Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.

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Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.
Honeymoontravels.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Reema Kagti
Written byStory and Screenplay:
Reema Kagti
Dialogues:
Anurag Kashyap
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyDeepti Gupta
Edited by Aarti Bajaj
Music by Vishal–Shekhar
Distributed by Excel Entertainment
Release date
  • 23 February 2007 (2007-02-23)
Running time
119 minutes
CountryIndia
Languages
  • Hindi
  • English
Budget₹ 100 million [1]
Box office₹ 195.1 million [1]

Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. is a 2007 Indian Hindi-language comedy drama film written and directed by Reema Kagti. It is produced by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani under Excel Entertainment and marked the debut of Reema Kagti as a director. The film is made up of six different stories. [2] [3]

Contents

Plot and characters

The story is about six couples who are on their honeymoon with the Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. bus and their trials and tribulations during the four-day journey to Goa. The couples are:

As the bus continues its journey, it is followed by a mysterious biker, who is revealed early on to be Jignesh, Shilpa's boyfriend.

Cast

Production

John Abraham and Shilpa Shetty were the first choices to play Jignesh and Shilpa, respectively. After Abraham refused to play the role of Jignesh, Shetty decided she didn't want to play Shilpa and backed out, too. [4]

Reception

Box office

The film collected ₹11.80 crore and was declared an average grosser in India by Box Office India. [5]

Critical response

Anupama Chopra of India Today gave a positive review saying "Thankfully, Kagti, who also scripted the movie, works with a light hand. There are a few leaden emotional scenes but they are crowded out by the non-stop fun and games. It all heads toward the superb set-piece item: Sajna main vari vari. The cast reads like a who's who of Bollywood's most underrated actors: Ranvir Shorey, Abhay Deol, Kay Kay Menon, Raima Sen. The last two are especially good as the Bengali couple whose equation changes as their honeymoon progresses. Kagti's is a fresh and original voice. This ride is worth taking." [6] Jaspreet Pandohar of BBC.com gave the film 3 out of 5 stars stating "Kagti's peppy screenplay and direction may not win awards for originality, but it's a decent effort from a young female filmmaker just starting out. Her likeable characters playing out quirky scenarios hold your attention. However, it's a select number of good individual performances, such as Kay Kay Menon's uptight spouse who lets loose thanks to some magic mushrooms, rather than a collective ensemble effort, that stops Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd from being a bigger success." [7]

Conversely, Khalid Mohamed writing for Hindustan Times stated "Despite a jumbo starcast, Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd is just about passable." [8] Elvis D'Silva of Rediff.com gave the film 1.5 stars out of 5, writing "As a debutante it must be wonderful for director Reema Kagti to have the backing of major industry players like Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani. Nothing about the film serves as proof of that faith." [9]

Soundtrack

Music by Vishal-Shekhar. [10]

Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.
Studio album by
Vishal–Shekhar
Released2007 (India)
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Label T-Series
Producer Vishal–Shekhar
Vishal–Shekhar chronology
I See You
(2006)		Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.
(2007)		 Ta Ra Rum Pum
(2007)
No.TitleSingersLength
1."Sajnaji" Sunidhi Chauhan, Shekhar Ravjiani 03:42
2."Jaane Hai Woh Kahan" Shreya Ghoshal, Shaan 03:56
3."Albela" Vishal Dadlani, Shankar Mahadevan 03:44
4."Halke Halke Rang Chhalkein" Neeraj Shridhar 05:16
5."Pyaar Ki Yeh Kahani" Sunidhi Chauhan, Gayatri Ganjawala, Vishal Dadlani 05:28
6."Haath Dhore Niye Chalo" Instrumental 04:11
7."Halke Halke – Remix" Neeraj Shridhar 04:01

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