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Lage Raho Munna Bhai Dvd

A gangster hopelessly falls in love with a radio jockey but lies to her about being a true Gandhian. Although he ends up hurting her, he also undergoes a change and genuinely begins helping people.

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Lage Raho Munna Bhai (pronounced [ləˈɡeː rəˈɦoː mʊnnaːˈbʱaːi] (About this soundlisten); transl. Keep At It, Munna Bro!) is a 2006 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film directed by Rajkumar Hirani and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. It is the follow-up to the 2003 film Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. with Sanjay Dutt reprising his role as Munna Bhai, a Mumbai underworld don. In Lage Raho Munna Bhai, the eponymous lead character starts to see the spirit of Mahatma Gandhi. Through his interactions with Gandhi, he begins to practice what he refers to as Gandhigiri (a neologism for Gandhism) to help ordinary people solve their problems.

The film won widespread critical acclaim from critics and had a number of prominent screenings. It was a box-office success and received a “blockbuster” rating by the website Box Office India after grossing over ₹1.27 billion (equivalent to ₹3.3 billion or US$46 million in 2019) worldwide. It was the recipient of a number of awards, including 4 National Film Awards. Lage Raho Munna Bhai was the first Hindi film to be shown at the United Nations, and was screened at the Tous Les Cinema du Monde section of the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. The film popularised the term Gandhigiri. Vidhu Vinod Chopra submitted the film as an independent entry for the 2007 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. It was later remade in Telugu as Shankar Dada Zindabad (2007).

Plot

 

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Murli Prasad Sharma alias Munna Bhai is a gangster in love with the voice of Janhavi, a radio jockey. He devises a plan to meet her when she announces a quiz contest featuring the life and beliefs of Mahatma Gandhi, to be aired on 2 October, the birthday of Gandhi. To prepare for the contest, Munna’s sidekick Circuit kidnaps and bribes a group of professors to provide the answers for Munna. After winning the contest, Munna is granted an interview with Janhavi wherein he presents himself as a professor of history and a Gandhi specialist. Janhavi subsequently asks Munna to present a lecture on Gandhi to a community of senior citizens who live in her home, called the ‘Second Innings House’. To prepare, Munna engages in intense study at a Gandhi institute. For three days and nights without food or sleep, Munna reads about the life and ideologies of Gandhi.

Munna studies so much that Gandhi appears as an hallucination to offer help and advice. Gandhi encourages Munna to tell the truth to Janhavi, but Munna resists. With Gandhi’s help, Munna succeeds in impressing Jahnavi and cultivates a new lifestyle based upon Gandhism. Munna starts to co-host a radio-show with Janhavi and Gandhi’s image, guiding his audience to use Gandhigiri to solve everyday problems.

Lucky Singh, an unscrupulous businessman, employs Circuit and Munna to conduct underworld activities for him. His daughter Simran is engaged to marry Sunny, the son of the powerful businessman Kkhurana. Kkhurana is superstitious and his activities are controlled by his astrologer, Batuk Maharaj, whose particular use of numerology led Kkhurana to add an extra “K” to his real name (Khurana) as well as to the conclusion that the ‘Second Innings House’ would be the most auspicious place for Sunny and Simran to live. Maharaj also convinces Kkhurana to reject the marriage between Simran and Sunny when it is revealed that Simran is considered to be a manglik (an individual whose Vedic astrological makeup is believed by some to be devastating for marriage, mostly leading to the death of the spouse after a certain calculated period of marriage). Lucky tricks Kkhurana by saying that one of his typists had entered the wrong time of birth. Lucky appropriates the ‘Second Innings House’ by sending Munna, Jahnavi, and the Second Innings senior citizens to Goa and then blackmailing Munna to let the matter pass or risk losing Janhavi. In response, Munna launches a “non-violent” protest to reclaim the house. He calls this protest “Get Well Soon, Lucky” and asks his radio show’s audience to send Lucky flowers to help him recover from the “disease of dishonesty”.

One night Gandhi tells Munna that the only way to stop Lucky is to reveal the truth to Janhavi himself, saying that this will only help in getting his love back if he continues to practice Gandhigiri. Munna asks Gandhi when he can tell Janhavi the truth, and Gandhi tells Munna to tell her the next morning. Munna does so via letter. Heartbroken, Janhavi leaves Munna, and he ends the protest. Later, she decides to quit her job, and Munna decides to continue hosting her radio show all alone to help people practice Gandhigiri, and wins everyone’s hearts. However, Munna receives another setback when he is tricked by Lucky into revealing his conversations with Gandhi before a public audience, after a person, who is revealed to be Munna’s psychiatrist, asks him five questions about Gandhi, only two of which Munna is able to answer, with Gandhi’s help, but as Gandhi does not reply to the other three, Munna cannot either. Munna finds that only after he has learned something about the real Gandhi’s life can the Gandhi image talk about it, which serves as proof for his psychiatrist in the audience that Munna is hallucinating.

Later, Munna decides to host Janhavi’s radio show one last time, and he along with Circuit go there. Meanwhile, during Sunny and Simran’s wedding, it is revealed to Simran by Lucky’s wife that she is a manglik and she goes to the railway station adorned in her wedding dress to commit suicide as she does not want to start a relationship based on a lie, and is devastated to learn about her father’s wrongdoings, because she always loved her father. But the taxi driver is Victor D’Souza, a man whose problem was solved on Munna’s radio show. He explains to her that suicide is not the right choice and contacts Munna for advice. Munna and Circuit come directly to the wedding and cleverly question the astrological Maharaj, saying that if Maharaj can predict others’ futures, then why can he not predict his own future, and attempts to persuade Kkhurana to allow the marriage to happen. However, Kkhurana is not convinced and tells Sunny to leave with him in the car. Sunny objects and Simran and Sunny exchange garlands.

Gandhi’s monologue at the end of the film, however, questions this conclusion. Munna, despite these defeats, continues to use Gandhigiri, a decision that transforms Lucky, and revives Janhavi’s affection when she reconciles with Munna in jail. Lucky, happy that Sunny and Simran are married, gives up the Second Innings house. A Second Innings couple adopt Circuit as their son and Sunny and Simran had a happy life. Lucky then begins studying Gandhism, Gandhi and Gandhigiri, resulting in him too hallucinating Gandhi. Kkhurana has also removed the extra K in his name to become Khurana only, denying Maharaj’s false prediction.

Cast

Sanjay Dutt as Murli Prasad Sharma (Munna Bhai)
Arshad Warsi as Circuit
Vidya Balan as Janhavi
Boman Irani as Lucky Singh
Dilip Prabhavalkar as Mahatma Gandhi
Dia Mirza as Simran Singh
Jimmy Sheirgill as Victor D’Souza
Kulbhushan Kharbanda as Khurana
Saurabh Shukla as Batuk Maharaj
Abhishek Bachchan as Sunny Khurana (cameo)
Rohitash Gaud as Kukku
Parikshat Sahni as Victor’s father
Ashwin Mushran as Hari Desai
Uday Sabnis as Gaitonde
Hemu Adhikari as the Retired teacher
Priya Bapat as the girl who calls Murli
Ninad Kamat as the Lawyer
Kurush Deboo as Dhansukh Bhai Patel
Arun Bali as a Second Innings Resident
Achyut Potdar as a Second Innings Resident
Atmaram Bhende as a Second Innings Resident

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