''Tum Mile'' (transl. I met you) is a 2009 Indian

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-language romantic disaster film directed by

Kunal Deshmukh Kunal Deshmukh is an Indian film director and restaurateur. He grew up in Mumbai, India. Early life and education After finishing his schooling at Arya Vidya Mandir, Bandra, Mumbai and junior college at Jai Hind, Churchgate, he took up an a ...

, with story concept by Vishesh Bhatt. The film stars Emraan Hashmi and

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in lead roles. It is a love story set against the backdrop of the infamous July 2005 Mumbai floods. The film was released on 13 November 2009.

Plot

The movie is in clips of Past and Present. Akshay Malvade who is an artist and a character designer in present departures on a flight. He is boarding from

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. Suddenly he sees Sanjana Singhania who is sitting just opposite Akshay, and next to business man number 23. They both see each other. Akshay and Sanjana remember a series of flashbacks. Akshay was a struggling artist who was in

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. He sees Sanjana first time at that point. Then while Sanjana tries to take out her car she accidentally bumps Akshay's car and leaves a note on it. Akshay and his friend Vicky go to her house and while coming back they have a lot of fun. The next day Akshay and Sanjana go to a party and

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. They discover their

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. Sanjana breaks up with her fiancé and confesses her feelings to Akshay. Akshay and Sanjana settle down. As Akshay is an artist and not employed his business is not improving. He also has an ego fight with a distributor. As Akshay doesn't have any money he gets frustrated and takes it out on Sanjana. Sanjana has been working for quite a while. After some time Akshay gets a job in Sydney. As Sanjana can not leave her job and Akshay is interested in the offer they have a fight and break up. Back in the present when they remember these memories the situation is worst in

Mumbai Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' fin ...

. The heavy rains have flooded the

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(Indicating the

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). Many are trying to survive. While their adventure for survival continues Vicky is electrocuted as he falls in water with a cable carrying an electric current. After spending

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together they realise that their break-up 6

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s back was just a break for them as their destiny is to be united.

Cast

* Emraan Hashmi as Akshay "Akki" Malvade *

as Sanjana Singhania * VJ Mantra as Vicky Kapoor *

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as Mr. Amar Singhania * Rituraj Singh as Mr. Vishal Oberoi * Emilie Bachet as mystery traveller, Karen Jones *

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as business man number 2 * Atul Srivastava as Electrician in Cape Town

Critical reception

''Tum Mile'' opened to mixed to positive reviews, with most major critics agreeing it to be a passable movie.

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gave it a rating of 3/5 and said, "''Tum Mile'' caters to the youth mainly. At the box-office, the Vishesh Films - Emraan Hashmi combo has cultivated a strong fan-base over the years and coupled with good music, which is also very popular, the film should find itself in the comfortable zone".
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Box office

According to Box Office India, ''Tum Mile'' was a flop, grossing only 13.46 crores on a budget of 22 crore, just short of its budget.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was released on 16 September. The songs were composed by

Pritam Pritam Chakraborty (born 14 June 1971), also known mononymously as Pritam, is an Indian composer, instrumentalist, guitarist, and singer. After working as an ad jingles composer, he debuted as a co-composer in the 2001 Hindi film Tere Liye. ...

with lyrics by

Sayeed Quadri Sayeed Quadri is an Indian lyricist and poet who works in Bollywood. He was born in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. He won the Best Lyricist award at the 6th IIFA Awards for ''Murder'', and Standout Performance by Lyricist at the Stardust Awards 2005 for ...

and Kumaar. The

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was composed by

Raju Singh Raju Singh (Full name: Rajinder Singh Panesar) is an Indian film score composer, session musician, singer and a guitarist. His first collaboration was with Malkit Singh of Hai Jamalo fame. Together with Adesh Srivastav they released an album c ...

Track list

References

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