Cocktail is an upcoming
Bollywood romantic comedy film directed by
Homi Adajania under
Saif Ali Khan's banner
Illuminati Films.
[1] The film stars
Saif Ali Khan alongside
Deepika Padukone and
Diana Penty in lead roles.
[2][3][4] Dimple Kapadia,
Boman Irani and
Randeep Hooda feature in supporting roles.
[5] The film is scheduled for theatrical release on 13 July 2012.
STORY
When 24-year-old Veronica (
Deepika Padukone) and Meera (
Diana Penty),
23, start living together during the summer in London, they have very
different agendas. Meera is awkward, introvert and recovering from a
hoax marriage to Kunal Ahuja (
Randeep Hooda)
who has duped her off her life-savings by using the pretense of setting
up a base for them in London. She is spending her time under Veronica’s
roof until she can get some footing and find a job in this foreign
land. Veronica, on the other hand, is a wild-child, impulsive,
constantly looking for distractions to escape facing issues of a
troubled upbringing. Being poles apart brings the two close, forging a
loyal and solid friendship.
Soon Gautam, 32, (
Saif Ali Khan)
enters their lives, moves in with them and has a whirlwind relationship
with Meera. Meera does love Gautam because his don’t-give-a-damn
attitude reminds her of her husband who had conned her into coming to
London in the first place.
Both Gautam and Veronica believe in living for the moment and they
honestly consider this a fling rather than a serious relationship. But
as three people living together they all have a blast… Though their
intentions for each other don’t change, their friendship starts to grow
strong. It becomes a beautifully balanced friendship between three
people. Soon Gautam realizes that he is in the horns of dilemma since
he has to chose between Meera and Veronica. Unable to decide between
the two, he removes himself from their lives but unlike his intentions,
this sudden emptiness in both Meera and Veronica's life worsens living
for both.
STAR Cast
Meera is an introvert recovering from a hoax marriage to Kunal Ahuja
(Randeep Hooda) who has duped her off her life-savings and instead
telling her on her first visit then she can apply for british residency
followicg which he needs a divorce. She is spending her time under
Veronica’s roof until she can get some footing and find a job in this
foreign land. Veronica, on the other hand, is a wild-child, impulsive,
constantly looking for distractions to escape facing issues of a
troubled upbringing. Being poles apart brings the two close, forging a
loyal and solid friendship.
Soon Gautam, 32, (Saif Ali Khan) enters their lives, moves in with
them and has a whirlwind relationship with Veronica.Meera initially is
reluctant of Gautam as his attitude and behaviour defies her
upbringing. But several club scenes and a picnic later he starts to
grow on her.Enter the characters of uncle ,Randhir Kapoor (Boman Irani)
and mother, Kavita Kapoor (Dimple Kapadia) who is completely aware of
her son's flirtatious behaviour and is bent on getting her son married
by the end of the year using photographs. Deciding, that he should end
this "mom sending photograph: situation once and for all , he tells her
that he is already in a relation.
Cut to next scene,, with saif dancing as promiscuously in female
lingerie when walks in our dearest mother and uncle. afraid of the
situation and of his mother, he decides to introduce Meera as his
girlfriend, instead of Deepika who is obviously drunk and walking in
just a shirt. Meera decides to play along realizing that it's the mom's
not the son's thats really like her, thinking of it as a fault in
herself and refusing to discuss it with Gautam.Realizing the only
escape from mommy dimple is running away, Saif declares that he and
Meera have already planned a holiday in advance to which the mother
shockingly decides to join in as well.Trip to South Africa then proves
to be a life changing moment for the three of them, with Deepika
realizing that she now wants to settle down and change her life, while
Meera and Gautam realize that they both actually love each other.
This is then followed by an emotional song filled one hour with
Veronica depressed on loosing Gautam, which she though initially, she
would be able to do, Meera moving out and Gautam chasing her through
the streets of London. Meera then meets and decides to play pretend
with her real husband so that Gautam can go away. Veronica, going back
to her old ways, starts to chronically drink again and is run over by a
car.
Thus starts Saif battle of being a friend to veronica while trying
to convince Meera that he can't let her go.Veronica finally realizes
that she can never "emotionally blackmail" him into loving her so they
go back to her husband's home to get Meera.On not finding her, Gautam
completely loses his mind and beats Kunal blaming him for her loss and
then himself. That's when Kunal confesses that during her stay with him
he had changed his mind and wanted to put their divorce on hold to
start a life with her to which she responds by saying she can only love
Gautam and heads back to india. Gautam and Veronica, ofcourse, follow
her to New Delhi where he proposes and the three are happy together
again.
