Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.
The poster features entire cast and behind them is pink-coloured bus. At the bottom title of film appears.
Theatrical release poster
Directed byReema Kagti
Written byStory and Screenplay:
Reema Kagti
Dialogues:
Anurag Kashyap
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyDeepti Gupta
Edited byAarti Bajaj
Music byVishal–Shekhar
Distributed byExcel Entertainment
Release date
  • 23 February 2007 (2007-02-23)
Running time
119 minutes
CountryIndia
Languages
  • Hindi
  • English
Budget₹ 100 million[1]
Box office₹ 195.1 million[1]

Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. is a 2007 Indian Hindi-language comedy drama film written and directed by Reema Kagti. It is produced by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani under Excel Entertainment and marked the debut of Reema Kagti as a director. The film is made up of six different stories.[2][3]

Plot and characters

The story is about six couples, who are on their honeymoon with the Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. bus and their trials and tribulations during the four-day journey to Goa. The couples are:

  • Oscar Fernandes and his wife Naheed who have just recently married. They are middle age and the target of constant mocking from everyone else. However, they intend on having a great journey and not be bothered by their difficult pasts. This is their second marriage. Oscar's first wife committed suicide and Naheed's husband and two children died in a car accident. Oscar is Naheed's first husband's business partner. After a chance meeting with Oscar's estranged daughter in Goa, father and daughter mend their relationship.
  • Partho Sen and Milly Sen, a couple from a small town in Bengal. He is a serious man and she behaves as a traditional sari-wearing wife. Through an encounter with a bunch of thugs, Partho finds out his timid housewife holds a black belt in martial arts, as she defeats the crooks without breaking a sweat.
  • Madhu and Bunty have recently married. Their differences draw from the fact that he is an NRI (non-resident Indian), while she has lived in Mumbai, India, her entire life. Bunty is a closet homosexual and his parents want him to marry the daughter of a family friend. Out of anxiety he surfed the internet for a bride. He met Madhu online, came to India and married quickly. Madhu had a recently failed relationship with a man, whom she left after discovering that he had a wife and child already. She found Bunty and married quickly to forget that pain.
  • Pinky and Vicky, hailing from Delhi. They couldn't be more different, as Pinky is very extroverted and Vicky is the opposite. When Vicky meets Bunty for the first time, he develops romantic feelings for him, as he is a closet bisexual but doesn't express them.
  • Hitesh and Shilpa are from Gujarat and have recently married. During the first half-hour, Shilpa runs away with her boyfriend, Jignesh. They board the Honeymoon Travels bus returning to Mumbai, while escaping from contract killers sent by Shilpa's father.
  • Aspi and Zara are seemingly the most perfect couple of them all: They've never fought. Unknown to each other, each is a superhero and has to go off at a moment's notice to help the people. When Zara questions the whereabouts of her husband when he is not to be found some nights, they fight for the first time. In course of the confrontation, the truth about their superhero identities is revealed to each other.

As the bus continues its journey, it is followed by a mysterious biker, who is revealed early on to be Jignesh, Shilpa's boyfriend.

Cast

Production

John Abraham and Shilpa Shetty were the first choices to play Jignesh and Shilpa, respectively. After Abraham refused to play the role of Jignesh, Shetty decided she didn't want to play Shilpa and backed out, too.[4]

Reception

Box office

The film collected Rs 11.80 crore and was declared an average grosser in India by Box Office India.[5]

Critical response

Anupama Chopra of India Today gave a positive review saying "Thankfully, Kagti, who also scripted the movie, works with a light hand. There are a few leaden emotional scenes but they are crowded out by the non-stop fun and games. It all heads toward the superb set-piece item: Sajna main vari vari. The cast reads like a who's who of Bollywood's most underrated actors: Ranvir Shorey, Abhay Deol, Kay Kay Menon, Raima Sen. The last two are especially good as the Bengali couple whose equation changes as their honeymoon progresses. Kagti's is a fresh and original voice. This ride is worth taking." [6] Jaspreet Pandohar of BBC.com gave the film 3 out of 5 stars stating "Kagti's peppy screenplay and direction may not win awards for originality, but it's a decent effort from a young female filmmaker just starting out. Her likeable characters playing out quirky scenarios hold your attention. However, it's a select number of good individual performances, such as Kay Kay Menon's uptight spouse who lets loose thanks to some magic mushrooms, rather than a collective ensemble effort, that stops Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd from being a bigger success."[7]

Conversely, Khalid Mohamed writing for Hindustan Times stated "Despite a jumbo starcast, Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd is just about passable."[8] Elvis D'Silva of Rediff.com gave the film 1.5 stars out of 5, writing "As a debutante it must be wonderful for director Reema Kagti to have the backing of major industry players like Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani. Nothing about the film serves as proof of that faith."[9]

Soundtrack

Music by Vishal-Shekhar.[10]

Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.
Studio album by
Vishal–Shekhar
Released2007 (India)
GenreFeature film soundtrack
LabelT-Series
ProducerVishal–Shekhar
Vishal–Shekhar chronology
I See You
(2006)		 Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.
(2007)		 Ta Ra Rum Pum
(2007)
No.TitleSingersLength
1."Sajnaji"Sunidhi Chauhan, Shekhar Ravjiani03:42
2."Jaane Hai Woh Kahan"Shreya Ghoshal, Shaan03:56
3."Albela"Vishal Dadlani, Shankar Mahadevan03:44
4."Halke Halke Rang Chhalkein"Neeraj Shridhar05:16
5."Pyaar Ki Yeh Kahani"Sunidhi Chauhan, Gayatri Ganjawala, Vishal Dadlani05:28
6."Haath Dhore Niye Chalo"Instrumental04:11
7."Halke Halke – Remix"Neeraj Shridhar04:01

References

  1. 1 2 "Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. – Movie". Box Office India. Archived from the original on 25 June 2022. Retrieved 25 June 2022.
  2. ↑ "Honeymoon Travels PVT. LTD. Movie Review {/5}: Critic Review of Honeymoon Travels PVT. LTD. By Times of India". The Times of India.
  3. ↑ "Honeymoon Travels PVT. LTD. – movie review by Amodini Sharma – Planet Bollywood". Archived from the original on 29 April 2022. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  4. ↑ "Controversial Honeymoon". Archived from the original on 5 September 2006.
  5. ↑ "Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. - Movie - Box Office India". www.boxofficeindia.com. Archived from the original on 24 October 2022. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
  6. ↑ "Movie review: Reema Kagti's Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd". India Today. Archived from the original on 24 October 2022. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
  7. ↑ "BBC - Movies - review - Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd". www.bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 24 October 2022. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
  8. ↑ "REVIEW: Honeymoon Travels..." Hindustan Times. 23 February 2007. Archived from the original on 24 October 2022. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
  9. ↑ "Not a good Honeymoon, this!". www.rediff.com. Archived from the original on 24 October 2022. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
  10. ↑ "Honeymoon Travels PVT. LTD. – music review by Samir Dave – Planet Bollywood". Archived from the original on 29 April 2022. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
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