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Bareilly Ki Barfi

Bareilly Ki Barfi (transl.Bareilly's Barfi) is a 2017 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy-drama directed by Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari. It is based on Nicolas Barreau's novel, The Ingredients of Love. The film stars Ayushmann Khurrana, Kriti Sanon and Rajkummar Rao in lead roles, with Pankaj Tripathi and Seema Pahwa in supporting roles. It was theatrically released in India on 18 August 2017, coinciding with Independence Day weekend, and received widespread positive critical acclaim upon release, with major praise directed towards Rao's performance. It emerged as a commercial success at the box-office, grossing over 60 crore (US$6.3 million) worldwide against a budget of 20 crore (US$2.1 million), running for more than 70 days in both India and abroad.

At the 63rd Filmfare Awards, Bareilly Ki Barfi received 8 nominations, including Best Film and Best Supporting Actress (Pahwa), winning Best Director (Iyer Tiwari) and Best Supporting Actor (Rao).

Bitti Mishra, a tomboyish girl in Bareilly, runs away from home after yet another failed attempt at arranged marriage. While waiting for a train, she buys and reads a book, Bareilly Ki Barfi, and realises to her shock that she is Barfi, the eponymous main character. She returns home and decides to track down the author, mentioned on the back cover as 'Pritam Vidrohi', happy and hopeful about the fact that there exists someone who could love her the way she is. The bookshop owner directs her to Chirag Dubey, a young man who owns the printing press where the book was published. He informs her that Vidrohi does not live in town any more. He agrees to be a messenger for Bitti, delivering her letters to Vidrohi and bringing back his replies.

Bitti, however, is unaware of the fact that Chirag is the book's original author, having written it five years ago after his ex-girlfriend, Babli (the Barfi of the novel) married someone else. 'Vidrohi' is the name of a friend, used by Chirag as an alias to publish his novel. Since Bitti thinks herself to be Barfi, Chirag intends to find out if she is indeed like his ex-girlfriend, a coincidence that might give him a second chance at love.

Bitti and Chirag become close friends but she still longs to meet the author Vidrohi, who has been sending replies to her letters. Unwilling to do away with the charade just yet, he arranges for Bitti to meet the real Vidrohi. He goes to Lucknow and brings back his friend, Pritam Vidrohi, who had left town soon after the novel had been published. Bitti is initially shocked at the ruffian-like behaviour of Vidrohi (a ruse, intended as part of Chirag's plan), having imagined him in a different light from having read his letters. Soon though, she seems to grow fond of him, believing him to be misunderstood by society much like herself. Chirag, who had planned for Pritam to exit the scene after driving Bitti away, is now forced to malign him so that Bitti's parents don't see him as a worthy suitor for her. He lies that Pritam has had a failed marriage. This does not faze Bitti at all, but ends up spoiling the deal for Bitti's friend Rama, who had grown to like Pritam.

Pritam, who liked Rama back, now revolts against the manipulative Chirag and refuses to put an end to the whole charade. Soon, Bitti and Pritam announce their engagement, leading Chirag to resign to the fact that he will lose his love once again. On the eve of the event, he writes a final, heartfelt letter to Bitti using his Vidrohi alias. He gives the letter to Pritam to read at the ceremony, but ends up having to read it himself to Bitti when Pritam complains of a sore throat. This becomes the turning point for Bitti to reveal that she had known for some time that Chirag was the real author, and that Pritam had agreed to play along so that Bitti could find out whether Chirag was really in love with her (or only at the idea of her being an image of his ex-girlfriend). Finally, Chirag and Pritam both marry their chosen partners, Bitti and Rama respectively, and lead happily married lives in Bareilly.

The music of the film is composed by Tanishk Bagchi, Arkk, Samira Koppikar, Sameer Uddin and Vayu while the lyrics of the film were written by Arko Pravo Mukherjee, Tanishk Bagchi, Shabbir Ahmed, Puneet Sharma, Abhishek Verma and Vayu. The first song of the film "Sweety Tera Drama" sung by Dev Negi, Pawni Pandey and Shraddha Pandit was released on 24 July 2017. The second song titled "Nazm Nazm" which is sung, written and composed by Mukherjee was released on 31 July 2017. The third single to be released was "Twist Kamariya" sung by Harshdeep Kaur, Yasser Desai, Bagchi and Altamash Faridi, and was released on 8 August 2017. The soundtrack was released by Zee Music Company on 11 August 2017.

Bareilly Ki Barfi received widespread critical acclaim upon release, with praise for its heartwarming and simple story, music and performances of the cast, with major praise directed towards Rao's performance.

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