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Sunday
Sunday
	Movie poster for Sunday
Directed by	Rohit Shetty
Written by	K. Subash; Tushar Hiranandani; Robin Bhatt; Sajid-Farhad (dialogues) ; Chandra Sekhar Yeleti
Based on	Anukokunda Oka Roju; by Chandra Sekhar Yeleti
Produced by	Kumar Mangat Pathak; Sunil Lulla
Starring	Ajay Devgn; Ayesha Takia; Arshad Warsi; Irrfan Khan
Cinematography	Aseem Bajaj
Edited by	Steven H. Bernard
Music by	Songs:; Sandeep Chowta; Shibani Kashyap; Daler Mehndi; Raghav Sachar; M.Ali & Kami ; (Suroor - Pakistan Band) ; Amar Mohile ; Background Score: ; Sanjoy Chowdhury
Production; company	Big Screen Entertainment
Distributed by	Eros International
Release date	25 January 2008;
Running time	130 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi

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Sunday is a 2008 Indian Hindi-language mystery comedy film directed by Rohit Shetty. The film stars Ajay Devgan, Ayesha Takia, Arshad Warsi and Irrfan Khan.^[1] It is a remake of the 2005 Telugu film Anukokunda Oka Roju.^[2]

Plot

The story takes place in the city of Delhi. The film begins when a girl is murdered by an unseen killer. It is learnt that the killer was her fiance and had acquired evidence about her infidelity. Then, the story shifts to the life of Sehar, a voiceover artist. Sehar, who lives alone in a flat, has a friend named Ritu, who is a fashion designer. Sehar has a rare disorder - her memory blanks out, leaving her clueless about events that took place in a certain time period. Hence, she rarely socialises. But Ritu forcefully takes her to a nightclub.

Sehar had previously met Assistant Commissioner of Police Rajveer Randhawa, a corrupt cop. Unknown to both, their mothers are old friends and want them to get married. Sehar has rejected Rajveer after knowing his truth, but he is smitten. Here, Sehar wakes up in her flat, and apparently nothing wrong has happened. But she soon learns that she has missed one whole day. Also, she is being followed by a stranger. She runs into two characters, Ballu, a taxi driver asking her a trip fare about which she knows nothing, and Kumar, a wannabe actor who mistakes her for a ghost.

But the plot thickens when Sehar hears some suspicious messages on her answering machine, making her realise that something sinister has happened during the missing Sunday, the day she recalls nothing about. Rajveer comes to rescue, but he comes to the same conclusion as hers. Tests show that Sehar was roofied - most probably in the nightclub, causing the whole problem. Ballu & Kumar turn out to be red herrings.

Rajveer finds the boys who roofied Sehar, but nothing concrete is found. Just as he is about to accept that Sehar might have killed someone, Sehar is attacked by some goons. The goons fail to kill her, but Rajveer realises that Sehar might have witnessed a murder. After reconstructing the events at the night out with Ritu, Rajveer finds out that Ballu had left her near a place where a youth was murdered.

Rajveer realises the implications and sets a trap for the goons. With the help of Ballu and Kumar, the goons are finally nabbed, and Rajveer learns the truth. He arrests the son of Khurana, a minister, for a double murder. An enraged Khurana demands an explanation. It is revealed that the girl murdered earlier was killed by Khurana's son. After killing her, he waited for a few days before killing his own friend, with whom the girl was cheating him. Unfortunately, Sehar was left nearby by Ballu. Khurana's son assumed that she saw the second murder; hence, he sent the goons to kill her.

Khurana's son protests until brought face to face with the goons. Khurana has his son arrested. With Sehar safe, the people are still clueless about Sehar's stalker - until the stalker shows himself. He reveals himself to be a taxi driver. It is revealed that after Khurana's son had seen Sehar, it was this taxi driver who saw Sehar. He realised that she was drugged and managed to get her back to her flat after finding her address. With this final mystery solved, Kumar narrates what happened with everybody: Rajveer and Sehar got married, Ballu now owns a car company, owning hundreds of cars and trucks, and Kumar has become a Bhojpuri superstar, showing that the story ended on a happy note.

