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Yaariyan is a 2014 Bollywood college-based romance adventure film directed by Divya Khosla Kumar, starring Himansh Kohli, Serah Singh and Rakul Preet Singh in the lead roles.It marks the debut of the director as well as the lead star cast. The film was produced by Bhushan Kumar and Krishan Kumar under the banner of T-Series Super Cassettes Industries.
Shot in St. Bede's College, Shimla, Yaariyan tells the story of close knit 5 friends who are exploring the best moments of their lives in college, experiencing different relationships and learning new values every day. The response to the promotional materials on Youtube led the distributor to release the film two weeks earlier than initially planned. The film released on 10 January 2014 with 1200 screens release in India.
Contents
1 Cast
2 Production
2.1 Development
2.2 Filming
3 Soundtrack
4 Boxoffice
4.1 India
4.2 Overseas
5 References
6 External links
Cast
Himansh Kohli as Lakshya
Dev Sharma as Neil
Serah Singh as Jenny
Rakul Preet Singh as Saloni
Nicole Faria as Jia
Evelyn Sharma as Jannet
Shreyas Pardi as Pardi
Gulshan Grover as Jim Martin
Deepti Naval
Yo Yo Honey Singh as himself
Arvind Balli as Bunny Singh
Production
Development
Early 2012, Bhushan Kumar made the announcement of making a film in college romance genre and that Divya Khosla Kumar would be the director.[citation needed] Soon, an announcement was released that the star cast of the film will also include new comers Himansh Kohli (last seen in TV show Humse Hai Life) on Channel [V], Rakul Preet Singh (Miss India 2011 worked in Kannada, Telugu & Tamil movies), and Nicole Faria (Miss Earth 2010 popular in Modeling Industry). This movie will bring to the industry new director and new young star cast, including Bollywoods rising starlet half-German half-Indian Evelyn Sharma[12] to play an angelic dream girl. The movie also has senior actors like Gulshan Grover[13] and Deepti Naval play important characters in the movie.
The title of the movie was registered with Saif Ali Khan (for the movie Cocktail) who gladly gave away the rights to his friend Bhushan Kumar to use for this film.
The production budget of film is INR11 crore (US$1.8 million)
Filming
The shoot began in Mumbai followed by shoots in Australia and then Sikkim and Darjeeling.'Yaariyan' is the first ever movie to be shot in Sikkim.
Soundtrack
Yaariyan
Soundtrack album by
Pritam
Mithoon
Dr. Arko Pravo Mukherjee
Anupam Amod
Released 10 December 2013
Recorded 2013
Genre Soundtrack
Label T-Series
Producer
Pritam
Mithoon
Dr. Arko Pravo Mukherjee
Anupam Amod
T-Series
Pritam
Mithoon
Dr. Arko Pravo Mukherjee
Anupam Amod
chronology
Dhoom 3
(2013) Yaariyan
(2014)
Yo Yo Honey Singh chronology
Boss
(2013) Yaariyan
(2014) Bhaag Johnny
(2014)
Mithoon chronology
Aashiqui 2
(2013) Yaariyan
(2014) Bhaag Johnny
(2014)
Dr. Arko Pravo Mukherjee chronology
Jism 2
(2012) Yaariyan
(2013)
Anupam Amod chronology
Once Upon Ay Time In Mumbai Dobaara!
(2012) Yaariyan
(2013)
Singles from Yaariyan
"ABCD"
"Sunny Sunny"
"Baarish"
The soundtrack for the film was composed by Pritam. There is also a special number by Honey Singh titled ABCD. Mithoon rendered tracks for this film as well. Arko Pravo Mukherjee also composed a track. First full track ABCD was released on 25 Nov 2013. Baarish was released on 29 Nov 2013. It crossed 1 million views on Youtube in 2 days. Audio album of the movie was released on 9 December 2013 on internet. Song Allah Waariyan was released on 11 December 2013. The song is sung by Shafqat Amanat Ali, and written as well as composed by Arko Pravo Mukherjee.
Boxoffice
India
Yaariyan had a good first weekend of around Rs 16.50 crore nett Yaariyan grossed around Rs 2.50 crore nett on first Monday taking its four day total to 19 crore nett.Yaariyan had the same figure as Monday as it collected 2.50 crore nett taking its five day total to Rs 21.50 crore nett
Overseas
Yaariyan only had a limited release and was screened in UAE.