I Love Desi

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I Love Desi
I Love Desi Theatrical Poster.jpg
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Directed byPankaj Batra
Story bySatish Jain
Produced byRocky Daswani
StarringVedant Bali
Priyanka Shah
Gulshan Grover
Mannat Singh
Shakti Anand
CinematographyVineet Malhotra
Edited byPraveen Kathikuloth
Music bySham Balkar
Toshi Sabri
Sharib Sabri
Production
company
Shubh Film
Distributed byTrigger Lite
Release date
  • 29 May 2015 (2015-05-29)
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

I Love Desi is a Hindi romantic comedy film directed by Pankaj Batra. Producer Rocky Daswani introduced Vedant Bali who is manager to Akshay Kumar and Priyanka Shah. Gulshan Grover, Mannat Singh, Shakti Anand, Krip Suri and Gurpreet Ghuggi are also starring in the film. The film has been shot in Canada, Thailand and India. Filmstar Akshay Kumar has helped his manager during the making of the film. [1] [2] I Love Desi released on 29 May 2015. [3]

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Cast

Plot synopsis

This is a love story, of an urban girl who, marries an Indian man with a rural background, just to inherit her ancestral property, conditioned to this requirement. Before untying this relation forever, as she had planned, she agrees to live for 6 months with her To-be forlorn husband, and gradually falls in love with him.

Soundtracks

Music is given by Sham Balkar and Toshi SabriSharib Sabri. One song[ clarification needed ] is sung by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, which was recorded in Dubai as he has not come to India since 2011. As the music director Sham Balkar was keen to get this song sung by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan. [5]

No.TitleSinger(s)Length
1."Beauty Da Phool"Toshi Sabri4:16
2."Dil Ka Baje Ektara"Sharib Sabri & Anweshaa Dutta Gupta4:28
3."Deere Dhree Kam Hogi Udasi" Rahat Fateh Ali Khan & Jaspinder Narula 5:20
4."Holi (Color Zindgi Hai)" Mika Singh, Sunidhi Chauhan 3:52
5."Dooriyan" Javed Ali, Mahalaxmi Iyer & Sonu Kakkar 5:08
Total length:23:04

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