Mehbooba (2008 film)

Mehbooba
Movie poster
Directed by	Afzal Khan
Produced by	Shabina Khan
Written by	Rumi Jaffrey
Starring	Sanjay Dutt Ajay Devgn Manisha Koirala
Music by	Ismail Darbar
Distributed by	Eros Labs
Release date(s)	July 11, 2008
Running time	162 mins
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Mehbooba is a Bollywood Romance film written, produced and directed by Afzal Khan. The story of the movie is based on a love-triangle, lead protagonists being Ajay Devgn, Sanjay Dutt and Manisha Koirala. Music of the film was composed by Ismail Darbar. The film was released in India on July 11, 2008. The film was shot in 2000, but got delayed and released in 2008, 8 years after it was shot.

Synopsis

New York – a city of affluences and grandeurs…an ideal place for the handsome, successful and very rich Shravan Dhariwal (Sanjay Dutt). A business tycoon, Shravan has everything one can dream of having and what he doesn’t have, he buys it. A winner all the way with an envious lifestyle makes him the most eligible bachelor around. He loves being in the company of beautiful and desirable women. His charm and money gets him any beauty he desires till he meets Varsha (Manisha Koirala). Varsha is an Indian girl who values self-respect and morality much above the money and glamour of America. She is the first girl in Shravan’s life who says no to his advances. Shravan is not a guy who would take NO for an answer and starts showering Varsha with presents and gifts that she keeps refusing, which are then followed by costlier gifts. Unmoved by the money being showered on her, Varsha insults Shravan in front of a few thousand people which comes as a jolt to him. For the first time in his life Shravan wakes up to the fact and is made to understand that like everything else, women are not commodities that he can buy by showering gifts on them. He realizes his mistake and apologizes to Varsha asking for her forgiveness. To make amends for his misdeeds, he goes to meet Varsha’s father and express his love and respect for her. He asks for Varsha’s hand in marriage. Varsha’s father convinces her that he is a changed man now and genuinely loves her. After much deliberation, Varsha agrees and they get engaged. They take off on a holiday and their romantic sojourn ends in lovemaking. Varsha’s beautiful dream comes to a shocking end when Shravan tells her that his love for her was just a drama to get engaged so he could sleep with her – ‘Every woman has a price tag, some sleep for money and some fools like you for the promise of marriage’. Heart broken and shattered, Varsha’s whole world collapses around her. She leaves the country and goes as far away as possible from Shravan Dhariwal to start a new life. Shravan is summoned to his hometown in India by Maasa Reema Lagoo,as his younger brother Karan (Ajay Devgan) has decided to get married. Karan settled in Europe, is in complete contrast to his brother. They are like two sides of a coin, emotionally attached but poles apart. Intrigued as to who his brother is so smitten by, Shravan keeps pestering his brother to tell him more about the love of his life. Karan describes Payal as an angel, a goddess he is madly in love with. A girl with amazing charm and beauty like none other. It’s virtually impossible for him to stop praising her. As the marriage day arrives closer, Payal arrives from Europe. Shravan meet Payal. Payal is none other than Varsha.

Cast

• Sanjay Dutt as Shravan Dhariwal
• Ajay Devgn as Karan Dhariwal
• Manisha Koirala as Varsha/Payal

Box office

Mehbooba had a good first-week respond to the box-office. The film collected Rs. 10.45 crore in its first week. It failed to do well since it was concepted to be filmed so old and took quite a longtime for release, and was filmed in 2000, although it was released in 2008. It failed to do well at the box-office, and was promoted to a flop.

Music

The old-fashioned still soothing music of the film was composed by Ismail Darbar. ^[1] The tracks are listed down.

Song	Singer	Picturised on/Notes
Tu Meri Mehbooba	Udit Narayan	Sanjay Dutt, Manisha Koirala
Khwabon Ki Rani Hai	Udit Narayan	Ajay Devgn, Manisha Koirala
Dilruba	Udit Narayan	Ajay Devgn
Yaar Tera Shukriya	Alka Yagnik, Udit Narayan	Manisha Koirala, Ajay Devgn
Deewana	Sukhwinder Singh, Sonu Nigam	Sanjay Dutt, Ajay Devgn
Babuji Bahut Dukhta Hai	Alka Yagnik	Sanjay Dutt, Ajay Devgn
Kuch Kar Lo	Sonu Nigam	Sanjay Dutt
Kuch Kar Lo	Shankar Mahadevan, Kavita Krishnamurthy	Sanjay Dutt, Manisha Koirala
Kuch Kar Lo Kuch	Mahalaxmi Iyer	Manisha Koirala
Achcha To Ab Main Chalta Hoon	Sonu Nigam

References

1. ^ India Music 4U

External links

• Mehbooba