Amol Shetge’s film ‘LOVE RECIPE’ all set for release in 11th May 2012

Amol Shetge’s film Love Recipe starring newcomers Suhail Karim and Rani Agarwal along with Manoj Joshi, Upasana Singh, Vrijesh Hirji, Sanjay Narvekar, Atul Parchure, Avantika Kamat, Imran Khan, Suzanne Bernert , J. Brandon Hill and Dawood Khot is all set to hit theatres on 11th May 2012.

LOVE RECIPE is directed by noted film director Amol Shetge who won the national award for his film ABOLI & has directed several other films like Naam Gum Jayega , Gunaah, Kabhi Kahin to name a few. The film is produced by Noor Bano Khot.
Love Recipe as the name would suggest is a fun-filled film. Its about a D.J. Rahul Kher who is in love with Tia, a bubbly girl who happens to be the daughter of retired I.G. of police Pratap Singh who post retirement has suddenly decided to become Hindustani in every sense of the word. He has suddenly shifted from his starched uniform to traditional kurta pyjamas, does not like the use of English words in conversation. So D.J Rahul does not fit into this profile, the film is fun filled as Rahul’s effort to woo Tia’s father to approve their relationship & how he becomes the Real Hindustani in her dad’s eyes. All ends well and Pratap Singh ultimately agrees Hindustaniyat is not about clothes and language after all. The heart has to be Hindustani.

The film is Directed by Amol Shetge and Produced by - Noor Bano Khot, Written by Sham Goyal, M. Salim and Amol Shetge, Dialogues by M. Salim, Amol Shetge Cinematography by Najeeb Khan, Choreographerd by Nimesh Bhatt, Art Direction by Ajay Jadhav, Excecutive Producer - Bansilal More, Music by Sameer Phaterpekar, Lyrics by Sudhakar Sharma, Costumes & style by Kamal Khan, M. Atique Ajmeri and Vikaram Purohit. Cameraman Najeeb Khan.
Synopsis: LOVE RECIPE

Love Recipe is a fresh comic caper filled with vibrant characters led by the pair of Rahul and Tia. Rahul a DJ by profession is of the opinion that Hindustaniyat is not about clothes or language and that it has to come straight from the heart. Wearing jeans and tee-shirts will not make him less Hindustani than anybody else. So Tia's father Pratap Singh's strange obsession with Hindustaniyat makes Rahul a total misfit in Pratap Singh's scheme of things. But A news which announces the reward of 50 crore rupees on an international terrorist named Carlos Randall's head is going to change their love story for good.
Meanwhile Carlos, the international terrorist is being briefed by Music Ali, a freaky terrorist leader immersed in old Hindi film songs. The plan is to blast a peace conference happening in Mumbai ten days from now. He sets out on his mission giving rise to another hilarious track.
In a freaky incident Carlos en route his mission gets his head severed and the severed head somehow manages to end up in Rahul's custody. Getting rid of the head becomes the main concern out of which many hilarious situations occur as Rahul and Tia are yet unaware of the fact that the head is of the international terrorist Carlos on which such a huge reward lies.
But fortune provides an opportunity to Rahul to prove his patriotic zeal to his prospective father-in-law when a news telecast announces that the severed head that has been missing belongs to none other than Carlos Randall. Situations lead to an interesting climax and Rahul becomes responsible for causing the arrest of the dreaded terrorist Music Ali Pratap Singh can get no bigger a hero than Rahul for his son-in-law and all ends on a happy note.
THE CAST

