Paran Jai Jaliya Re

Paran Jai Jaliya Re is a 2009 Indian Bengali-language romance film directed by Ravi Kinnagi. This film stars Dev and Subhashree in the lead roles. It is a remake of 2007 Hindi film Namastey London. Vipul Shah, the director of the original movie filed a case against the producers of Paran Jai Jaliya Re and they gave a penalty of Rs. 75 lakh. In this movie, Dev and Subhashree were cast together for the second time after Challenge in 2009.

Plot

Anna is an NRI girl living in London whose father wants her to marry an Indian lad. However, Anna is deeply involved in a platonic relationship with a half-British boy Harry. Anna's brother, Sid is in a relationship with a British girl and wants to marry her. However, his father refuses to let him marry her which makes Sid choose to leave his parents' home. Meanwhile, Anna's father manages to bring his wife and daughter to India where he can find a suitable groom for his daughter. They meet Raj, a quintessential charming Bengali lad who falls in love with Anna and their marriage is finalized since Raj's father is an old friend of Anna's dad. However, although Anna likes Raj, she hatches a plan to delay and finally annul the engagement by implementing her brother's plan of bringing Raj to London and 'breaking up' with him abroad. Now in a foreign land, Raj tackles the adversities before him to win over Anna and marry her at last. After such situations, Harry's true nature is revealed when he misbehaves with Anna and Raj stops it. At last, he and Anna marry and live happily ever after.

Cast

Dev as Raj
Subhashree as Anamika "Anna" Banerjee
Rahul Banerjee as Vivek
Tota Roy Chowdhury as Siddharth "Sid" Banerjee
Maryam as Liza, Siddharth's wife
Biswajit Chakraborty as Ranjit Bannerjee, Anna's father
Laboni Sarkar as Maya Banerjee, Anna's mother
Aritra Dutta Banik as Chhoton
Bodhisttva Majumdar as Ajay, Raj's father
Mousumi Saha as Raj's mother
Locket Chatterjee as Seema, Raj's aunt
Rajat Ganguly as Himangshu
Mita Chatterjee as Raj's grandmother
Shaan as Harry

Soundtrack

The biggest hit was "Chokher Jole" sung by Zubeen Garg.

Controversy

The producers of the movie were sued for plagiarism soon after the release of the film by Vipul Shah who produced Namastey London who alleged that the plot was his film. The film was banned from screening twice, once by a lower court and later by Calcutta High Court. After the High Court decision, the producers came to a settlement after Shree Venkatesh Films agreed to pay a fine of seventy-five lakh rupees. This out-of-court settlement can be considered hefty since the making of the film took about 2 crore rupees. Moreover, the settlement required the movie to display a title card stating 'Based on Namastey London, a film by Vipul Amrutlal Shah'.