| Jalebi: The Everlasting Taste of Love | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Pushpdeep Bhardwaj |
| Written by | Kausar Munir Pushpdeep Bhardwaj |
| Based on | Praktan |
| Produced by | Mukesh Bhatt Mahesh Bhatt Sakshi Bhatt |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Manoj Soni |
| Edited by | Devendra Murdeshwar |
| Music by | Jeet Gannguli Tanishk Bagchi Javed - Mohsin Abhishek Mishra Samuel-Akanksha |
| Production company | Vishesh Films |
| Distributed by | Viacom18 Motion Pictures |
| Release date |
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| Running time | 112 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Box office | ₹24.1 million |
Jalebi (also known as Jalebi: The Everlasting Taste of Love) is a 2018 Indian Hindi-language musical romantic drama film directed by Pushpdeep Bhardwaj. It's a remake of the 2016 Bengali language film Praktan.
Plot
Aisha (Rhea Chakraborty) is a budding writer and an independent, progressive woman from Mumbai who visits Delhi with her friend to research for her upcoming book. She meets a local guide, Dev (Varun Mitra) and falls in love with him. She later proposes to him and they get married. After a few months, Aisha learns that she is pregnant. Dev is extremely happy but Aisha is reluctant as she feels she isn't ready for motherhood. Dev convinces her and they both settle into happiness, feeling that they might have a baby girl whom they will name Disha, a portmanteau of Dev and Aisha's names.
Unfortunately, Aisha has a miscarriage and Dev's mother blames Aisha for it. Aisha feels humiliated and insulted and leaves Dev. A few days later, Dev and his family try to bring her back but she doesn't return. She asks Dev to meet her in Kashmir if he really loves her, but Dev does not come.
Seven years later, Aisha calls off her second wedding as she is still in love with Dev. She decides to face her problems and travels to Delhi. On her way, she meets a woman named Anu and her daughter, Pulti, and discovers that Anu is Dev's second wife. She also meets Dev in the same train. During the journey, she reminisces about her marriage with him. She also finds out that Pulti's given name is Disha, and feels upset, chiding Dev for naming her that. Anu reveals that Pulti is not Dev's child and was sired by Anu's boyfriend. Dev lifted at the very next moment he saw Pulti and before marriage he had a single condition that she should be named Disha.
The train reaches Dev's station. While leaving, Anu thanks Aisha for giving her Dev and tells her that she knows that Aisha is Dev's love and first wife. Dev disembarks the train, but Anu encourages Dev to reveal the truth to Aisha that he had come to meet her that day in Kashmir but realised that she wouldn't be happy with him. His world is different from hers and he wanted to see her living her life happily and fulfilling her dreams. He reveals that it was because of this that he hurried through their divorce proceedings, and appeared as a bad person before her. He also tells her that he had read her novel many times. Both cry and hug each other. She says that although their destinations are different, their love remains intact. Dev tells Aisha that he will wait for her next novel, and they part ways, to live two different lives and two different destinies.
A year later, Dev finds Aisha's new book named Jalebi, which is an account of their love story.
Cast
- Rhea Chakraborty as Aisha Pradhan, Dev's first wife
- Varun Mitra as Dev Mathur, Aisha's ex-husband and Anu's husband
- Digangana Suryavanshi as Anu Mathur, Dev's second wife
- Aanya Dureja as Disha 'Pulti' Mathur, Dev's adoptive daughter
- Poorti Arya as Renu Mathur, Dev's sister
- Pravina Deshpande as Kamla Mathur, Dev's mother
- Mahesh Thakur as Mr. Pradhan, Aisha's father
- Priya Yadav as Anaina, Aisha's friend
- Sonali Sudan as Mrs. Singh
- Jashn Kohli as Sunny Singh
- Shabnam Kapoor as Mrs. Singh's Mother
- Farida Dadi as old passenger in train
- Yusuf Hussain as old passenger in train
- Arjun Kanungo as himself
- Sanchay Goswami as Arjun's friend
- Chayan Trivedi as T.T.E
- Abhishek Khanna as J.P. Mishra, Coach Attendant
Marketing
The first look of the movie was released on 3 September 2018.
