Mere Baap Pehle Aap

Mere Baap Pehle Aap

Promotional poster for Mere Baap Pehle Aap
Directed by Priyadarshan
Produced by Shemaroo Films
Story by Kalavoor Ravikumar
Starring Akshaye Khanna
Genelia D'Souza
Paresh Rawal
Om Puri
Rajpal Yadav
Music by Vidyasagar
Edited by Arun Kumar
Release dates
 13 June 2008
Country India
Language Hindi

Mere Baap Pehle Aap (translation: My father, You first) is a 2008 Bollywood comedy film directed by Priyadarshan. The film stars Akshaye Khanna, Genelia D'Souza, Paresh Rawal, Om Puri, Shobana and Rajpal Yadav. The story is officially adapted from the 2001 Malayalam film Ishtam directed by Sibi Malayil.[1][2] It was released on 13 June 2008.

Plot

Janaradhan Wishvanbhar Rane (Paresh Rawal) is a widower who has spent his life bringing up his two kids, Chirag (Manoj Joshi) and Gaurav (Akshaye Khanna). Janaradhan has done everything to bring them up in the best possible manner, ever since they were toddlers.

Now the duo has grown up, and Gaurav has taken up the responsibility for his father. They manage the household chores and their business to the best of their abilities. He treats his father as his son. Gaurav is on his guard with the vigilance of a disciplined parent. He shouts, threatens, fights, and even locks up his father occasionally so that Rane's best friend Madhav Mathur — who is a divorcé and desperate to get married — does not spoil him. Madhav and Janaradhan who are always in search of a bride for Madhav forever land up in trouble and Gaurav always has to bail them out and face embarrassment.

Gaurav, busy managing his business, starts getting prank calls from a girl who turns out to be his old college friend Shikha Kapoor (Genelia D'Souza). Sheekha is staying with her guardian Anuradha (Shobana) who was Janardhan's first love. Gaurav and Shikha notice changes in the behaviour of Janaradhan and Anuradha when they come face to face after many years. They learn about their past relationship. Now Gaurav wants his father to get married to his lost love. Gaurav and Shikha embark upon a rib-tickling journey to arrange his father's and her guardian's love marriage and, in the process, find soul mates in each other. Although the path is not so smooth; with obstacles, Madhav's desperate desire for a bride comes in handy.

However, Shikha's father (Naseeruddin Shah), seemingly not pleased with the fact that his daughter will be marrying into a family 'where the father in law is arranging his own honeymoon', threatens the termination of Gaurav's relationship with Shikha. In addition, Chirag's wife (Arzoo Gowitrikar) and her family also show their anger at such a relationship. Despite all these, after a chain of events, Gaurav gets Rane married to Anuradha, against the wishes of many. However, at the end, Shikha's father reveals that in fact, if Gaurav had decided not to conduct his father's remarriage and courted Shikha instead, he would actually have been very disappointed. The film ends with Shikha's father giving Shikha's hand to Gaurav.

Cast

Soundtrack

The soundtrack features songs composed by Vidyasagar. Guest composer Tauseef Akhtar composed one song Ishq Subhan Allah and its remix.[2]

Mere Baap Pehle Aap
Soundtrack album by Vidyasagar
Released 02 June 2008
Recorded Varsha Vallaki Studios
Genre Feature film Soundtrack
Length 26:08
Language Hindi
Label T-Series
Producer Vidyasagar
Vidyasagar chronology
Kuruvi
(2008)		 Mere Baap Pehle Aap
(2008)		 Kaamannana Makkalu
(2008)
Song Title Singers Composer
"Mere Baap Pehle Aap" Sangeet Haldipur Vidyasagar
"Ishq Subhan Allah" Alisha Chinai, Neeraj Shridhar, Rap by Bob Tauseef Akhtar
"Shamma Shamma" Sunidhi Chauhan Vidyasagar
"Maine Hawa Ke Paron Pe" Udit Narayan, Shreya Ghoshal Vidyasagar
"Jaana Hai Tujhko" Shaan, Alka Yagnik Vidyasagar
"Ishq Subhan Allah (Remix)" Alisha Chinai, Neeraj Shridhar, Rap by Bob Tauseef Akhtar

Reception

After an average opening in India and the UK, the film performed moderately well at the box office eventually grossing ₹ 21,14,00,000.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Anupama Chopra. "Mere Baap Pehle Aap - Comedy". NDTV. 13 June 2008.
  2. 1 2 "First Look: Priyadarshan's Mere Baap Pehle Aap". Rediff. 17 April 2008.
  3. ↑ "Box Office 2008". Box Office India. Retrieved 20 September 2009.
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