Lai Bhaari

Lai Bhaari
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Marathi	लय भारी
Directed by	Nishikant Kamat
Produced by	Genelia D'Souza Jeetendra Thackeray Ameya Khopkar
Screenplay by	Ritesh Shah
Story by	Sajid Nadiadwala Sanjay Pawar (dialogue)
Starring	Riteish Deshmukh Sharad Kelkar Uday Tikekar Tanvi Azmi Radhika Apte Aaditi Pohankar
Music by	Songs: Ajay−Atul Background Score: Sameer Phaterpekar
Cinematography	Sanjay Memane
Edited by	Aarif Sheikh
Production company	Mumbai Film Company Cinemantra Production
Distributed by	Zee Talkies Essel Vision
Release date	11 July 2014 (2014-07-11)
Country	India
Language	Marathi
Budget	₹80 million
Box office	₹400 million

Lai Bhaari is a 2014 Indian Marathi-language action film directed by Nishikant Kamat. The film marks the debut of Riteish Deshmukh in Marathi cinema, while Salman Khan and Genelia D'Souza also make cameo appearances. The film became the highest grossing Marathi film of the time.

On 25 January 2015 Lai Bhaari broke all previous records and got the highest television viewership for any film in Maharashtra (Marathi - Hindi) with 5727 TVTs. It is remade in Odia as Jaga Hatare Pagha starring Anubhav Mohanty.

Pratap Singh Nimbalkar (Uday Tikekar) and his wife Sumitra Devi (Tanvi Azmi) are known for their social work like helping poor farmers by giving them land and shelter. Even though they are blessed by everyone, Sumitra Devi is insulted for not having a child even though she has been married for 9 years. Her maid suggests her to pray to Lord Vithoba (generally known as Vitthala by most common people of Maharashtra) in Pandharpur, a holy place in Maharashtra. Out of eagerness, Sumitra Devi promises to give her first son to Lord Vitthala.

As fate would have it, she gets pregnant soon and confirms the good news to Pratap Singh. But when she tells him that she has promised Lord Vithhala to give him her first child, Pratap Singh, who is modern in thought, says all this is ridiculous and flies off to London. When the baby is born, and Sumitra Devi calls up Pratap Singh and tells him that she is now convinced of keeping the baby. He comes back as soon as possible and names the baby Abhay Singh, or Prince, as a nickname.

25 years later, Prince (Riteish Deshmukh) comes back home after studying abroad. On the other hand, there is Prince's paternal cousin Sangram (Sharad Kelkar) is a crooked guy, who is trying to take all farms from the farmers by torturing them. On hearing this, Pratap Singh warns him for doing so. A few days later, Pratap Singh is killed and it is implied that Sangram was behind his death.