Aaha Kalyanam

Aaha Kalyanam
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	A. Gokul Krishna
Produced by	Aditya Chopra
Written by	Rajiv Rajaram (dialogues)
Screenplay by	Habib Faisal
Story by	Maneesh Sharma
Starring	Nani Vaani Kapoor Karthik Nagarajan
Music by	Dharan Kumar
Cinematography	Loganathan Srinivasan
Edited by	Bavan Sreekumar
Production company	Yash Raj Films
Release date	21 February 2014 (2014-02-21)
Country	India
Language	Tamil
Budget	₹10 crore (US$1.6 million)
Box office	₹43.5 crore (US$6.8 million)(Both versions)

Aaha Kalyanam (English: Wow, Marriage) is a 2014 romantic comedy film directed by debutant A. Gokul Krishna and produced by Aditya Chopra's Yash Raj Films. A remake of Maneesh Sharma's 2010 Hindi film, Band Baaja Baaraat, the film features Nani and Vaani Kapoor in the lead roles. Although it was planned for bilingual release, it was shot completely in Tamil, and a dubbed Telugu version was released simultaneously along with the Tamil version, despite already having an unofficial Telugu remake Jabardasth, which starred Siddharth and Samantha Ruth Prabhu in lead roles. The first teaser was launched on 20 December 2013 and the film was released worldwide on 21 February 2014.

Shakthivel (Nani) is street-smart and fun-loving. Intelligent and quirky, Shruti (Vaani Kapoor), who assists the wedding coordinator, sees Shakthi at the front of the food serving line and suspects that he is gatecrashing to eat for free. She confronts Shakthi, who quickly summons his friend, the videographer at the wedding, and pretends that he is part of the film crew and has a right to be there. After seeing her dance at the wedding, Shakthi cannot resist the temptation to make a video of Shruti doing her dance routine.

The next day, Shakthi calls those involved in the wedding and manages to get Shruti's name and her college. He then chases her down on her bus ride home and tries to impress her with a DVD of her dance routine at the wedding. Shruti is not interested in Shakthi and reveals that her main interest in life is starting her own wedding planning business by the name 'Getti Melam'. Shakthi's enthusiasm for courtship is quickly dampened once Shruti launches a long pitch of her business ideas.

Shakthi, meanwhile is under pressure from his parents to come back to their village and work on their sugarcane fields, and Shruti is being coaxed by her family to get married at the earliest. But Shruti makes a deal with her parents that after her exams, she will take five years to get her business running before getting married. When Shakthi's father comes to take him back to his village, Shakthi refuses and lies that he is starting a wedding planning business. He now goes back to Shruti who refuses him as she was worried that romantic complications would arise. Shakthi promises that it will never be a problem, but Shruti is not interested.