'' Phere: More Than a Wedding'' is a 2005

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directed by Ishaan Trivedi and produced by Nimit Modawal. It stars

Juhi Chawla Juhi Chawla (born 13 November 1967) is an Indian actress, film producer and entrepreneur. She established herself as one of the leading actresses of Hindi cinema from the late 1980s through the early 2000s. Recognised for her comic timing and v ...

and

Irrfan Khan Irrfan Khan () (born Sahabzade Irfan Ali Khan; 7 January 196729 April 2020), also known simply as Irrfan, was an Indian actor who worked in Indian cinema as well as British and American films. Widely regarded as one of the finest actors in In ...

in the lead roles. The film was released in India on 29 July 2005, to mixed response.

Plot

After having tasted great success with soaps based on traditional families, a national TV network is getting into the next phase of programming - that is - "Reality TV" so they decide to go for the evergreen subject of marriages in the Indian family. Channel asks their blue-eyed guy to produce the show. Asmi Ganatra (

), the first time director, and her team finds out that at present the only family in Mumbai that meets the programming brief is Joshi's. The Joshis are stunned when Asmi visits them with a request to cover the marriage for the TV network. Though the bride's father is willing to go along with the idea, the family's Mafia, consisting of the old guard plays the card of family's pride, and they Veto the proposal. In the meanwhile, Asmi has discovered that Manoj Joshi (Irrfan), the bride's youngest uncle, has fallen for her. Knowing very well that her career would be blocked if she were unable to pull off the deal with the bride's family, she lures him to an arrangement where a multi camera set-up is secretly installed in the huge house. Manoj realizes to his horror that he has opened a Pandora's box. Unaware of the hidden cameras, his family behaves true to themselves and slowly skeletons start tumbling out of the cupboard. The privacy of Joshi's family gets invaded by Candid cameras and incidents which should remain buried come out in the open and gives the Channel all sorts of ''maal masala'' (juicy tid-bits) to increase their TRP Ratings.

Cast

as Asmi Ganatra *

as Manoj *

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as Inspector Rohit Kande * Nina Kulkarni as Rati Pant * Anang Desai as Suresh Joshi *

Shri Vallabh Vyas Shri Vallabh Vyas was an Indian film and television actor. He was known for films including '' Sarfarosh'' (1999), ''Lagaan'' (2001), '' Abhay'' (2001), '' Aan: Men at Work'' (2004), '' Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero'' (2005), ' ...

as Mahesh 'Taoji' Joshi *

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as Raveena Joshi * Chahat Khanna as Piya S. Joshi *

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as Nimit Joshi * Ninad Kamat as * Shauni Khanna *

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Reception

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'' praised the film, calling it light-hearted and rib-tickling. They noted it as the first time that actors

and

had worked together in a film, and as being both Irrfan's entry into and Juhi's return to the comedy genre. They advised that the chemistry between the two actors was to be watched and appreciated as their "conflict and resolution form an integral part of the film."

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:7 1 2 Phere 2000s Hindi-language films 2005 films Films scored by Shantanu Moitra Films scored by Kalyanji Anandji Hindi-language comedy films Indian comedy films 2005 comedy films Films about Indian weddings