Cast

Ajay Devgan as ACP Rajveer Randhava
Ayesha Takia as Sehar Thapar
Arshad Warsi as Ballu
Irrfan Khan as Kumar Mangat
Mukesh Tiwari as Inspector Anwar Rehman
Vrajesh Hirjee as Chakki - Martial Arts Instructor
Murli Sharma as the Mysterious Stalker
Anjana Sukhani as Ritu Hirani
Ali Asgar as Amit Khurana
Deepak Qazir as Raj Khurana
Manoj Chandila as Sanjay
Shereveer Vakil as Aseem Bajaj
Tusshar Kapoor Special appearance in song "Manzar"
Esha Deol Special appearance in song "Kashmakash"
Robin Bhatt as Doctor
Farid Amiri as Pardunam 'P.O.K.' Om Kumar
Gulshan Rana as Vatsal Seth
Ravi Gossain as Hiren Shetty
Swapnil Kotriwar as Journalist
Farhad Samji as pinky

Production

The shooting began from 10 March 2007, the first few days of shooting happened in Mumbai and then a 30 days schedule in Delhi from 18 March. The second and last schedule started from 22 May 2007 in Delhi and then continued in Mumbai and later in Hyderabad. Lastly, a song was shot in Australia and the shooting was completed by 13 July 2007.

The film was shot at popular places in India like Pragati Maidan, Lal Qila, India Gate, Connaught Place.^[3]

Soundtrack

Song	Singer(s)	Duration	Music	Lyrics	Picturised on
Missing Sunday	Mahua Kamat, Earl Edgar	3:54	Sandeep Chowta	Sajid-Farhad	Ayesha Takia, Ajay Devgan, Arshad Warsi, Irrfan Khan, Anjana Sukhani
Pyar To Hona Hi Hai	Kamran Bari, Mohammad Ali (Suroor Band)	4:53	Suroor Band	Kamran Bari	Ajay Devgan, Ayesha Takia
Loot Liya	Daler Mehndi, Sunidhi Chauhan	4:41	Daler Mehndi	Sajid-Farhad, Daler Mehndi	Ayesha Takia, Irrfan Khan, Arshad Warsi
Kashmakash	Shibani Kashyap	5:31	Shibani Kashyap	Virag Mishra	Esha Deol
Manzar	Raghav Sachar	3:50	Raghav Sachar	Sajid-Farhad	Ayesha Takia, Anjana Sukhani, Tusshar Kapoor
Sunday Theme	Joy-Clint	3:50	Amar Mohile	Joy

Reception

Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave the film 3.5 out of 5, writing, "On the whole, SUNDAY is a well-made entertainer that has the potential to click with moviegoers."^[4]

Conversely, Sukanya Verma of Rediff.com gave the film 2.5 out of 5, writing, "Contrary to Shetty's hit comedy, Golmaal which was consistently funny, Sunday entertains as long as it tries to be funny but isn't sly enough to find a mention in the archive of whodunits."^[5]

References

^ "Sunday". 17 September 2012. Archived from the original on 18 January 2024. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
^ "Bollywood remakes of South Indian films". NDTV. Archived from the original on 6 September 2012. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
^ "Ajay's Sunday a Telugu remake?". Mid-Day. 29 May 2007. Archived from the original on 18 January 2024. Retrieved 2 February 2012.
^ Hungama, Bollywood (25 January 2008). "Sunday Review 3.5/5 | Sunday Movie Review | Sunday 2008 Public Review | Film Review". Archived from the original on 16 May 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
^ "Sunday has comedy but no thrills". www.rediff.com. Archived from the original on 9 December 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2024.

External links

Official website
Sunday at IMDb

[1] "Sunday". 17 September 2012. Archived from the original on 18 January 2024. Retrieved 18 January 2024.

[2] "Bollywood remakes of South Indian films". NDTV. Archived from the original on 6 September 2012. Retrieved 10 March 2012.

[3] "Ajay's Sunday a Telugu remake?". Mid-Day. 29 May 2007. Archived from the original on 18 January 2024. Retrieved 2 February 2012.

[4] Hungama, Bollywood (25 January 2008). "Sunday Review 3.5/5 | Sunday Movie Review | Sunday 2008 Public Review | Film Review". Archived from the original on 16 May 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2024.

[5] "Sunday has comedy but no thrills". www.rediff.com. Archived from the original on 9 December 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2024.

