Arjun Patiala

Arjun Patiala
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Rohit Jugraj
Written by	Ritesh Shah Sandeep Leyzell
Produced by	Bhushan Kumar Dinesh Vijan Krishan Kumar Sandeep Leyzell
Starring	Diljit Dosanjh Kriti Sanon Varun Sharma
Narrated by	Yogesh Grover
Cinematography	Sudip Sengupta
Edited by	Huzefa Lokhandwala
Music by	Songs: Sachin–Jigar Akash D Guru Randhawa Score: Ketan Sodha
Production companies	T-Series Maddock Films Bake My Cake Films
Distributed by	AA Films
Release date	26 July 2019 (2019-07-26) [1]
Running time	106 minutes [2]
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹25 crore [3]
Box office	est.₹9.26 crore [4]

Arjun Patiala is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language action spoof comedy film directed by Rohit Jugraj. ^[5] Produced by Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar, Dinesh Vijan and Sandeep Leyzell under T-Series, Maddock Films and Bake My Cake Films, it stars Diljit Dosanjh, Kriti Sanon and Varun Sharma. ^[6] The narrative revolves around a newly appointed police officer who attempts to curb crime and corruption in his town with the help of his sidekick.

The film was theatrically released in India on 26 July 2019. ^[7]

Plot

A director meets a producer, and he queries about all elements of a masala film (songs, villain, fights, comedy scenes, etc.) and approves it without even reading the script.

The director insists on reading out the script to him, to which the producer agrees. The script is about Arjun Patiala, who wins the national Judo championship. As a reward, he is offered the post of an Inspector, and he takes charge of Ferozpur police station, where Onida Singh, a constable, becomes his sidekick. He earns the respect of his colleagues on the first day with his wit and integrity. There is a rendezvous with Baby Narula, and as the director narrates, there is a needless item song inserted for entertainment.

Sometime later, he meets Ritu Randhawa, a journalist, and sparks fly between them. The next day DSP Amarjeet Singh Gill visits their police station and tells Arjun that crime free district is his dream. A local drug lord Baldev Singh Rana thrashes the constable from his station. Ritu expecting ignorance from the police for this incident, reaches the crime spot and berates the police for inaction. Arjun Singh also reaches the place and trashes the Baldev, and arrests him. Ritu is impressed, and they start dating.

Arjun Singh meets her in her office and gets information on the crime scene of the district. She explains to him of rivalry between Baladev and Dilbaugh and Sakool, an emerging crime lord.

With limited resources and legal constraints, Arjun decides to instigate a gang war amongst the gangs, which is the only way to eliminate the criminals. He gives Sakool the location of Baladev, and he kills him in the presence of roadside vendors and Arjun Singh. At media briefing, police claims there were no witnesses. Ritu believes that there have to be witnesses because the murder occurred at a busy street, she investigates and smells something fishy. She meets Arjun and expresses her concerns, and asks him to be honest with her. He lies to her that he has no role to play in this. DSP Gill introduces Arjun to MLA Makkad, who also appears to be upright and supports their action.

One by one, all the gangsters are killed except Sakool. Ritu is suspicious of all these gang wars and finally confronts Arjun. She offers him 2 choices, either she investigates all the killings, or they separate, which leads to their break-up. She meets Sakool and tells him about her suspicions, and tries to alert him of his possible death. Sakool tries to kill her because of her intricate knowledge of the crime world & she can become a possible witness to his plan of double-crossing the Police, but somehow she manages to escape.

While following a lead on Ritu's editor, Onida enters the home of Makkad and sees DSP Gill with the editor discussing their plans to take over the vacuum in the criminal world. Realising they are being toyed, he tries to alert Arjun. However, his cover is exposed, and he has to run for his life. The trio (MLA, DSP & editor) visit Arjun Singh, and Makkad gives him an ultimatum to kill Sakool and Onida. She further tells him that she would personally inspect their dead bodies in the morgue. Arjun calls Onida & asks him to meet near a bridge and shoots him in front of Makkad. Later in the day, he calls her to the morgue to inspect the bodies of Sakool & Onida. When she arrives at the morgue, Sakool and Onida shows up alive, and Arjun has double-crossed both Makkad and Sakool. There is a fist fight at the scene, and Arjun is able to escape with DSP Gill and Onida. Sakool and Makkad also escape in the morgue van. Sakool chases Arjun to his ancestral home, and after a long cat and mouse chase, Sakool is shot dead when his father accidentally fires Arjun's gun. Makkad is sent to jail, Arjun and Ritu reconcile, and there is a happy ending as expected of a Masala Film.

