# Life Partner > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Life_Partner > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Life_Partner.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Partner > Source revision: 1354309656 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 2009 Indian film by Rumi Jaffery For other uses, see [life partner (disambiguation)](/source/Life_partner_(disambiguation)). Life Partner Theatrical release poster Directed by Rumi Jaffery Written by Rumi Jaffery Screenplay by Yunus Sajawal Story by Rumi Jaffery Produced by Abbas–Mustan Hussain Burmawala Starring Govinda Fardeen Khan Tusshar Kapoor Genelia D'Souza Prachi Desai Cinematography Sameer Arya Edited by Hussain Burmawala Sanjay Sankla Music by Score: Sanjoy Chowdhury Songs: Pritam Guest Composition: Sachin-Jigar Production company Burmawala Bros. Distributed by Indian Films Studio 18 Release date 14 August 2009 (2009-08-14) Running time 138 minutes Country India Language Hindi Budget ₹140 million (US$1.5 million) Box office ₹180 million (US$1.9 million) ***Life Partner*** is a 2009 Indian [Hindi](/source/Hindi_language)-language [romantic comedy](/source/Romantic_comedy) film. It stars [Govinda](/source/Govinda_(actor)), [Fardeen Khan](/source/Fardeen_Khan), [Tusshar Kapoor](/source/Tusshar_Kapoor), [Genelia D'Souza](/source/Genelia_D'Souza) and [Prachi Desai](/source/Prachi_Desai) in lead roles. The film is written and directed by [Rumi Jaffery](/source/Rumi_Jaffery) and produced by [Abbas–Mustan](/source/Abbas%E2%80%93Mustan) under their banner, Burmawalla Bros. [1][2][3] ## Plot Karan and Bhavesh are close friends living in [Cape Town, South Africa](/source/Cape_Town%2C_South_Africa). Karan has a good life with a well-paying job. He is in a comfortable relationship with his beautiful yet childish and pampered girlfriend Sanjana, who changes her profession every six months, rather disastrously. Her father, who dislikes Karan, always tries to keep her happy and supports her. Bhavesh wishes for an [arranged marriage](/source/Arranged_marriage) and keeps a diary of all the beautiful things he will do to his wife after marriage. His father, Darshan Manibhai Patel, is a strict autocrat and patriarch. Jeet does not believe in marriage or love and is a womaniser. He encourages married women into divorcing their spouses so that his living as a divorce lawyer is uncompromised. Bhavesh's father treats him as young and incapable of marriage, but on his wife's insistence, he travels with his family, along with Karan and Sanjana, to [Gujarat](/source/Gujarat) to find Bhavesh a bride. In Gujarat, they stay at the palatial home of Bhavesh's father's friend, Vijay Singh Jadeja. Bhavesh meets some girls but ends up falling for Prachi, Vijay Singh's daughter, and they get married. During their wedding, Sanjana says "yes" to Karan's proposal as well, and they get married the same night. The movie then switches to the present, where both couples are at court. Both couples are granted a divorce and the story goes back 6 months earlier, showing what led to the divorces when they came back to Cape Town from India. After marriage, Karan and Sanjana's family life deteriorates, with Karan wanting domestic stability and Sanjana being a horrible homemaker. Karan finally loses patience with Sanjana after she accidentally burns down their apartment and yells at her, venting his frustration at her stupidity and his dislike for her father. Shocked and heartbroken, Sanjana leaves and sends a notice of divorce to him the very next morning. Bhavesh is happy with Prachi, but Prachi is stifled by the old-fashioned ideals and strict rules of Bhavesh's father. She, without her father-in-law's knowledge, applies for a job – the very idea of which angers him. Bhavesh, taking sides with his father, slaps her at the same time Prachi's father arrives. Bhavesh, bound by his father's old-fashioned ideas, is unable to stand by his wife. This ends with Prachi divorcing Bhavesh. Jeet later changes his lifestyle when he meets Anjali, who turns out to be different from all the other girls he has met, since she does not give up on him and expresses a genuine desire to marry him. He decides to marry her, and Karan and Bhavesh shout themselves hoarse at him, stating that since Jeet had facilitated their divorces, he has no right to get married. Jeet explains that he was wrong in taking a negative view of love and marriage and also says that wives or "life partners" always stood by their husbands, thus it is never worth it to break up such a relationship. At Jeet's wedding, Sanjana enters the party, wearing a "bomb," shouting that Jeet was happily getting married when he had caused her divorce. With five minutes left for the bomb to explode, Karan and Sanjana have an argument as to why their divorce took place. Sanjana's father intervenes by saying that he had been against the relationship from the start, and he had sent the divorce papers to them without their knowledge. With only seconds left, Bhavesh's father also apologises to Prachi and the family for imposing his traditional values on them. However, the "bomb" turns out to be fake. When this is revealed to be a plan concocted