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 | music          = '''Songs:'''<br>[[Sandeep Chowta]]<br>[[Shibani Kashyap]]<br>[[Daler Mehndi]]<br>[[Raghav Sachar]]<br>M.Ali & Kami <br> (Suroor - Pakistan Band) <br> [[Amar Mohile]] <br> '''Background Score:''' <br> [[Sanjoy Chowdhury]]
-| studio         = Big Screen Entertainment
+| studio         = [[Panorama Studios|Big Screen Entertainment]]
 | distributor    = [[Eros International]]
 | cinematography = Aseem Bajaj
-| gross          = ₹31.96 crore
+| editing        = Steven H. Bernard
-| budget         = ₹22 crore
+| gross          =
+| budget         =
 | released       = {{Film date|df=y|2008|01|25}}
 | country        = India
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 }}
-'''''Sunday''''' is a 2008 Indian [[Hindi]]-language [[Mystery film|mystery]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Rohit Shetty]]. The film stars [[Ajay Devgan]], [[Ayesha Takia]], [[Arshad Warsi]] and [[Irrfan Khan]] in lead roles.<ref>{{cite web|title=Esha, Tusshar to sizzle in an item number|url=http://entertainment.oneindia.in/bollywood/news/2007/esha-tusshar-item-song-210607.html|publisher=[[Oneindia.in]]|accessdate=10 March 2012}}</ref> It is a remake of the 2005 [[Telugu cinema|Telugu]] film ''[[Anukokunda Oka Roju]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bollywood remakes of South Indian films|url=http://www.ndtv.com/album/listing/entertainment/bollywood-remakes-of-south-indian-films-8551/slide/5|publisher=[[NDTV]]|accessdate=10 March 2012}}</ref>
+'''''Sunday''''' is a 2008 Indian [[Hindi]]-language [[Mystery film|mystery]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Rohit Shetty]]. The film stars [[Ajay Devgan]], [[Ayesha Takia]], [[Arshad Warsi]] and [[Irrfan Khan]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/news-archive/sunday/|title=Sunday|date=17 September 2012|access-date=18 January 2024|archive-date=18 January 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240118230344/https://indianexpress.com/article/news-archive/sunday/|url-status=live}}</ref> It is a remake of the 2005 [[Telugu cinema|Telugu]] film ''[[Anukokunda Oka Roju]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bollywood remakes of South Indian films|url=http://www.ndtv.com/album/listing/entertainment/bollywood-remakes-of-south-indian-films-8551/slide/5|publisher=[[NDTV]]|accessdate=10 March 2012|archive-date=6 September 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120906074225/http://www.ndtv.com/album/listing/entertainment/bollywood-remakes-of-south-indian-films-8551/slide/5|url-status=live}}</ref>
-''Sunday'' released on 25 January 2008, and received mixed response from critics. It also managed to do average business at the box office worldwide.
 ==Plot==
-The story takes place in the city of [[Delhi]]. The film begins when a girl is murdered by an unseen killer. It is learnt that the killer was her fiance & had acquired evidence about her infidelity. Then, the story shifts to life of Sehar ([[Ayesha Takia]]), a voiceover artist. Sehar, who lives alone in a flat, has a friend named Ritu ([[Anjana Sukhani]]), who is a fashion designer. Sehar has a rare disorder - her memory blanks out, leaving her clueless about events that took place in a certain time period. Hence, she rarely socialises. But Ritu forcefully takes her to a nightclub.
+The story takes place in the city of [[Delhi]]. The film begins when a girl is murdered by an unseen killer. It is learnt that the killer was her fiance and had acquired evidence about her infidelity. Then, the story shifts to the life of Sehar, a voiceover artist. Sehar, who lives alone in a flat, has a friend named Ritu, who is a fashion designer. Sehar has a rare disorder - her memory blanks out, leaving her clueless about events that took place in a certain time period. Hence, she rarely socialises. But Ritu forcefully takes her to a nightclub.
-Sehar had previously met [[Assistant Commissioner of Police]] Rajveer Randhawa ([[Ajay Devgn]]), a corrupt cop. Unknown to both, their mothers are old friends and want them to get married. Sehar has rejected Rajveer after knowing his truth, but he is smitten. Here, Sehar wakes up in her flat and apparently nothing wrong has happened. But she soon learns that she has missed one whole day. Also, she is being followed by a stranger ([[Murli Sharma]]). She runs into two characters, Ballu ([[Arshad Warsi]]), a taxi driver asking her a trip fare about which she knows nothing & Kumar ([[Irrfan Khan]]), a wannabe actor, who mistakes her for a ghost.