Production
starCast
"The film is for people aged between 2 and 50.
-Producer Dinesh Vijan
[6]
Saif Ali Khan and
Deepika Padukone
were signed on to play the leads in the film. Padukone was offered both
the roles of Veronica and Meera, however the character of Meera was
similar to her role in
Love Aaj Kal and so she chose the role of Veronica as a new challenge.
[7] Model
Diana Penty makes her Bollywood entry with this film.
[8]
Director Homi Adajania said
Imran Khan was his first choice for this film which has
Saif Ali Khan,
Deepika Padukone and model
Diana Penty.
"Saif was not the first choice. Imran was supposed to do it but he was
not sure if he wanted to do it at that point of a time," Adajania told
IANS.
[9]
Filming
Shooting of the film started at the end of May 2011, in
London.
Many scenes have been shot indoors, although the crew primarily filmed
on the streets of London. Locations of the filming in London include
Borough High Street, Borough market, Portobello Road, Leicester Square,
Piccadilly Circus, Mayfair, Clapham Junction, Battersea Park, Bank
Station, St. Pauls London, Colville Gardens (Notting Hill Gate), and
Brick Lane.
[10] The film was also shot in Cape Town, South Africa.
[11]
Padukone has gyrated to an chinese party song at the The Grand
nightclub in Clapham Junction, by dancing on a table. This is
reminiscent of a dance sequence in the song
Chor Bazaari from
Love Aaj Kal.
Whilst security was extra tight on the day to prevent outsiders
entering the premises, a DJ was hired for the music and club lights
were also used to make the scene look as real as possible.
Release
The film is expected to be released on July 13, 2012.
] First Look
Earlier, it was reported that the theatrical trailer of the film
would be attached to the prints of Khan's previous home productions,
Agent Vinod,
[12]
although the makers decided against this for unknown reasons. The
official trailer was eventually launched on 21 May 2012, to a
phenomenal response from critics and audiences, crossing 1 million hits
on YouTube within 3 days.
[13][14]
Soundtrack
The music of
Cocktail is composed by
Pritam.
The makers have bought the rights of a famous Pakistani song "Jugni",
which has been revised. Also, Angreji Beat (Punjabi song) sung by
Gippy Grewal featuring
Yo Yo Honey Singh, originally from
Honey Singh's
International Villager released in November 2011, will be used in the film.
On 24 May, 2012, "Tum Hi Ho Bandhu", sung by
Neeraj Shridhar and
Kavita Seth, was released. On 31 May 2012, another song "Daaru Desi", sung by
Benny Dayal and
Shalmali Kholgade, was released. Also, "Yaariyan" and "Second Hand Jawaani" were later released.
|
|
| 1. |
"Tumhi Ho Bandhu" |
Neeraj Shridhar, Kavita Seth |
4:42 |
| 2. |
"Daaru Desi" |
Benny Dayal, Shalmali Kholgade |
4:30 |
| 3. |
"Yaariyan" |
Mohan Kanan, Shilpa Rao |
6:18 |
| 4. |
"Second Hand Jawani" |
Miss Pooja, Neha Kakkar, Nakkash Aziz |
4:03 |
| 5. |
"Tera Naam" |
Javed Bashir, Nikhil D'Souza, Shefali Alvares |
3:39 |
| 6. |
"Luttna (Saif Ul Malook)" |
Masuma Anwar, Sahir Ali Bagga, Anupam Amod |
5:01 |
| 7. |
"Jugni" |
Arif Lohar, Meesha shafi, Harshdeep Kaur |
6:57 |
| 8. |
"Yaariyan (Reprise)" |
Sunidhi Chauhan, Arijit Singh |
5:14 |
| 9. |
"Lootna (Version 2)" |
Masuma Anwar, Sahir Ali Bagga, Anupam Amod |
4:44 |
| 10. |
"Tera Naam (Remix)" |
Javed Bashir, Nikhil D'Souza, Shefali Alvares |
4:11 |
| 11. |
"Main Sharabi" |
Yo Yo Honey Singh, Imran Aziz Milan |
4:25 |
Reception
Suhail Mir of gomolo.com gave the film's music 4.5 out 5.
[15]
He mentioned "This is definitely a Cocktail to try for. It has a lot of
potential to top the charts." The reviewers on gomolo agreed that it's
indeed "A Quality Inebriated Cocktail"
[16] Lyricsmint.com gave 4 star out 5.
[17]
It mentioned "Cocktail is the best commercial music album released
since Rockstar. Best of 2012 so far. A complete package."
Punjabnewsline.com rated the music positively.
[18] BollywoodHungama gave the music 4.5 out 5.
[19] Zeenews gave very good music reviews.
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