''Happy Hardy and Heer'' is a 2020
Bollywood
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musical romantic drama
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film directed by Raka, produced by Deepshikha Deshmukh and Sabita Manakchand, and starring
Himesh Reshammiya in a double role for the first time and Punjabi actress
Sonia Mann.
Plot
Happy, a lovable loser, is smitten by his childhood friend Heer. Though she is fond of him, she is yet to express her feelings for him. When she moves to London, Happy follows her there. Though he goes there on the pretext of getting a job, his real goal is to woo Heer. In London, she meets Hardy, who is born and brought up there. While Happy comes across as a happy-go-lucky guy, who fails at everything he attempts, Hardy is a successful entrepreneur. Heer falls for the latter, a twist in the tale leads to a situation where she has to choose between her childhood friend and her ideal man.
Cast
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Himesh Reshammiya as Harpreet Singh Lamba aka Happy / Harshvardhan Bhatt aka Hardy (Double Role)
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Sonia Mann as Heer Randhawa
* Naresh Suri as Heer's father
* Manmeet Singh as Happy's maternal uncle
* Deep Mandeep
* Ashwin Dhar as Mr. Kapoor (married to Hardy's mother)
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Sejal Shah
Sejal Shah is an Indian cinematographer. He has worked on a number of Bollywood films and advertisements.
Career
Shah has done more than 250 commercials, including for major brands such as Indian Oil, Sprite, Royal Stag, Hyundai, Ford End ...
* Trupti Khamkar as Latika
* David Shaw as Charles
* Nazzar Abdulla
* Raka as Shampy (cameo appearance)
Production
Filming
The film was shot in places such as
Glasgow
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,
Edinburgh
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and
Greenock of
Scotland
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and were filmed from 15 April 2019 to 15 May 2019.
Promotion
The makers of the film took a different approach to promote the film, deciding to organize ''Happy Hardy Heer concerts'' in 12 different cities. On 16 November 2019, the first concert was organized in
Pune
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. On 20 November, a concert was organized in
Surat followed by
Mathura
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Vadodara
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Jaipur
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Kolkata
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Mumbai
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Ahmedabad,
Mehsana
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, etc.
Release
The film is produced by
HR Musik
Himesh Reshammiya (born 23 July 1973) is an Indian playback singer, music director, songwriter, film & music producer and actor in Hindi cinema. He started his career as music director in the film '' Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya'' in 1998 and made ...
and EYKA Films. On 11 July 2019,
Tips Music
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uploaded the trailer on YouTube while Reshammiya posted the first official poster of the film on Instagram. On 16 July 2019, a musical teaser of the film was released. And finally, the film was released on 31 January 2020.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack was composed by Reshammiya, with lyrics by
Vishal Mishra,
Kumaar,
Shabbir Ahmed, Reshammiya and Aaryan Tiwari. The soundtrack will consist of songs sung by Reshammiya,
Arijit Singh,
Shreya Ghoshal
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,
Jubin Nautiyal
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Harshdeep Kaur
Harshdeep Kaur (born 16 December 1986) is an Indian playback singer known for her Bollywood Hindi, Punjabi,English and Sufi songs. She is popularly known as "Sufi Ki Sultana" because of her soulful Sufi renditions. After winning titles in two ...
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Asees Kaur,
Navraj Hans
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Musical career
Navraj Hans has done playback singing for several Bollywood and Punjabi movies. Hi ...
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Anusha Mani
Anusha Mani (born 29 March 1985) is an Indian female playback singer who works actively in the Bollywood film industry.
Early and personal life
Anusha hails from a musically-inclined family, and learnt Carnatic music from Smt Meera Nathan. Ha ...
,
Ranu Mondal and
Rituraj Mohanty
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Life and career
1988–2011: Early life and career
Rituraj Mohanty was born in Puri distric ...
. The first song of the album "Heeriye" was released on Reshammiya's birthday on 23 July 2019. The song "Teri Meri Kahani" was released on 11 September 2019. Ashiqui Mein Teri 2.0 is the remake of Ashiqui Mein Teri from ''
36 China Town
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'' originally composed and recreated by Reshammiya. For the song "Duggi", Reshammiya collaborated with
Shannon K
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Life
Shannon's father is Kumar Sanu, a Bollywood playback singer; and her mother, Saloni Sanu, is an entrepr ...
, an American singer-songwriter, daughter of singer
Kumar Sanu
Kedarnath Bhattacharya (born 20 October 1957), better known as Kumar Sanu, is an Indian playback singer. He is known as the King of Melody in Bollywood. He is famous for singing thousands of Bollywood Hindi songs. Apart from Hindi, he has al ...
, who also marked her debut as playback singer in Bollywood.
Track listing
Soundtrack Response
The soundtrack was successful. "Teri Meri Kahani" went viral and was viewed over 23 million types on YouTube. "Teri Meri Kahani" became the second most searched song and most searched Hindi song on
Google
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in 2019.
Critical reception
Harshada Rege from
Times of India
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gave it 3/5 and called it "Music makes this love triangle an entertaining watch."
Popular film critic
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said, "Himesh Reshammiya not only plays a double role, but he also makes sure his presence is felt in every frame even when he is not there."
Sonil Dedhia from
Mid-Day
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gave 3/5 and stated "Happy Hardy and Heer is a harmless, watchable film – sad, because it could have been better. It has its moments in the first half, while the second looks a bit dragged. With well- crafted romantic and intense moments, the film is a breezy love story."
Umesh Punwani from
Koimoi gave it just 1/5, stating "All said and done, Happy Hardy And Heer is just yet another Himesh Reshammiya film which hardly makes any sense about why it even exists."
Nandini Ramnath from
Scroll.in
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gave it 2/5 and stated "There is barely anything new in the situations between Heer and the two men in love with her. Besides, both the leads look a bit too seasoned to be playing the love-at-first-sight game. Despite the high volume at which the dialogue is delivered – Reshammiya is subtlety itself compared to Sonia Mann – almost nothing resonates.".
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The Economic Times
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'' gave it 3/5 and stated "An amusing watch despite wafer-thin plot & weak screenplay"
Box office
The film collected on its opening day.
The film had a lifetime collection of ₹8
crore at the box office.
References
External links
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2020 films
Films scored by Himesh Reshammiya
2020s Hindi-language films
2020 romantic drama films
HR Musik films
Indian romantic drama films
Films shot in Glasgow
Indian musical drama films
2020s musical drama films