+Sehar had previously met [[Assistant Commissioner of Police]] Rajveer Randhawa, a corrupt cop. Unknown to both, their mothers are old friends and want them to get married. Sehar has rejected Rajveer after knowing his truth, but he is smitten. Here, Sehar wakes up in her flat, and apparently nothing wrong has happened. But she soon learns that she has missed one whole day. Also, she is being followed by a stranger. She runs into two characters, Ballu, a taxi driver asking her a trip fare about which she knows nothing, and Kumar, a wannabe actor who mistakes her for a ghost.
-But the plot thickens when Sehar hears some suspicious messages on her answering machine, making her realise that something sinister has happened during the missing Sunday, the day she recalls nothing about. Rajveer comes to rescue, but he comes to the same conclusion as hers. Tests show that Sehar was roofied - most probably in the night club, causing the whole problem. Ballu & Kumar turn out to be red herrings.
+But the plot thickens when Sehar hears some suspicious messages on her answering machine, making her realise that something sinister has happened during the missing Sunday, the day she recalls nothing about. Rajveer comes to rescue, but he comes to the same conclusion as hers. Tests show that Sehar was roofied - most probably in the nightclub, causing the whole problem. Ballu & Kumar turn out to be red herrings.
 Rajveer finds the boys who roofied Sehar, but nothing concrete is found. Just as he is about to accept that Sehar might have killed someone, Sehar is attacked by some goons. The goons fail to kill her, but Rajveer realises that Sehar might have witnessed a murder. After reconstructing the events at the night out with Ritu, Rajveer finds out that Ballu had left her near a place where a youth was murdered.
-Rajveer realises the implications and sets a trap for the goons. With help of Ballu & Kumar, the goons are finally nabbed & Rajveer learns the truth. He arrests the son of Khurana, a minister, for a double murder. An enraged Khurana demands an explanation. It is revealed that the girl murdered earlier was killed by Khurana's son. After killing her, he waited for few days before killing his own friend, with whom the girl was cheating him. Unfortunately, Sehar was left nearby by Ballu. Khurana's son assumed that she saw the second murder, hence he sent the goons to kill her.
+Rajveer realises the implications and sets a trap for the goons. With the help of Ballu and Kumar, the goons are finally nabbed, and Rajveer learns the truth. He arrests the son of Khurana, a minister, for a double murder. An enraged Khurana demands an explanation. It is revealed that the girl murdered earlier was killed by Khurana's son. After killing her, he waited for a few days before killing his own friend, with whom the girl was cheating him. Unfortunately, Sehar was left nearby by Ballu. Khurana's son assumed that she saw the second murder; hence, he sent the goons to kill her.
-Khurana's son protests until brought face to face with the goons. Khurana has his son arrested. With Sehar safe, the people are still clueless about Sehar's stalker - until the stalker shows up himself. He reveals himself to be a taxi driver. It is revealed that after Khurana's son had seen Sehar, it was this taxi driver who saw Sehar. He realised that she was drugged and managed to get her back to her flat after finding her address. With this final mystery solved, Kumar narrates what happened with everybody, Rajveer and Sehar got married, Ballu now owns a car company, owning hundreds of cars and trucks, and Kumar has become a Bhojpuri superstar, showing that the story ended on a happy note.
+Khurana's son protests until brought face to face with the goons. Khurana has his son arrested. With Sehar safe, the people are still clueless about Sehar's stalker - until the stalker shows himself. He reveals himself to be a taxi driver. It is revealed that after Khurana's son had seen Sehar, it was this taxi driver who saw Sehar. He realised that she was drugged and managed to get her back to her flat after finding her address. With this final mystery solved, Kumar narrates what happened with everybody: Rajveer and Sehar got married, Ballu now owns a car company, owning hundreds of cars and trucks, and Kumar has become a Bhojpuri superstar, showing that the story ended on a happy note.
 ==Cast==
-* [[Ajay Devgan]] as ACP Rajveer Randhava
+* [[Ajay Devgan]] as [[Assistant Commissioner of Police|ACP]] Rajveer Randhava
 * [[Ayesha Takia]] as Sehar Thapar
 * [[Arshad Warsi]] as Ballu
 * [[Irrfan Khan]] as Kumar Mangat
