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Directed by | Vidhi Kasliwal |
Produced by |
Kamal Kumar Barjatya Rajkumar Barjatya Ajit Kumar Barjatya |
Screenplay by | Sulekha Bajpai |
Story by | Vidhi Kasliwal |
Starring |
Akshay Oberoi Sandeepa Dhar |
Music by | Meet Bros Anjjan Ankit |
Distributed by | Rajshri Productions |
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Country | India |
Language | Hindi |
Isi Life Mein (English: In This Life) is a 2010 Bollywood film directed by Vidhi Kasliwal and starring Akshay Oberoi alongside Sandeepa Dhar in both their debut film. It was released on December 24, 2010. The movie's storyline is a play, The Taming of the Shrew - Reborn, with "Reborn" added to underscore that the original play was modified to remove alleged misogyny. This film was a moderate success at the box office and also earned Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut nomination for Sandeepa Dhar.
The story begins in Ajmer, in the state of Rajasthan, where Rajnandini Khandelwal (Sandeepa Dhar) passes her 12th class examination and is the state-topper, winning three scholarships. Everyone is happy, but in keeping with her father's conservative tastes, he and her mother want Rajnandini to get married. However, Rajnandini wants to study further, desires that her mother supports, and so her mother tricks the father to send her to Mumbai to a relative's house, ostensibly to learn the culinary arts, as preparation for her marriage; however, secretly, the mother enrolled her in a college, and instead of staying with her aunt, as had been agreed with the father, arrangements have been made by the mother and her sister (aunt) to put her up in a hostel.
At the college, the principal instructs her that she must join one of the various non-curricular societies, and so she volunteers for the College's Dramatics Society (DS), headed by Vivaan (Akshay Oberoi). When she introduces herself as Rajnandini Khandelwal, the others mock her name as being "long" and Vivaan abbreviates her name to "RJ."
The DS under Vivaan chooses to participate in a National Theatre Festival, and Vivaan chooses William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew; however when a member of the DS objects that the play is "MCP," Vivaan declares that he will modify it to remove the misogyny, and that the play would be known as The Taming of the Shrew - Reborn.