Lootera movie is a 2013 Bollywood period romantic-drama film directer is Vikramaditya Motwane and partly based on author O. Henry’s 1907 short story The Last Leaf. It is the second film directer is Motwane after his critically acclaimed film Udaan. The film’s producers are Shobha Kapoor, Ekta Kapoor, Anurag Kashyap and Vikas Bahl under banner of Balaji Motion Pictures,Phantom Films.
This film story – Set in the era of the 1950s, against the backdrop of the Zamindari Abolition Act by the newly independent India, it tells the story of a young conman posing as an archaeologist and the daughter of a Bengali zamindar.
The film leading stars cast are Ranveer Singh and Sonakshi Sinha. , the film music and background score composer is Amit Trivedi with all song lyrics writer is Amitabh Bhattacharya and cinematographer is Mahendra J. Shetty.
Lootera movie is released to worldwide on 5th July, 2013 with high positive critics reviews and was counted as one of the best movies of the year 2013. However Box office India declared flop film.
- Directer : Vikramaditya Motwane
- Producer : Anurag Kashyap,Ekta Kapoor,Shobha Kapoor,Vikas Bahl
- Screenplay : Bhavani Iyer,Vikramaditya Motwane
- Story : Vikramaditya Motwane
- Starring : Ranveer Singh,Sonakshi Sinha
- Music : Amit Trivedi
- Cinematography : Mahendra J. Shetty
- Editor : Dipika Kalra
- Production company : Balaji Motion Pictures,Phantom Films
- Distributor : Balaji Motion Pictures
- Genres : Romance, Drama
- Release date : 5 July 2013
- Running time : 135 minutes
- Country : India
- Language : Hindi
Lootera movie trailer :
Lootera movie Star cast :
- Ranveer Singh as a Varun Shrivastav
- Sonakshi Sinha as a Pakhi Roy Chaudhary
- Barun Chanda as a Soumitra Roy Chaudhary
- Adil Hussain as a K. N. Singh
- Vikrant Massey as a Devdas
- Dibyendu Bhattacharya as a Varun’s Friend
- Arif Zakaria as a A. K. Bajpai
- Pratap Jaiswal
- Shirin Guha as a Devyani
- Divya Dutta as a Shyama (Special Appearance)
- Palan Kundu
- Anirban Basu
- Amit Saha
- Dhruv Mookerji
- Newton
- Govind Pandey
- Kodamath Saha
- Sushil Tyagi
- Phalguni Chatterjee
- Mithu
- Mukesh Chaddha
- Ashwani Chauhdhry
- Surya Bahl
- Gurvinder Singh
Pre-post Production :
Pre-Production :
Director Vikramaditya Motwane wrote the script with Bhavani Iyer of Lootera film in 2005. Ranveer Singh’s character was created by the director whereas Sonakshi plays the role of female character from the book. Actor Ranveer Singh claimed that he was not initially convinced with his character in Lootera and had declined to star in the movie. With script readings he grew confident that he could play the role of a con man in the movie, and rehearsed extensively.
Sonakshi Sinha in an interview with The Hindu Newspaper, stated, “I play a Bengali girl. It’s an authentic Bengali look of the fifties that I am sporting and they (the director and designer Subarna) have taken a lot of trouble to go through the kind of clothes, jewellery, hair and make-up done in that era. We have tried to replicate it. Vikramaditya has kept the make-up simple with only the kajal, kumkum, and some laali on the lips which is what the women used to do then. It was the most difficult shooting experience for me so far. In terms of my character, my look, my performance and the locations, everything had to be from an era I knew nothing about.” The director insisted Ranveer’s look be an combination of James Dean and Dev Anand.
Film shooting :
In November 2011, the filmmakers confirmed Sonakshi Sinha and Ranveer Singh for the lead pair. By December 2011, both the actors attended workshops for the look of the character, body language, speech as the film was set in Bengal in the era of the 1950s. Subarna Ray Chaudhari undertook extensive research to design the costumes for the characters to fit the required look.
A romantic song was shot in December 2011. The first schedule was completed in Mumbai by end of December 2011. In January 2012, the set of the film erected in Dalhousie, where the actors were to shoot over for few days was destroyed due to bad weather that caused heavy losses amounting to 5 million. The weather forced the crew to trek through knee-high snow.
