October (2018 film)
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Running time | 115 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | Hindi |
Budget | ₹33 crore[3] |
Box office | ₹ 58.41 crore[4] |
October is a 2018 Indian
Initially scheduled to release on 1 June 2018, the film was released on 13 April 2018, grossing over ₹ 584.1 million worldwide.
October received widespread critical acclaim, with particular praise for Dhawan, whose performance was called 'a massive surprise' by critics in light of the criticism he faced for Judwaa 2. Rao and Sandhu also received praise for their performances. Despite such acclaim, it was not commercially successful. It received seven nominations at the 64th Filmfare Awards including Best Actor (Critics) for Dhawan, Best Supporting Actress for Rao and Best Female Debut for Sandhu.
Plot
Shiuli Iyer and Danish "Dan" Walia work as interns at the same hotel. Shiuli, being very disciplined and responsible towards her job, is the polar opposite of Dan who is careless and irresponsible towards his job. At the beginning of the story, Dan struggles with his job serving various departments of the hotel. He doesn't seem to have a very good relationship with his fellow staff members except for two of his friends who work at the same hotel as interns.
On New Year's Eve, Shiuli and her friends party on the 3rd floor of the hotel, when Dan is nowhere to be found. Shiuli accidentally falls of the terrace and is hospitalized, going into coma. While other members of the hotel staff visit her at the hospital, Dan gets seriously affected when his friends tell him that Shiuli's last words just before her fall were "Where is Dan?". Dan starts visiting the hospital every day, despite that negatively affecting both his job and his relationship with his friends who still cover his shifts and help him financially. After a scuffle at the hotel, Dan is terminated. He finds comfort being with Shiuli who slowly starts to improve and Dan's mere presence calms Shiuli. He devotes his entire time to taking care of her.
Seeing Dan's career and personal life drowning due to his devotion towards Shiuli, her mother Vidya decides to make him go and take care of himself. Dan joins another hotel in Kullu as manager but is unable to take his mind off Shiuli. Soon he learns of Shiuli's failing health in Delhi and returns. He apologises for leaving her abruptly and promises to stay with her. Seeing Dan, Shiuli calms and begins to improve again. She is soon discharged from the hospital and is brought home where Dan continues taking care of her. He takes her to a park and asks her why she remembered him before her fall. Shiuli responds by trying to say his name aloud. The following night Shiuli suffers a seizure and dies as her lungs collapsed. Emotionally broken, Dan visits Shiuli's home and comforts her family. Afterwards, he is seen collecting her death certificate tearfully.
In a later scene, Vidya tells Dan that she was named Shiuli because of her fondness for the
Several months later, Dan is rehired by the hotel where he completes his diploma and now works as a sous chef. One day, he notices several missed calls from Vidya and visits her. Pointing at the shiuli plant in the backyard, Vidya tells Dan about her family shifting to their hometown
As the story ends, Shiuli's family has moved and Dan carries the shiuli plant with him, as a symbol of his devotion to Shiuli and the effect she had on him.
Cast
- Gitanjali Rao – Prof. Vidya Iyer, Shiuli's mother, a professor of IIT Delhi
- Varun Dhawan – Danish "Dan" Walia, a hotel management trainee and career-oriented guy[9][11]
- Sahil Vedoliyaa – Manjeet, Dan's roommate[13]
- Ashish Ghosh – Dr. Ghosh
- Isha Chaturvedi – Ishani, a fellow intern of Dan and Shiuli
- Prateek Kapoor – Asthana, supervisor of the interns at the hotel where they are understudies
- Shekhar Murugan – Jairam Iyer, Shiuli's paternal Uncle
- Karamveer Kanwar – Kunal Iyer, Shiuli's younger brother
Production
Conception
The idea behind the film was conceived and inspired by newspaper articles and reports about whether comatose people and those with brain injuries hear when we talk to them and the spiritual exercise which brings them back.[14][8]
Filming
Principal photography began in September 2017, and concluded in November 2017.
