, “there was thunderous clapping at the high points of the film, like the pensioner shedding his clothes. The applause at the end of the screening was unending. A vibrant question and answer session followed with director Rajkumar Hirani, writer Abhijat Joshi and actor Boman Irani, who flew to the U.S. for the screening.” The Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) noted that, “an evening that had started with massive security arrangements in the sombre UN setting, concluded in a festive atmosphere in the lounge of the UN with diplomats from other tables joining in raising a toast for the film.”
• The United Nations General Assembly announced on 15 June 2007 that 2 October, the day of Gandhi’s birth (Gandhi Jayanti), was to be “the International Day of Non-Violence.”

Review of the film :

This film is High Critical acclaim and Also Box office Blockbuster film.

Suparn Verma on rediff.com giving 4 and half star, and praising the film by saying that “Technically and production-wise the sequel is a notch higher than the previous film, but the main challenge was for the scriptwriters to match up if not go one better than the previous film, and Abhijat Joshi and Rajkumar Hirani deliver big time. The film is a prime example of a great script with sure-handed direction at its best.In the end the film’s true hero is Rajkumar Hirani, who has written, edited and directed the film. Like the Frank Capra classic It’s A Wonderful Life, this Munnabhai edition is a film for people of all ages, timeless in its appeal as it aims straight for the inherent hope and goodness in all of us.Lage Raho Munnabhai is one such film that makes you laugh, makes you cry, and also makes you feel good to be a human.”

Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave the film four out five stars, calling it “a sparkling example of qualitative cinema” arguing that it “not only entertains, it also enlightens.”

Subhash K. Jha said that “Munna and Circuit, arguably cinema’s most adorable and roguish reformists since Laurel and Hardy go about the business of generating humour out of the pathos of the human condition. The sequences, all fiercely and famously path-breaking have us in splits. Watch the love-lorn Munnabhai answer a Gandhian quiz on a phone-in radio quiz with the help of kidnapped professors’ it’s one of the most comically animated sequences seen in the movies of the new millennium.”

Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN gave it four out of five stars and states: “Like those good old-fashioned Hrishikesh Mukherjee films, it also reinforces the importance of human goodness and basic niceties. Even if you might argue that some of Gandhi’s principles seem outdated today, you cannot help but cheer for Munna and his gang as they achieve the impossible with love and kindness. And that is where this film transcends conventional boundaries. It entertains you, yes, but it also makes you yearn for a perfect world. Judge it by any yardstick that you may, Lage Raho Munnabhai emerges a clear winner. Much of that credit must go to its actors who pull out all stops to make it an enjoyable ride.”

Nikhat Kazmi of The Times of India observes that “Vidhu Vinod Chopra gives the great Indian family one more let’s-go-goodwill-hunting entertainer, even as director Raju Hirani proves that sequels needn’t have the been there-done that feel…”

Lage Raho Munna Bhai Movie Music /Songs:

This film music composer is Shantanu Moitra while Swanand Kirkire writed all the songs in this superhit music. Swanand Kirkire won the National Film Award for Best Lyrics in 2007 for the song “Bande Mein Tha Dum.” According to the Indian trade website Box Office India, with around 1,000,000 units sold, this film’s music album was the year’s fourteenth highest-selling.

• “Lage Raho Munna Bhai”……………………………Vinod Rathod
• “Samjho Ho Hi Gaya”………………………………..Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi, Vinod Rathod
• “Aane Char Aane”……………………………………….Karunya
• “Pal Pal…Har Pal”………………………………………..Sonu Nigam, Shreya Ghoshal
• “Bande Mein Tha Dum…Vande Mataram”………………Sonu Nigam, Shreya Ghoshal, Pranab Kumar Biswas
• “Bande Mein Tha Dum” (Instrumental)…………………Ashwin Shrinivasan
• “Aane Char Aane” (Remix)……………………………….Karunya
• “Lage Raho Munnabhai” (Remix)………………………..Shaan

• Song – Samjho Ho Hi Gaya
• Film – Lage Raho Munnabhai
• Singer – Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi, Vinod Rathor
• Lyricist – Farhad, Sajid, Swanand Kirkire

• Song – Pal Pal Har Pal
• Film – Lage Raho Munnabhai
• Singer – Sonu Nigam, Shreya Ghosal
• Lyricist – Swanand Kirkire

Sequel of the film :

Munnabhai 3 series film announce by Vidhu Vinod Chopra announced on 29 September 2016 that production on the third Munna Bhai film starring Dutt and Arshad Warsi in the main role would started in 2017.

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