Cocktail (2012)

A love triangle between a guy and two girls, who are best friends but the complete opposite of one another.

Director:

Homi Adajania

Writers:

Imtiaz Ali, Sajid Ali

Stars:

Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone, Diana Penty

7 wins & 44 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Saif Ali Khan	...	Gautam Kapoor
Deepika Padukone	...	Veronica Malaney
Diana Penty	...	Meera Sahni
Dimple Kapadia	...	Kavita Kapoor
Boman Irani	...	Randhir Malhotra
Yasmin Tippett	...	Tresha Malhotra
Lottie Dosanjh	...	Sara Malhotra
Tina Desai	...	Waitress in Cafe (as Tena Desae)
Louise Bangay	...	Susan Broadbent Malhotra
Manoj Pahwa	...	Lovely Chadda
Mia Uyeda	...	Jayshree (Air Hostess)
Tim Parker	...	Traveller at Airport
Ray Burnet	...	Security Guard
Shailesh Dubey	...	Police Officer
Dean Bardini	...	Kunal's Collegue

Storyline

The story revolves around Gautam Khanna (Saif Ali Khan), Veronica D'Costa (Deepika Padukone) and Meera Gupta (Diana Penty). Gautam Khanna (Saif Ali Khan) always had a dream to go to London and have a job. His dream is fulfilled and he gets a job. But his mom, Nita (Dimple Kapadia) says that she has to finalize his marriage to a girl and so he has to wait. She finds her perfect 'bahu' in Meera Gupta (Diana Penty). But she does not tell Gautam about this and tells Meera's parents even to not tell Meera. She tells Gautam to take her friend's daughter Meera as she has an assignment in London for 3 days. On the flight, Meera and Gautam befriend each other. In London, Meera has some problems completing her assignment and therefore fails to give it on time. She loses her job but then Gautam consoles her. They go on a beach party and there they meet Veronica D'Costa (Deepika Padukone). After some days of living with each other, Gautam falls in love with Veronica. But the thing that Gautam ...

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Plot Keywords:

bikini | beach party | party | beach | love triangle | 

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Taglines:

Sometimes good friends maybe too good to share...

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Did You Know?

Trivia

The apartment scenes shown in 'Daaru Desi' were shot with green screen in background of the apartment set. The city landscape is added digitally in both the scenes when Deepika dances sitting on balcony and Saif is twisting Diana's nose.

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Goofs

In a scene, Gautam is shown dialing a phone number from his iPhone. But when he takes the phone to his ears, the screen doesn't get switched off as it would happen in any iPhone on dialing and bringing it close to ears.

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Connections

Featured in City of Revenge (2015)

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Soundtracks

"Tera Naam Japdi Phiran'
Written by: Irshad Kamil
Produced by: Pritam Chakraborty
Performed by: Javed Bashir, Nikhil D'Souza and Shefali Alvaris

User Reviews

First half is nice and fresh. Second half is the regular Bollywood stuff.

First half of 'Cocktail' : Super fun, 2 Best friends (Deepika and Diana) and a guy (Saif) have fun, joke, do silly stuff, make the audience laugh. Concept looks fresh, Deepika are Saif like each other, live in together, sleep with each other, have fun, neither is interested in a commitment. I thought I could watch this movie over and over again.

Second half : Hopeless, very typical Bollywood Love Triangle. The guy falls for the 'Desi' girl. why?? This could have been a cult movie, with such good looking people who suited their characters so well. The music was fantastic.

Performances : All 3 (Deepika, Saif and Diana) have acted well. Saif was extremely funny at times and no one could have pulled off the character of Veronica as well as Deepika did.

I would have loved the movie if Saif would have fallen for the Deepika (the girl who parties and drink and has fun).

Bollywood is yet to get over the good/Desi girl and bad girl concept.

Its definitely a one time watch.

Details

Official Sites:

Watch Cocktail Movie Online at ZEE5

Country:

UK India

Language:

Hindi

Release Date:

13 July 2012 (UK)

Also Known As:

Cocktail

Filming Locations:

London, England, UK

Box Office

Budget:

$7,980,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$647,956, 15 July 2012

Gross USA:

$1,227,789

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$2,724,695

Company Credits

Production Co:

Cocktail Film, Eros International, Illuminati Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

146 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1