Partner
File:Partner-01.jpg Movie poster for Partner
Directed by	David Dhawan
Produced by	Sohail Khan Parag Sanghvi
Written by	Sanjay Chel David Dhawan Yunus Sajawal
Starring	Salman Khan Govinda Lara Dutta Katrina Kaif
Music by	Sajid-Wajid
Cinematography	Johny Lal
Editing by	Nitin Rokade Pranay Patel
Distributed by	K Sera Sera
Release date(s)	20 July 2007
Running time	139 mins
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Box office	103 crore[1]

Partner is a 2007 Bollywood film directed by David Dhawan and starring Salman Khan and Govinda in the lead roles. Salman is paired with Lara Dutta and Govinda with Katrina Kaif. According to Dhawan, the film is inspired by the 2005 Hollywood film, Hitch.^[2]

Synopsis[link]

Prem (Salman Khan) is a Love Guru who solves the love issues of his clients. He meets Bhaskar Diwakar Chaudhary (Govinda) who comes to Prem for help in his love life. Bhaskar loves his boss Priya Jaisingh (Katrina Kaif) but is unable to express his love to her as she is the daughter of a wealthy businessman. Prem initially refuses to help Bhaskar and goes to Phuket, Thailand. Bhaskar follows him there and convinces him to help him.

After coming back from Thailand, Prem meets Naina (Lara Dutta), a photo journalist who was running from some gangsters led by Chhota Don (Rajpal Yadav), who mimicks Shahrukh Khan in Don. Prem saves her and falls in love with her. Meanwhile he starts teaching Bhaskar how to impress Priya. But Bhaskar uses his own simplicity and non-sense acts to impress Priya. Priya finally falls in love with Bhaskar but does not disclose it to him.

Prem comes to know from Bhaskar that Priya is getting married to someone according to her father's will. They both come to Priya's wedding ceremony with Naina, and Priya's father is convinced by Bhaskar's acts. Priya now gets ready to marry Bhaskar.

Meanwhile a spoiled brat named Neil comes to Prem for love help and he asks Prem to convince a girl for a one night stand. Prem gets angry with Neil and tells him that he does not help people with such bad intentions. Neil somehow manages to get his one night stand and then ditches her, telling her the love guru gave him advice to do so. Unfortunately the girl turns out to be Naina's friend Nikki. Naina then sets out to expose the Love Guru and finds out it's Prem. Naina hates Prem for what she thought he did to her friend and publishes a front page article claiming that Prem can set anyone up with the girl they want using the Priya/Bhaskar relationship as an example.

Prem thinks that Bhaskar may commit suicide without Priya and goes to her to tell her what really happened. Priya realizes that all the things she liked about Bhaskar are what Prem wanted Bhaskar to hide from her and Priya is ready to take Bhaskar back. Prem makes up with Naina by making her hear the truth about him not helping Neil, and they get back together. On both couple's honeymoon night Bhaskar again asks Prem for help but this time they both get mingled with their respective wives.

Cast[link]

• Salman Khan as Prem (Love Guru)
• Govinda as Bhaskar Devakar Chaudhary
• Lara Dutta as Naina
• Katrina Kaif as Priya Jaisingh
• Master Ali Haji as Rohan (Naina's Son)
• Dalip Tahil as Raj Jaisingh
• Aarti Chabria as Nikki (Naina's colleague)
• Rajat Bedi as Neil Bakshi
• Suresh Menon as Kiran
• Deepshikha as Prem's sister
• Tiku Talsania as Naina's boss
• Ali Asghar as Naina's colleague
• Atul Parchure
• Vindu Dara Singh as Chadha
• Razak Khan as John uncle
• Puneet Issar as Rana
• Rajpal Yadav as Chota Don
• Shashi Kiran as Newspaper stall owner

Soundtrack[link]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Planet Bollywood	[3]
Bollywood Hungama	[4]

The music of the film has been composed by Sajid-Wajid. The music entered the top five on 23 July 2007.^[5]

Tracklist[link]

Response[link]

Box office[link]

According to Box Office India, it was the first blockbuster of Bollywood in the year 2007. It grossed Rs. 85.75 crores in India^[6] and $4.19 million overseas.^[7]

• Review-Taran Adarsh
• Review- Rediff

References[link]

1. ^ "Top Lifetime Grossers Worldwide". Boxofficeindia.com. http://www.boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=312&catName=TGlmZXRpbWU=. Retrieved 15 September 2010. 
2. ^ "'Partner' inspired from 'Hitch'". 2007-07-08. http://www.apunkachoice.com/scoop/bollywood/20070708-0.html. 
3. ^ "Partner Music Review". http://www.planetbollywood.com/displayReview.php?id=063007081326. Retrieved 17 October 2011. 
4. ^ "Partner Music Review". http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movies/musicreview/12766/index.html. Retrieved 17 October 2011. 
5. ^ "Partner enters Top 5". http://www.indiafm.com/features/2007/07/23/2875/index.html. 
6. ^ "Box Office 2007". Boxofficeindia.com. http://boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=214&catName=MjAwNw==. Retrieved 2010-12-28. 
7. ^ Top Lifetime Grossers OVERSEAS (US $). Box Office India. Retrieved 2011-09-01.

External links[link]

• Partner at the Internet Movie Database

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