10 years of Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara

 

'Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara' is a Bollywood movie directed by Zoya Akhtar and produced by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani under Excel Entertainment. This film was 1st released on 15 July, 2011.

The film was started with Hrithik Roshan(Arjun), Abhay Deol(Kabir), Farhan Akhtar(Imran) in lead roles and Katrina Kaif(Laila), Kalki Koechlin(Natasha), Deepti Naval and Naseerudin Shah played supporting roles.

Most part of the movie was filmed in Spain, Barcelona, Pamplona, Buñol and Andalusia and partly Egypt, India and the United Kingdom.

The film’s music was composed by Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy and the lyrics were written by Javed Akhtar. Even, we heard Javed Akhtar’s mesmerizing poems in the film.  

The plot of this movie was based on three school buddies named Arjun, Kabir and Imran who arranged a three weeks’ road trip.  

The story started with Kabir and his fiancé Natasha who were engaged. Before their marriage, Kabir wanted to arrange a bachelor trip in Spain. He tried to convince his other two friends to join him. Finally, they were convinced and separately went to Barcelona and reunited after so many years.

Then they were planning to visit Costa Brava, Seville, and Pamplona. On the way of the journey was so adventurous. And I think, it is the best part of this film.

In this trip, workaholic and rigid Arjun meets Laila, a girl with full of spirit. After knowing each other closely, they fell in love and enjoyed life together. At the end of the film everyone attended their marriage ceremony. As well as, Imran had found his biological father and Kabir shared to Natasha about his honest thought of his marriage which was shown towards the end.  

The most interesting part of the trip was they tried to face their fears. So, they joined some adventurous sports and overcome all their fears hands in hand, unitedly.

After participating those events, they valued their life’s with a different perspective. They did whatever they should actually done with their life’s.   

The entire movie was so colorful and fresh. Cinematographer Carlos Catalan deserves a special thanks for this. Every frame was filmed perfectly. Audiences felt engaged with some beautifully captured specially in deep sea diving, sky diving and running with the Spanish bull sequences.

In 2011, the film had a worldwide released in 1,800 screens and got a huge response from film critics as well as audiences. It was also commercially successful and critically acclaimed for its script, music, comedy, direction and performances. Making budget of the film was 600 million rupees and box office gross collection was 1.53 billion rupees.

‘Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara’ won several awards including two National Film Awards.

I liked the moral theme of the film, live life to the fullest, because it’s happens just once. I think, if anyone has different vision about life. They must enjoy the special road trip with soulful music too.         

On 15th July, 2021 Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara celebrated its tenth anniversary. On the occasion, the film’s cast and crews reunited with a video conference on zoom and shared their special experiences related with the film. The session was hosted by stand-up comedian Vir Das. He asked many questions to the film’s teams including that why they felt Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara was special for them?