''Helmet'' is a 2021 Indian Hindi-language

comedy film A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...

with a strong message of contraceptive awareness directed by Satram Ramani and produced by Sony Pictures Films India and

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. It features

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, Pranutan Bahl, Abhishek Banerjee, Ashish Verma and

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in lead roles. The film premiered on 3 September 2021 on

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. It tries to change the taboo and hesitancy associated with use of condoms in India.

Plot

Lucky and Rupali are very much in love and want to get married but her father objects as Lucky is an orphan and has less income then the boy he has chosen for Rupali.Lucky wants to start his own band and tries to get loan but Rupali's father and uncle are so powerful that they warn everyone not to help him.Lucky comes up with an idea of looting a truck containing electronic goods an involves his two friends Sultan and Minus.Lucky ,Sultan and Minus loot the truck but find that are no electronic goods but condoms inside. The trio then has no option but to sell the condoms in a different way by wearing a helmet so nobody identifies them.

Cast

as Lucky * Pranutan Bahl as Rupali * Abhishek Banerjee as Sultan * Ashish Verma as Minus * Ashish Vidyarthi as Jogi, Rupali's father *

as Bunty Bhai *

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as Shambhu, medical shop owner * Shrikant Varma as Gupta, Band Owner *

as Biker, Cameo appearance

Production

The

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commenced on 19 December 2019 in

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. The film was wrapped up on 20 January 2020.

Soundtrack

The music of film was composed by

Tanishk-Vayu Tanishk-Vayu is a duo of Indian composer Tanishk Bagchi and lyricist Vayu Shrivastav, who also act as a composer duo. They together composed for films like ''Tanu Weds Manu Returns'' (2015), '' Bareilly Ki Barfi'' (2017), ''Tumhari Sulu'' (2017), ...

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and Nirmaan while lyrics written by Vayu, Tony Kakkar, Shloke Lal and Nirmaan.

Reception

Rahul Desai of Film Companion wrote, "The biggest irony of ''Helmet'' is that India's condom commercials over the years have been far more imaginative, cheekier and...slicker."

References

External links

*
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* {{IMDb title, tt11460818 2021 films 2021 comedy films Indian comedy films 2020s Hindi-language films Sony Pictures films Columbia Pictures films Sony Pictures Networks India films Films scored by JAM8 Films scored by Tanishk-Vayu Films scored by Tanishk Bagchi Films scored by Tony Kakkar