Turning 30
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Turning 30!!! is a 2011 Bollywood
film produced by Prakash Jha
and directed by Alankita Srivastav - a long time assistant of Jha.
The movie features Gul Panag
, Siddharth Makkar and Purab Kohli
, with music composed by the music director duo of Sidharth-Suhas, whose past works include Dil Dosti and Bhram.The film is a young urban love story and women centric film and for the first time a non-political story by Prakash Jha.
) who is about to celebrate her big three oh and life is a perfect picture with a good job and the perfect guy. However, things turn into a nightmare when her boyfriend breaks up with her to marry a girl who can finance his fathers failing business. She has some setbacks at work when the credit for all her ideas and hardwork goes to undeserving people. With few days left for her birthday she is in a mess - constantly trying to win the guy back. The movie also tells the stories of her two best friends Malini and Ruksana who stand by her and support her though they are going through some rough patches in their lives.
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Bollywood
Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...
film produced by Prakash Jha
Prakash Jha
Prakash Jha is an Indian film producer-director-screenwriter, who is most known for his political and socio-political films such as Damul , Mrityudand , Gangaajal , Apaharan and multistarrer hit movie Raajneeti...
and directed by Alankita Srivastav - a long time assistant of Jha.
The movie features Gul Panag
Gul Panag
Gul Panag is an Indian actress, model, and former beauty queen who competed in the Miss Universe pageant. Her notable films include Dor, Dhoop, Manorama Six Feet Under, Hello, and Straight....
, Siddharth Makkar and Purab Kohli
Purab Kohli
Purab Kohli is an Indian model, VJ and actor.He started his career as an actor with the popular tv show Hip Hip Hurray and earned recognition through video jockeying on Channel V....
, with music composed by the music director duo of Sidharth-Suhas, whose past works include Dil Dosti and Bhram.The film is a young urban love story and women centric film and for the first time a non-political story by Prakash Jha.
Plot
Turning 30 is the story of the protagonist of the movie Naina (Gul PanagGul Panag
Gul Panag is an Indian actress, model, and former beauty queen who competed in the Miss Universe pageant. Her notable films include Dor, Dhoop, Manorama Six Feet Under, Hello, and Straight....
) who is about to celebrate her big three oh and life is a perfect picture with a good job and the perfect guy. However, things turn into a nightmare when her boyfriend breaks up with her to marry a girl who can finance his fathers failing business. She has some setbacks at work when the credit for all her ideas and hardwork goes to undeserving people. With few days left for her birthday she is in a mess - constantly trying to win the guy back. The movie also tells the stories of her two best friends Malini and Ruksana who stand by her and support her though they are going through some rough patches in their lives.
Story
The story starts with a epilogue of Naina about her connection with Mumbai. She works in a advertising company called adz. She is in relationship with Rishab, a banker.Cast
- Gul PanagGul PanagGul Panag is an Indian actress, model, and former beauty queen who competed in the Miss Universe pageant. Her notable films include Dor, Dhoop, Manorama Six Feet Under, Hello, and Straight....
as Naina - Purab KohliPurab KohliPurab Kohli is an Indian model, VJ and actor.He started his career as an actor with the popular tv show Hip Hip Hurray and earned recognition through video jockeying on Channel V....
- Siddharth Makkar
- Tillotama ShomeTillotama ShomeTillotama Shome is a film actress. Born in India, she moved to New York in the Autumn of 2004 for a master’s programme in educational theatre at New York University, where she remained until visiting Mumbai on holiday in February 2008...
as Malini - Jeneva Talwar as Ruksana
- Anita KanwarAnita KanwarAnita Kanwar is an Indian film and television actor who is best known for her role as Lajjo ji in the 1980s Doordarshan mega soap opera Buniyaad....
as Naina's Mother - Rahul SinghRahul SinghAnurag Verma is a comic book character from the Devi comic book by Virgin Comics....
- Sameer Malhotra
- Bikramjeet Kanwarpal
- Satyadeep Mishra
- Karaan Singh
- Ira DubeyIra DubeyIra Dubey is an Indian actress who appeared on the small screen and in Bollywood films.Dubey was born in Mumbai to Lillete Dubey, a popular Bollywood actress. She graduated in theater studies from Yale. Her sibling Neha Dubey is also an actress, who starred in the Mira Nair movie Monsoon Wedding...
in a Special Appearance
Review
NDTV movie review gave 2 out of 5 stars stating "..what sinks this ship is the lame writing". Rediff movies review gave 1.5 out 5 stating "..A film can't be both empowering and embarrassing -- and here the latter is painfully predominant"Soundtrack
The music is composed by Siddharth-Suhas. Lyrics are penned by Suhas, Kumaar, Raam Goutam, and Prashant PandeyPrashant Pandey
Prashant Pandey is a Mumbai based writer director. He started his career writing Ram Gopal Varma's critically acclaimed Sarkar Raj featuring Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai...
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