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Life Partner
Directed by	Rumi Jaffrey
Produced by	Abbas Mustan
Written by	Rumi Jaffery
Starring	Govinda; Genelia D'Souza; Fardeen Khan; Tusshar Kapoor; Prachi Desai
Music by	Pritam
Cinematography	Sameer Arya
Release date(s)	14 August 2009
Country	India
Language	Hindi

For the romantic concept, see Life partner.

Life Partner is a 2009 Bollywood film. It stars Govinda, Genelia D'Souza, Fardeen Khan, Tusshar Kapoor and Prachi Desai in lead roles. The film is written and directed by Rumi Jaffery and produced by Abbas-Mustan under their banner, Burmawalla Bros.

[edit] Synopsis

The film starts with Karan (Fardeen Khan) and Bhavesh (Tusshar Kapoor) arriving at the court, they sit out remembering how their lives were six months ago.

Karan, Bhavesh and Jeet (Govinda) are close friends living in Cape Town, South Africa. Karan is in a comfortable relationship with his attractive yet childish and pampered girlfriend Sanjana (Genelia D'Souza) who changes her profession every six months, e.g. singing to painting, and her dad (Anupam Kher) always tries to keep her happy by either sponsoring her music album or buying all her paintings. Bhavesh wishes for an arranged marriage and keeps a diary of all the beautiful things he will do to his wife after marriage. His father (Darshan Jariwala) is a strict autocrat, patriarch and a tough follower of the Hindustani, especially Gujarati, principles in a foreign land. Jeet does not believe in marriage or in the institution of love. He flirts around with every woman he can find and keeps encouraging married women into divorcing their spouses so that his living as a divorce lawyer is uncompromised.

Bhavesh's father treats Bhavesh as young, incapable of marriage, but on his wife's (Shoma Anand) wish, he travels with family and Karan and Sanjana to Gujarat to find Bhavesh a bride. In Gujarat, they stay at the palatial home of a friend of Bhavesh's father (Vikram Gokhale). Bhavesh meets some girls but set falls for Prachi (Prachi Desai) when she comments Bhavesh's ideals - not drinking, virginity - as good. He confesses his love for her and they get married. During rituals, Sanjana says "yes" to Karan's long asked question (will she marry him?) and they get married the same night.

The movie then turns to the actual time, where the judge declares the divorce between Karan and Sanjana and between Bhavesh and Prachi. Then outside court, where they wait for the final papers to arrive, the story again returns to after the weddings, when they come back to Cape Town.

After marriage though, Karan and Sanjana's family life deteriorates badly with Karan wanting domestic stablity and Sanjana being a horrible home maker. Bhavesh is happy with Prachi but Prachi is stifled at the old fashioned ideals of Bhavesh's father. Sanjana, having no experience in housework, mess up while turning off a washing machine which results in the house catching fire. Prachi, without her father-in-law's knowledge, applies for a job the very idea of which angers him and Bhavesh, taking sides with his father, slaps her at the same time her father arrives. These situations concludes in divorce.

Jeet changes his lifestyle and decides to get married to a girl he flirted with (Amrita Rao). At their wedding ceremony, Jeet and Sanjana plots a plan that reunites everyone.

Bhavesh's father changes parts of his ideals and Jeet changes from a divorce lawyer to a marriage counsellor, now reuniting his former clients, while Karan is shown to be teaching Sanjana to cook.

[edit] Reception

Life Partner netted Rs. 1.75 crore (US$ 360,500) overseas in its opening week^[1] while it netted Rs. 18 crore (US$ 3.71 million) domestically by the third week.Its below average to average. ^[2]

[edit] Cast

Govinda as Jeet Oberoi
Fardeen Khan as Karan Malhotra
Tusshar Kapoor as Bhavesh Patel
Genelia D'Souza as Sanjana Jugran
Prachi Desai as Prachi Jadeja
Anupam Kher as Sanjana's father
Vikram Gokhale as Vijay Singh Jadeja (Prachi's father)
Darshan Jariwala as Darshan Manibhai Patel (Bhavesh's father)
Shoma Anand as Bhavesh's mother
Amrita Rao as Anjali Kumar (special appearance)

[edit] Music

Pritam has composed the music for this film. Lyrics have been written by Javed Akhtar. Film has 7 songs featuring two remixes.

Track	Song	Artist(s)	Duration
01	Kuke Kuke	Shaan, Debojeet Daata and Antara Mitra	04:22
02	Teri Meri Yeh Zindagi	Soham Chakraborty and Shreya Ghoshal	04:32
03	Aage Aage	Mika Singh, Shakti Singh, Ajay J., Soham Chakraborty and Antara Mitra	03:59
04	Gunji Aangna Mein Shehnai	Sunidhi Chauhan and Kirti Sagathiya	05:11
05	Poorza Poorza	Sunidhi Chauhan and Kunal Ganjawala	04:41
06	Kuke Kuke (Remix)	Shaan, Debojeet Daata and Antara Mitra	05:01
07	Poorza Poorza (Remix)	Sunidhi Chauhan and Kunal Ganjawala	04:25

[edit] References

^ "Kaminey Good Life Partner Poor In International Markets". Box Office India. 18 August 2009. http://www.boxofficeindia.com/overdetail.php?page=shownews&articleid=1103&nCat=overseas_report. Retrieved 22 August 2009.
^ "Life Partner Steady In Week Three". Box Office India. 04 September 2009. http://www.boxofficeindia.com/npages.php?page=shownews&articleid=1126&nCat=news. Retrieved 08 September 2009.

[edit] External Links

Life Partner at the Internet Movie Database

[0] "Kaminey Good Life Partner Poor In International Markets". Box Office India. 18 August 2009. http://www.boxofficeindia.com/overdetail.php?page=shownews&articleid=1103&nCat=overseas_report. Retrieved 22 August 2009.

[1] "Life Partner Steady In Week Three". Box Office India. 04 September 2009. http://www.boxofficeindia.com/npages.php?page=shownews&articleid=1126&nCat=news. Retrieved 08 September 2009.

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