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

8 wins & 53 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

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official Twitter

Country:

UK India

Language:

Hindi

Release Date:

13 July 2012 (UK)

Also Known As:

Koktél

Filming Locations:

London, England, UK

Box Office

Budget:

$7,980,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$647,956, 15 July 2012, Limited Release

Gross USA:

$1,027,121, 22 July 2012

Company Credits

Production Co:

Cocktail Film,Eros International,Illuminati Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

146 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Deepika Padukone was given the first choice of playing Meera or Veronica. She chose the latter because Meera's character was similar to her earlier character Meera in Love Aaj Kal. Later Diana Penty got Meera's role. Interestingly, earlier in their modeling career, Diana had replaced Deepika as Maybelline's brand ambassador.

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Goofs

In the last scene, where Saif Ali Khan is proposing Diana Penty for marriage, the camera keeps on switching from his face to her face and vice-versa. In this sequence, we get to see that Diana Penty's hairstyle changes every time (when the focus is on Diana, she is seen with left and right thin braids stuck to her back hair by pin. But when the focus is on Saif Ali khan, we get to see Diana's back hair and there are no braids stuck at the back. A side shot of her hair reveals that there are no braids also. That means Diana's and Saif's shots were taken at different time. When Diana's shot was taken, she had braids. But when Saif's shot was taken, she had no braids! Seems to have bypassed the editor's eye.

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Connections

Spoofs Tees Maar Khan (2010)

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Soundtracks

Angreji Beat
Written and Produced by: Hirdesh Singh
Performed by: Hirdesh Singh and Gippy Grewal

User Reviews

Don't over looks this great flick

The only good movie in the Indian cinema this year! Either Indian don't know what a good movie is or they just want the Body Guard or Rowdy Rathor crap (which I haven't even see, but my intellect tell they were crap). That being said, the major major epic element in this movie was Strong Story Line!! There are many movie released with shitty story line & for a movie to transcend a Strong Stoy Line is a must. Cocktail's script even made the new comer, Diana Penty, look like a great diva (she was the bomb in the movie). I have stopped watching a lot of Indian movies, because I know it's going to be crap & I was intrigued for writing this review because of the rating/reviews others had posted, which was is a total unjust towards a great piece piece of art. That being said I would say watch the movie, albeit it's not in the theaters anymore. I watched it twice in theaters & for me two watch a movie second time is pretty rare, unless I know I'll be getting my bucks worth.