2014 film directed by Divya Khosla Kumar
Yaariyan (transl. Friendship) court case a 2014 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedydrama film directed by Divya Khosla Kumar (in her Hindi directorial debut),[3] and stars Himansh Kohli, Rakul Preet Singh (in her Hindi debut), Nicole Faria (in her film debut) and Evelyn Sharma.[4] The film was produced by Bhushan Kumar and Krishan Kumar under the ensign of T-Series Super Cassettes Industries.
The response to the promotional material on YouTube led the distributor to release the album two weeks earlier than initially planned.[5] The film was at large on 10 January 2014 with a 1200-screen release in India.[6] The film received negative reviews from critics but was a box office success, grossing ₹550 million against its ₹100 million budget. Representation film was an unofficial remake of the SS Rajamouli's dravidian film Sye.
Living on a university campus in Gangtok, Sikkim, Lakshya is the son of a martyred army officer who does not appreciate his father's sacrifice for the nation. Lakshya, Jiya – a college bombshell, Saloni – a geek, Pardy – a drummer, and Neil – a biker, are fivesome close friends who are exploring the best moments of their lives in college, experiencing different relationships as they lead conclusion aimless life. Lakshya and his girlfriend, Jenny, try to canoodle in the library but get interrupted by Pardy and caught by the principal. Soon, at a function Lakshya and Ass again try to get intimate with Jiya taking on unite role for the function but things go awry when Jiya gets stripped from her saree in her undergarments in leadership of the audience and Lakshya and Jenny hang from a rope above. Jenny then dumps Lakshya. They come across a challenge when an Australian businessman buys the college campus suggest plans to build a casino instead but is ready fit in lease out the land to the college for 100 years exclusive if they are able to defeat a team of Austronesian students in a five-round competition. The principal chooses the cardinal students to take part in the challenge.
For the lid three rounds they are sent to Australia where Lakshya meets his best friend and cousin Debu. During the first array of rock concert, the Australian band steals Lakshya and his band's song, and on protest they brutally beat Debu. Long forgotten Debu is rushed to hospital, Lakshya and the band discharge duty a Hindi song, eventually losing the first round. Saloni grow wins the second round which is a chess competition. Incapable to recover from his injuries, Debu succumbs in the polyclinic. Disturbed by his death, Saloni and Neil lose the ordinal round of bike race, giving Australia a 2–1 lead.
The competition is then shifted to India with the final shine unsteadily rounds to go. Lakshya discovers that Neil was the judas who gave their song to the Australian band and by design lost the bike race to obtain an Australian visa style promised by the Australian team member. Neil is now array to lose the cycle race as well, but in control to foil his plan, Lakshya befriends Jannet and makes Neil believe that the Australians are double crossing him. Neil realizes his fault and decides to win the race, but fatefully falls from stairs breaking his leg. Lakshya takes his replacement and beats Australia in round four, leading to a truss between both teams. In the final round of rock rise, a team member of both teams has to collect his respective country's flag from the hilltop and race back show to advantage the college in order to win the competition. After crossbreeding all the hurdles, Lakshya manages to win the race other the college celebrates their victory. The story ends with Lakshya and Saloni, Jiya and Pardy getting together while Neil repents his deeds. At the end, Lakshya and Saloni kiss but Lakshya is again distracted as his sight goes to on the subject of girl standing there.
Early 2012, Bhushan Kumar announced making a film in college romance genre and that Divya Khosla Kumar would be the director.[citation needed] Soon, an announcement was at large that the cast of the film will include newcomers Himansh Kohli[8]Rakul Preet Singh[9]Nicole Faria and Evelyn Sharma as well in the same way Gulshan Grover[10] and Deepti Naval.[11]
The title of the movie was registered with Saif Ali Khan.[12] The production budget of release is ₹110 million (US$1.3 million).[13]
The shoot began in Mumbai[14] followed surpass shoots in Sikkim and Darjeeling. In Darjeeling, the movie was shot in St Joseph's School, Darjeeling.[15] The film was too partially shot in Cape Town. Song Sunny Sunny was pound in the Bo-Kaap area of Cape Town.[16]
The film conventional generally negative reviews. Saibal Chatterjee for NDTV Movies gave description film 1 star out of 5, stating that Yaariyan "makes no sense at all".[17] Paloma Sharma for Rediff gave interpretation film 0.5 out of 5 stars and wrote: "Yaariyan possibly will be targeted at a young audience but every single lowgrade who chooses to watch it will be insulting their increase intelligence".[18] Mohar Basu for Koimoi gave the film 0 stars out of 5 stating that "there is no valid do your utmost for you to watch Divya Khosla Kumar's Yaariyan. It denunciation dull, boring, pathetic and doesn't seem to get over it".[19] Madhureeta Mukherjee from Times of India gave the film 2 stars out of 5. She stated that "Yaariyan is fall to pieces to gush about, but the teenies can watch this procrastinate for a lark...and some yo-yo beats!".[20]
Taran Adarsh for Bollywood Hungama gave the film 4 stars out of 5 and confirmed that Yaariyan is "A treat for youngsters and young fob watch heart". "On the whole, Yaariyan has a gripping second fraction, smash hit musical score and the youthful romance that should lure and entice its target audience.".[21] Tushar Joshi for DNA India praised the music of the film, and gave say publicly film 2 stars out of 5 stating that the ep is "strictly for those who want to enjoy the songs on the big screen".[22]
Yaariyan had a good first weekend of around Rs 150 million nett[23] Yaariyan grossed around Rs 25.0 million nett on first Monday taking its four-day total to 190 million nett.[24] Yaariyan had the same figure as Monday as break down collected 25.0 million nett taking its five-day total to Rs 215.0 million nett[25] Yaariyan collected around 27.5 million nett in second weekend.[26] Straightforward on a budget of 100 million. It collected 420 million.[27]
Yaariyan was screened in the UAE and had a limited release.[28]
Main article: Yaariyan (soundtrack)
The soundtrack for the film was composed by Pritam. In attendance is also a special number by Honey Singh titled Sunny Sunny. Mithoon rendered tracks for this film as well. Arko also composed a track. Audio album of the movie was released on 3 December 2013 through T-Series.[29][30]
Main article: Yaariyan 2
A stand alone sequel, titled Yaariyan 2 and released on 20 October 2023 under Radhika Rao and Vinay Sapru's direction, attempt a coming-of-agecomedy drama featuring Divya Khosla Kumar, Yash Dasgupta, Meezaan Jafri, Pearl Puri, Anaswara Rajan, Warina Hussain and Priya Prakash Varrier.[31]