Badrinath Ki Dulhania

2017 film by Shashank Khaitan

Badrinath Ki Dulhania (transl. Badrinath's bride) is a 2017 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy movie.

Badrinath Ki Dulhania
Directed byShashank Khaitan
Written byShashank Khaitan
Produced byHiroo Yash Johar
Karan Johar
Apoorva Mehta
StarringVarun Dhawan
Alia Bhatt
CinematographyNeha Parti Matiyani
Edited byManan Sagar
Music by
  • Score:
  • John Stewart Eduri
  • Songs:
  • Akhil Sachdeva
  • Tanishk Bagchi
  • Amaal Mallik
Production
company
Distributed byFox Star Studios
Release date
  • 10 March 2017 (2017-03-10) (India)
Running time
139 minutes[1]
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget39 crore[2]
Box office206 crore[3]

Production

It was written and directed by Shashank Khaitan and produced by Hiroo Yash Johar, Karan Johar and Apoorva Mehta under the Dharma Productions banner.[4] This film is a sequel of the film Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania, which was released in 2014.

Cast

It stars Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt in the lead roles with Aakanksha Singh, Rituraj Singh, Yash Sinha, Shweta Basu Prasad, Gaurav Pandey, Aparshakti Khurana, Sahil Vaid and Swanand Kirkire in supporting roles.

Badrinath Ki Dulhania was the third time Dhawan and Bhatt acted together after their previous movies Student of the Year (2012) and Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania (2014).

Release

The film was theatrically released in India on 10 March 2017,[5] coinciding with the Holi weekend.

Reputation

The movie received positive reviews and was commercially successful at the box office,[6] and earned over 1.90 billion globally at the box office.

Cast

  • Varun Dhawan as Badrinath "Badri" Bansal
  • Alia Bhatt as Vaidehi Trivedi
  • Rituraj Singh as Ambarnath "Ambar" Bansal, Badri's father
  • Yash Sinha as Aloknath "Alok" Bansal, Badri's brother
  • Shweta Basu Prasad as Urmila Shukla Bansal, Alok's wife
  • Swanand Kirkire as Mayank Trivedi, Vaidehi's father
  • Kanupriya Pandit as Manasvi Trivedi, Vaidehi's mother
  • Sahil Vaid as Somdev Mishra, Badri's best friend
  • Sukhmani Lamba as Kritika Mishra [née Trivedi], Bhushan’s wife
  • Aparshakti Khurana as Bhushan Mishra, Kritika's Husband
  • Rajendra Sethi as Jitendra Mishra, Bhushan's father
  • Aakanksha Singh as Kiran Kakkar, Vaidehi's friend in Singapore
  • Gaurav Pandey as Gurmeet Singh Lamba, Vaidehi's friend in Singapore and Lamba's girlfriend
  • Gauahar Khan as Laxmi Shankar, a cop in Singapore
  • Atul Narang as Sagar

References