''Mehandi Laga Ke Rakhna'' is a 2017 Indian Bhojpuri-language film written and directed by Rajnish Mishra and produced by Ananjay Raghuraj under the banner of "Ananya Craft And Visions" and presented by "Om Sai Ram Entertainment" with the association of "Trimurti Entertainment Media". It is a remake of the 2007

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film ''

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''. The stars are

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and

Kajal Raghwani Kajal Raghwani is an Indian actress. She has worked in Bhojpuri films like '' Pratigya 2'', ''Hukumat'', '' Patna Se Pakistan'', '' Muqaddar'', '' Mehandi Laga Ke Rakhna'' and '' Mai Sehra Bandh Ke Aaunga''. Raghwani is considered as one of t ...

with Ritu Singh,

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, Sanjay Mahanand, Karan Pandey, Deepak Sinha, Anand Mohan and others in supporting roles. Choreographers from the

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industry Kanu Mukharjee and Glori Mohanta make a special appearance in the song "Sakhi Re Var Pa Gaini". The film spawned two sequels, '' Mehandi Laga Ke Rakhna 2'' released in 2018 and '' Mehandi Laga Ke Rakhna 3'' release in 2020.

Plot

The film begins with the venture of Raja, who is unemployed. But like every father, Raja's father, Narayan, wants Raja to do some work, but the Raja messes up all the work with his wrong activities, all of which expel him from his job and Narayan is very upset with these activities. One day Raja finds a beautiful girl named Kajal and learns that she is a music teacher at school. Raja starts working with Kajal in school as a peon, and Narayan is pleased with Raja's improvement and job. After a few days, the entire school goes to the "Swachhata Abhiyan" where Raja expresses his love to Kajal, who feels bad and slaps Raja. Narayan gets to know the whole thing and takes Raja to a friend's house for entertainment. At the friend's (Mahendra Babu) daughter's marriage, Raja meets all the family members of Mahendra Babu. But to his surprise, he sees that the girl who has come to the wedding is Kajal, whom he loves. After that, Raja stops at Kajal's home, and helps in the preparation of her wedding. Then slowly, Kajal gets so impressed by the goodness of Raja that she starts loving him. The day after Kajal expresses her love to Raja, her wedding procession comes only two days later. This is the story of how the Raja and Kajal decide between love and rituals.

Cast

as ''Raja'' *

, as ''Kajal'' * Ritu Singh as ''Babli'' *

, as ''Narayan (Raja's Father)'' * Sanjay Mahanand as ''Raja's Friend'' *

as ''Main Villain'' * Karan Pandey as ''Sanaku'' *Param Hans Singh as ''Mahendra Babu (Kajal's Father)'' *Anand Mohan as ''Fufaji (Babli's Father)'' *Deepak Sinha *Dhama Verma *Sweaty Singh *Dhiraj Singh * Gopal Rai *Glory Mohanta as ''Special Appearance in song "Sakhi Re Var Pa Gaini"'' *Kanu Mukharjee as ''Special Appearance in song "Sakhi Re Var Pa Gaini"''

Production

Filming for this film was done in Lucky Studio,

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with some scenes shot in Nandan Van,

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. The cinematography has been done by Rafiq Latif Shaikh while choreography is by Kanu Mukharjee and Ricky Gupta. it was edited by Jeetendra Singh (Jitu) and its action director is Bajirao. Dress designed by Badshah Khan. Background music scored by Aslam Surty while sound designed by Satish Poojary (Audio Lab) . Post-production done by Audio Lab Studio.

Release

The film was theatrically released on 2 February 2017 in All over

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with positive public reviews. It has broken all records on box office and it is all time blockbuster of

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Soundtrack

The music for "Mehandi Laga Ke Rakhna" was composed by Rajnish Mishra with lyrics penned by Pyare Lal Yadav, Rajnish Mishra and Shyam Dehati. Background music scored by Aslam Surty. The soundtrack included an unusually large number of songs at 10. It was produced under the "Worldwide Records Bhojpuri" label, who also bought his satellite rights. His first song "Kawna Devta Ke Garhal Sawarl" released on 27 May 2017 and crossed over 99 million views on

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and second song "Laga Ke Fair Lovely" released on 4 June 2017 and crossed over 65 million views on YouTube. Third song "Sarso Ke Sagiya" released on 13 June 2017 on official YouTube handle of "Worldwide Records Bhojpuri" and he crossed over 166 million views on YouTube.

Marketing

The film was streamed online on 29 July 2017 at

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site YouTube and create a record of the third

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film to get 40 million views on YouTube after "Nirahua Rikshawala 2" and " Nirahua Hindustani 2" till April 2018. He got over 122 million views on YouTube.

Award and nominations

References

{{Reflist 2017 films Bhojpuri remakes of Telugu films 2010s Bhojpuri-language films