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Theatrical release poster
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Directed by | Anees Bazmee |
Produced by |
Rajat Rawail Bhushan Kumar Nitin Manmohan Kishan Kumar Sohail Khan |
Written by | Nisar Akhtar Sajid-Farhad (Dialogues) |
Screenplay by | Rajiv Kaul Ikram Akhtar Rajan Agarwal |
Story by |
Gopimohan Kona Venkat |
Based on |
Ready by Kona Venkat, Gopimohan |
Starring |
Salman Khan Asin Paresh Rawal Mahesh Manjrekar Roshan Abbas Puneet Issar Sharat Saxena Akhilendra Mishra Arya Babbar Nikitin Dheer Sudesh Lehri |
Narrated by | Salman Khan |
Music by |
Songs: Pritam Devi Sri Prasad(1 song) Background Score: Sandeep Shirodkar |
Cinematography |
Sunil Patel Thomas Xavier |
Edited by | Ritesh Soni |
Production
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T-Series
Rawail Grandsons Entertainment and Software Pvt. Ltd. Sohail Khan Productions Eros International |
Distributed by | Wave Cinemas, One Up Entertainment |
Release date
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Running time
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145 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | Hindi |
Budget | ₹400 million (US$6.2 million) |
Box office | ₹1.885 billion (US$29 million) |
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Soundtrack album by Pritam | ||||
Released | 25 April 2011 | |||
Genre | Film soundtrack | |||
Length | 34:18 | |||
Label | T-Series | |||
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Bollywood Hungama | |
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IndiaWeekly | |
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Ready is a 2011 Indian action romantic comedy film directed by Anees Bazmee, starring Salman Khan and Asin in the lead roles. It also features Paresh Rawal, Arya Babbar and Mahesh Manjrekar in supporting roles, while Sanjay Dutt, Ajay Devgan, Kangana Ranaut, Zarine Khan and Arbaaz Khan make cameo appearances. It is a remake of the 2008 Telugu film, Ready directed by Sreenu Vaitla starring Ram and Genelia. The songs are composed by Pritam, while the background score is composed by Sandeep Shirodkar. The first look was unveiled on 5 April 2011, while the theatrical trailer was released on 15 April 2011. The film was released on 3 June 2011. Upon release, Ready became the second highest opening-day grosser, as well as the second highest weekend grossing Bollywood film, after Dabangg, another Salman Khan-starrer. It holds the record for being second highest grossing Bollywood film of 2011.
Ready starts with ready-witted Prem (Salman Khan) helping his childhood friend Khushi (Zarine Khan) to elope with Raju (Ajay Devgn). Khushi's intended bridegroom Gaurav (Arbaaz Khan) reveals that he also has a girlfriend, Kiran (Kangana Ranaut), whom he wants to marry. The elopement angers Khushi's father, Mr. Pathak (Mithilesh Chaturvedi) and Prem's family, the Kapoors. Prem manages to pacify his family members.