Welcome (film series)
Welcome series
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| Directed by | Anees Bazmee | ||
| Produced by | Firoz Nadiadwala | ||
| Screenplay by | Anees Bazmee Rajiv Kaul Praful Parekh Rajan Aggarwal (Welcome Back) |
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| Story by | Anees Bazmee Rajiv Kaul |
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| Starring |
Nana Patekar Anil Kapoor Paresh Rawal Akshay Kumar John Abraham Katrina Kaif Shruti Haasan |
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| Music by |
Anand Raj Anand Himesh Reshammiya Sajid-Wajid (Welcome) Anu Malik Meet Bros Anjjan (Welcome Back) |
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| Cinematography | Sanjay F. Gupta (Welcome) Kabir Lal (Welcome Back) |
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| Edited by | Ashfaque Makrani (Welcome) Steven Bernard (Welcome Back) |
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| Distributed by |
UTV Motion Pictures (Welcome) Eros International (Welcome Back) |
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Release date
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1: 21 December 2007 2: 4 September 2015 |
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| Country | India | ||
| Language | Hindi | ||
| Budget |
₹136 crore (US$21 million) (Two films) |
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| Box office |
₹249 crore (US$39 million) (Two films) |
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Welcome is a series of Indian action-comedy films, produced by Firoz Nadiadwala and directed by Anees Bazmee. The first part Welcome released in 2007 and the second part Welcome Back released in 2015.
Uday (Nana Patekar), a criminal don, decides to find a husband for his kindhearted sister Sanjana (Katrina Kaif), but he is unsuccessful since no one wants to be associated with a crime family. Dr. Ghunghroo (Paresh Rawal) has also been trying to get his nephew, Rajiv (Akshay Kumar), married but due to his condition—the alliance must be with a purely decent family—he is also unsuccessful.
When Rajiv jumps into a burning building to save Sanjana, he is smitten by her. Uday and Majnu (Anil Kapoor), Uday's brother gangster hatch a plan for an alliance with Dr. Ghunghroo. The plan works and Dr. Ghunghroo confirms the alliance, thinking that Uday is a very decent man. But when he is later told that Uday and Majnu are mobsters, he quickly takes his family and flees to Sun City, South Africa to escape. However, Majnu and Sanjana have come to Sun City as well. Rajiv meets Sanjana again and the two fall in love.
Dr. Ghunghroo reconciles with Uday and Majnu and finally agrees to the alliance. Uday and Majnu invite a powerful don of the underworld, RDX (Feroz Khan) to the engagement. At the party, a girl named Ishika (Malika Sherawat) arrives, claiming to be Rajiv's childhood betrothed. Ishika is actually the sister-in-law of Dr.Ghunghroo whom Dr. Ghunghroo asked to come and try to break off the engagement. Ishika manages to do so, leaving Rajiv and Sanjana heartbroken. Dr. Ghunghroo reveals that he did this for Rajiv's mother, who had married into a crime family and was harassed and tortured, thus telling Dr. Ghunghroo to raise Rajiv away from crime when he was born. Dr. Ghunghroo decides he will agree to the marriage only if Uday and Majnu give up their life of crime. Rajiv and Sanjana do this by reawakening Uday's love for acting and encouraging Majnu to pursue his love for painting. With these things keeping them busy, Uday and Majnu have no time for crime any more.
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