All the Best: Fun Begins

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All The Best: Fun Begins
AllTheBest.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Rohit Shetty
Written byScreenplay:
Robin Bhatt
Yunus Sajawal
Dialogues:
Farhad-Sajid
Bunty Rathore
Based onRight Bed, Wrong Husband by Neil E. Schaffner
Produced by Ajay Devgn
Starring Ajay Devgn
Sanjay Dutt
Fardeen Khan
Bipasha Basu
Mugdha Godse
CinematographyDudley
Edited bySteven H. Bernard
Music bySongs:
Pritam
Background Score:
Sanjoy Chowdhury
Production
companies
Kinesis Films
Ajay Devgn FFilms
Distributed by Yash Raj Films
Release date
  • 16 October 2009 (2009-10-16)
Running time
141 minutes [1]
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget₹41 crore [2]
Box office₹61 crore [2]

All The Best: Fun Begins is a 2009 Indian Hindi-language comedy film directed by Rohit Shetty and produced by Ajay Devgn. An official adaptation of the English comedy play Right Bed, Wrong Husband published by Samuel French, Inc., it stars Ajay Devgn, Sanjay Dutt, Fardeen Khan, Bipasha Basu, Johny Lever, Sanjay Mishra and Mugdha Godse. [3] [4] [5]

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The film opened theatrically on 16 October 2009, coinciding with Diwali, and was moderately successful at the box office. [6] It was subsequently remade with slight changes in the story in Malayalam in 2010 as Best of Luck which went on to be remade in Kannada in 2015 as Ond Chance Kodi .

Plot

Veer Kapoor is a struggling artist who hopes to make it big someday with his rock group, but at present, he is tottering financially. His only source of income is a monthly pocket money of Rs 100,000 from his wealthy elder stepbrother Dharam Kapoor, for which Veer has told a lie about him being married to Vidya, his girlfriend. His best friend is Prem Chopra, who is married to Jhanvi Chopra and had came up with the idea of Veer lying to Dharam about his relationship. Jhanvi runs a broken-down gymnasium owned by Prem's family, and Prem spends his time mechanically modifying cars.

Veer and Prem need Rs. 500,000 to register Prem's car for an illegal race (if they win, they will get Rs. 5,000,000). They borrow the money from a local mute loan shark, Tobu, after showing him a car designed by Prem, which Prem assures him he cannot lose. Impressed by this vehicle, Tobu, in addition to lending Prem and Veer 500,000, invested 500,000 of his own on Prem. Prem loses the race and ends up owing a sum of Rs. 1,000,000 to Tobu, which should be paid within a week.

Prem decides to rent out Veer's bungalow to a local slum dweller, RGV—Raghuvandas Goverdhandas Vakawale, who has won a lottery, and collects an advance of Rs 250,000. However, everything gets into a muddle when Dharam is stranded at the Goa Airport on his way to Lesotho and insists on catching up with his younger brother. Things get worse when their new tenant arrives and is beaten up by Dharam. In order to save the situation, Prem and Veer both lie that Raghu is mad and vice versa.

Vidya had a fight with Veer and is temporarily not talking to him. After Veer brings Dharam home from the airport, Dharam sees Jhanvi and takes her for Vidya, and later, when he sees Vidya, Prem and Veer tell him she is Jhanvi, Prem's girlfriend. Jhanvi pretends to be Vidya, Veer's wife, and Vidya pretends to be Jhanvi. Both the young men aren't happy as Veer's brother's flight to Lesotho got delayed by a few days. Dharam decides to stay with his brother until further notice.

Prem sees Dharam's watch, a Rolex, and decides to finish their debt to Tobu by giving him the Rolex. Dharam occasionally flirts with Jhanvi (Vidya), which irks Prem. In a similar way, Prem pays off the debt now by giving Tobu Dharam's royal gift for the king that turns out to be pickles for the princess. Immediately after Prem comes back home, a frantic Jhanvi becomes unconscious and is rushed to the hospital by Prem. This is seen by Dharam, and he follows them to the hospital and slaps Prem for taking Jhanvi. The doctor informs Prem that Jhanvi is pregnant.

Veer feels extremely guilty now because his brother thinks that Vidya and him are having a baby. Veer decides that he will tell Dharam the truth, but before that, Dharam reveals that his flight to Lesotho has been booked. Before Dharam leaves, Tobu and his men barge into the house demanding the money. Dharam angrily slaps Tobu, curing the latter of his muteness in the process, and Dharam finds out the truth when Tobu gifts him the items Veer and Prem stole from Dharam out of gratitude, Raghu demands his rent money back, and Vidya's father arrives looking for her, proceeding to angrily chase Prem for being the cause of everything that happened. The house is soon surrounded by thugs from Lesotho, who turn out to be the king's men. It is later revealed that Dharam and the princess had an affair, and now the princess is pregnant. The king's men want Dharam and the princess to get married. They accept, and it's a happy ending.

Cast

Awards

YearNominee / workAwardResult
2010 Sanjay Dutt IIFA Award for Best Performance in a Comic Role Won
Ajay Devgn Stardust Award for Best Actor in a Comedy or Romance Won
Ajay Devgn Apsara Award Best Actor in a Comic Role Won

Reception

Taran Adarsh from Bollywood Hungama gave the film 3.5 stars out of 5, and while critical of the music as well as the pacing in the second half, he praised the cinematography, dialogues and writing. [7] Mayank Shekhar from Hindustan Times gave the film 3 stars out of 5, and felt that while the premise was pretty weak and nothing made sense, the film was bound to make the viewer crack up more than once in a while. [8]

On the other hand, Sukanya Verma from Rediff.com gave the film 2.5 stars out of 5, remarking that it was the presence of Johnny Lever that made the film work sporadically. [9]

Box office

The film had opened to an average start as it released with two other diwali releases that year but had later picked up due to positive word of mouth . It was rated as "Average" in India, and is the eighth highest grossing Bollywood film of 2009. [10]

Soundtrack

All the Best: Fun Begins
Soundtrack album by
Pritam Chakraborty
Released11 September 2009 (2009-09-11)
Genre Bollywood film soundtrack
Label T-Series
Producer Pritam Chakraborty
Pritam Chakraborty chronology
Dil Bole Hadippa!
(2009)		All the Best: Fun Begins
(2009)		 Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani
(2009)

Released by T-Series, the soundtrack was composed by Pritam Chakraborty and the lyrics were penned by Kumaar.

Track listing

No.TitlePerformer(s)Length
1."All The Best" Soham Chakraborty, Rana Majumder, Antara Mitra 4:51
2."Dil Kare" Suraj Jagan, Rupam Islam 5:04
3."Haan Main Jitni Martaba" KK, Yashita Yashpal 
4."Kyon" Clinton Cerejo  
5."You Are My Love" Neeraj Shridhar, Kunal Ganjawala, Alisha Chinoy, Rajesh, Antra Mali3:04
6."Dil Kare (Remix)"Suraj Jagan, Rupam Islam4:56
7."Haan Main Jitni Martaba (Remix)"KK, Yashita Yashpal4:29

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