Theatrical release poster | |
Directed by | Shirish Kunder |
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Produced by | Farah Khan Akshay Kumar |
Starring | Akshay Kumar Sonakshi Sinha Minisha Lamba Shreyas Talpade |
Music by | G. V. Prakash Kumar Gaurav Dagaonkar |
Distributed by | UTV Motion Pictures Hari Om Entertainment |
Release date(s) |
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Country | India |
Language | Hindi |
Budget | 40 crore (US$7.24 million) |
Box office | 20.00 crore (US$3.62 million)(1 week nett)[2][3] |
Contents |
Plot
Agastya (Akshay Kumar) is a space scientist, working on the development of a communication system, to communicate with aliens. But Agastya loses the faith of his seniors and is allotted with a deadline of one month to conclude his project with some substantial results.In the mean time Agastya is informed by his girlfriend Diva (Sonakshi Sinha) about his father's illness. On hearing this they both reaches his native village Paglaapur, whose colorful inhabitants include a man who speaks in gibberish, another who thinks he is a lamp post and everyone else who think that the World War II is still going on.
Soon after reaching there, Agastya finds that he was called on a false pretext of illness by his father.
On getting apprised about truth, Agastya decides to move back to US, but after hearing the plight of the inhabitants of Paglapur, due to the brushing aside of the village by the government because of its being absent from the demarcated map of India, he makes his mind to come out with some solution for the problem.
As the story proceeds, Agastya comes up with a quaint idea pertaining to the crop circle and arrival of aliens in his village, in order to fetch a recognition for his otherwise isolated village undergoing a plight of neglect ever since the independence.
With frames moving ahead, Agastya along with other villagers creates crop circle in Paglapur and spreads rumor about arrival of aliens in the village. And from their, amid tremendous media hype, takes over some hilarious sequences knitted around UFO and fictitious man made aliens.
Cast
- Akshay Kumar as Agastya/Sattu
- Sonakshi Sinha as Diva
- Shreyas Talpade as Babban(Agastya's Brother)
- Minisha Lamba as Tanya(News Reporter)
- Gurpreet Ghuggi
- Asrani
- Sanjai Mishra
- Vindu Dara Singh
- Pitobash
- Alexx ONell as Simon Goeback [7]
- Chitrangda Singh in the item song
- Farah Khan in a Guest Appearance
Production
Development
Shirish Kunder had the project in development for several years before finding financial backing and flop films, and had to negotiate for use of the specific title which Kunder stated is important to the script itself.[8] The film is being produced by Farah Khan, Shirish Kunder, and Akshay Kumar under the banner of Three's Company and Hari Om Entertainment.[9] The film was shot in 3D using 3D cameras, however in June 2012, it was announced that the film was no longer in 3D anymore, since Ra.One and Don 2 have taken the goals, if Joker flopped it would be a loss on the whole crew, therefore the film will only be released in 2D format.[5] According to director, Shirish Kunder, "It is an underdog story about how individuals make it big in life and in the process, get help from aliens from a fictional planet".[10] Shreyas Talpade will play Akshay's brother in the film.[11] Female lead opposite to Shreyas will be played by Minisha Lamba,[12] who will enact the role of an innocent TV reporter.[13] Sonakshi will also perform an item number in the film.[9] American actor Alexx ONell was also signed to play a role in the film.[7]Filming
The first schedule of shooting was initially slated to take place in Ludhiana, however the location was changed to Chandigarh.[14] The shooting began on 14 February 2011 in Chandigarh.[15][16][17] The crew finished the 19 day schedule on 12 March 2011, finishing 40% of the production work.[18] The second schedule started on 17 May 2011 in Mumbai[15] and concluded in June 2011.[19] The film is now slated to release on the 31st of August, 2012. The theatrical trailer was released on UTV Motion Pictures' YouTube channel on 11 July 2012 only online. Whilst it released worldwide on television on 13 July 2012, and also in cinemas along with Cocktail.Reception
Joker received negative reviews from critics. Based on 16 reviews, review aggregate site desimartini.com gave the film the verdict, "Apart from an interesting concept and a handful of funny moments, Joker is drag and doesn't work as a comedy or as a sci-fi caper. Skip it!" The site's average audience rating is 2/5.[20] Independent Bollywood gave 2.5 out of 5 stars and said "A Funny and weird entertainer with message".[21] Saibal Chatterjee of NDTVMovies.com gave the film 1 out of 5 stars and wrote, "Joker is a crude joke of a film that will leave you in tears unless you have a stomach strong enough to digest such unmitigated junk."[22] Noted film critic Taran Adarsh also gave it 1 out of 5 stars and labelled it as a complete "disaster" and a "joke of a film".[23]Soundtrack
Joker | |
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Soundtrack album by Chandan, Ashraf & Gaurav | |
Released | 28 July 2012 |
Recorded | 2011 |
Genre | Film soundtrack |
Language | Hindi |
Label | UTV/Sony Music |
Producer | G. V. Prakash Kumar |
All lyrics written by Shirish Kunder.
