Ramji Londonwaley

Ramji Londonwaley (2005)

रामजी लोंदोंवालेय

Ramji Tiwari and his sister, Parvati, had their parents pass away at an early age. Ramji is a skilled cook and is familiar with all aspects of vegetarian cooking. He arranges Parvati's marriage with the Mishra family, promises to pay a large sum of dowry, which he manages to get by promising to get married to a wealthy man's daughter.

Date of release
2005-09-02
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (10)
Runtime
2h 34m
Genres
Comedy, Family, Drama
Director
Sanjay Dayma

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: London

Ramji Londonwaley is a 2005 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film directed by Sanjay Dayma and produced by Sunanda Murali Manohar. The film stars Madhavan and Samita Bangargi. Madhavan also worked as the dialogue writer for the film. The film had a theatrical release across India on 2 September 2005. Featuring a story written by Kamal Haasan, the film is a remake of Madhavan's Tamil film Nala Damayanthi (2003)

Production

Ramji Londonwaley is a remake of the Tamil film Nala Damayanthi (2003) written by Kamal Haasan, starring R. Madhavan in the lead role. Originally titled Bawarchi (Transl: Chef/cook), Madhavan was chosen to star in the lead role, and also wrote the film's dialogues, while Sanjay Dayma was selected as the director of the project following his work as an associate director in films such as Lagaan (2001).

The film was primarily shot throughout 2004 in London and Reading The shoot occurred swiftly, with a particular set of 20 minutes of screen time being shot in six hours. As a result of the 2004 Madrid train bombings, the team found it difficult to gain permission to shoot the film at an airport. Eventually after failing to convince officials at Heathrow Airport and Gatwick Airport, they had to settle for filming a sequence at Leicester Airport.

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