Mumbai-Pune-Mumbai

Mumbai-Pune-Mumbai is a 2010 Indian Marathi-language romance film directed and co-written by Satish Rajwade. The film was released in Maharashtra on 11 June 2010 and stars Swapnil Joshi and Mukta Barve as the only two unnamed characters from different cities of Pune and Mumbai, respectively, and the film is about how their competitive spirits bring them together. The film was critically and commercially successful at the box office and is the first installment of the Mumbai-Pune-Mumbai film series before its two sequels titled Mumbai-Pune-Mumbai 2 (2015) and Mumbai-Pune-Mumbai 3 (2018). The film was remade in Hindi in 2014 as Mumbai Delhi Mumbai, in Kannada as Pyarge Aagbittaite, in Telugu as Made in Vizag and in Punjabi as Chandigarh Amritsar Chandigarh. In Gujarati, it is remade as "Taari Saathe".
The film revolves around two young unnamed characters; a girl (Mukta Barve) from Mumbai and a boy (Swapnil Joshi) from Pune. Ms. Mumbai is shown to be travelling all alone to Pune dressed in a long red skirt and a white top to meet a prospective groom (who is referred to as Hridaymardam after the name of his residential colony and whom she has already decided to reject). After passing from one junction to other searching for the address, Ms. Mumbai finally lands at the destination point where a group of friends is playing cricket, and selects none other than Mr. Pune, the batsman dressed in Bermuda shorts, an overcoat and sports shoes, to know the exact location of the house, causing his concentration to lapse and he gets clean bowled by the bowler. Despite this, Mr. Pune directs Ms. Mumbai to the location in the typical Puneite manner which she does not happen to like it much, for she has a bit trouble understanding the same language spoken differently in two major cities of Maharashtra. After reaching the location, Ms. Mumbai is surprised to find the door locked, and checks the neighbouring houses to get Hridaymardam's whereabouts, but is turned away by the typical rude neighbours, including an old and a young man and a homemaking woman. Ms. Mumbai is unable to contact Hridaymardam for her mobile phone having run out of battery, so she proceeds to a grocery shop and contacts her sister in Mumbai via public telephone to inform her about the non-availability of the person.
At this point, Ms. Mumbai meets Mr. Pune for the second time, when he arrives at the same shop with one of the boys playing cricket with him to purchase a tennis ball, and their general argument to show each other's attachment for their native brings them together. Ms. Mumbai tells her experience at Hridaymardam's residence and makes a remark over the neighbouring woman's behaviour as "We should learn how to insult someone from the people in Pune.", causing Mr. Pune to go defensive with his city by stating "This is the busy time for women who work in the house, at least in our Pune, so it is natural to insult someone who appears on your door at a time like this." Ms. Mumbai then asks Mr. Pune directions to the nearest coffee shop, and he offers her courtesy by instead taking her for a ride on his scooter during the day time. Being new in the town, Ms. Mumbai agrees only to save the hassle of both searching for an address and missing it again, and they end up having coffee together. In the coffee shop, the two debate about their respective hometowns and constantly try to boast about their own city. Ms. Mumbai also tells Mr. Pune that she has come to meet Hridaymardam only on the insistence of her mother and that she herself does not trust this "marriage institution".
Over the course of conversation, Mr. Pune and Ms. Mumbai find out that they both have different opinions on the subject of marriage, and at the end of their conversation, Mr. Pune begins to walk off when Ms. Mumbai bluntly states that she would only pay for her own coffee. A shocked Mr. Pune reveals that he has no money and requests Ms. Mumbai to pay for his coffee too for the moment, and that he would pay it back after a while via ATM card. She asks him whether he has any money in his bank account, and Mr. Pune answers madly that he does and offers her to keep his expensive watch as mortgage until he repays her her money back. After withdrawing and repaying her money from a nearby ATM, Mr. Pune sarcastically tells Ms. Mumbai that she is very good at keeping accounts and that she must be a chartered accountant the way she handled the situation. Ms. Mumbai answers that she is a fashion designer which provides Mr. Pune with an excuse to continue the conversation and asks her what her opinion about the fashion of Pune is, stretching his both hands horizontally with the anticipation that she would make an excellent remark over it. Instead, Ms. Mumbai states that Pune is not that much mature about fashion, making Mr. Pune argue over this and show her few of his ornaments with the statement that those particular things have originated in Pune.
