Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge

Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge
Promotional poster
Directed by	Nupur Ashtana
Produced by	Ashish Patil
Screenplay by	Rajesh Narasimhan and Anvita Dutt Guptan
Starring	Saqib Saleem Saba Azad Nishant Dahiya Tara D’Souza
Music by	Raghu Dixit
Studio	Y-Films
Release date(s)	October 14, 2011 (2011-10-14)
Running time	106 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Box office	5.12 crore (US$1.04 million) (nett)[1]

Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge is a 2011 Hindi film directed by Nupur Asthana, starring debutant actors in the lead roles. The film is the second production of Y-Films, a subsidiary of Yash Raj Films. It released on October 14, 2011. It also marked the debut of Indian folk rocker Raghu Dixit in Bollywood. The film is inspired by the popular social networking site Facebook.

Plot

The story is all about the misuse of the social networking like Facebook and gives a very good message in the end. There are two groups in a college. The first group consists of Rahul (Nishant Dahiya) and Malvika (Tara Dsouza), who have good looks and great fan following in their college. Vishal (Saqib Saleem) and Preity (Saba Azad) form the second group who are creatively brilliant but are shy in expressing their views at public forums. Vishal is a good writer who pens lyrics for rockstar pal Rahul. Girls are crazy about Rahul, but Rahul seems indifferent towards them. Preity, good at photography, happens to be friends with Malvika.

Malvika's id pops up on Rahul's Facebook profile page and since he is disinterested in adding friends on his account, Vishal takes the initiative. However, unknown to him Malvika's id is being operated by her friend Preity. Vishal chats with Preity thinking it is Malvika and vice-versa. Meanwhile, the college is celebrating its silver jubilee. The theme for the festival is a photographic documentary (idea of Preity) of the romantic history of the college (idea of Vishal). Vishal and Preity are forcibly thrown together for the project. They get attracted to each other, but they still fantasize about their online relationship.

It is Rahul's birthday party where Vishal finds Rahul kissing Malvika, whom Vishal is unaware that its Preity who chats with him instead of Rahul. Preity is also unaware that she chats with Vishal, and not Rahul, however she comes to know later. Vishal fire Rahul how he can cheat with him, as Rahul's online love interest in Malvika, and then Preity tries to explain him, its not Malvika but actually she is the one who has chated with him all days.

It all ends in College silver jubilee festival, where Vishal was the anchor ,instead of reading his lines ,he proposes Preity.

Cast

• Saqib Saleem as Vishal
• Saba Azad as Preity
• Nishant Dahiya as Rahul
• Tara D’Souza as Malvika
• Prabal Panjabi as Hacky

Production

Development

On April 1, 2011 the film was unveiled publicly as the second production venture of Y-Films and the cast of the film met the press along with the actors from Y-Films' other two ventures, Luv Ka The End'.^[2]

Reception

Critical response

The film received a good response from most of the critics. Leading Bollywood portal Movie Talkies quoted "Y-Films' latest outing is a must watch. And with characters like Vishal, Saba and Hacky, who stay with you long after you've left the theatre hall, this is one 'fraaandship' request everyone should accept instantly!" and rated Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge with 3.5 stars ^[3].Popular Bollywood portal Glamsham rated the movie with 3.5 stars.^[4] Fullhyd.com rated it 6 out of 10, stating that the film is likely to hit it off with you if you're approximately 18 years old. ^[5]

Box office

Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge was dull at the box office, however scored over the other releases like Aazaan and My Friend Pinto. The film collected about 50 lakh (US$101,400) on the first day of its release adding it to first weekend collection of about 2.25 crore (US$456,300) in the opening weekend and was declared as an below average grosser by boxoffice-india.^[6][7]

Soundtrack

Most of the film's music is composed by Raghu Dixit. Taran Adarsh of Bolywood Hungama gave the soundtrack three stars out of five and praised it for the variety Dixit brought in the five songs he composed. He also said the album has the kind of songs that should not be dependent upon the theatrical run of the movie and is expected to find listeners even after the movie releases.^[8]

Track listing
No.	Title	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Dheaon Dheaon"	Vishal Dadlani, Aditi Singh Sharma, Machas With Attitude (Rap)
2.	"Uh-Oh Uh-Oh!"	Ash King, Shilpa Rao
3.	"Baatein Shuru"	Joi Barua, Shefali Alvaris
4.	"Chu Le"	Suraj Jagan
5.	"Har Saans Main"	Raghu Dixit
6.	"Dheaon Dheaon (The Seeti Seeti Bang Bang Mix)"	Vishal Dadlani, Aditi Singh Sharma
7.	"Uh-Oh Uh-Oh! 2.0"	Ash King, Shilpa Rao
8.	"Chu Le (The Big Bang Mix)"	Suraj Jagan

References

1. ^ "Box Office Earnings 04/11/11 - 10/11/11". 11 November 2011. BoxofficeIndia.com. http://www.boxofficeindia.com/cpages.php?pageName=earnings. Retrieved 21 November 2011. 
2. ^ "YRF to launch 7 new faces - Times Of India". The Times of India. 2011-04-01. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/YRF-to-launch-7-new-faces/articleshow/7844111.cms. Retrieved 2011-10-14. 
3. ^ "Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge Review". 14th October 2011. http://www.movietalkies.com/movies/reviews/20136/mujhse-fraaandship-karoge. 
4. ^ "Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge Review". 15th October 2011. http://www.glamsham.com/movies/reviews/15-mujhse-fraaandship-karoge-movie-review-1011104.asp. 
5. ^ Deepa Garimella (14 October 2011). "Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge Review". fullhyd.com. http://www.fullhyderabad.com/profile/movies/4533/2/mujhse-fraaandship-karoge-movie-review#tabs. 
6. ^ "Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge Has Best Weekend". 17 October 2011. http://boxofficeindia.com/boxnewsdetail.php?page=shownews&articleid=3572&nCat=. Retrieved 18 October 2011. 
7. ^ "Ra.One Countdown Begins, Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge Picks Up At Box-Office". 21 October 2011. Koimoi.com. http://www.koimoi.com/box-office/ra-one-countdown-begins-mujhse-fraaandship-karoge-picks-up-at-box-office/. Retrieved 21 October 2011. 
8. ^ "Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge : Music Review by Joginder Tuteja". bollywoodhungama.com. http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movies/musicreview/14447/index.html. Retrieved 7 November 2011. 

External links

• Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge at the Internet Movie Database
• Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge at Bollywood Hungama