Bachna Ae Haseeno (2008)

Director:

Siddharth Anand

Writers:

Devika Bhagat (screenplay)
Aditya Chopra (story)

Release Date:

15 August 2008 (India)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Plot:

During 1996 Raj Sharma, while in Switzerland, meets with Amritsar-based Mahi Pasricha, successfully woos...

Plot Keywords:

Beautiful Woman

Awards:

3 nominations

Cast

Ranbir Kapoor	...	Raj Sharma
Bipasha Basu	...	Radhika / Shreya Rathod
Minissha Lamba	...	Mahi Pasricha / Mahi J. Singh Ahluwalia
Deepika Padukone	...	Gayatri
Kunal Kapoor	...	Joginder Singh Ahluwalia
Hiten Paintal	...	Sachin
Puneet Issar	...	Mahi's Father
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Menekka Arora	...	Mahi's Mother (as Menaka Arora)
Sumit Arora		(as Sumeet Arora)
Ntasha Bhardwaj	...	Preeti
Pratik Dixit
Bidyut Dumra	...	Wall Street Banker (as Bidyut Durma)
Karan Gill	...	Karan Bahl
Avantika Hundal
Willi Jezler
Brad Kennerley
Rashmi Kulkarni
Andy Kumar
Roy Lange
Bhanu Mehra
Cameron Pearson	...	Taxi Passenger
Florian Philip
Ramandeep
Gurbhej Randhawa
Jay Ruparelia
Gurpreet Sandhu
Andrea Santarelli
Shyam Mashalkar		(as Sham Mashalkar)
Ravprit Singh		(as Master Ravprit Singh)
Sukhmeet Singh		(as Master Sukhmeet Singh)
Madurima Tulli
Parvati Vaze
Stefanie Wirz

Also Known As:

Untitled Siddharth Anand Project (India: English title) (working title)

Runtime:

152 min

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Ireland:PG | Australia:PG | India:UA

Filming Locations:

Bangkok, Thailand

Company:

Yash Raj Films

Trivia:

The title track song 'Bachna Ae Haseeno', was sung originally by Kishore Kumar in the film Hum Kisise Kum Naheen (1977)and was filmed on actor Rishi Kapoor. When the idea about using the song 'Bachna Ae Haseeno' from the old movie came, the music duo Vishal Dadlani and Shekhar Ravjiani were excited but they decided not to do a remix version of it. The track was completely re-worked by retaining some of the original vocals of Kishore Kumar on the beginning of the song. And then they got Kishore Kumar's son Sumeet Kumar to sing the rest of the song as a new composition with Vishal Dadlani's rap lyrics. The final product turned out to be unique mix with the legendary singer Kishore Kumar and his son heard in one single track in which the recording is separated by decades and that same song filmed on actor Rishi Kapoor's son Ranbir Kapoor.

Goofs:

Anachronisms: In the scene where Mahi misses the train, she is shown reading Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince. Even the first book in the Potter series wasn't released in 1996.

Movie Connections:

References Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya (1998)

A Pure Entertainment!!

Siddharth Anand is one of the brilliant young Director in Bollywood. Salaam Namaste (2005) and Ta Ra Rum Pum (2007)was purely entertaining movie, and so is BAH. I am really surprised to see Ranbir Kapoor. He has totally broken down the "Saawariya (2007)" image. Some of his expressions surely make you laugh. He was brilliant all over the movie. Minisha Lamba, Bipasha Bashu and Kunal Kapoor also did a great job. But didn't like Deepika Padukone very much. I think her role was not to strong here and performance was so so. The locations were great. Songs were not so bad. Every shot is brilliantly taken. If you want a pure entertainment, buy the ticket and popcorn.