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Flashback 2007: Top 20 Bollywood Movies

# 8 – NAMASTEY LONDON

Star Cast: Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif, Rishi Kapoor, Upen Patel, Javed Sheikh, Clyde Stenden, Riteish Deshmukh
Directed & Produced by: Vipul Amrutlal Shah
Music by: Himesh Reshammiya
Lyricist: Javed Akhtar
Cinematographers: Dariusz Wolski, Johnathan Bloom

The Vipul Shah film was a surprise success of the year with running for over 10 weeks at 492 screens in the domestic circuit. The film went on to earn Rs. 36.92 Crores. Akshay Kumar’s first hits of the year earned him critical acclaim and made the audience re-visit the Purab-Pashchim saga of Manoj Kumar.

Synopsis: Jasmeet ‘Jazz’ Malhotra is a spoilt Indian girl, brought up in London. She parties hard, consumes alcohol, goes to the discotheque and has an English boyfriend Charlie Brown, who is thrice divorced. Her father Manmohan Malhotra is adamant and wants her to marry an Indian only. Her parents bring her to India and forcibly get her married to Arjun, a rough and tough farmer who can barely speak English. Once back in London, she tells her husband and family of her intention to marry Charlie. And Arjun is forced to helplessly watch as Jazz flirts with Charlie. However, he will do anything to make his beloved happy and fall in love with him.

The film is not your regular patriotic film but has all the masala-laced song and dance sequences and a romantic angle to it as well. The film clearly belongs to Akshay Kumar who tries to woo his own wife and has his country’s pride at stake too. The film is emotional, sensitive at places with a lot of wit and humor thrown in. It is the perfect example of a film with something for everyone and can easily be seen multiple number of times for the high entertainment quotient in it.

Popularity: 59% [?]

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