Anjaana Anjaani (2010)

After numerous attempts at suicide fail, a couple decide to live it up, and then kill themselves on New Year's Day.

Director:

Siddharth Anand

Writers:

Mamta Anand (story), Siddharth Anand (dialogue),

Stars:

Adrian Bustamante, Priyanka Chopra, Ranbir Kapoor

1 nomination.

Cast

Credited cast:
Adrian Bustamante	...	Chaperone (as Raul Bustamante)
Priyanka Chopra	...	Kiara
Ranbir Kapoor	...	Akash
Aubrey K. Miller	...	Party Kid
Pooja Kumar	...	Peshto
Kumar Pallana
Zayed Khan	...	Kunal
Carl Marino	...	Airport Couple
Tanvi Azmi	...	Doctor
Vishal Malhotra	...	Akash's Friend
Sucheta Khanna
Robert Leckington	...	Traffic Jam / New Years Eve / Christmas Pedestrian
Joy Sengupta
Ilona Marino	...	Airport Couple (as Ilona Gugan)
Sophia Revelli	...	Cheerleader

Storyline

The story of two strangers on an odyssey of discovery -- down a path that is ridden with the exquisite pain and joy of falling in love, only they don't realize it. A series of hilarious misadventures trace their bi coastal road journey as they go about fulfilling their last wishes. But then life interrupts, as is its habit; and painful choices must be made. The duo part with the understanding that their days together were a brief interlude of insanity that had to succumb to real life. They part as they met - as strangers.

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Plot Keywords:

love | bridge | car | swimming | hospital | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Musical | Romance

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Details

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Release Date:

1 October 2010 (India)

Filming Locations:

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$517,608 (USA) (2 October 2010)

Gross:

$854,757 (USA) (22 October 2010)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Eros Entertainment, Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

151 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Goofs

During Kiara's first flashback scene, when Kunal is playing a video game, the TV screen shows wii sports. However, there is no wii controller in his hand, but some other type of controller. Moreover, his wii character continues to move even though he leaves the controller to talk.

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Connections

References Disco Dancer (1982)

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Soundtracks

"Anjaana Anjaani Ki Kahani"
Written by Neelesh Misra
Composed by Vishal Dadlani and Shekhar Ravjiani
Performed by Nikhil D'Souza and Monali
Courtesy of Super Cassettes Industries Limited (T-Series)

User Reviews

Kismet Konnection of "Anjaani Anjaana"

The suicide attempt of two strangers gets inter-twined. "I scratch your back, you scratch mine" becomes the mission statement of their collaboration. What ensues next is flashbacks of their reasons to end their lives, discover each other and the beauty of life itself. Did I forget to mention all this in the process of futile suicide attempts?

♫ Priyanka Chopra:: Good writing in certain parts of her character though sometime she appears quite bubbly and sometimes low-down. Priyanka gives her best shot.

♫ Ranbir Kapoor:: Gets to showcase various emotion of the character and the layers to it. Delivers at ease. A black horse to watch out in the Bollywood arena.

♫ Zayed Khan:: He falters regardless of an intense scene, casual scene or melodramatic scene. Nonetheless, no great damage to the fly-in-the- ointment character.

For starters, the movie should have been "Anjaani Anjaana" for the premise of Priyanka Chopra has a greater depth which had the potential to leave lasting impact had the movie started on that thread. Ranbir's starting point is quite weak and ill-written. The plot could have connected well if it was based in India and the journey of the protagonist would have revolved around "Discovery of India". The weakest of the movie are the excessive cinematic liberties in the plot, hence the reference Kismet Konnection stated.

The outline of the plot is clueless whether it was meant to be comedy or love-story under the framework of suicide mission. Owing to which the writing is poor is both fronts.

The song "Aas Paas Hain Khuda" is a standard piece of line which is placed whenever there is Kismet Konnection moment. Having said that music is not as rich as "Hum Tum" or "Bachna Ae Haseeno".

With "Robot" released alongside I got the impression that AA suffered but frankly that wasn't the case. Even the multiplex crowd (read that generation next) could not fancy the meat in the plot. The only takers I suppose must have been Ranbir and Priyanka's fan-base.