Aiyyaa stills: Rani in Sridevi's look (page6,7)

Director-Screenwriter Sachin Kundalkar

Producer Anurag Kashyap, Guneet Monga

With Rani Mukherjee, Prithviraj Sukumaran, Nirmiti Sawant

India 2012

148 mins

Production company Anurag Kashyap Films Pvt Ltd

Bollywood icon Rani Mukherji plays Marathi girl Aiyya in this delightful Amelie-style comedy. Aiyya lives with her eccentric family next to a smelly rubbish dump, lost in her dream-like Bollywood fantasy world. She gets a job at an art college where she meets a soul-mate, a buck-toothed Lady GaGa lookalike, and together they go man-hunting. That's until Aiyya catches the smell of her dream man, follows the scent and finds a hunky Tamil student (superstar Prithviraj), who she stalks; much to his annoyance. At the same time her barely sane parents are arranging her marriage to a good, sensible boy, who loves Marathi art cinema and rose-planting. As her dream hunk mysteriously disappears, Aiyya is torn: should she settle for the rose garden? Director Sachin Kundalkar deftly delivers on-the-button gags, and ecstatic song and dance numbers. One not to miss!

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