''Raghu Romeo'' is a 2003 Indian
Hindi
Modern Standard Hindi (, ), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the Standard language, standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari script. It is an official language of India, official language of the Government ...
-language
comedy drama
Comedy drama (also known by the portmanteau dramedy) is a hybrid genre of works that combine elements of comedy and Drama (film and television), drama. In film, as well as scripted television series, serious dramatic subjects (such as death, il ...
film directed by
Rajat Kapoor, starring
Vijay Raaz,
Sadiya Siddiqui,
Maria Goretti,
Manu Rishi and
Saurabh Shukla
Saurabh Shukla (born 5 March 1963) is an Indian actor, screenwriter, and film director who works in Hindi and a few Tamil language, Tamil and Telugu language, Telugu films. He is best known for his roles in ''Satya (1998 film), Satya'' (1998), ...
. The film was released on 15 August 2003 to critical acclaim and success at the box office. Set in modern-day Mumbai, the film focuses on the life of a waiter working in a dance bar. The film won the
National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi.
Plot
Raghu Romeo (
Vijay Raaz) is a guileless man from a lower-middle-class family. He is a 30-year-old waiter henpecked by his mother and by the boss who seldom pays him. In his naivete, Raghu thinks he must protect the virtue of the bar's female staff from clients, especially Sweety (
Sadiya Siddiqui), who is a hitman's girl whose cynical surface masks a soft spot for the clueless hero. But Raghu only has eyes for Neeta, a quintessential TV-soap suffering-heroine character played by (
Maria Goretti). Unable to distinguish between fantasy and real life, Raghu kidnaps the terrified actress and takes her to the countryside house of Sweety. It turns out she is on the hit-list for failing to pay off the entertainment industry's mob "protectors".
Cast
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Vijay Raaz as Raghu
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Sadiya Siddiqui as Sweety
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Saurabh Shukla
Saurabh Shukla (born 5 March 1963) is an Indian actor, screenwriter, and film director who works in Hindi and a few Tamil language, Tamil and Telugu language, Telugu films. He is best known for his roles in ''Satya (1998 film), Satya'' (1998), ...
as Mario
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Maria Goretti as Reshma / Neetaji
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Manu Rishi as Zahid
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Veerendra Saxena as Yadav
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Vijay Patkar as Hari
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Surekha Sikri as Mother
* Ikhlaq Khan as Vermaji
* Anjali Nadig as Mother in law
* Neha Sharma as Sister in law
* Dhruv Singh as Brother in law
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Ayesha Raza as News reader
Music
Awards
* 2004
National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi (Silver Lotus Award)
* 2003 Best feature film - MAMI International film festival
References
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2003 films
2000s Hindi-language films
2003 comedy films
Films featuring songs by Pritam
Best Hindi Feature Film National Film Award winners
National Film Development Corporation of India films