Tracklist | ||||||||||
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No. | Title | Singer(s) | Length | |||||||
1. | "Kafirana" (Composed by Gaurav Dagaonkar) | Sunidhi Chauhan & V.Sai Subhankar | 5:00 | |||||||
2. | "Jugnu" | Udit Narayan | 4:10 | |||||||
3. | "Sing Raja" | Daler Mehndi & Sonu Kakkar | 3:50 | |||||||
4. | "Yeh Joker" | Sonu Nigam & Shweta Pandit | 4:40 | |||||||
5. | "Tears of Joker" | Instrumental | 3:20 | |||||||
6. | "Alien Arrival" | Instrumental | 2:48 |
Reception
Shreshit Poddar of Score Magazine, gave it 2 out of 5 stars & said,"You know something is wrong with an album when the instrumental tracks immensely outshine the vocal tracks. I must mention that each of the songs has a strong underlying melody but gross injustice is done to them by Shirish Kunder’s lyrics."[26] Music Aloud's review said "He may or may not have composed the tunes for the controversy-ridden soundtrack of Jaanemann, but when GV Prakash Kumar actually got to do a credited debut in Bollywood, it turned out to be a rather uninventive one" and rated it 5/10.[27]References
- ^ a b "Joker release date confirmed, to arrive on 14th September, 2012". 29 October 2011. Bollywood Hungama. Retrieved 29 October 2011.
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- ^ "Joker Second Day Business". bosofficeindia.com. 2012-09-02.
- ^ "Indian Cinema gets on 3D Bandwagon: After Sohan Roy's DAM 999, Farah Khan's JOKER to be the 2nd Bollywood 3D Movie". Washington Bangla Radio. October 28, 2010. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
- ^ a b "Akshay's 'Joker' will be first full-fledged 3D film". Indian Express. 27 October 2010. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
- ^ "'Joker' trailer to release with 'Cocktail'". mid-day.com. 2012-07-09.
- ^ a b IANS (April 12, 2011). "Alexx O'Nell in Shirish Kunder's 'Joker'". The Times Of India. Retrieved 2011-04-20.
- ^ "Akshay Kumar in Shirish Kunder's Joker". Sawf News. 15 August 2010. Retrieved 30 January 2011.
- ^ a b "Sonakshi To Do Item Number in Joker". Press Trust of India. NDTV. 10 February 2011. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
- ^ "I don't get Farah’s cinema: Shirish Kunder". 17 March 2011. Retrieved 19 March 2011.
- ^ "Shreyas to play Akshay's brother in 'Joker'". IANS. IBNLive. 10 January 2011. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
- ^ Tuteja, Joginder (2 February 2011). "Minissha Lamba joins Joker". Bollywood Hungama. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
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- ^ "Shirish Kunder to begin shooting Joker from 12 February". Business of Cinema. 11 January 2011. Retrieved 20 April 2011.
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- ^ Singh, Manisha Pradhan (15 March 2011). "Akshay Kumar & Sonakshi Sinha starrer Joker 40% complete". Business of Cinema. Retrieved 20 April 2011.
- ^ Aikara, Anita (10 June 2011). "Star Diary". The Indian Express. Retrieved 19 July 2011.
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- ^ "Saibal Chatterjee's review of Joker". NDTVMovies.com. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
- ^ Adarsh, Taran. "Joker (2012) Hindi Movie Critic Review". Bollywood Hungama.
- ^ "Rahman's protege and nephew Prakash to compose for Joker". Oneindia.in. 7 February 2011. Retrieved 1 March 2011.
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