Poster Boys

About the film

Poster Boys is a 2017 Indian Hindi-language comedy film written, co-produced and directed by Shreyas Talpade in his directorial debut. The film stars Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol and Shreyas Talpade, along with Sonali Kulkarni, Samikssha Batnagar and Tripti Dimri.

The film is an official remake of the Marathi film Poshter Boyz which Talpade himself had produced and acted in. It is inspired by a real-life incident about three porters who found their pictures on a vasectomy poster.

Plot

Three men meet their bad luck for an unknown reason. Arjun Singh proposes to his girlfriend Riya is rejected by her father for "he can't get his daughter married to such a person", leaving Arjun frustrated and upset. Jagavar Chaudhary is married to Sunita. He is preparing his younger sister Anjali's engagement ceremony when he's told that the fiancé and his family have changed their mind of engaging with Anjali for "they cannot accept an alliance with such a shameful family". Vinay Sharma is a primary teacher whose wife Surajmukhi suddenly leaves him and asks for divorce for she cannot forgive his "irresponsible deeds".

The three confused and upset men one day coincidentally meet somewhere on a bridge when they come across a bus that has a poster of their photos, promoting vasectomy, at the back. They come to know that this poster is the reason they are defamed as none of them had that operation and their photos were used without their permission. They decide to find out who is behind it and solve it.

They later find that two government employees from the Health Department, the organizers of that promotion, are responsible for the incident. They find the two employees and ask them to remove all the posters in the city with their unauthorized photos and make a public apology and demand compensation. The two agree but request time to do that.

Music and soundtrack

The music for the film’s songs was composed by Tanishk Bagchi, Daler Mehndi, Rishi Rich, Sunai Marathe, Shreyas Iyengar and Sonny Ravan. The lyrics of the songs were penned by Shabbir Ahmed, Kumaar, Saurabh M Pandey, and Sonny Ravan. The background score of the movie was done by Amar Mohile.

Daler Mehndi’s chart-topper song, "Kudiyan Shehar Diyan" (lyrics by Javed Akhtar), from the 1999 hit film Arjun Pandit (originally featuring Juhi Chawla) was recreated for this movie and features Sunny Deol and Elli AvrRam. It was released on 11 August 2017. The second song "Kendhi Menoo" which is sung by Yash Narvekar, Sukriti Kakar and Ikka Singh was released on 18 August 2017. The soundtrack was released on 19 August 2017 by T-Series which consists of only four songs.

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