Cheeni Kum (2007)

Cheeni Kum Movie Trailer 2007

Crew

Directed by     R. Balki
Produced by     Sunil Manchanda
Music by     Ilaiyaraja
Distributed by     MAD Entertainment Ltd.

Cast

    Amitabh Bachchan as Buddha-Dev Gupta
    Tabu as Nina Verma
    Paresh Rawal as Omprakash Verma
    Zohra Sehgal as Buddhadev's mother
    Swini Khara as Sexy
    Vinay Jain as Sexy's father
    Alexx ONell as English Waiter

Story

Cheeni Kum focuses on Buddhadev Gupta (Amitabh Bachchan). Buddhadev is the 64-year old chef and owner of London's top Indian restaurant, Spice 6. He lives with his 85-year old mother, and his only friend and confidante is his 9-year old neighbour, Sexy (Swini Khara). Buddhadev Gupta is an arrogant, ego-centric, pompous man with a singular passion in life—cooking. He is a confirmed bachelor who has never been in love until 34-year old Nina Verma (Tabu) walks into his restaurant and life. Nina is a beautiful and charming Indian woman. Cool, calm, quiet, always smiling, but independent and strong willed. The two extreme in age, character, and attitude meet and against all odds fall in love. They decide to get married, and, like any Indian man, Buddhadev respectfully comes to ask Nina's father, Omprakash Verma (Paresh Rawal), who is a true Gandhian, living in Delhi, for her hand. The main problem here is the Buddhadev is older than Nina's father.

Did you know ?

1. The script was written two-and-a-half years before it started production.
2. Shooting was completed in 45 days.
3. Director R. Balki, a Tamilian and isn't fluent in Hindi, had a friend who helped in the translation of his direction/dialogs from Tamil into Hindi.
4. Art Director Julie Bonnet recreated the whole London restaurant on a studio set.
5. R. Balki's directional debut.
6. 'Paresh Rawal' was the last team member to join the cast, when the cast was being finalized he was out of the country and when he returned he asked the director "he had to be in the film"
7. At the end of every take Zohra Segal used to ask R. Balki where her whiskey was. On her birthday, Amitabh Bachchan presented her a crate of champagne and she was overjoyed.
8. R. Balki wanted Amitabh Bachchan to support a ponytail for his character; Amitabh Bachchan was asked by the media who's idea was the ponytail, to which he said "This was Balki's idea, he himself does not have any ponytail so he made his character sport them."
9. All the tracks composed by Ilayaraja have been used by him in Tamil and Kannada cinema. Ilayaraja recycled his original work and polished them up for this movie.
10. The film was shown at Cannes for a private screening with the cast and crew's close associates and some media people, before the national release date.