''Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji'' () is a 2011 Indian

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-language

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film directed by

Madhur Bhandarkar Madhur Bhandarkar (born 26 August 1968) is an Indian film director, script writer, and producer. In 2016,Bhandarkar was honoured with the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian honour, by the Government of India. The drama film '' Chandni B ...

, starring

Ajay Devgn Vishal Veeru Devgan (born 2 April 1969), known professionally as Ajay Devgn, is an Indian actor, film director and producer who works in Hindi cinema. Devgn has appeared in over a hundred films and has won numerous accolades, including four ...

, Emraan Hashmi and

Omi Vaidya Omi Vaidya (born January 10, 1982) is an American actor of Indian descent who works in Bollywood films. He is best known for his performance as Chatur Ramalingam or "Silencer" in the 2009 buddy-drama film, '' 3 Idiots''. In addition, Vaidya has ...

in the lead roles with

Shazahn Padamsee Shazahn Padamsee is an Indian actress and model who primarily worked in Hindi films. Daughter of noted actors Alyque Padamsee and Sharon Prabhakar, she made her first film appearance in the 2009 Hindi film '' Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year ...

Shruti Haasan Shruti Haasan (born 28 January 1986) is an Indian actress and playback singer who works predominantly in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi films. Born in the Haasan family, she is the daughter of actor-filmmaker Kamal Haasan and actress Sarika Thakur. ...

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and

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in supporting roles. It is produced by Madhur Bhandarkar and Kumar Mangat under the banner of Bhandarkar Entertainment and Wide Frame Films. The film was released on 28 January 2011.

Plot

''Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji'' revolves around the story of three men. Naren Ahuja (

) works as a bank manager and is seeking divorce from his wife, Madhvi (

); Abhay Suri ( Emraan Hashmi) is a playboy and gym trainer; and Milind Kelkar (

) works in a matrimonial company and is in search for true love. Naren leaves his house and starts living in his parents' house. Abhay and Milind are thrown out of their rented apartments and end up as paying guests for Naren. Naren has a crush on June Pinto (

), who works as an intern in his bank. Milind starts loving a radio jockey, Gungun Sarkar (

). Abhay falls for Anushka Narang (

), a former Ms. India, who married a multi-millionaire and is interested in young men. Naren and June start enjoying each other's company. Milind tries to impress Gungun, which annoys her, but she uses Milind for her own reasons. Abhay gets full attention from Anushka and they start having an affair. The three love stories blossom until Nikki Narang (

), the stepdaughter of Anushka, enters the story. Abhay falls for Nikki and starts ignoring Anushka. He breaks up with Anushka and starts going out with Nikki. June's grandma invites Naren for dinner, and Gungun eventually falls in love with Milind. The next day, everything changes. Milind gets angry after getting a letter from Gungun that she's going to

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for a movie, Nikki dumps Abhay therefore admitting that she was just using him for sex and he's not her type and June's grandma invites Naren to get his opinion on June marrying Chris Pascal, her boyfriend. At the airport, the three friends decide to go to

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for a vacation and vow never to fall for girls any more. However, at the same airport they find three new girls. The story is the "love" defined in practical terms with satire.

Cast

as Naren Ahuja * Emraan Hashmi as Abhay Suri *

as Milind Kelkar *

as June Pinto *

as Nikki Narang *

as Anushka "Anu" Narang *

as Gungun Sarkar *

Aditya Raj Kapoor Aditya Raj Kapoor (born 1 July 1956) is an Indian film actor and filmmaker and retired businessman from the Kapoor family. He is the son of late actor Shammi Kapoor and actress Geeta Bali. Kapoor is best known for his work as an assistant direc ...

as Harsh Narang *

as Madhavi Ahuja (Naren's ex-wife) *

Mukesh Tiwari Mukesh Tiwari (born 24 August 1969) is an Indian actor, who has worked predominantly in Bollywood. and few Tamil films. He is known for playing negative and comic side roles. He entered the film industry in the year 1998 with the movie '' China ...

as Mr. Mukesh Tiwari (Special Appearance) * Manoj Joshi as Waiter at Restaurant (Special Appearance) *Shikha Talsania as Aisha (Naren's assistant) *Arun Kadam as the flower seller *Sachin Parikh as Office colleague of Naren *Girish Sahdev as Office colleague of Naren * Daisy Irani as June's Nani *

Neha Pendse Nehha Pendse Bayas (born 29 November 1984) is an Indian film and television actress. She was born and brought up in Mumbai. Pendse was introduced on India-based satellite television channel Zee Marathi's ''Bhagyalakshami''. She has acted in sev ...

as Neha Desai *

Sanjay Chhel Sanjay Chhel is an Indian film director, writer and lyricist. Early life Sanjay Chhel was born on 14 October 1967 at Dwarka in Gujarat, India. He spent his childhood in Mumbai. He is son of art director and production designer Chhel Vayeda. ...

as Himesh * Sunny Singh as Akash (cameo appearance at airport scene) *Howard Rosemeyer as Jimmy * Dhruv Bhandari as Chris Pascal (June's boyfriend) * Chetna Pande as Priya (cameo appearance at airport scene) *

Priya Marathe Priya Marathe Moghe is an Indian actress. She is best known for her roles as Varsha in the television series '' Pavitra Rishta'' and as Bhavani Rathod on ''Saath Nibhaana Saathiya''. Currently she is playing role of Monica Kamat in Star Pravah ...

as Swati Paranjape (cameo appearance at airport scene) * Bhau Kadam as Dipak Sisodia (Cameo appearance) *

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as an

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Rating

The film received an A (Adults only) rating by the

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after Bhandarkar refused to cut several scenes he felt were integral to the film.

Reception

The film received positive response from critics upon release. At the box office, it grossed Rs. 282.5 million in three weeks. The Indian theatrical rights were pre-sold at a reasonable price of 130 million. It collected around $250,000 in the first weekend from all overseas circuits.

Soundtrack

The songs of the film are 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. ...

. Lyrics are penned by

Neelesh Misra Neelesh Misra (born 4 May 1973) is an Indian journalist, author, radio storyteller, scriptwriter and lyricist. He is most known for his radio show, Yaadon Ka IdiotBox with Neelesh Misra on BIG FM 92.7. He is co-founder-editor of Gaon Connecti ...

, Kumaar,

and

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 ...

. The

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is composed by Sandeep Shirodkar.

Track listing

References

External links

* {{Madhur Bhandarkar 2011 films 2010s Hindi-language films Films featuring songs by Pritam Films directed by Madhur Bhandarkar