Welcome Dvd

Welcome is an Indian 2007 Hindi-language comedy film written and directed by Anees Bazmee, which stars Feroz Khan, Akshay Kumar, Nana Patekar, Anil Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Paresh Rawal,and Mallika Sherawat, with Suniel Shetty making a guest appearance and Malaika Arora featuring in an item number. Narrated by Om Puri, Welcome marks Feroz Khan’s last film appearance, and is produced by Firoz Nadiadwala. The second highest-grossing Hindi film of 2007 after Om Shanti Om, it was the first installment of the Welcome franchise, and spawned a sequel named Welcome Back which released in 2015. The film was made on a reported budget of ₹40 crore and grossed over ₹122 crore at the worldwide box office; Box Office India declared it a Super Hit. It is loosely based on the 1999 comedy Mickey Blue Eyes.

Welcome released worldwide on 21 December 2007, to mixed critical reviews, and despite initial competition from Taare Zameen Par, was a strong financial success at the box office both in India and overseas. According to The Hindu, the film’s climax scene is a rip-off from the Charlie Chaplin film, The Gold Rush which had been earlier used in the 1990 Tamil film Michael Madana Kama Rajan.

Plot

Uday (Nana Patekar), a criminal don, takes it upon himself to get his kindhearted sister, Sanjana (Katrina Kaif) married, 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) an auctioneer, 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.

After an initial showdown with them as he comes to know they are Sanjana’s brothers and as they are confronted by Rajiv, 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 (Mallika Sherawat) arrives, claiming to be Rajiv’s childhood betrothed. Ishika is actually Dr. Ghunghroo’s sister-in-law, who he 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.

Rajiv’s actions anger RDX’s son, Lucky, who attempts to shoot Rajiv. Sanjana gets hold of the gun and fires a shot that hits Lucky, causing him to go unconscious. RDX is informed of his son’s death and comes to attend the cremation. However Lucky, who is still alive, escapes, trying to show his father that he’s actually alive. RDX sets the pile of wood on fire, believing he is cremating his son’s body. However Lucky, who had been hiding under the wood, jumps out upon realising the wood is on fire, and the truth is revealed to RDX. Rajiv, Ghunghroo, his wife, Ishika, Uday, Majnu and Sanjana are captured by RDX and brought to a cabin set next to a cliff. The frightened group is forced to play Passing the Parcel (Hot Potato) with a globe—but the one who ends up with the globe must jump off the cliff. When Rajiv refuses to pass the globe to Sanjana, Lucky angrily yanks it out of his hands, just as the music stops. Now that his son has the globe, RDX figures the only way he can maintain his image is by killing everyone. Before he can, several government brokers sneak up and cut the footings of the cabin, causing the house to start falling over the cliff, with everyone trapped inside. However, the cabin is suspended by only one column.

Hilarious chaos ensues as the group tries to balance the cabin together and keep it from falling off the cliff. Rajiv finds a rope and the group uses it to get back onto stable ground. But to everyone’s shock, the floor breaks and Lucky is found hanging on the edge of the cabin. While Rajiv is trying to rescue him, Sanjana reveals the truth to everyone that she was the one who shot Lucky, but Rajiv blamed himself so that Sanjana wouldn’t get in trouble. After Rajiv rescues Lucky, the cabin he is standing on falls off into the cliff. Sanjana keeps crying for him thinking he is dead. However, Rajiv survives the event and is reunited with Sanjana and his family. Lucky and RDX are grateful to Rajiv for saving their lives and RDX gives up his life of crime, allowing Rajiv and Sanjana to finally get married. However, they realise that Ishika fooled them along with Rajiv, as a part of his plan to marry Sanjana. This angers Uday and Majnu, who decide to kill Rajiv as he escapes along with Sanjana and Ishika.

Cast

Shetty family
Nana Patekar as Don Uday Shetty
Anil Kapoor as Don Sagar Pandey/Majnu Bhai, Uday’s friend
Katrina Kaif as Sanjana Shetty, Uday’s younger half sister
Xaka family
Feroz Khan as Don RDX (Ranvir Dhanraj Xaka), godfather of Uday and Majnu
Shereveer Vakil as Lucky Xaka, RDX’s son
Ghungroo family
Akshay Kumar as Rajiv Saini, Dayal’s nephew
Paresh Rawal as Dr. Dayal Ghungroo
Supriya Karnik as Payal Ghungroo, Dayal’s wife
Mallika Sherawat as Ishika, Dayal’s sister-in-law and Payal’s sister