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| Directed by | Shyam Benegal |
| Produced by | Ronnie Screwvala |
| Written by | Shyam Benegal Ashok Mishra |
| Starring | Shreyas Talpade Amrita Rao Kunal Kapoor Ravi Kishan Ravi Jhankal |
| Music by | Shantanu Moitra |
| Cinematography | Rajan Kothari |
| Editing by | Aseem Sinha |
| Distributed by | UTV Spotboy Motion Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 19 September 2008 |
| Running time | 134 mins |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | Rs 9.3 Crore |
Welcome to Sajjanpur is 2008 Hindi comedy film directed by Shyam Benegal, it stars Shreyas Talpade and Amrita Rao in the lead roles. With this film noted Parallel cinema director, Shyam Benegal, returns to comedy after his film, Charandas Chor (1975)
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Plot
Mahadev (Shreyas Talpade) is an unemployed graduate with a Bachelor of Arts from Satna college, who is forced to make a living writing letters for the uneducated people of his village. His real ambition is to become a novel writer. Through his humble occupation, Mahadev has the potential to impact numerous lives. The movie is a satirical, but warm-hearted portrait of life in rural India.
Among Mahadev's customers are:
- Mahadev's childhood crush Kamla (Amrita Rao) is desperate for communication from her husband Bansi Ram (Kunal Kapoor), who works as a laborer at a dockyard in Mumbai. In the letters to her husband, a jealous Mahadev writes the opposite of the loving messages Kamla wants to convey, while faking what her husband has written to her.
- A harried mother (Ila Arun) who wants to get her manglik daughter, Vindhya (Divya Dutta) married.
- A landlord whose sister-in-law is a candidate for the village Sarpanch, and who wants all her political rivals eliminated from the race.
- A eunuch Munni who is contesting the elections for the village Sarpanch but fears the threats from the landlord.
- A love-lorn compounder, Ram Kumar (Ravi Kishan), who is crazy about the widowed daughter-in-law Shobha Rani (Rajeshwari Sachdev) of a retired army soldier.
Mahadev manages to get his friend engaged, police protection for Munni, and almost kisses Kamla before they are interrupted. However Munni is killed, and he learns a shocking truth about Kamla's husband.
It soon turns out that the story was a fictional novel written by the real Mahadev, but it is mostly based on his own experiences. Though it turns out that some of the villagers didn't exactly have happy endings, Mahadev sorts out his mistakes and accomplishes his long-held dream of writing a novel.
As Mahadev, under pseudo name Sukhdev, reveals that Munnibai became a successful politician, becoming an MLA, or a Member of the State Legislature, with high connections and powerful people surrounding her. It is also revealed that Kamla and Bansi are happy in small house in Mumbai, who come to visit Sajjanpur every Diwali. In midst of all these good news, Mahadev notes that Ram Kumar and Shobha Rani were lynched because members of their community opposed a widow getting re-married. Mahadev also notes that he got married to Vindhya, the manglik, after wooing her by writing 40 letters. While most people consider a manglik to be a great misfortune, Mahadev notes that he became successful due to his marriage, as he paid down his farm land mortgage, built a wonderful house and realized his dream of writing a novel.
Cast
- Shreyas Talpade as Mahadev Kushwaha
- Amrita Rao as Kamla Kumharan
- Ravi Kishan as Ram Kumar
- Divya Dutta as Vindhya
- Rajeshwari Sachdev as Shobha Rani
- Ila Arun as Ramsakhi Pannawali
- Kunal Kapoor as Banshi
- Rajit Kapur as Collector
- Lalit Mohan Tiwari as Subedar Singh
- Yashpal Sharma as Ramsingh
- Ravi Jhankal as Munnibai Mukhanni
- Dayashankar Pandey as Chidamiram Naga Sapera
- Sri Vallabh Vyas as Ramavtar Tyagi(Masterji)
Soundtrack
Music of the film is by Shantanu Moitra. The music was released on 5 September 2008.[1], there are a total of seven songs in the soundtrack including one remix.
- Sitaram Sitaram - KK
- Ek Meetha Marz De Ke - Madhushree, Mohit Chauhan
- Bheeni Bheeni Mehki Mehki - KK, Shreya Ghoshal
- Dildara Dildara - Sunidhi Chauhan, Sonu Nigam
- Aadmi Azaad Hai Desh - Kailash Kher
- Munni Ki Baari - Ajay Jhingran
- Sitaram Sitaram (Remix) - KK
Reception
Upon its release, an Indiatimes review said, "Shyam Benegal has always been accredited as a mesmerizing storyteller known for making ‘meaningful’ cinema. This time he also caters to commercial consumers, coming up with his most ‘entertaining’ attempt, by far."[2]
References
- ^ Welcome to Sajjanpur Songs Listing
- ^ Welcome to Sajjanpur - Review Indiatimes.com, 19 September 2008.
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