Dil Dhadakne Do Movie Director, Actor, Cast and Crew

Dil Dhadakne Do is a comedy-drama movie of 2015 in the Indian Hindi-language that is directed by Zoya Akhtar and Produced by Ritesh Sidhwani & Farhan Akhtar under the Excel Entertainment. The film has an entertainment star cast of Anil Kapoor, Shefali Shah, Priyanka Chopra, Ranveer singh, Anushka Sharma and Farhan Akhtar while the film’s narration is by Aamir Khan. The supporting actors and actresses include Rahul Bose, Zarina Wahab, Vikrant Massey Pawan Chopra Parmeet Sethi Dolly Mattdo and Manoj Pahwa. The plot of the film revolves around a Indian family called Mehras, who are quite dysfunctional, inviting their relatives and friends on a trip on a 10-day cruise for their parents’ anniversary to try to renew their marriage.

Zoya planned the movie as a family tragedy that would dwell on the pathos of brother and sister. She desired to show true relationship between the siblings which did not belonged to the filmy and fake touch of Bollywood anymore full of disbelief. She later scripted it with her friend Reema Kagti, with whom she has earlier worked on earlier projects, while Farhan has written dialogues for the film. Most of the principal photography shooting was done aboard Pullmantur Cruises’ ship MS Sovereign cruising through Mediterranean and Europe and parts of the shooting on land in France, Spain, Italy, Tunisia, and Turkey.

The music of Indu M foreign Affairs was composed by the Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy while the lyrics were penned by Javed Akhtar. It was released worldwide on 5 June 2015 and the critical reception was positive for the performances of Kapoor, Shah, Chopra, and Singh as well as for Akhtar’s direction, songs, visuals and production design; but was criticized for length of the movie, and climax. All the same, it turned out to be financially successful, as it collected ₹ 1. million on a production budget of ₹550 million (US$6. 6 million).

The movie entered the competition at the 61st Filmfare Awards and was nominated for five awards including – Best Supporting Actress for both Shah and Sharma “Not as ambitious”, but Kapoor won the Best Supporting Actor. They gave it 9 nominations at the Screen Awards 2016 of which the Best Film and Best Director Zoya Akhtar were among it and it won 2 awards namely the Best Supporting Actor Kapoor and the Best Ensemble Cast.

CAST

Anil Kapoor as Kamal Mehra: Business tycoon; Ayesha-Kabir's father
Shefali Shah as Neelam Kamal Mehra: Kamal's wife
Priyanka Chopra as Ayesha Mehra: Kamal-Neelam's daughter
Ranveer Singh as Kabir Mehra: Kamal-Neelam's son
Anushka Sharma as Farah Ali: Kabir's girlfriend
Farhan Akhtar as Sunny Gill: Ayesha's love interest
Rahul Bose as Manav Sangha: Ayesha's ex-husband
Zarina Wahab as Smita Pranav Sangha
Vikrant Massey as Rana Khanna
Ridhima Sud as Noorie Sood
Pawan Chopra as Prem Mehra
Ayesha Raza Mishra as Indu Prem Mehra
Parmeet Sethi as Lalit Sood
Dolly Minhas as Naina Lalit Sood
Manoj Pahwa as Vinod Khanna
Divya Seth as Saira Jamaal Hashmi
Preeti Mamgain as Vandana Vinod Khanna
Shireesh Sharma as Jamaal Hashmi
Ikhlaque Khan as Amrish Gill
Vandana Sajnani as Anjana "Anju" Chopra
Sarah Hashmi as Divya Mehra
Khushi Dubey as Putlu Mehra
Aamir Khan Only voice-over as Pluto Mehra the dog

CREW