Life Partner

About the film

Life Partner is a 2009 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film. It stars Govinda, Fardeen Khan, Tusshar Kapoor, Genelia D'Souza and Prachi Desai in lead roles. The film is written and directed by Rumi Jaffery and produced by Abbas–Mustan under their banner, Burmawalla Bros.

Plot

Karan and Bhavesh are close friends living in Cape Town, South Africa. Karan has a good life with a well-paying job. He is in a comfortable relationship with his beautiful yet childish and pampered girlfriend Sanjana, who changes her profession every six months, rather disastrously. Her father, who dislikes Karan, always tries to keep her happy and supports her. Bhavesh wishes for an arranged marriage and keeps a diary of all the beautiful things he will do to his wife after marriage. His father, Darshan Manibhai Patel, is a strict autocrat and patriarch. Jeet does not believe in marriage or love and is a womaniser. He encourages married women into divorcing their spouses so that his living as a divorce lawyer is uncompromised.

Bhavesh's father treats him as young and incapable of marriage, but on his wife's insistence, he travels with his family, along with Karan and Sanjana, to Gujarat to find Bhavesh a bride. In Gujarat, they stay at the palatial home of Bhavesh's father's friend, Vijay Singh Jadeja. Bhavesh meets some girls but ends up falling for Prachi, Vijay Singh's daughter, and they get married. During their wedding, Sanjana says "yes" to Karan's proposal as well, and they get married the same night.

The movie then switches to the present, where both couples are at court. Both couples are granted a divorce and the story goes back 6 months earlier, showing what led to the divorces when they came back to Cape Town from India.

Soundtrack

The music for this film was composed by Pritam Chakraborty and Sachin–Jigar, with lyrics written by Javed Akhtar. The film has seven songs, featuring two remixes.

The song "Gunji Aangna Mein Shehnai" was composed by Sachin–Jigar.

Reception

Life Partner netted ₹17.5 million (US$180,000) overseas in its opening week while it netted ₹180 million (US$1.9 million) domestically by the third week. It was elevated to average verdict by Box Office India.

In the United States the film grossed $110,240 while it obtained $347,100 from New Zealand, Fiji, the United Kingdom and Malta.

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