Namastey London is a 2007 Bollywood film. The romantic comedy film is directed by Vipul Amrutlal Shah and stars Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif. It also stars Rishi Kapoor, Upen Patel and Clive Standen in supporting roles. Riteish Deshmukh has a cameo role in the film.Manoj Kumar starrer Purab Aur Paschim. The film is made for an Indian audience in India, with most of the topics being controversial in India, like openly kissing in public and alcohol abuse.
The concept of Indians being born in foreign nations and forgetting their Indian roots and instead trying to become like people of that nation is drawn from the
It was remade in Bengali, as Poran Jaye Jolia Re starring Dev & Subhashree Ganguly which was a massive hit in West Bengal.
Indian-born Manmohan Malhotra (Rishi Kapoor) re-located to London, England, established himself, returned to India, got married to Bebo (Nina Wadia), and after four years got a visa for her so that she could live with him. Shortly thereafter, she gave birth to Jasmeet (Katrina Kaif).
Manmohan was always embarrassed by Bebo as she was fat and could not
speak English. As a result, he always left her out of important
occasions, while he socialised. Bebo did not want Jasmeet to end up like
her, so she got her educated in an English school, encouraged to mingle
with British friends, and Jasmeet was transformed into Jazz – a
beautiful young woman, modern in looks, talk, habits, and heart.
Her father had set her to meet a young lad, Bobby Bedi (Ritesh Deshmukh),
though the date turns out to be a disaster and Bobby rejects her.
Manmohan thinks that it is impossible to get him an Indian son-in-law,
although his friend, Parvez Khan (Javed Sheikh), is in a similar situation with his son, Imran (Upen Patel), who has a blonde girlfriend, Susan (Tiffany Mulheron).Akshay Kumar).
Manmohan takes his family for a tour in India and forces Jasmeet to marry Arjun Singh (
On their return to London, Jasmeet announces that she is getting married to Charlie Brown (Clive Standen),
who is well educated and has good friends and connections, even with
Prince Charles. She refuses to recognise her marriage with Arjun as
there is no proof of the wedding. When Jasmeet is introduced to the
friends of the Brown family, she is subjected to considerable racist
abuse (snake charmers, Indian rope tricks, tandoori chicken) as well as a
quote from Winston Churchill: 'When we leave India, the country will be
in the hands of goons'. During this period, Jazz becomes close with
Arjun who still supports her. Charlie Brown then has a rugby match
against the Indians and Arjun, the English lose and Brown is verbally
racist to the Indians. Imran is then asked by Susan's parents to leave
Islam, become a Christian, change his name to Emmanuel or Ian, as well
as provide written proof that his family is not associated with
terrorists. The film ends on a happy note when Imran decides not to be a
Christian and Susan is accepted by Imran's family; Jazz realizes her
love for Arjun, runs away from her wedding to Charlie Brown, and goes
with Arjun back to India where they are seen riding Arjun's motorcycle.
While they are on the motorcycle Arjun reveals that all along he knew
how to speak English.
Manmohan takes his family for a tour in India and forces Jasmeet to marry Arjun Singh (