The first full-fledged Indian musical coproduced and distributed by a major Hollywood studio, this fanciful love story takes its unlikely inspiration from Fyodor Dostoevsky's short story
White Nights.
The story takes place over a period of four days, culminating in the first day of Eid, the Muslim festival that marks the end of Ramadan fasting. Naive musician Ranbir Raj (Ranbir Kapoor) arrives in a strange city — a fairy-tale melange of Venetian-style canals, giant Buddhas, and English-language bars and cabarets that recalls the exuberantly stylized Montmartre of Baz Luhrmann's MOULIN ROUGE (2001) — with no money and no friends. He quickly lands a job...
Released:
2007
Rated:
PG
Length:
142 mins