Shuddh Desi Romance

Shuddh Desi Romance, released internationally as A Random Desi Romance, is a 2013 Bollywood romantic comedy film directed by Maneesh Sharma and produced by Aditya Chopra. It features Sushant Singh Rajput, Parineeti Chopra and newcomer Vaani Kapoor in leading roles. The story, set in Jaipur, Rajasthan, explores the views of the younger generation on commitment, live-in relationships and arranged marriages as compared to love marriages in small town India. It screened in the Gala Presentation section of the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. Upon release, the film received generally positive response from critics and audiences and was declared a hit in India by Box Office India.The film received a, U/A certificate from the CBFC India for it's mature theme.

Plot

Raghu Ram (Sushant Singh Rajput) is a tourist guide in Jaipur who doubles up as a rental baraati for Goyal (Rishi Kapoor), a wedding planner. Raghu is experiencing pre-marital jitters before his arranged marriage. Goyal has hired a fake baraat to accompany Raghu to his wedding which includes Gayatri (Parineeti Chopra), an open-minded, independent woman who lives life on her own terms. On the way to his wedding venue, Raghu falls for Gayatri. A confused Raghu, heavily impressed by her freedom, gathers the guts to run away from his wedding.

Benny Dayal

Benny Dayal (Malayalam: ബെന്നി ദയാൽ,பென்னி தயாள் ) is an Indian singer. He is a member of the band S5 launched by the channel SS Music.

Biography

Dayal's parents hail from Kollam district, Kerala. Benny was born and raised in Abu Dhabi and completed his schooling there from Abu Dhabi Indian School (ADIS) and went on to complete his B.Com and Masters in Journalism from Madras Christian College. His father was working in Abu Dhabi.

Benny worked as an Events Coordinator with RR Donnelley. He quit his job in BPO to accomplish his career with music.

Discography

Albums

Tamil songs

Telugu songs

Other songs

Awards

Live performances

Sushant Singh Rajput

Sushant Singh Rajput is an Indian actor. He had a starring role in the soap opera Pavitra Rishta, and later participated in the dance reality show Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 4. Rajput made his film debut as one of the three male leads in Abhishek Kapoor's drama Kai Po Che! (2013). He went on to star in the romantic comedy Shuddh Desi Romance (2013) and played the titular detective in the thriller Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! (2015), both of which were produced by Yash Raj Films.

Early life and background

Rajput was born in Patna, Bihar where his father worked as a government official. His ancestral village is Maldiha in Purnia district. His family moved to New Delhi in early 2000s and have been based there ever since. Rajput has four sisters with him being the youngest in the family. One of his sisters, Mitu Singh is a state-level cricketer. One of Sushant's sisters Shweta Singh Kirti lives in the US, two in Delhi and one in Chandigarh. He went to school in St. Karen's High School in Patna and Kulachi Hansraj Model School in New Delhi. He was studying Mechanical Engineering at the Delhi College of Engineering (now known as Delhi Technological University)

Sushant Singh

Sushant Singh is an Indian actor and Television host. He is mainly known for Savdhaan India as the host. He has also appeared in commercially successful films like Hate Story 2, Baby and many other films.

Filmography

Television

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Jaideep Sahni

Jaideep Sahni (born 1968) is an Indian screenwriter, songwriter and creative producer, most known for screenplays of films like Chak De! India, Khosla Ka Ghosla, Company, Bunty Aur Babli and Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year and many popular songs he has written.

He won the Filmfare Award for Best Dialogue as well as Filmfare Award for Best Story for Company (2002), followed by Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay for Khosla Ka Ghosla (2006). He also won the IIFA award 2008 for best story, for Chak De! India .

Early life and education

Born and brought up in New Delhi, Jaideep Sahni known as JD by his friends in the Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Bidar was respected by his classmates as an intelligent boy. The irony is that he hardly watched any Hindi movies during that time. He was generally a quiet person, and was well liked by all his class mates. Sahni started as a computer Engineer, He worked with a company named NIIT.

Career

He turned lyricist after jam sessions with rock band, Euphoria’s Palash Sen, and screenwriter after discovering the screenplay for film Gandhi in a New Delhi bookshop at age 27. His first film, Jungle (2000), directed by Ram Gopal Verma was a critical failure, but a commercial success. But their second film, Company (film), a commercial and critical success was nominated for eleven Filmfare Awards and won seven of them. Post company he worked with Dibakar Banerjee in Khosla Ka Ghosla which was well received by critics and met with reasonable box office success. Since then he continues to work for Yash Raj Films, where he started as a screenwriter for the film Bunty Aur Babli directed by Shaad Ali which was a box office success and a major breakthrough in Abhishek Bachchan's career.