Welcome (film)

Infobox Film
name = Welcome


caption = Movie poster for "Welcome"
director = Anees Bazmee
producer = Firoz Nadiadwala
writer = Anees Bazmee
Abbas Tyrewala
narrator =
starring = Akshay Kumar
Nana Patekar
Anil Kapoor
Katrina Kaif
Feroz Khan
Paresh Rawal
music = Sajid-Wajid
Anand Raj Anand
Himesh Reshammiya
cinematography = Sanjay F. Gupta
editing =
distributor = A.G. Films
released = 21 December 2007
runtime = 158 mins
country = IND
language = Hindi
budget =
gross =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website = http://welcome-thefilm.com
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0488798

"Welcome" (Hindi: वेलकम, Urdu: ویلکم) is a 2007 Bollywood film, directed by Anees Bazmee. The film stars Feroz Khan, Akshay Kumar, Nana Patekar, Anil Kapoor, Katrina Kaif and Malika Sherawat.

Synopsis

Dr Ghunghroo (Paresh Rawal) wants his nephew Rajiv (Akshay Kumar) to marry a girl from a decent family. Don Uday Shetty (Nana Patekar), would like an honest man to marry his sister Sanjana (Katrina Kaif). He and his brother Majnu (Anil Kapoor) set things up so Dr Ghunghroo accepts their proposal. Upon learning his mistake, however, he and his family flee the city. Rajiv, meanwhile, meets Sanjana in a hotel and immediately falls in love with her. Majnu and Uday make an offer, promising to quit their bad habits if Rajiv would marry Sanjana. Dr Ghunghroo agrees and a grand celebration is held along with RDX (Feroz Khan). But then, a girl named Ishika (Malika Sherawat) turns up, claiming to be Rajiv's wife and insisting that the engagement stop that minute. Sanjana is very depressed and Rajiv, quite shocked. They find out it was Dr Ghunghroo who had hired Ishika to stop the marriage. The cause being that Dr Ghungroo promised his sister, who is Rajiv's mother that "he would not let a shadow of crime fall on him (Rajiv)". Rajiv's mother apparently, married into a family heavily involved in crime and suffered her whole life for making that mistake. When Rajiv was born, she gave him to her brother, Dr Ghungroo so that he would have a better life. At this point Dr Ghungroo says that he has no objection for Rajiv marrying Sanjana but he has an objection to Sanjana's family. Upon hearing this, Rajiv says that if he can make Uday Shetty and Majnu leave crime then he he would surely be able to marry Sanjana. To repent Uday Shetty, who has a dream of being an actor, he casts him in a fake film which has Ishika as a co-star. To repent Majnu, who thinks of himself as a great painter, sells his paintings at an exhibition where Ishika is set up to lure him. All th plans work well until Sanjana accidently and indirectly shoots Lucky, who is RDX's son. What then follows is a twisted turn of events which ends up with Rajiv gaining the trust of RDX by risking his own life into rescuing Lucky who is alive. RDX, Shetty and Majnu end up supposedly leaving crime while Rajiv and Sanjana end up getting married.

Cast

* Akshay Kumar... Rajiv
* Anil Kapoor... Sagar Pandey "Majnu Bhai"
* Nana Patekar... Uday Shetty/Don
* Katrina Kaif... Sanjana Shetty
* Paresh Rawal... Dr. Ghungroo
* Feroz Khan... Ranveer Dhanraj Xata "RDX"
* Malika Sherawat... Ishika,Isha
* Sunil Shetty ... Special Appearance (as himself)
* Supriya Karnik ... Ghungroo's Wife
* Malaika Arora Khan... in song 'Hoth Rasiley'

Crew

* Director: Anees Bazmee
* Story: Anees Bazmee
* Dialogue: Abbas Tyrewala
* Producer: Firoz Nadiawala
* Music: Anand Raj Anand, Sajid & Wajid, Himesh Reshamiya
* Art Direction: Sabu Cyril
* Editor: Anees Bazmee
* Lyrics: Sameer, Anand Raj Anand, Shabbir Ahmed
*Photography:Sanjay F Gupta
*Choreography:Ahmed Khan

Music

The song listing is as follows.

Box Office

According to boxofficeindia.com, Welcome opened to a massive response locally, it grossed Rs. 353 million in its first week, which exceeded Dhoom 2's opening, and is now only fourth to Race's Rs.356 million and Om Shanti Om's Rs.401 million and Singh is King's all time high 431 million opening. [ [http://www.boxofficeindia.com/cpages.php?pageName=first_week_records BoxOffice India.com ] ]

Within two weeks, Welcome grossed around 76 crores, despite facing competition from the highly successful, Aamir Khan's "Taare Zameen Par". [ [http://www.boxofficeindia.com/boxdetail.php?page=shownews&articleid=45&nCat=box_office_report BoxOffice India.com ] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.welcome-thefilm.com/ Welcome official site]
*imdb title|id=0488798|title=Welcome
* [http://in.movies.yahoo.com/movies/Welcome/summary-9827.html Welcome at Yahoo! India Movies]