''Delhii Heights'' is a 2007 Indian

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-language

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written and directed by Anand Kumar and produced by

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. It stars

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and

Neha Dhupia Neha Dhupia (born 27 August 1980) is an Indian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder. She won the title of Femina Miss India in 2002 and represented India at Miss Universe 2002. She is primarily known for her work in Hindi films and t ...

, with

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, Rohit Roy, Simone Singh, Vivek Shauq, and Kamini Khanna playing supporting roles. With ''Delhii Heights'',

Rabbi Shergill Rabbi Shergill (born Gurpreet Singh Shergill on 16 April 1973) is an Indian musician well known for his debut album ''Rabbi'' and the chart-topper song of 2004, '' Bullah Ki Jaana '' ("I don’t know who I am!"). His music has been described v ...

made his debut in films as a music director and lyrics writer.

Plot

Delhii Heights is a high-rise apartment in Delhi, where Abheer (

) and his wife (

) live, a married couple who work for rival companies. It's about how their professional lives affect their personal ones. Also, there lives Timmy Kohli (

), a fun loving Sikh, with his wife Ruby (Kamini Khanna) and two daughters, Sweety (

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) and ( Shaina Ahluwalia). Then there is Bobby ( Rohit Roy) and his wife Saima ( Simone Singh). Bobby is a compulsive flirt and his wife knows about it. How things take place and how their lives change is to be seen. Then there is Lucky ( Vivek Shauq), a cricket bookie, a hilarious character in itself. Also, there are four boys ( Mohit Sehgal, Anuj Sachdeva and Kinshuk Mahajan), residents of Delhii Heights, who keep running after girls and pulling each other's legs.

Cast

as Abheer *

as Suhana *

as Timmy * Rohit Roy as Bobby * Vivek Shauq as Lucky * Simone Singh as Saima *Kamini Khanna as Ruby *Arun Thapar as Rohan * Kinshuk Mahajan * Mohit Sehgal * Anuj Sachdeva *

as Sweety * Shaina Ahluwalia as Timmy's 2nd daughter * R. Madhavan as himself (cameo appearance) * Nitish Bharadwaj (cameo appearance)

Production

The film's screenplay and dialogues were written by Samyukta Chawla, cinematography by Aatish Parmar, art by Sonal, editing by Shrikar Prasad, costumes by Hari Nakai and Varun Bahl, choreography by

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and stunts by Action Prakash, are the other credits. Tamil actor Madhavan was signed on to play a cameo role as himself.

Soundtrack

* Tere Bin by

* Kitni Der Tak by

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* Aey Gori rang de choliya by

Kailash Kher Kailash Kher (born 7 July 1973) is an Indian playback singer, live performer, and composer. He sings songs with a music style influenced by Indian folk music and Sufi music. He was inspired by the classical musicians Kumar Gandharva, Hrida ...

Sonu Kakkar Sonu Kakkar is an Indian playback singer, songwriter and television personality. She is the elder sister of Bollywood singers, Neha Kakkar and Tony Kakkar. Sonu Kakkar was born in Rishikesh on October 20, 1979 in Uttarakhand. One of her most po ...

* Aaja Nachle by Salim Shahzada * Sivaji Productions held the music launch of the film at Taj Lands End. The album was unveiled by the chief guests, filmmaker

Ramesh Sippy Ramesh Sippy (born 23 January 1947) is an Indian film director, actor and producer in Hindi cinema. He is particularly known for being the director of ''Sholay'' (1975), which is regarded as one of the List of films considered the best#Nationa ...

and Rajkumar Santoshi.

Release

The film opened on 30 March 2007 to negative reviews from critics. Reviewer

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from

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.com noted "there's precious little to watch in this haphazardly put together tale of predictable pitfalls" and that "the characters are barely written, and coupled with a set of superlatively poor actors, this is a tiresome watch." Another critic from the Hindustan Times noted that the film "leaves you with a severe case of shivers, shudders and frights." Another critic

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wrote "it’s a mangled mess of a film that can really come of only one good use — therapists could use it as a test of patience for people working on their anger management."

References

External links

* 2007 films 2000s Hindi-language films Films set in Delhi 2000s Indian films Indian drama films {{2000s-Hindi-film-stub