Haani (film)

Haani is a 2013 Punjabi romantic drama film. The film has been directed by Amitoje Mann and stars Harbhajan Mann, Mehreen Kaleka, Sarbjit Cheema, Anuj Sachdeva, Sonia Mann and Rupan Bal. The cast also includes Shweta, Ashish Duggal, Sardar Sohi, Balwinder Vicky, Rupinder Rupi, Dlkhush, Gurdev Dhillon, Gursharan Mann, Gurbinder Sandhu and others.^[1] The film consists of two story lines set in the years 1964 and 2013. The two story lines are told non-linearly and are interwoven with use of match cuts and reflect the themes of love and commitment.

Plot

At its core, Haani is a story of love and commitment. Moving between 1964 and 2013, HAANI is the story of the Jatts who are defined by their simplicity, honesty, courage, good looks and above all – for honoring their commitments lifelong, be it for love, friendship or even enmity. Canadian born and bred Harman comes to Punjab with his best friend Tony and to his shock realizes that he can see and talk to the spirit of his grandfather Ranjit who has not been visible to anyone since his death 50 yrs ago. Ranjit’s spirit is still here in this world due to his promise to his lover, Sukhaan, that they would leave this world together. As the story unravels, we see that in the year 1964 Ranjit is a farmer and his best friend is Jagir. Ranjit is a widower with a 2 yr old son being taken care of by his maternal grandparents. Ranjit and Sukhaan meet and fall in love with each other. But those were conservative times and love marriages were taboo. A series of incidents later, Ranjit is killed and Sukhaan is forced to marry an army officer by her family and is widowed later. Destiny makes Harman fall in love with Preet – Sukhaan’s granddaughter. They, too, face the same problems. But they have a happy ending helped by Ranjit’s spirit and Sukhaan. Haani narrates the story of Ranjit and Sukhaan whose love reaches beyond the boundaries of death and how their incomplete love story is concluded by their grandchildren - Harman and Preet. A romantic saga spanning two generations, HAANI tells the story of love, friendship and honor immortalized by commitment.

Cast

• Harbhajan Mann as Ranjit Singh
• Anuj Sachdeva as Harman
• Sarbjit Cheema as Jagir Singh
• Rupan Bal as Tony
• Mehreen Kaleka as Sukhaan Kaur
• Sonia Mann as Preet
• sheru virk(umer)
• Gurdev Dhillon as Ramu Ghaint
• Ashish Duggal
• Balwinder Vicky
• Sardar Sohi as Rashpal Singh
• Gursharan Mann as Harinder Singh
• Gurbinder Sandhu
• Rupinder Rupi
• Dlkhush
• Navi Akhtar
• Harmeet Gill

CREW  :- Associate Producers - Poornima Bhattacharya, Amrinder Singh (Jacky) ; Dialogues - Sardar Sohi : Sound Design - Parikshit Lalvani : Action Director - Buta Singh : Art Director - Teerth Singh : Costumes - Dilpreet : Post Production - QLabs, Mumbai

Music

Babu Singh Maan – the lyricist and Jaidev Kumar —the composer, researched possible scores to compose one tying together the two storylines and sought to have an organic feeling to the seven songs and explored implementing orchestral and electronic elements for the background score that would have "a real human element to them that breathes." Haani has seven songs sung by Harbhajan Mann, Sarbjit Cheema, Manpreet Akhtar, Rani Randip, Shauqat Ali, Simerjit Kumar, Dev Negi and Shipra Goyal. The soundtrack was released by Saga Music in 2013.

Songs

Track listing

Accolades

The annual PTC Punjabi Film Awards 2014 for excellence in Punjabi cinema was held on 3 March 2014. Haani was nominated in 11 categories and won 5 awards i: One of the Best Films of 2013, Best Story - Amitoj Mann, Best Lyrics - Babu Singh Maan, Original Background Score - Jaidev Kumar and Best Actor in a negative Role - Ashish Duggal, Best Technical Award.

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