Marketing and release
Initially, the film was scheduled to release on 1 June 2018. But in October 2017, Dhawan, in one of his tweets, revealed that the release date has been advanced.[1] The film was released on 13 April 2018 across 2308 screens worldwide.[7]
Music
The soundtrack is composed by
Track listing
Lyrics for "Theher Ja" were written by Abhiruchi Chand, "Tab Bhi Tu" and "Manwaa" by Tanveer Ghazi and "Chal" by Swanand Kirkire.
- "Theher Ja" – Armaan Malik
- "October" (Theme Music) – Shantanu Moitra
- "Tab Bhi Tu" – Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
- "Manwaa" – Sunidhi Chauhan
- "Chal" – Monali Thakur
Reception
Box-office
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As of 10 May 2018, October has grossed over ₹49.92 crore (US$6.0 million) in India, and as of 6 May 2018, ₹34.5 million (US$410,000) in North America (USA and Canada), ₹07.1 million (US$85,000) in United Kingdom, ₹03.2 million (US$38,000) in Australia and ₹01.1 million (US$13,000) in New Zealand making a worldwide total of ₹545 million (US$6.5 million), which is more than twice the production budget of the film.[7] It had a domestic opening of ₹42.5 million (US$510,000), which grew to ₹62.5 million (US$750,000) and ₹72.5 million (US$870,000) on the second and third days. The collection decreased to ₹12.5 million (US$150,000) by the eighth day with spikes of ₹22.5 million (US$270,000) and ₹27.5 million (US$330,000) on the ninth and tenth days. By the fifteenth day, the collection was ₹03.6 million (US$43,000), The film grossed ₹06.3 million (US$75,000) and ₹07.2 million (US$86,000) on the sixteenth and seventeenth days, then dropped to ₹00.1 million (US$1,200) by the forty-second day of its domestic run.[citation needed]
Critical response
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 91%, based on 11 reviews, with an average rating of 7.4/10.[28]
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Awards and nominations
Date | Awards | Category | Recipient(s) and nominee(s) | Result | Refs. |
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30 June 2018 | NBT Utsav Award | Best Actor | Varun Dhawan | Won | [34] |
10 August 2018 | Indian Film Festival of Melbourne | Nominated | [35] | ||
Best Director | Shoojit Sircar | Nominated | |||
16 December 2018 | Screen Awards | Best Film (Critics) | Shoojit Sircar, Ronnie Lahiri and Sheel Kumar | Nominated | |
Best Actor (Critics) | Varun Dhawan | Nominated | |||
23 March 2019 | Filmfare Awards | Best Actor (Critics) | Varun Dhawan | Nominated | [36] |
Best Supporting Actress | Gitanjali Rao | Nominated | |||
Best Female Debut | Banita Sandhu | Nominated | |||
Best Playback Singer (Female) | Sunidhi Chauhan for "Manwaa" | Nominated | |||
Best Background Score | Shantanu Moitra | Nominated | |||
Best Cinematography
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Avik Mukhopadhyay | Nominated | |||
Best Sound Design
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Dipankar Jojo Chaki | Nominated |
Plagiarism Accusations
Sarika Mene, a
In an interview that occurred before the plagiarism accusation, Shoojit Sircar said that all the films that he had directed had been very personal to him and October explores experiences of the hospital life he had lived when his mother was comatose for three months.[39] Moreover, the film's writer Juhi Chaturvedi also took care of her mother in the hospital for years before she was finally put on ventilator and couldn't be revived.[39] Though Aarti is an amateur project but thematic similarities between both the films can't be ignored.[8]
Despite Sircar's given statements in news interviews on the inspiration behind October, Mene said she won't give up easily and hired a new lawyer for the case because she had requested the makers of October to watch Aarti, to which they didn't respond but to no effect because ScreenWriters Association (SWA) cleared October of all the charges in a letter, dated 20 May 2018, written to
Even after being cleared from all the accusations, on 9 June 2018, Juhi received another legal notice from Mene claiming again that the story of October was plagiarised from Aarti. The notice demands Sunny Pawar to be credited and monetary compensation for her not being able to make a Hindi adaptation of Aarti, whose rights she had sold to Hemal Trivedi to work on it.[42]
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External links
- October at Bollywood Hungama
- October at IMDb
- October at Rotten Tomatoes