At the 58th Filmfare Awards, Barfi! received a leading 12 nominations including Best Director (Basu), Best Actress (Chopra) and Best Supporting Actress (D'Cruz), and won a leading 7 awards including Best Film, Best Actor (Kapoor), Best Female Debut (D'Cruz) and Best Music Director ( Pritam). Barfi! won several awards and nominations at various award ceremonies across India. The film was selected as India's official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film nomination for the 85th Academy Awards. The film went on to gross over 1.75 billion rupees (US$25 Million) worldwide. The film was a major box-office success, becoming one of the highest-grossing Bollywood films of 2012 in India and overseas. The film received widespread critical acclaim, with critics praising the cast performances, direction, screenplay, cinematography, music and the positive portrayal of physically disabled people.
Made on a budget of approximately ₹500 million (US$6.3 million), Barfi! opened worldwide on 14 September 2012. Based in the 1970s in Darjeeling and Kolkata, the film is about Murphy "Barfi" Johnson, a deaf-mute young boy who develops a special bond with two young girls Shruti Ghosh and Jhilmil Chatterjee, while often being chased by a local police officer Inspector Sudhanshu Dutta for his nuisances. The film stars Ranbir Kapoor as the eponymous lead, alongside Priyanka Chopra and Ileana D'Cruz in lead roles, with Saurabh Shukla, Ashish Vidyarthi, Haradhan Bandopadhyay and Jisshu Sengupta in supporting roles. The uber cool Ranbir Kapoor plays the lead role of Barfi!, the very talented Priyanka Chopra takes on the challenge of playing Jhilmil and South star Ileana makes her Hindi debut as Shruti.Barfi! is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy drama film directed by Anurag Basu and produced by Ronnie Screwvala and Siddharth Roy Kapur under UTV Motion Pictures. Barfi! stars three of India's most loved young stars, all essaying roles of a lifetime. She must now choose between her happiness and his. Caught in a cat and mouse game, in the search for the girl Barfi loves, Shruti realizes that she is still in love with him. Shruti's realization that Jhilmil is mentally-challenged makes her recognize that true love is really blind. Barfi is desperately seeking Jhilmil, who has gone missing. Many years later their paths cross once again when Barfi, now in love with Jhilmil, is on the run from the police. In spite of her deep affection for Barfii, Shruti gives into societal and parental pressure to marry a 'normal' man and lead a 'normal' life. Barfi, a hearing and speech impaired boy falls in love with Shruti. Plot: Set in the 1970's in a pretty corner of India, Barfi! is the story of three young people who learn that love can neither be defined nor contained by society's norms of normal and abnormal.
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