Almost Pyaar with DJ Mohabbat (2023) on Netflix
Yakub, a Muslim boy, loves Amrita, a Hindu girl. Harmeet, an Indian boy, loves Ayesha, a Pakistani girl. DJ Mohabbat, the Guru of Love, tells both stories.
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- IMDb4.9/101,190 votes
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Plot summary
DJ Mohabbat, the Guru of Love, tells two love stories that run side by side. In one, Yakub Siddiqui, a Muslim boy, loves Amrita Suri, a Hindu girl. In the other, Harmeet Singh, an Indian boy, loves Ayesha Salim Phgura, a Pakistani girl. One story unfolds in Himachal Pradesh and the other in London. Social status, caste, religion and inequality press on both couples, and each family's honor is bound up with its children falling in love. One of the two stories is a musical.
Cast
- Anmol Ahujaas Amrita's Elder Brother 1
- Mohit Guptaas Amrita's Elder Brother 2
- Mohinder Gujralas Amrita's Grandmother
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Almost Pyaar with DJ Mohabbat (2023)
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- When Reliance Entertainment dropped Almost Pyaar with DJ Mohabbat at 50 percent completion, Anurag Kashyap had no money to finish it. Vishal Bhardwaj, Rajkumar Hirani and Imtiaz Ali advised him; Hirani edited for two weeks, and Bhardwaj and Gulzar wrote DJ Mohabbat's dialogues.
- Anurag Kashyap said making Almost Pyaar with DJ Mohabbat was a financial struggle: he had sold most of his assets to fund the film.
- Anurag Kashyap wrote the first version of Almost Pyaar with DJ Mohabbat in the early 2010s for Alia Bhatt, then shooting her debut Student of the Year, but scrapped it as a "scary idea" because it deals with patriarchal conditioning and parenting.
- Alaya F was cast in Almost Pyaar with DJ Mohabbat before she made her debut in Jawaani Jaaneman (2020), after Anurag Kashyap watched an eight-minute showreel of hers and was impressed by her acting.
- Anurag Kashyap first wanted DJ Mohabbat to be a mystery voice heard through a podcast, then cast Vicky Kaushal, who had worked with him on Raman Raghav 2.0 and Manmarziyaan, as the character. Kaushal charged no fee for the film.
- Debutant Karan Mehta was cast as the male lead after Anurag Kashyap's daughter found him in a short film released in 2016. Kashyap held workshops and parkour training for his two leads, and because one of them has a lisp, Mehta spent more time with locals in Himachal Pradesh to understand their nuances.
