Mumbai Se Aaya Mera Dost

Mumbai Se Aaya Mera Dost
Directed by	Apoorva Lakhia
Produced by	Vishal Nihalani
Written by	Apoorva Lakhia
Narrated by	Amitabh Bachchan
Starring	Abhishek Bachchan Lara Dutta Chunky Pandey
Music by	Anu Malik Ranjit Barot
Cinematography	R.J. Gururaj
Editing by	Steven Bernard
Distributed by	Rubberband Films
Release date(s)	22 August 2003
Running time	147 mins
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Mumbai Se Aaya Mera Dost is a 2003 Bollywood movie starring Abhishek Bachchan, Lara Dutta, Aditya Lakhia, and Yashpal Sharma. The film is directed by Apoorva Lakhia. The film touched on the subject of influence of television on village life.

Synopsis

Dina Nath (Snehal Lakhia) is honored by the Indian Government, which is televised live. While receiving the honors, Dina Nath informs the Government that his village is still without electricity, and he is promised that electricity will be provided in his village immediately. And electricity is provided in the village. Dina Nath's son, Kanji (Abhishek Bachchan), who is in Mumbai, hears of this and returns to the village along with a C-Band ten foot satellite dish and a super flat stereo television. When the satellite is set up, the villagers are thrilled by the TV shows. This helps create a running gag of copying TV culture into the rural lives. The changes lead to the village priest (Akhilendra Mishra) complaining to Chotey Thakur Rudra Pratap Singh (Yashpal Sharma) that the villagers are turning away from his temple and worship. Rudra is not concerned as he himself has a TV set in his home. But when the priest informs Rudra that his sister, Kesar (Lara Dutta) and Kanji are in love, Rudra makes a threat to destroy Kanji and all of the village in the presence of a TV crew filming the whole drama and telecasting it live worldwide. The plot comes to a culmination when, angered by Kanji's antics, Rudra arrives to destroy the village. The villagers stand up to the exploitation and fight Rudra and his goons. Finally Rudra is killed at the hands of Kanji.

Cast

• Abhishek Bachchan as Kanji
• Lara Dutta as Kesar
• Chunky Pandey as Sanjay
• Aditya Lakhia as Surya
• Yashpal Sharma as Rudra Pratap Singh
• Daya Shankar Pandey as Hari
• Akhilendra Mishra as Priest
• Amitabh Bachchan as Narrator

Soundtracks

The music was created by Anu Malik. The music response for this movie was very good and some of the songs like "Shaher Ka Jadoo Re" topped some of the Bollywood music charts.

#	Title	Singer(s)	Length
1	Koi Bheega Hai Rang Se	Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik	06:26
2	Shaher Ka Jadoo Re	Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik	06:20
3	Jeetenge Baazi Hum	Sonu Nigam, Mahalakshmi Iyer	05:20
4	Saiiyan	Sunidhi Chauhan	05:25
5	Mujhe Tune Jo Dekha	Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik	02:45
6	The Journey (Instrumental)		02:20

Audience response

Though not a very successful film at the box office, the performance of Abhishek Bachchan was appreciated.^{[citation needed]} Through this film, he adopted the rough guy look which he has continued to appear with in most of his films. It was Apoorva Lakhia's directorial début who went on to become one of the closest friends of Abhishek Bachchan.

External links

• Mumbai Se Aaya Mera Dost at the Internet Movie Database