However, certain scenes were canned at Kalatop, close to Dalhousie. The schedule was postponed to March 2012.The next schedule began in Kolkata from 23 January 2012 and continued in rural parts of West Bengal. Scenes involving Ranveer, Sonakshi and Barun Chanda were shot at the 11th century Jain temple in Deulghata and Belkuri. The area being Maoist affected, with great risk the entire cast and crew shot scenes under heavy police control.
In March 2012, the team made its second schedule to shoot in Dalhousie, but actor Ranveer Singh injured his back and hence the schedule was post-poned to May 2012. During May 2012, the team made its third attempt to shoot at Dalhousie wherein scenes that were left out to be filmed in the snow were shot by creating a set under artificial snowy conditions in summer season.
Certain scenes playing Shirin Guha and Arif Zakaria separately were completed up by March 2012. Along with potential 50 crew members the leading duo shot at The Itachuna Rajbari, Hooghly District. Old house scenes were later filmed in Purulia. The final schedule of the film took place in Mumbai, and was wrapped up in July 2012.The filming was complete by the end of August 2012 and the release date was scheduled to 29 March 2013. The first trailer released in March 2013 later revealed that the film would release on 5 July 2013.
Lootera movie Songs / Music :
The film music and background score composer is Amit Trivedi, with all song lyricist is Amitabh Bhattacharya.
The music album was launched at PVR Cinemas, Juhu in Mumbai on 7 June 2013. The music composer Amit Trivedi stated that, “The music of this film is a tribute to R. D. Burman in terms of melody and orchestration.” He performed the song “Zinda” and songs “Sawaar Loon”, “Manmarziyan”, “Monta Re” were performed by singer Shilpa Rao and lyricist-singers Amitabh Bhattacharya and Swanand Kirkire, live at the event.
The song listing was updated on 29 May 2013 on the official social network page of the film.
- “Sawaar Loon”……………Monali Thakur.
- “Ankahee”…………………Amitabh Bhattacharya
- “Shikayatein”……………….Mohan Kanan
- “Monta Re”…………………..Swanand Kirkire
- “Zinda”…………………………Amit Trivedi
- “Manmarziyan”………………Shilpa Rao
“Sawaar Loon” full song online :
- Singer : Monali Thakur
- Lyricist : Amitabh Bhattacharya
- Music Composer : Amit Trivedi
- Music On : T-Series
“Zinda” full video song :
- Singer : Amit Trivedi
- Lyricist : Amitabh Bhattacharya
- Music Composer : Amit Trivedi
- Music On : T-Series
“Manmarziyan” full video song :
- Singer : Shilpa Rao
- Lyricist : Amitabh Bhattacharya
- Music Composer : Amit Trivedi
- Music On : T-Series
Lootera movie Review :
This film reviews are mostly positive from critics but at the Box office not perform well enough.
Critics review :
- Taran Adarsh from Bollywood Hungama rate the film 4 star out of 5 star and stated that , “On the whole, LOOTERA is an intrinsically earnest and profoundly heartwarming story that stays in your heart. An absolute must for those who love romantic films or are romantic at heart. This one’s a cinematic gem!”
- Critic Raja Sen of Rediff gave 5 star from 5 and write that, “Lootera is a gorgeous, gorgeous film, one that uses its period setting affectionately, with loving detail, and not exploitatively, as our cinema is wont to do.”
- Meena Iyer of The Times of India gave the film 4 star from 5 and noted, “Lootera is a love saga of yore. You may find this film boring if state-of-the-art, slow romance is not your idea of a movie outing.”
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Public Review :
Box office collection :
- Day 1 – Friday……………..5.10 Cr
- Day 2 – Saturday…………6.30 Cr
- Day 3 – Sunday……………7.60 Cr
- Day 4 – Monday……………2.70 Cr
- Day 5 – Tuesday………….2.10 Cr
- Day 6 – Wednesday……1.90 Cr
- Day 7 – Thursday……….1.60 Cr
- Week 1 Collection……..27.30 Cr
- Week 2 Collection……1.10 Cr
- Week 3 Collection……..0.40 Cr
- Week 4 Collection…….0.15 Cr
- Week 5 Collection……….0.05 Cr
- Total Net Collection…………29.00 Cr
- India Gross Collection…….39.15 Cr
- Overseas Collection………….7.15 Cr
- Worldwide Collection Gross…..46.30 Cr
- Lootera movie Budget :………30.00 Cr
- Lootera movie Verdict :- FLOP
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