Notebook (2019 film)

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Notebook
Notebook film poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed byNitin Kakkar
Written byDialogues:
Payal Ashar
Sharib Hashmi
Screenplay by Darab Farooqui
Based on The Teacher's Diary
by Nithiwat Tharathorn
Produced by Salman Khan
Murad Khetani
Ashwin Varde
Starring Zaheer Iqbal
Pranutan Bahl
Cinematography Manoj Kumar Khatoi
Edited bySachindra Vats
Music by Vishal Mishra
Production
companies
Salman Khan Films
Cine1 Studios
Distributed bySalman Khan Films
Release date
  • 29 March 2019 (2019-03-29) [1]
Running time
112 minutes [2]
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget₹15 crore [3]
Box officeest.₹3.72 crores [4]

Notebook is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film directed by Nitin Kakkar and produced by Salman Khan under Salman Khan Films and Murad Khetani and Ashwin Varde under Cine1 Studios. A remake of the 2014 Thai film The Teacher's Diary by Nithiwat Tharathorn, it stars debutantes Zaheer Iqbal and Pranutan Bahl, daughter of actor Mohnish Bahl. [5] Notebook tells the story of a young retired army officer who joins his father's school as a teacher to save it from closure, and falls in love with the previous teacher after reading through her memorabilia left behind in the drawers. [6] The film was released on 29 March 2019 and received mixed response from critics with praises for leads performances. [7] [8] [9]

Contents

The Thai film is based on a real life teacher of a houseboat school, Ban Ko Allocated School (Ruen Phae Branch), on the Ping River at the Bhumibol Dam in Mae Ping National Park in Li district, Lamphun province. The motif of a left behind diary in that film is based on an incident from the marriage of a producer's friend. [10] [11] [12] [13]

Plot

Captain Kabir Kaul, a young retired Indian Army officer, decides to teach in his late father's school, the Wular Public School as the school will be closed if there is no teacher to teach. At the school, he finds a diary left behind in the desk drawer by the previous teacher, Firdaus Quadri. Children start coming to school after learning that a new teacher has arrived. However, they disobey Kabir, leading him to think that he cannot teach, but after reading Firdaus's diary, he gains confidence and decides to try.

Kabir's girlfriend breaks up with him and is having an affair with a new man, as she believes that Kabir is now unfit to marry her because he has left the army. He is heartbroken but takes solace in the schoolchildren and Firdaus's diary, writing comments in it. He learns about Imran, one of the schoolchildren, whose father, Yakub, wants him to help in the household rather than attending school. Using help from the diary, Kabir succeeds in bringing Imran back to school. He decides to burn Firdaus's diary after learning she is getting married, but retrieves it in a fit of epiphany.

On her wedding day, Firdaus finds out that her fiancé was cheating on her and that the other woman is carrying his child. She calls off the marriage and returns to Wular Public School. The children are overjoyed to have her back, though Kabir is gone. She finds her diary in the same drawer she had left it in a year before and reads Kabir's comments. He had written that he was in love with the writer and had learned valuable lessons from her diary. Curious, Firdaus asks the principal about Kabir the same way he had asked about her. The principal tells her that he has gone to take a teaching course.

One day, Firdaus confronts Yakub, who wants to take Imran back. Imran sees Kabir and runs to him, saying he doesn't want to leave the school. Yakub threatens Kabir with a gun and punches Kabir. Imran, realizing that Yakub might kill Kabir, takes the gun to shoot his father. Kabir stops him. Yakub realizes his mistake and slowly lowers the gun. At the end, it is shown that Firdaus sent the children back home so that she can talk and spend time with Kabir with whom she has fallen in love.

Cast

Marketing and release

Salman Khan unveiled the first poster of film on Valentine's Day. [14] A special screening of the film was held for Bollywood stars and family on 28 March 2019. [15] The makers chose not to release the film in Pakistan due to the 2019 Pulwama attack. [16] The film was made available as VOD on Amazon Prime Video in June 2019. [17]

Reception

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film had scored 22% based on nine reviews with an average rating of 4.2/10. [9] Nandini Ramnath of Scroll.in writes, "Notebook has an unremarkable lead pair, an underwhelming dull love story in which the actors don't share the screen for nearly the entire duration of the narrative, some of the most ravishing views of Kashmir yet, a bunch of adorable children and a soundtrack with a few good tunes." [18] Rachit Gupta of The Times of India rated the film with three stars out of five and says, "Notebook is an easy watch where you can appreciate the humour, drama and romance. But the film leaves you wanting for more. Perhaps with more creativity in writing, this young romantic saga could have achieved more." [7] Writing for Daily News and Analysis Meena Iyer finds nothing wrong with the film but wished, "it hadn't been so antiseptic." She rates the film with three stars out of five. [8]

Jyoti Sharma Bawa of Hindustan Times rates the film with two and half stars out of five and praises the cinematographer Manoj Kumar Khatoi. She opines that the cinematographer has ensured that every frame is bursting with beauty and The visual portrayal would stay with the viewers long after they forget the sub-par love story. [19] Charu Thakur of India Today gives two and half stars out of five and concludes the review as, "If you are looking for some old-world romance this weekend, Notebook is definitely a recommended watch for you." [20] Bollywood Hungama while rating it with three stars out of five they feel that the film would appeal only to multiplex audience. They sum up review by saying, "On the whole, NOTEBOOK boasts of exemplary performances by the debutants and is beautifully shot while stressing on the importance of education." [21]

Soundtrack

Notebook
Soundtrack album by
Vishal Mishra
Released8 March 2019 [22]
Recorded2018
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Length26:53
Language Hindi
Label T-Series
External audio
Nuvola apps arts.svg Audio Jukebox on YouTube
Vishal Mishra chronology
5 Weddings
(2018)		Notebook
(2019)		 Kabir Singh
(2019)

The music and background score of the film is composed by Vishal Mishra while the lyrics are penned by Manoj Muntashir, Kaushal Kishore, Akshay Tripathi, Abhayendra Kumar Upadhyay and Vishal Mishra. The song "Bhumro" is a recreation of the original song from the film Mission Kashmir (2000). "Main Taare" was originally sung by Atif Aslam but was later removed (see #Marketing and release). The Atif Aslam version was unofficially released on YouTube.

Track listing
No.TitleLyricsSinger(s)Length
1."Nai Lagda"Akshay Tripathi Vishal Mishra, Asees Kaur 4:47
2."Laila"Abhayendra Kumar Upadhyay, Vishal Mishra Dhvani Bhanushali 4:05
3."Bhumro"Kaushal KishoreKamaal Khan, Vishal Mishra3:21
4."Safar"Kaushal Kishore Mohit Chauhan 5:47
5."Notebook Epilogue" Vishal Mishra4:16
6."Main Taare" Manoj Muntashir Salman Khan 4:37
7."Main Taare" Manoj Muntashir Atif Aslam 4:37
Total length:26:53

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryRecipientResultRef.
2019 Screen Awards Best Male Debut Zaheer Iqbal Nominated [23]
Best Female Debut Pranutan Bahl Nominated
2020 Filmfare Awards Best Female Debut Nominated [24]
Best Male Debut Zaheer Iqbal Nominated [25]

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