Toilet - Ek Prem Katha (film)
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| Hindi | टॉयलेट: एक प्रेम कथा |
| Directed by | Shree Narayan Singh |
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| Cinematography | Anshuman Mahaley |
| Edited by | Shree Narayan Singh |
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| Distributed by | Viacom 18 Motion Pictures |
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155 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | ₹18 crore |
| Box office | ₹216.49 crore |
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| Soundtrack album by Vickey Prasad, Manas-Shikhar, Sachet-Parampara | |
| Released | 13 July 2017 |
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack |
| Length | 21:00 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Label | T-Series |
Toilet: Ek Prem Katha (English - Toilet: A Love Story) is a 2017 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film directed by Shree Narayan Singh. Co-produced by Akshay Kumar and Neeraj Pandey, the film stars Akshay Kumar and Bhumi Pednekar in the lead roles, with Anupam Kher, Sudhir Pandey and Divyendu Sharma in supporting roles. The film was released on August 11, 2017. The film is a satirical comedy in support of governmental campaigns to improve the sanitation conditions, with an emphasis on the eradication of open defecation, especially in rural areas. The film was financially successful in India.
The film starts in a village where a group of women go to a field, away from their village in the wee hours to defecate in the open, behind the cover of bushes. Keshav (Akshay Kumar) has to marry a black buffalo because his father (Panditji) is a very religious and superstitious priest, and he believes that his son's marriage to a black buffalo will help improve Keshav's fortune.
Keshav meets Jaya (Bhumi Pednekar), falls in love with her and eventually convinces her to marry him. But Keshav's father is of the view that Keshav's horoscope is such that he can and should only marry a girl who has got two thumbs on one of her hands. Since Jaya does not fulfil this requirement, Keshav gets an artificial thumb made and gives it to Jaya who wears it as a ring on her thumb. Keshav's unsuspecting father agrees to their marriage.
On her first morning in Keshav's house, Jaya reluctantly goes to a field to defecate, but comes back agitated without defecating and complains about it to Keshav. Despite Keshav's repeated attempts to convince Jaya to give up her stubbornness about needing a toilet, Jaya remains steadfast. He makes a couple of temporary adjustments to solve the problem without actually constructing a toilet in his house, but after a while, Jaya gets frustrated and leaves him to live at her parents' house.
After a futile attempt to convince his sarpanch and villagers to builds toilets in the village, Keshav, with the help of Jaya, contacts the concerned regulatory authority, and starts the construction of a toilet in his front yard. When the construction is finished, Keshav's father and the sarpanch arrange to demolish the toilet while Keshav is still asleep. But Keshav wakes up before the toilet is completely destroyed and protects it from complete demolition.
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