The poster in which the lead pair is seen engaged in a passionate kiss through the window of a train is a clear reflection of the 1950 photograph by Frank Brown. The iconic photograph basically symbolised the distress wrought by the Korean War.
The official trailer for the film was released on 10 September 2018.
Soundtrack
| Jalebi | ||||
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| Soundtrack album by Jeet Gannguli, Tanishk Bagchi, Javed - Mohsin, Abhishek Mishra and Samuel-Akanksha | ||||
| Released | 21 September 2018 (2018-09-21) | |||
| Recorded | 2018 | |||
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
| Length | 39:28 | |||
| Language | Hindi | |||
| Label | Sony Music India | |||
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The film's soundtrack was released on 21 September 2018. Jeet Gannguli, Tanishk Bagchi, Javed-Mohsin, Abhishek Mishra and Samuel–Akanksha composed the soundtrack of the film. Music Produced By Dj Phukan, Samuel Shetty & Akanksha Nandrekar, Chandan Saxena, Krishna Kishore. The lyrics are written by Rashmi Virag, Prashant Ingole, Manoj Kumarnath, Arafat Mehmood and Kunaal Vermaa.
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Artist(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Tum Se" | Manoj Kumarnath | Samuel–Akanksha | Jubin Nautiyal | 4:16 |
| 2. | "Pal" | Prashant Ingole, Kunaal Vermaa | Javed-Mohsin | Arijit Singh, Shreya Ghoshal | 4:07 |
| 3. | "Mera Pyaar Tera Pyaar" | Rashmi Virag | Jeet Gannguli | Arijit Singh | 4:35 |
| 4. | "Mujhme" | Arafat Mehmood | Samuel–Akanksha | Shilpa Rao | 3:05 |
| 5. | "Tera Mera Rishta" | Arafat Mehmood | Tanishk Bagchi | K.K, Shreya Ghoshal | 4:53 |
| 6. | "Pehle Ke Jaisa" | Rashmi Virag | Abhishek Mishra | K.K | 4:32 |
| 7. | "Tera Mera Rishta" (Solo) | Arafat Mehmood | Tanishk Bagchi | K.K | 4:53 |
| 8. | "Tum Se Adlib" | Manoj Kumarnath | Samuel-Akanksha | Jubin Nautiyal | 2:26 |
| 9. | "Tum Se Adlib" (Female Version) | Manoj Kumarnath | Samuel-Akanksha | Shilpa Rao | 2:33 |
| 10. | "Pal" (Female Version) | Prashant Ingole, Kunaal Vermaa | Javed - Mohsin | Shreya Ghoshal | 4:08 |
| Total length: | 39:28 | ||||
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Artist(s) | Length |
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| 11. | "Pal" (Remix by DJ Amit B) | Prashant Ingole, Kunaal Vermaa | Javed - Mohsin | Arijit Singh, Shreya Ghoshal | 4:36 |
| 12. | "Tum Se" (Remix by Aqeel Ali) | Manoj Kumarnath | Samuel-Akanksha | Jubin Nautiyal | 2:50 |
References
- "Jalebi Box Office collection till Now – Bollywood Hungama". Bollywood Hungama. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
- "Rhea Chakraborty, Digangana Suryavanshi, Varun Mitra roped in for Mahesh Bhatt's film Jalebi". Bollywood Hungama. 10 March 2018. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
- "'Jalebi' First Look Poster: Love in an Age of Bewilderment". The Quint. 4 September 2018. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
- "Jalebi poster's upside-down kiss spawns a flood of hilarious memes". Hindustan Times. 5 September 2018. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
- Baruah, Saghamitra (5 September 2018). "We should all copy the 'Jalebi' poster kiss. A kiss has no copyright". DailyO. Retrieved 17 July 2019.
- Derek, Vikas Singh (3 September 2018). "Mahesh Bhatt's 'Jalebi' poster inspired by this iconic Korean War pic? See and decide". The Free Press Journal. Retrieved 17 July 2019.
- Srivastava, Soumya (10 September 2018). "Jalebi trailer: This dish served by Rhea Chakraborty isn't worth the diabetes". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
- "Jalebi – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack". Gaana.
External links
- Jalebi at IMDb
- Jalebi at Bollywood Hungama