Rahul - Suhail Karim
Tiya - Rani Agrawal
Govind - Sanjay Narwekar
Shilpa - Avantika Kamat
Sunil - Imran Khan
Pappu - Vrajesh Hirjee
Roza - Suzanne Bernert
Pratap Singh - Manoj Joshi
Kaushalya - Upasana Singh
Anthony - Atul Parchure
Carlos - J. Brandon Hill
Music Ali - Dawood Karim
Special appearance
Darshan Jariwalla as Shivanand Kher
MAIN CREDITS
Presented By: Nurson Media Entertainment
Producer - Noor Bano Khot
Director - Amol Shetge
Cinematographer - Najeeb Khan
Choreographer - Nimesh Bhatt
Excecutive Producer - Bansilal More
Art Director - Ajay Jadhav
Writers - Shyam Goel, M. Salim, Amol Shetge
Music - Sameer Phaterpekar
Lyrics - Sudhakar Sharma
CHARACTER SKETCHES
DJ Rahul - A disc jockey whose attire and attitude come in the way of his prospective father-in-law's obsession with Hindustaniyat. But a chilled out bloke, he believes that Hindustaniyat is not about wearing a dhoti kurta or not wearing jeans. "Insaan ka dil hindustani hona chaiye" he says and has this to add about his father-in-law, "Love ki Recipe mein ek tikhi mirchi bhi to honi chaiye..."
Tia - Rahul's love interest. Bubbly, fun-loving still very kiddish, but at times shows a maturity way beyond her years. This maturity comes in handy for sure when the recipe of her love is at boiling point.
Pappu Bhaiyya - Tia's elder brother, a heart surgeon whose own heart goes out to an Italian girl called Roza but surely misses a beat whenever he is reminded of his father's Hindustaniyat.
Roza - Her love for Pappu Bhaiyya seems to her like a recipe gone wrong as all her attempts to prove to her father-in-law that she is as Indian as an Italian can ever strive to be seem to be losing steam.
Anthony - "oooo%%xxx **** & ^^^^: :: ;;;+++====" thats literally how his speech sounds and any effort to understand what he is saying is nothing short of hilarious. He remains the unexplained ingredient in this Love Recipe
Sunil - Tia's elder brother, a jilted lover who has donned the avatar of a maverick shayar and who eats, drinks and breathes Mirza Ghalib.
Pratap Singh - A retired I.G. of Police who has got bored of the British tradition he has been so used to and is now all for Bhartiya Sabhyata and Hindustani Tehzeeb which is taken so far as to become a conflict in his daughter's love story.
Kaushalya - Pratap Singh's wife constantly glued to the television and watches news as any other woman would watch a daily soap. It is her strange addiction to the idiot box that keeps one abreast of the latest news regarding the terrorists.
Music Ali - The singing terrorist who creates terror in peoples' hearts by his bombings and terror attacks but is himself immersed in old Hindi film melodies which he calmly croons as he announces his terror plans.
Carlos Randall - The head in question. Becomes the object of desire after it is accidentally severed in a freaky incident. It carries a reward of Rs. 50, 00, 000, 000/- . So virtually its his head that rules every heart in the film.
Govind Dhaimade - A sub inspector who dreams of catching Carlos Randall alive and winning the reward of fifty crores to impress his lady love. With all his antics and buffonery he can be perhaps rated as the 140th cyclostyle copy of superstar Rajnikanth.
Shilpa Venkatswamy Iyengar - A senior inspector and Govind Dhaimade's love interest and a die-hard Rajnikanth fan. Her hero worship has attained the strangest of heights. So much so that a picture of Rajnikanth adorns the wall of her cabin.
Shivanand Kher - Rahul's father who lives in New York but is perhaps more Hindustani than Pratap Singh whose Hindustaniyat according to Kher is nothing but a facade behind which even the likes of our netas hide. Kher is the one who gives the lovers in the film the catch phrase ;"Love aisi Recipe hai jo banne ke baad pakti hai"
DIRECTOR'S NOTE :

"Comedy is like a soft rubber ball which bounces off best when hit against the hard wall of reality." - Mel Brooks. - So true. I never had imagined that story which adheres to this thought will ever come my way. Well it did eventually in the form of 'LOVE RECIPE'. Here the hard wall of reality is the menace of terrorism that has become an evil in today's society. Try as you might there is no escaping it. The soft rubber ball is the severed head of the terrorist which is the prize catch for the characters in the film. The challenge was to set the film against this realistic backdrop of hate and make love win in the end while doing it all in a lighter vein. I think we as a team have managed to pull it off quite well. The film also rewrites some old adages as the hero DJ Rahul conveys his firm belief that being Indian is all about being so from the heart and not about creating a facade of Indianness. I love this film because it is seemingly meaningless yet wrought with meaning. It is mad, crazy, funny and I feel the recipe's just right.