Love Per Square Foot is a 2018 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film produced by Ronnie Screwvala and directed by Anand Tiwari. Starring Vicky Kaushal and Angira Dhar, the film tells the story of a boy and a girl who try to find a house in Mumbai. It is beauty pageant titleholder Alankrita Sahai's debut film. Produced under his new banner RSVP by Screwvala, the film was released on 14 February 2018, on Netflix.
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Directed by | Anand Tiwari |
Produced by | Ronnie Screwvala |
Written by |
Anand Tiwari Sumeet Vyas |
Starring |
Vicky Kaushal Angira Dhar Alankrita Sahai Ratna Pathak Shah Supriya Pathak |
Music by |
Sohail Sen Anand Bajpai |
Cinematography | Avinash Arun |
Edited by | Sanyukta Kaza |
Production company |
RSVP Production |
Release date |
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Running time | 133 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | Hindi |
Contents
Plot
The film begins with Sanjay Chaturvedi (Vicky Kaushal) looking far at a building where a happy couple lives in their own flat.
Sanjay works in a bank as an IT software engineer and has the dream of buying his own flat. He comes across a housing scheme for married couples. Sanjay is in a fling with the Office boss Rashi Khurana (Alankrita Sahai) and asks her to be his partner in the joint scheme. Unknowingly Rashi can't leave her husband Kashin (Arunoday Singh) and rebuffs him. Rashi just uses Sanjay as a love slave, while he wants "More" from the relationship.
Karina D'Souza (Angira Dhar) works in a bank living with her mother Blossom D'Souza (Ratna Pathak Shah).She too has the dream of buying her own home. While she proposes Samuel (Kunaal Roy Kapur), her going-to-be-husband about the joint scheme, he bluntly refuses as he has his own home and she can live there. Sanjay come across Karina in a reception party. They meet and dance. Next day Sanjay finds that his appeal for loan has been rejected by Karina as his salary is less. They have an argument but later apologizes and they both share their housing scheme dreams.
Samuel asks 3 months duration for him to marry Karina. An angry Karina shouts at her Mother as Samuel cannot decide her work, home and life. But Blossom states that her only dream is to see Karina get married. Rashi calls Sanjay home. With desires floating high Sanjay arrives at the flat only to find Kashin over there. Kashin states the he is happy Rashi found a "Rakhi brother" in Sanjay. Sanjay gets shocked at Rashi's demeanour.
Next Morning Sanjay and Karina meets. While Sanjay asks Karina whether they can apply for the Housing scheme loan together as a couple. Karina finds it illogical and disagrees. Samuel arranges a room for Karina as her small place she always wanted, while Karina desires more. Next day Karina accepts Sanjay's proposal and they together apply for a loan and arranges documents with the help of Mr. Rahmat (Gajraj Rao), whom Sanjay has met earlier. While for making the fake documents they need 4 Lacs. Sanjay asks Rashi to give him a cheque of 4 Lacs from his Provident Fund.
Karina and Sanjay come close to each other and kiss each other on a local train. The same night Karina arrives at Sanjay's place and tells him that she has broke up with Samuel because she finds she might be cheating with Sanjay on Samuel. They propose their love and kiss each other. They somehow manage to get into the property they are buying which is under construction and make love at the place.
Rashi invites Sanjay over a birthday party. Rashi persuades Sanjay to make out while he is already committed to Karina. For the sake of the cheque, he succumbs to the demands of Rashi. Next morning he finds that he has slept with Rashi but doesn't remember anything and finds the cheque tucked inside his shorts.
Sanjay's father (Raghubir Yadav) gets retired who was a Railway announcer. They give the cheque to Rahmat and settles everything. Karina officially calls it off with Samuel. Sanjay and Karina tell their respective families about the relationship. They accept following some hilarious scenes. Sanjay tells Karina about his night with Rashi. Karina gets angry with him. Rashi calls Sanjay to tell him that she is pregnant. Rashi and Sanjay share an argument regarding the baby while Karina overhears it. Meanwhile, Kashin arrives and beats Sanjay when Rashi tells everyone that she was lying as nothing had happened between her and Sanjay, it was just a plan to teach Kashin a lesson over his affair. Sanjay grabs Rashi by the neck while Kashin accidentally punches Rashi. Karina walks out of the office while Sanjay runs behind her.
Karina and Sanjay share a heated argument in the middle of the road regarding the property and their love. Karina decides to sell the house while Sanjay asks her not to do so. Karina challenges him that she would sell the house and if he had the guts, he should buy it from her.
Both of their family arrange the wedding on the lawn of the new flat. Rahmat calls Karina to the new home where she finds Sanjay's video message that he has transferred the flat to her name. While Blossom searches for Karina down there amidst the wedding chaos. Sanjay arrives telling all the marriage can't happen. Karina asks for a talk with Sanjay. Sanjay apologises and tells Karina that he understood the difference between "Ghar" and "Makaan." Karina tells Sanjay that there was no longer 50-50 in this relationship and he has to listen to her 100%. An excited Sanjay accepts and they get married happily.
While the next day Karina and Sanjay get ready to go to office together sharing the housing chores together, Sanjay finds a guy (Ranbir Kapoor) admiringly looking at their flat the same way Sanjay looked at some other flat at the beginning of the movie.
Cast
- Vicky Kaushal as Sanjay Chaturvedi
- Angira Dhar as Karina D'Souza
- Alankrita Sahai as Rashi Khurana
- Raghubir Yadav as Bhaskar Chaturvedi
- Kunaal Roy Kapur as Samuel Misquitta
- Ratna Pathak Shah as Blossom D'souza
- Supriya Pathak as Lata Chaturvedi
- Arunoday Singh as Kashin Malhotra
- Brijendra Kala as T.C.Mishra
- Rekha Bhardwaj as Classical Singer
- Ivan Rodrigues as Noel Misquitta
- Gajraj Rao as Mr. Rehmat
- Gopal Datt as Pappu Mama
- Ranbir Kapoor as Gattu (Special appearance)
Soundtrack
Love Per Square Foot | |
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Soundtrack album | |
Genre | Feature film soundtrack |
Length | 27:34 |
Label | Zee Music Company |
Most of the songs have been produced and designed by Sohail Sen
Track listing | ||||
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No. | Title | Lyrics | Singer(s) | Length |
1. | "Yatri Kripaya Dhyaan De" | Abhishek Dhusia, Sahir Nawab, Sumeet Suvarna | 3:21 | |
2. | "Chicken Dance" | Anand Tiwari | Benny Dayal, Shivangi Bhayana | 4:01 |
3. | "Ishq Mein Bajti Hai Ghanti" | Gopal Datt | Udit Narayan | 2:42 |
4. | "Aashiyana" | Abhiruchi Chand | Altamas Faridi, Tarannum Malik | 4:30 |
5. | "Maqbool Hai" | Jamil | Altamas Faridi | 5:10 |
6. | "Raaz Apne Dil Ke (Indian)" | Gopal Datt | Rekha Bhardwaj | 4:09 |
7. | "Raaz Apne Dil Ke (Western)" | Gopal Datt | Rekha Bhardwaj | 3:41 |
Total length: | 27:34 |
Critical reception
Rohit Vats of Hindustan Times called the film "youthful, urbane and lovable".[6] Ektaa Malik of The Indian Express wrote: "The film has its heart in the right place and would have worked better had it been about twenty minutes shorter."[7] Kriti Tulsiani called it "easily one of the most likable films so far" but criticised its excessive length.[8] Swetha Ramakrishnan of Firstpost called it an "earnest, well-shot, well-written" film, but felt the songs were "needless".[9]