Fatso!

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Fatso!
Fatso 2012 poster.jpg
Promotional release poster
Directed by Rajat Kapoor
Produced by Pritish Nandy
Fauzia Arshi
Starring Ranvir Shorey
Gul Panag
Purab Kohli
Neil Bhoopalam
Gunjan Bakshi
Brijendra Kala
Production
companies
Pritish Nandy Communications,
Daily Multimedia Limited
Release date
  • 4 May 2012 (2012-05-04)
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget₹90 million (US$1.1 million)

Fatso! is a 2012 Indian film directed by Rajat Kapoor and starring Ranvir Shorey, Gul Panag, Purab Kohli, Neil Bhoopalam, Gunjan Bakshi, with a key role played by veteran comic character actor Brijendra Kala. The film is produced by Pritish Nandy and Fauzia Arshi. The movie was released on 4 May 2012 under Pritish Nandy Communications and Daily Multimedia Limited (Fauzia Arshi) banner.

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This 2012 Hindi film's main plot device is similar to the Hollywood films Shallow Hal (2001), Heaven Can Wait (1978), and Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), latter two of which were in turn based on a Broadway stageplay from the 1930s – by the noted playwright Harry Segall – also entitled Heaven Can Wait. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Premise

The story is based on five friends: two young couples Nandini (Gul Panag) and Navin (Purab Kohli), Yash (Neil Bhoopalam) and Tanuja (Gunjan Bakshi), plus their mutual buddy, the hugely overweight Sudeep (Ranvir Shorey). Nandini and Navin are about to get married when disaster strikes. On their way home from Navin's bachelor party, the three boys—Navin, Yash, and Sudeep—are involved in a car crash where one of them is killed. An angel named Vijay (Brijendra Kala) escorts Navin to heaven. When Navin wakes up in heaven, however, he discovers to his horror that through a clerical error Vijay had collected the wrong soul from the accident site: it was Sudeep, not Navin, who was destined to have died in the car crash.

Navin makes a scene in the overcrowded waiting room of heaven and demands that he be returned to earth, and to his loved ones. But by this time Navin's body back on earth has already been destroyed. So the angel Vijay arranges for Navin's soul to return to earth into Sudeep's body. Now trapped in the body of "Fatso" Sudeep, Navin has to woo his beloved fiancée Nandini all over again.

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References

  1. ↑ "Fatso! Movie Review {2.5/5}: Critic Review of Fatso! By Times of India". The Times of India .
  2. ↑ "Review: Fatso is a waste of a great idea". rediff.com. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
  3. ↑ "Fatso Review 2/5 | Fatso Movie Review | Fatso 2012 Public Review | Film Review". Bollywood Hungama .
  4. ↑ "Fatso - Indian Express".


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