Mumbai Matinee

Mumbai Matinee
Directed by	Anant Balani
Produced by	Bobbie Ghosh, Rangita Pritish Nandy
Written by	Anant Balani
Starring	Rahul Bose, Perizaad Zorabian, Vijay Raaz, Saurabh Shukla
Cinematography	Sanjay Nair
Editing by	Mohammed Rafique
Distributed by	Pritish Nandy Communications (PNC)
Release date(s)	26 September 2003
Running time	125 minutes
Country	India
Language	English Hindi

Mumbai Matinee (Hindi: मुंबई मैटिनी) is a 2003 Bollywood romantic comedy film directed and written by Anant Balani and starring Rahul Bose as a 32 year old virgin. The film premiered on 26 September 2003 and was also released in the UK. Director Anant Balani died before the film was released on 29 August 2003.

Plot

Debu pictured (centre)

Debu (Rahul Bose) is a 32 year old advertising agent, but has a serious problem in that he is still a virgin. He meets Baba Hindustani in a hotel who promises to cure him of the teasing he gets from being a virgin. He later meets Nitin Kapoor, a film-maker (Saurabh Shukla) who later films him as he works out in the gym and other physical activities. Unaware of what is happening, Kapoor edits the film in in such a way to give the impression of Debu as having sex. The film is released and becomes a box office hit and Debu quickly becomes a sex symbol. He later meets Sonali Verma (Perizaad Zorabian), a journalist, who helps him through his difficulties and they later fall in love ^[1].

Cast

• Rahul Bose as Debu Chatterjee
• Perizaad Zorabian as Sonali Verma
• Vijay Raaz as Baba Hindustani
• Saurabh Shukla as Nitin Kapoor
• Anusha Dhandekar as Anusha, the temptress
• Kaabir as Rakesh Sharma
• G. Asrani as Pyarelal
• Bakul Thakkar as Roshan Kumar
• Amar Talwar as Mahesh Ghodbole
• Sunila Karambelkar as Monica D'Costa
• Sanjay Gandhi as Rohan Khanna
• Noshirwan Jehangir as Pinto
• Shehzad Khan as Don
• Prithvi Zutshi as a Police Inspector
• Pinky Chinoy as a Prostitute

Playback singers

• Anand Raj Anand - composer of the song "Loot Gaye"
• Kay Kay
• Shantanu Mukherjee
• Sonu Nigam
• Saswati Phukan
• Farhad Wadia

References

1. ^ BBC.co.uk, Retrieved 21 February 2008

External links

• Mumbai Matinee at the Internet Movie Database