Wedding Anniversary

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Wedding Anniversary
Wedding Anniversary hindi film poster.jpg
Directed byShekhar S Jha
Written by
  • Shekhar S Jha
  • Rashid Iqbal
Produced by
  • Kumar V Mahant
  • Achut Naik
Starring
CinematographyShanti Bhushan Roy
Edited byAseem Sinha
Music by Abhishek Ray
Production
company
V K Productions
Distributed byBharat Shah
Release date
  • 24 February 2017 (2017-02-24)
Running time
108 minutes [1]
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Box office 0.24 crore [2]

Wedding Anniversary is an Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film, directed by Shekhar S Jha, produced by Kumar V Mahant and Achut Naik, and presented by Bharat Shah. [3] [4] The film stars Nana Patekar and Mahie Gill in leading roles and was released on 24 February 2017. [1]

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Plot

Kahani (Mahie Gill) and her husband Nirbhay (Priyanshu Chatterjee) had planned to celebrate their wedding anniversary in Goa, but due to some last minute work, Nirbhay stays back and Kahani has to travel alone. While she waits for her husband in Goa, she picks up a book to read written by her favourite author Nagarjun (Nana Patekar). After a short while, a visitor rings the doorbell of her house, who turns out to be none other than Nagarjun himself. The conversation that follows between the two, involves Nagarjun talking about love, its true meaning, and the relevance it has in our lives, and it forms the crux of the film.

Cast

Production

Filming

The entire shooting of the film was done in Goa in May and June 2015. [5] [6]

Soundtrack

Happy Anniversary
Soundtrack album by
Abhishek Ray
Released6 February 2018 (2018-02-06) [7]
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Length21:25
LanguageHindi
Label Zee Music Company
External audio
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The music for the film is composed by Abhishek Ray, while the lyrics have been penned by Abhiruchi & Manvendra. The music rights are bought by Zee Music Company. [8]

All music is composed by Abhishek Ray

Tracklist
No.TitleLyricsSinger(s)Length
1."The Rainbow Song"Abhiruchi ChandAbhishek Ray & Bhoomi Trivedi4:12
2."Dhinchakk"Abhiruchi ChandAbhinanda Sarkar3:59
3."Ittefaqan"ManvendraAbhishek Ray & Amika Shail5:07
4."Aaiye Saiyan"Manvendra Bhoomi Trivedi 3:36
5."Bidesia"Manvendra Ustad Rashid Khan and Shirsha4:31
Total length:21:25

Critical reception

Mihir Bhanage of The Times of India found the film to be boring and gave it a rating of 2 out of 5 saying that, "If you have issues in your love-life, visit a marriage counsellor. Wedding Anniversary will only add some phrases to your Hindi/Urdu vocabulary." [9] Nandini Ramnath of Scroll said that, "'Wedding Anniversary' is as much fun as a divorce hearing". [10] Vishal Verma of Glamsham gave the film a rating of 1 out of 5 and said that, "Wedding Anniversary is an unintentional horror that makes us wonder what on earth are talents like Nana Patekar and Mahie Gill doing in this flick?" [11]

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