Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi

Plot

A middle-aged man who lost his love for life rediscovers it by assuming a new identity in order to rekindle the romantic spark in his marriage.

Release Year: 2008

Rating: 6.7/10 (6,535 voted)

Director:
Aditya Chopra

Stars: Shah Rukh Khan, Vinay Pathak, Anushka Sharma

Storyline
Surinder is married to Taani but there is a huge age gap between them. There is no real romance in the marriage. Then, a dance reality show called "Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi" airs and Taani wants to participate but can't because her husband is not hip and happening. She has a fear of losing, and she also fears that her friends will laugh at her. Surinder overhears her problem and decides to go in for a makeover. He watches some movies and learns to dance in order to woo his young wife. Throughout the show, Taani keeps falling in love to with this new-and-improved Surinder without once realizing that he's really her husband.

Cast:

Shah Rukh Khan
–

Surinder 'Suri' Sahni
/
Raj Kapoor

Vinay Pathak
–

Balwinder 'Bobby' Khosla

Anushka Sharma
–

Taani Sahni

M.K. Raina
–

Taani's father

Manmeet Singh
–

Raju mechanic

Bipasha Basu
–

Bobby Bedi
–

Tiny Singh

Vivan Bhatena
–

Puneet Cheema
–

Dance Instructor

Alene D'Souza
–

Dance Instructor

Aneesha Dalal
–

Dance Instructor

Lara Dutta
–

Areez Gandhi
–

M.C. at Dance Competition Finale

(as Areesz Gandhi)

Rajesh Jain
–

Khanna

Kajol
–

Taglines:
This December, you will laugh… you will dance… you will fall in love.

Details

Official Website:
Yash Raj Films |

Release Date: 12 December 2008

Filming Locations: Amritsar, Punjab, India

Box Office Details

Budget: INR 220,000,000

(estimated)

Opening Weekend: $911,771
(USA)
(14 December 2008)
(83 Screens)

Gross: $2,074,346
(USA)
(11 January 2009)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

167 min

Did You Know?

Trivia:

The film doesn't feature any songs performed by Yash Raj Films favorite Lata Mangeshkar. The female singers of this movie are Sunidhi Chauhan and Shreya Ghoshal.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes:
In the song "Hum hain raahi pyar ke"'s 4th part starring Priety Zinta, she and Raj dance close to a tree. t is accidentally touched by Raj, and the tree trembles for a few seconds. This is because that part of song had a digitally added background and therefore the tree was fake too, and so it shook on a slight touch.

Quotes:

Surinder Sahni:
[on the phone]
Punjab Power, lighting up your life…

User Review

A SHAME FOR BOLLYWOOD or is it a coincidental hit

Rating: 1/10

This movies was one of the most predictable piece of work I have ever
seen. There was absolutely nothing natural about this movie. From the
first 10 minutes to the last everything happened as a coincidence and
the actors keep saying it God's reason that they were together, given
straight form the title RAB NE BANA DI JODI. Shah Rukh has given one of
his worst performances ever. He over acted as Suri, the geek who worked
for Punjab Power, and even worse while playing Raj, a cool hip guys
that comes out of no where. Although the heroine in this movie, Anushka
Sharma, did put a lot of effort into her debut role, but sad to say her
character was not well built. I mean seriously, you wont recognize you
husband if he took of his glasses and shaved his mustache? Where did
she think she was going to end up with being friends with Raj? From the
first time Raj and Taani met, he was flirting with her and kept talking
about love and just kept overacting to be the coolest person in the
planet. Everything happens coincidentally, from Day 1 of where Suri and
Taani met, at her wedding, there just happened to be a bus accident
where the whole family of the groom , and the groom himself, dies.
Hearing this news her father has a heart attack, and then they are
married shortly after all this tragedy. How realistic does this sound
to you? Even a kid in Pre-school can figure out that there's something
not right with this picture. I don't understand how some one can say
this is a good movie in any way: the music including the background
score was mediocre, the photography was below par, the art direction
was bad, everything in the movie from the streets to the garage looked
like a set, the only realistic looking location was the Golden Temple,
the actor has give out a performance with the same crap he has been
giving out for his past 100s of movie, and most importantly the dialogs
and the story were absolutely ridiculous. With the movie rating to be
below par in all these categories how can one say this was a great
movie. We are in 2009, and Bollywood has been making the same kind of
crap since the dawn of Indian cinema. One can argue with me by saying
if this movie was crap why did it do so well in the Box Office. Well I
have 3 letters for you SRK. People will spend money to see SRK's
appearance on screen not matter how crappy the story or the director
is. Well getting back to the movie, I gave this a 1 out of 10 because
of its impracticality and the redundant storyline over the years of
Bollywood cinema.