| Dasvidaniya | |
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| Directed by | Shashant Shah |
| Written by | Arshad Syed |
| Produced by | Guneet Monga Vinay Pathak Azam Khan |
| Starring | Vinay Pathak Sarita Joshi Neha Dhupia Rajat Kapoor Brijendra Kala |
| Cinematography | Arun Varma |
| Music by | Kailash Kher |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | ₹ 1 million |
| Box office | ₹ 18.7 million |
Dasvidaniya is a 2008 IndianHindi-languagecomedy drama film[1] released on 7 November 2008.[2][3]The name of the movie is a pun on the list of ten things to be done before death made byVinay Pathak, and is a play on the Russian phraseдо свидания (do svidaniya), meaning bye.[4][5]
Amar Kaul (Vinay Pathak) is a 37-year-old accounts manager at Suraj Pharmaceuticals inMumbai. He is single and lives with his mother (Sarita Joshi). He lives a nondescript life with people oblivious to his existence. One day his doctor tells him that he will die within three months due to stomach cancer. Realising that his time is limited, Amar makes a list of ten things he wants to do in his life and sets out to do them. They are:
He finds the true joys of life in a few months, which were hidden all his life. After three months, at the time of his death, he leaves something for all his loved ones, leaving them happy and thankful to him.
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| Released | 2008 | |||
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
| Label | Sony Music | |||
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The music for all the songs[6] were composed byKailash Kher.
| # | Title | Singer(s) | Lyricist | Duration |
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| 1 | "O Maa Meri Maa Pyaari Maa – Mammaa" | Kailash Kher | Kailash Kher | 04:30 |
| 2 | "Sare Sehar Ki Jagmag Ke Bitar Hai Andhera – Alvida" | Kailash Kher | Kailash Kher | 05:03 |
| 3 | "Muskura Mere Dil" | Sonu Nigam | Kailash Kher,Naresh Kamath,Paresh Kamath –TheKailasa Band | 03:40 |
| 4 | "Muskura Mere Dil (Inst)" | Instrumental | Kailash Kher, Naresh Kamath, Paresh Kamath –The Kailasa Band | 03:15 |
| 5 | "Sare Sehar Ki Jagmag Ke Bitar Hai Andhera – Alvida (Remix)" | Kailash Kher | Kailash Kher, Naresh Kamath, Paresh Kamath –The Kailasa Band | 04:20 |
Dasvidaniya collected₹18.7 million (US$210,000) in its lifetime run.[7][8]
Gaurav Malani of Indiatimes Movies gave the film 3 stars, praising the cast, dialogue and scripting and recommended that the movie "should top the list of your 10 most important things to do this weekend."[9]
it's called Dasvidanya because... he has an affair with a Russian prostitute who cares for him at a dark hour, and since she doesn't speak English or Hindi, this is how he tells her goodbye for the last time.Concept of this film was taken from a Hollywood movie The bucket list.