Cast

• Diljit Dosanjh as Sub-Inspector Arjun Singh aka Arjun Patiala
• Kriti Sanon as Reporter Ritu Randhawa
• Varun Sharma as Head Constable Onida Singh
• Ronit Roy as IPS Amarjeet Singh Gill ^[8]
• Pankaj Tripathi as Producer
• Seema Pahwa as MLA Prapti Makkad
• Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub as Sakool
• Amit Mehra as Baldev Singh Rana
• Yogesh Upadhyay as Danda
• Biswapati Sarkar as Editor
• Himanshu Kohli as Dilbaugh Singh
• Ritesh Shah as Arjun's father
• Nirmal Rishi as Arjun's mother
• Sumit Gulati as Anda
• Mithilesh Chaturvedi as Bhatia Ji
• Ankush Kulshreshtha as Kundan
• Manvendra Tripathi as Dalbir Singh
• Tajender Singh as Gagandeep Mishra
• Pradeep Singh as Ajeet Singh
• Akshay Joshi as Kala Jamun
• Rajeev Tiwari as Doctor
• Jaspal Sandhu as ASI Kartar
• Nikita Grover as Nikki Ahuja
• Bharat Bhatia as Sukhi Bajwa
• Gurmeet Chawla as Jailor
• Sunny Leone as Baby Narula (2 roles as it's a film inside film) ^[9]
• Abhishek Banerjee as director.
• Santosh Anand Pandey as PA of Producer
• Kanwalpreet Singh

Production

The story is written by Ritesh Shah. ^[10]

Principal photography began in February 2018 and ended in July 2018. ^{[11] [12]} It was shot in Chandigarh and some areas of Punjab. ^[13]

Soundtrack

Arjun Patiala
Soundtrack album by Sachin–Jigar, Akash D and Guru Randhawa
Released	20 June 2019 [14]
Recorded	2018-2019
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Length	16:09
Language	Hindi
Label	T-Series
Sachin–Jigar chronology
Stree (2018) Arjun Patiala (2019) Made In China (2019)
External audio Official Audio Jukebox on YouTube

The music is composed by Sachin–Jigar, Akash D and Guru Randhawa, with lyrics by Guru Randhawa, Priya Saraiya and Akash D. ^[15]

The first song released was Main Deewana Tera, performed by Guru Randhawa. ^[16]

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Main Deewana Tera" (Music: Sachin–Jigar, Guru Randhawa)	Guru Randhawa	Guru Randhawa, Nikhita Gandhi	3:14
2.	"Crazy Habibi v/s Decent Munda" (Music: Sachin–Jigar, Guru Randhawa)	Guru Randhawa	Guru Randhawa, Benny Dayal	3:03
3.	"Dil Todeya" (Music: Sachin–Jigar, Guru Randhawa)	Guru Randhawa	Diljit Dosanjh	3:15
4.	"Sachiya Mohabbatan" (Music: Sachin–Jigar)	Priya Saraiya	Sachet Tandon	3:31
5.	"Sip Sip" (Music: Akash D)	Akash D	Guru Bhullar	2:59
Total length:				16:02

Marketing and release

The film was supposed to open on 13 September 2018 but was first postponed to 3 May 2019, then to 19 July and finally to 26 July. ^{[17] [1]}

Dinesh Vijan of Maddock Films has stated that the film won't be released in Pakistan due to the Pulwama Attack that happened in Kashmir, India. ^[18]

Reception

Critical response

Ronak Kotecha of The Times of India rated the film 2/5 stars, noting that in the second half, the writing, direction, and execution seemed childish. He felt the music was average except for one number. In concluding, Kotecha wrote, "Spoof comedies can be a tricky affair, and this one is way too underwhelming to tickle your funny bone for full two hours." ^[19] Jyoti Sharma Bawa of the Hindustan Times gave 1/5 stars and felt that Shah and Leyzell's script failed and the film was lost between 'a parody and just another run-of-the-mill film'. Bawa opined, "Spoof as a genre has rarely been tried in Hindi cinema, and someone needs to crack that egg – heaven knows there is a lot waiting to be explored; Arjun Patiala, alas, isn’t that film." ^[20] Devesh Sharma reviewing for Filmfare rated the film with 2.5/5 stars, praising the supporting cast of Seema Pahwa, Ronit Roy, and Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub. He wrote, "More was expected from the film, but it just doesn’t aim high enough ... the ingredients are all there, but the execution isn’t up to mark. The film kind of over-promises but under-delivers." ^[21]

Box office

Arjun Patiala had the opening day collection of ₹1.25 crore and the second day collection of ₹1.50 crore, whereas the third day collection was ₹1.75 crores, taking its total opening weekend collection to ₹4.50 crore. The opening week gross of the film was ₹9.18 crore. ^[4]

As of 8 August 2019 ^[update] , with a gross of ₹7.88 crore in India and ₹1.38 crore overseas, the film has a worldwide gross collection of ₹9.26 crore. ^[4]

References

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2. "Arjun Patiala". British Board of Film Classification . Retrieved 24 July 2019.
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14. "Arjun Patiala - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack". Jio Saavn. 20 July 2019. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
15. Mehak Sabharwal (28 July 2018). "EXCLUSIVE: Out of Gold, Stree and Arjun Patiala, music duo Sachin-Jigar have chosen their favourite". Times Now . Retrieved 27 March 2019.
16. "Arjun Patiala song Main Deewana Tera: Diljit woos Kriti in this peppy dance number". The Indian Express. 26 June 2019. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
17. FP Staff (27 March 2019). "Arjun Patiala: Kriti Sanon, Diljit Dosanjh's film gets a new release date, will now hit theatres on 19 July". Firstpost. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
18. "Dinesh Vijan on canceling the release of Luka Chuppi in Pakistan: It's time we stand in solidarity of Pulwama attacks". Firstpost. 19 February 2019. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
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External links

• Arjun Patiala at IMDb
• Arjun Patiala at Bollywood Hungama
• Arjun Patiala at Rotten Tomatoes