Bunty Aur Babli

Bunty Aur Babli
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Directed by	Shaad Ali
Produced by	Aditya Chopra
Screenplay by	Jaideep Sahni
Story by	Aditya Chopra
Starring	Abhishek Bachchan Rani Mukerji Amitabh Bachchan
Narrated by	Amitabh Bachchan
Music by	Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
Cinematography	Abhik Mukhopadhyay
Edited by	Ritesh Soni
Distributed by	Yash Raj Films
Release date	27 May 2005
Running time	177 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹ 120 million
Box office	₹ 632.0 million

Bunty Aur Babli (Hindi: बंटी और बबली, translation: Bunty and Babli) is a 2005 Bollywood crime-comedy film directed by Shaad Ali and starring Rani Mukerji and Abhishek Bachchan. Amitabh Bachchan stars in a supporting role. It was the first film to feature Amitabh Bachchan and his son Abhishek Bachchan, and featured guest appearances by Aishwarya Rai and Tania Zaetta. It was one of the biggest hits of the year. Though the lead actor Abhishek Bacchan was shown living in Fursatganj, those scenes were shot in Agra.

The plot, although drawing on the idea of two rather lovable crooks, does not contain violence. Each of the adventures of Bunty and Babli are thoroughly Indianised, like the fake selling of the Taj Mahal. It draws comparisons to the American classic Bonnie and Clyde but without dark elements, and the lead characters do not die a bloody death (unlike their American counterparts).

Rakesh Trivedi (Abhishek Bachchan) comes from a small village. His father is a ticket collector on the train and wants him to get into a similar occupation as well. However, Rakesh has big dreams; he is forever coming up with new business plans and is convinced he will make it big one day. He adamantly refuses any notion that he will one day work in a 9-to-5 environment.

Vimmi Saluja (Rani Mukerji) is the daughter of a Punjabi family in another small village; she spends her hours watching films and studying supermodels. She dreams of becoming Miss India.

Vimmi's parents tell her they have arranged her marriage to a young man with a decent job. At the same time, Rakesh's father gives him an ultimatum – go on the job interview he has arranged or get out of the house.

Rakesh and Vimmi pack their bags and sneak out in the dark of the night. They bump into each other at a train station and become friends after realising their stories are similar. They support and encourage each other to achieve their dreams: Vimmi tries to enter the Miss India contest but gets thrown out after an argument. Rakesh tries to sell his ideas for an investment scheme, but a businessman turns him away. In fact, a man he had met at a restaurant stole ideas from Rakesh's presentation file and, when he enters the office, the interviewer states someone before him came in with the same idea. After finding out that the businessman who Rakesh approached has used his idea to make money, he and Vimmi con him and take money they believe is rightly theirs.