-* [[Mukesh Tiwari]] as Inspector Anwar Rehman
+* [[Mukesh Tiwari]] as [[Inspector]] Anwar Rehman
 * [[Vrajesh Hirjee]] as Chakki - Martial Arts Instructor
 * [[Murli Sharma]] as the Mysterious Stalker
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 * [[Ravi Gossain]] as Hiren Shetty
 * [[Swapnil Kotriwar]] as Journalist
-* [[Farhad Samji]] as a passenger
+* [[Farhad Samji]] as pinky
 ==Production==
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 The shooting began from 10 March 2007, the first few days of shooting happened in [[Mumbai]] and then a 30 days schedule in [[Delhi]] from 18 March. The second and last schedule started from 22 May 2007 in Delhi and then continued in Mumbai and later in [[Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh|Hyderabad]]. Lastly, a song was shot in Australia and the shooting was completed by 13 July 2007.
-The film was shot at popular places in India like [[Pragati Maidan]], [[Red Fort|Lal Qila]], [[India Gate]], [[Connaught Place, New Delhi|Connaught Place]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Ajay's Sunday a Telugu remake?
+The film was shot at popular places in India like [[Pragati Maidan]], [[Red Fort|Lal Qila]], [[India Gate]], [[Connaught Place, New Delhi|Connaught Place]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Ajay's Sunday a Telugu remake?|url=http://www.mid-day.com/entertainment/2007/may/58903.htm|publisher=[[Mid-Day]]|accessdate=2 February 2012|date=29 May 2007|archive-date=18 January 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240118231526/https://www.mid-day.com/entertainment/2007/may/58903.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
-|url=http://www.mid-day.com/entertainment/2007/may/58903.htm|publisher=[[Mid-Day]]|accessdate=2 February 2012|date=29 May 2007}}</ref>
-==Trivia==
-* Arshad Warsi has the same name spelling that he had in [[Tere Mere Sapne (1996 film)|Tere Mere Sapne]]. (Ballu)
 ==Soundtrack==
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 ==Reception==
+[[Taran Adarsh]] of [[Bollywood Hungama]] gave the film 3.5 out of 5, writing, "On the whole, SUNDAY is a well-made entertainer that has the potential to click with moviegoers."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movie/sunday/critic-review/sunday-movie-review/|title=Sunday Review 3.5/5 &#124; Sunday Movie Review &#124; Sunday 2008 Public Review &#124; Film Review|first=Bollywood|last=Hungama|date=25 January 2008|access-date=18 January 2024|archive-date=16 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210516163608/https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movie/sunday/critic-review/sunday-movie-review/|url-status=live}}</ref>
-The film received mixed reviews and many bashed the film for not including elements that made the original a success. It was also an "average" performer at the box office.<ref>{{cite web|title=Boxoffice|url=http://boxofficeindia.com/Movies/movie_detail/sunday#.Uxc20T-wLlc|publisher=Box Office India|accessdate=5 March 2014}}</ref>
+Conversely, [[Sukanya Verma]] of [[Rediff.com]] gave the film 2.5 out of 5, writing, "Contrary to Shetty's hit comedy, Golmaal which was consistently funny, Sunday entertains as long as it tries to be funny but isn't sly enough to find a mention in the archive of whodunits."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rediff.com/movies/2008/jan/25sunday.htm|title=Sunday has comedy but no thrills|website=www.rediff.com|access-date=18 January 2024|archive-date=9 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211209112531/https://www.rediff.com/movies/2008/jan/25sunday.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
 ==References==
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 ==External links==
-*[http://sunday.erosentertainment.com/ Sunday Official Site]
+* {{Official website|https://web.archive.org/web/20090126185917/http://sunday.erosentertainment.com:80/}}
-*{{IMDb title|id=1039989|title=Sunday}}
+*{{IMDb title}}
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 [[Category:2000s masala films]]
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+[[Category:Fictional portrayals of the Delhi Police]]

v t e Films directed by Rohit Shetty
Golmaal series	Golmaal: Fun Unlimited (2006) Golmaal Returns (2008) Golmaal 3 (2010) Golmaal Again (2017)
Cop Universe	Singham (2011) Singham Returns (2014) Simmba (2018) Sooryavanshi (2021) Singham Again (2024)
Other films	Zameen (2003) Sunday (2008) All the Best: Fun Begins (2009) Bol Bachchan (2012) Chennai Express (2013) Dilwale (2015) Ranveer Ching Returns (2016) Cirkus (2022)