Home Delivery: Aapko... Ghar Tak (transl. Home Delivery: At your house) is a 2005 Indian Hindi-language comedy film starring Vivek Oberoi, Ayesha Takia, Mahima Chaudhry, and Boman Irani in the lead roles.[1] The film also stars Abhishek Bachchan and Riteish Deshmukh in cameos. It is written and directed by Sujoy Ghosh and produced by Shabbir Boxwala.[2][3][4][5][6] The film received negative reviews, with criticism aimed at the unoriginal plot, humor, direction, and acting, although the visual effects, soundtrack, and performances of Oberoi and Irani were praised.

Home Delivery
Theatrical release poster
Directed bySujoy Ghosh
Written byRitesh Shah
Suresh Nair
Milap Zaveri
(dialogue)
Screenplay bySujoy Ghosh
Story bySujoy Ghosh
Suresh Nair
Produced byShabbir Boxwala
StarringVivek Oberoi
Ayesha Takia
Boman Irani
Mahima Chaudhry
CinematographySirsha Ray
Edited bySuresh Pai
Music byVishal–Shekhar
Production
company
Percept Picture Company
Distributed byZee Motion Pictures (India)
Eros International (Overseas)
Release date
  • 2 December 2005 (2005-12-02)
Running time
151 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

A mobile video game based on the film was released in 2006.[7]

Plot

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Home Delivery is the story of how it takes just a single day to change a person's outlook on life forever. Sunny Chopra (Vivek Oberoi) is a 28-year-old writer who has carved a name for himself as a popular agony uncle, named Gyan Guru, writing for the Times of Hindustan. Sunny also managed to bag a prestigious screenplay writing project for the most happening film director, Karan Johar. A bit of a cynic, he believes he is a self-made man and that whatever he has achieved in life is due to his own hard work and nobody else's. His cynicism is extended to his views about marriage to his fiancée Jenny (Ayesha Takia) and to the festival of Diwali too.

Just as Sunny is cynical about life, Michael Burnett (Boman Irani) is optimistic about it. 51-year-old Michael is a simple-minded man, almost childlike and has recently landed job as a pizza delivery boy at Mummy's Pizza. Michael has sort of an inclination to lose every job he has ever had in two days flat. This time, however, he vows to keep this one no matter what.

On the eve of Diwali, Sunny has loads of stuff to do and very little time to do it. He has to meet his screenplay deadline, he has to get rid of Pandey (Saurabh Shukla), his irritatingly intrusive next door neighbor, and he's got to avoid his editor's telephone calls who is livid that he's bunking work. But more importantly he needs to get Jenny out of the way because he has a date with Maya (Mahima Chaudhry), a South Indian superstar who he has been in love with since as long as he can remember. In this confusion, Sunny forgets that there is no food in his bachelor pad and orders a pizza that Michael is given the task of delivering. And what Michael delivers to Sunny is so much more than just a pizza. Sunny is home delivered life's simple lessons – right to his doorstep.

Cast

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Actor/Actress Role
Vivek Oberoi Sunny Chopra
Ayesha Takia Jenny (Nani)
Mahima Chaudhry Maya Ahuja
Boman Irani Michael Burnett
Aman Verma Hitesh Sharma
Saurabh Shukla Pandey
Tiku Talsania Gungunani
Arif Zakaria P3P (Page 3 Psycho)
Sanjay Suri Marriage Man
Shayan Munshi Corporate Man
Naseeruddin Shah Uncle
Shernaz Patel Lillian
Ashiesh Roy Mr. Boltu

Cameo appearances

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Actor/Actress/Filmmaker Role
Abhishek Bachchan Himself/The Customer
Sunil Shetty Time Man
Juhi Chawla Parvati Kakkar
Ritesh Deshmukh Suresh Trivedi/Party Man
Karan Johar Himself
Ayan Mukerji Himself/Karan's colleague

Soundtrack

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Song Title Singer(s)
Mere Tumhare Sabke Liye Happy Diwali Vaishali Unnikrishnan, Suraj Jagan, Sruthi Unnikrishnan, Sunidhi Chauhan
Happy Diwali (Remix) Sunidhi Chauhan, Divya, Sruthi Unnikrishnan, Vaishali Unnikrishnan, Suraj Jagan
Chaand Ki Roshani Se K. K.
Cucu - Mann Dole Tann Dole Sunidhi Chauhan, Shekhar Ravjiani
Gyan Guru Vishal Dadlani
Har Kisika Koyee Hota Sahara (Kaash) Shaan
Home Delivery (Title Song) Boman Irani
Jhume Re Aandhee, Jhume Yeh Tufan (Maya) Sanjay Dutt
Khushbu Churati Hawa Chalengi Sunidhi Chauhan

References

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  1. ^ "Delivering solutions". The Hindu. 3 December 2005. Archived from the original on 16 January 2008. Retrieved 19 January 2011.
  2. ^ "BBC - Movies - review - Home Delivery".
  3. ^ "Home Delivery Review 1/5 | Home Delivery Movie Review | Home Delivery 2005 Public Review | Film Review". Bollywood Hungama.
  4. ^ "Home Delivery - movie review by Shahid Khan - Planet Bollywood".
  5. ^ "Film review: 'Home Delivery' starring Vivek Oberoi, Mahima Chaudhury, Ayesha Takia".
  6. ^ "Weak plot ruins Home Delivery".
  7. ^ "Game point for bollywood!". The Times of India. 22 November 2006. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 26 September 2023.
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