Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006) on Netflix
NR20062h 24mComedyDramaRomance
Gangster Munna Bhai falls for Jahnvi, a morning radio jockey, and poses as a Gandhi scholar to reach her. The research brings him face to face with a vision of Mahatma Gandhi.
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Murli Prasad Sharma, known as Munna Bhai, is a Mumbai gangster who listens to Jahnvi's morning radio show and wants to meet her. His lieutenant, Circuit, rigs a Gandhi Jayanti contest so Munna can win a live interview, and on air he presents himself as a professor of Gandhian studies. Jahnvi, who runs Second Innings House for abandoned seniors, invites him to lecture the residents. Five days of reading about Mahatma Gandhi leave Munna seeing and hearing Gandhi himself, a presence that no one else shares. Meanwhile Lucky Singh, a property tycoon who uses Munna's gang for illegal work, has his own designs on the Second Innings building for his daughter's marriage alliance.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006)
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- On 10 November 2006, Lage Raho Munna Bhai became the first Hindi film screened at the United Nations, introduced in the UN auditorium by Shashi Tharoor, then UN Under-Secretary General for Communications and Public Information.
- In July 2007 Aman Kapoor, founder of the Immigration Voice forum, began a Gandhigiri protest inspired by the film: over three days hundreds of flower bouquets were sent to US Citizenship and Immigration Services, and on 17 July the USCIS reversed the decision that led to the protest.
- Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was given a private screening of the film, said it "captures Bapu's message about the power of truth and humanism," and cited it as an influence when he announced a new Public Services Bill to combat corruption on 17 November 2006.
- Arshad Warsi had forgotten how to play Circuit: Rajkumar Hirani recalled that on the first day of shooting Warsi "didn't sound like Circuit at all," and the actor watched the DVD of Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. three times before he could film the scene correctly.
- The film revived interest in books about Mahatma Gandhi: demand for his autobiography My Experiments with Truth increased after its release, including requests from prison inmates.
- A boy who was a big Munna Bhai fan kept asking the film's name; told the working title Munna Bhai Meets Mahatma Gandhi by music director Shantanu Moitra, he asked, "Munna Bhai is fine, but who is this Mahatma Gandhi?"
- In 2007 the film had a golden jubilee run at 210 cinemas until October, making it the only film to achieve that since Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995).
