Aisha

Aisha
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Directed by	Anil Kapoor
Produced by	Rajat Rawail Rhea Kapoor Anil Kapoor
Written by	Devika Bhagat (dialogue) Manu Rishi Chaddha (dialogue)
Screenplay by	Devika Bhagat
Starring	Sonam Kapoor Abhay Deol Ira Dubey Amrita Puri Cyrus Sahukar
Music by	Amit Trivedi
Cinematography	Diego Rodriguez
Editing by	Sreekar Prasad
Distributed by	PVR Pictures Rawail Grandsons Entertainment and Software Pvt. Ltd. Anil Kapoor Films Company Eros International
Release date(s)	August 6, 2010 (2010-08-06)
Running time	126 minutes
Country	‹See Tfd› India
Language	Hindi
Budget	20 crore[1]
Box office	28.75 crore[2]

Aisha (Hindi: आईशा) is a 2010 Hindi romantic comedy film directed by Anil Kapoor and starring Sonam Kapoor and Abhay Deol in the lead roles.^[3] The film was released on 6 August 2010.^[4] The film is a modern day adaptation of the 1815 British novel, Emma by Jane Austen, a 'comedy of manners' set in the upper class society of Delhi, India.^[5]

Plot

Aisha (Sonam Kapoor) is a girl who believes she is perfectly suited for match-making - amongst her friends in particular. She is constantly criticized by her friend/neighbor Arjun (Abhay Deol) who advises her to stop meddling with others lives. She is unperturbed and carries on. She tries to make a match between her small town friend Shefali (Amrita Puri) and Randhir (Cyrus Sahukar). While at a party Aisha realizes her jealousy over Arjun. After the party Arjun and Dhruv (Arunoday Singh) get a drink and talk about Aisha, Dhruv tries to act like he is in love with Aisha and insults Arjun. Arjun punches Dhruv and hurts him. She fails in her attempts and in the due course, she tries to match up Shefali with Dhruv until one day she realizes that love does not come by force. She loses her friend Pinky (Ira Dubey) due to her actions who in the end falls in love with Randhir (Cyrus Sahukar). Shefali finds her love in Saurabh (an old friend). Aisha decides to go to Mumbai with Shefali and Dhruv. Shefali thinks that Arjun loves her. Then Aisha and Shefali have a fight. Shefali tells Aisha of how she had been treating her. She realizes that she had been selfish and arrogant all along, and has mistreated her friends. Finally, she goes back to her best friend (Pinky) and apologizes for her actions. She finally realizes her love for Arjun but does not confess it. In the end he comes to her and proposes her. The film ends with Dhruv marrying Aarti (Arjun's friend).

Cast

• Sonam Kapoor as Aisha Kapoor
• Abhay Deol as Arjun Burman
• Cyrus Sahukar as Randhir Ghambir
• Arunoday Singh as Dhruv Singh
• Ira Dubey as Pinky Bose
• Amrita Puri as Shefali Thakur
• Lisa Haydon as Aarti Menon
• Yuri Suri as Col. Singh
• M. K. Raina as Mr. Kapoor
• Anand Tiwari as Saurabh Lamba
• Sameer Malhotra as Karan Burman
• Anuradha Patel as Chitra Kanwar Singh
• Masood Akhtar as Sant Ram
• Vidhushi Mehra as Aalia Kapoor/Burman

Reception

Critical reception

Aisha received positive to mixed reviews. Nikhat Kazmi of the Times of India rated it a positive 4/5 and stated "Sweet love, substantial performances, super fun, slick 'n stylish, Aisha is a-ha stuff".^[6] Taran Adarsh from Bollywood Hungama gave it 3.5/5 stars and said "Aisha is watchable for two factors mainly, Neat performances, especially by Sonam Kapoor and Amit Trivedi's super musical score". ^[7] Nishtha Bhatnagar from NewsX also gave it 3.5/5 and said "Aisha doesn't have the perfect script in the least, but it has all that it takes to thoroughly enjoy a film".^[8] IANS gave it 3/5 stars and praised Kapoor's daughters work saying "the film belongs to Sonam Kapoor, make no mistake of that".^[9] Sukanya Venkatraghavan from Filmfare gave the film 3/5 stars saying that "Watch Aisha for its simple storytelling. Its also got the heart of a classic"^[10] Noyon Jyoti Parasara of Yahoo! Movies rated the film 2.5/5 and says, "Overall, Aisha is best in the promos! The film clearly misses the spark and ends up as an average product".^[11] Gaurav Malani of IndiaTimes rated it 2.5/5 saying, "What starts as a cheerful chick flick sadly ends up being a lame love story".^[12] On the review-aggregation website ReviewGang, the film scored 5.5/10 based on 5 reviews.^[13]

Box office

According to Box office India, Aisha opened to a slow response at multiplexes^[14] and did a business of Rs. 2.91 crore on its first day.^[15] However the film picked up during the weekend and collected Rs. 13.43 crore at the end of its first weekend.^[16] The film grossed Rs. 28.75 crore^[17] at the end of its theatrical run and was declared a below average performer at the box office.^[18]

Soundtrack

The music is composed by Amit Trivedi. The lyrics are penned by Javed Akhtar.

Tracklist

References

External links

• Official website
• Aisha at the Internet Movie Database

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