by Jeet and Sanjana to bring everyone to admit their mistakes, everyone reconciles with each other. At the end, Bhavesh's father lets go of his strict ideals and is shown interacting happily and in a modern manner with his family. Jeet becomes a marriage counsellor, now uniting the very people he separated, and Karan unsuccessfully tries to teach Sanjana how to cook. ## Cast - [Govinda](/source/Govinda_(actor)) as Advocate Jeet Oberoi - [Fardeen Khan](/source/Fardeen_Khan) as Karan Malhotra - [Tusshar Kapoor](/source/Tusshar_Kapoor) as Bhavesh Patel - [Genelia D'Souza](/source/Genelia_D'Souza) as Sanjana Jugran / Sanjana Karan Malhotra aka Sanju - [Prachi Desai](/source/Prachi_Desai) as Prachi Jadeja / Prachi Bhavesh Patel - [Anupam Kher](/source/Anupam_Kher) as Mr. Suraj Jugran - [Darshan Jariwala](/source/Darshan_Jariwala) as Darshan Manibhai Patel - [Shoma Anand](/source/Shoma_Anand) as Bhavesh's mother - [Vikram Gokhale](/source/Vikram_Gokhale) as Vijay Singh Jadeja - [Amrita Rao](/source/Amrita_Rao) as Anjali Kumar / Anjali Jeet Oberoi (cameo) ## Soundtrack Life Partner Soundtrack album by Pritam Chakraborty & Sachin–Jigar Released 16 July 2009 Recorded 2008–2009 Genre Film soundtrack Length 34:12 Label T-Series Pritam Chakraborty chronology Love Aaj Kal (2009) Life Partner (2009) Love Khichdi (2009) Sachin–Jigar chronology 'Teree Sang' (2009) Life Partner (2009) 'F.A.L.T.U' (2011) The music for this film was composed by [Pritam Chakraborty](/source/Pritam_Chakraborty) and [Sachin–Jigar](/source/Sachin%E2%80%93Jigar), with lyrics written by [Javed Akhtar](/source/Javed_Akhtar). The film has seven songs, featuring two remixes. The song "Gunji Aangna Mein Shehnai" was composed by Sachin–Jigar.[4] Track # Song Artist(s) Duration 01 "Kuke Kuke" Shaan, Antara Mitra 04:22 02 "Teri Meri Yeh Zindagi" Soham Chakrabarty & Shreya Ghoshal 04:32 03 "Aage Aage" Mika Singh, Soham Chakraborty, Antara Mitra 03:59 04 "Gunji Aangna Mein Shehnai" Sunidhi Chauhan, Keerthi Sagathia 05:11 05 "Poorza Poorza" Sunidhi Chauhan, Kunal Ganjawala 04:41 06 "Kuke Kuke" (Remix by DJ A-Myth) Shaan, Debojeet Dutta, Antara Mitra 05:01 07 "Poorza Poorza" (Remix by DJ A-Myth) Sunidhi Chauhan, Kunal Ganjawala 04:26 ## Reception *Life Partner* netted ₹17.5 million (US$180,000) overseas in its opening week[5] while it netted ₹180 million (US$1.9 million) domestically by the third week.[6] It was elevated to *average* verdict by [Box Office India](/source/Box_Office_India). In the United States the film grossed $110,240 while it obtained $347,100 from New Zealand, Fiji, the United Kingdom and Malta.[7] ## Awards and nominations - Nominated – [IIFA Best Comedian Award](/source/IIFA_Best_Comedian_Award) - Govinda - Nominated – [Stardust Awards](/source/Stardust_Awards) for Best Actor in a Comic Role - Govinda ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Life Partner Review 3/5 | Life Partner Movie Review | Life Partner 2009 Public Review | Film Review"](https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movie/life-partner/critic-review/life-partner-movie-review/). *[Bollywood Hungama](/source/Bollywood_Hungama)*. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Life Partner Movie Review {3/5}: Critic Review of Life Partner by Times of India"](https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/movie-reviews/life-partner/movie-review/4894696.cms). *[The Times of India](/source/The_Times_of_India)*. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Review: Life Partner"](https://www.hindustantimes.com/movie-reviews/review-life-partner/story-oVcleVTHn7wn9qbQ0J2erN.html). 15 August 2009. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Review of Life Partner | the Film Street Journal"](https://web.archive.org/web/20090921040946/http://www.thefilmstreetjournal.com/2009/08/review-of-life-partner/). Archived from [the original](http://www.thefilmstreetjournal.com/2009/08/review-of-life-partner/) on 21 September 2009. Retrieved 18 May 2010. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Kaminey Good Life Partner Poor in International Markets"](http://www.boxofficeindia.com/overdetail.php?page=shownews&articleid=1103&nCat=overseas_report). Box Office India. 18 August 2009. Retrieved 22 August 2009. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["Life Partner Steady in Week Three"](http://www.boxofficeindia.com/npages.php?page=shownews&articleid=1126&nCat=news). Box Office India. 4 September 2009. Retrieved 8 September 2009. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["Life Partner"](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=lifepartner.htm). ## External links - [Official website](http://www.lifepartnerfilm.com/) - [*Life Partner*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1229366/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) - [*Life Partner*](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=lifepartner.htm) at [Box Office Mojo](/source/Box_Office_Mojo) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Life Partner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Partner) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Partner?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.