Ms. Mumbai is exasperated by Mr. Pune being a constant chatter, but they share a curious chemistry nevertheless. Between bouts of incessant culture-bashing, Ms. Mumbai tells Mr. Pune that now she will meet Hridaymardam at her own leisure since he has made her wait for him. Following this statement, the two together visit some very famous landmarks in Pune like the garden-temple of Sarasbaug, the crowded market of Tulshibaug, the ancient Sinhagad Fort and the grand Shri Dagadusheth Halwai Ganapati Temple, when and where they are shown to begin understanding each other closely, sharing intimate details about their respective love lives and cultural upbringing, and also their viewpoints on a variety of subjects (such as Mr. Pune sharing about his Japanese ex-girlfriend and Ms. Mumbai sharing about her ex-boyfriend back in Mumbai). Through all of this, Mr. Pune never leaves Ms. Mumbai's company, and vice versa, despite many scenarios where both could have gone their separate ways. At one instance, Ms. Mumbai tries to contact Hridaymardam from Mr. Pune's mobile phone, but the phone number is shown to be engaged. Thinking nothing of it, and deciding to return without meeting him, Ms. Mumbai spends the remaining day with Mr. Pune, until it is time to leave for Mumbai.
Finally, Mr. Pune drops Ms. Mumbai off back at the Pune Junction Railway Station where she hands over a written letter to him, explaining her reasons for not wishing to marry Hridaymardam, and asks Mr. Pune to deliver it to him. They both bid their farewells, when they finally ask each other their names for the first time. As Mr. Pune identifies himself as just "Pune", Ms. Mumbai befittingly replies "Mumbai". They take each other's leave, but not before Mr. Pune asks Ms. Mumbai to return his mobile phone which she had earlier kept in her handbag. When asked for his phone number, Mr. Pune mysteriously replies "I will give you my number, then you will write it down on your palm, then it will get erased off somewhere! We are never going to meet ever again as it is, so let us just remember this day in our memories!", and refuses to provide his number. As Mr. Pune exits the railway station, Ms. Mumbai, at last, receives a phone call on her mobile phone from Hridaymardam, who asks her to meet her outside the railway station. As her train is due to leave in 15 minutes, she agrees and comes out to the parking area to find Mr. Pune still struggling to kick his scooter, but no sign of Hridaymardam yet. When Ms. Mumbai explains why she is outside instead on the railway platform waiting for her train, Mr. Pune expresses surprise and teases her over her eagerness to meet Hridaymardam, and accurately declares that he is sure she has changed her mind about not wishing to marry him, making her blush.
However, as Hridaymardam does not show up, Ms. Mumbai asks Mr. Pune for his mobile phone to contact him again, and he tells her to search in the dialed list, the second entry below her number. Ms. Mumbai dials and receives a busy signal again, and decides to leave, already having left the letter in Mr. Pune's possession. However, in a split second of realisation, she turns back and asks him how did he have her number in his dialed list if she never ever gave it to him, to which he replies "That is not important. What you should think about is how can a number be dialed from the same number?". Ms. Mumbai denies the theory and begins to walk away, but Mr. Pune stops her again and tells her "You dialed it, not once but twice! This same number from this same number!", revealing that he himself is, in fact, Hridaymardam, the one whom she had originally come to meet, and ended up unknowingly spending the entire day with. As Ms. Mumbai digests this new information, Mr. Pune explains to her how she approached him in the morning, and asked him directions to his own address, and how he decided to try out this new way to date a girl. He then confesses his love for her, and asks her if she will marry him. She answers that she will let him know her decision after she talks this over with her mother (her blushes clearly indicating it is a "yes"), and runs away to the railway platform for her train. The film ends with Ms. Mumbai running desperately to board her moving train and Mr. Pune chasing after her on the railway platform as the credits roll.
Most of the Indian marriages used to fall into arranged marriage category in the days gone by. However, as the new generation is seen to be inclined towards western culture over the past two decades, this ritual has seemed to be fading away. This story can be summarized as "It is the marriage which ultimately ended up being a love marriage which was supposed to have been an arranged marriage."
The shooting of the film is done at various locations in Pune and around. Popular tourist attractions like Tulshi Baug, Mahathma Phule Mandai, Saras Baug, Sinhagad Fort, Dagadusheth Halwai Ganapati Temple, Pune Railway Station and various streets like Z Bridge, JM road, City Pride Kothrud, Necklace road Pashan, in Pune are seen in the film. Another interesting fact is that in the entire film Swapnil and Mukta wear the same costume. There are no different costumes as it is the story of a day in the life of "Mumbai" (i.e. Mukta) and "Pune" (i.e. Swapnil). Swapnil Joshi later in an interview said that Mumbai Pune Mumbai (Part 1) was a romantic movie but had no characteristics of a classical romantic film.
The lyrics for the film were penned by Shrirang Godbole, with music composed by Avinash-Vishwajeet
A sequel of the film titled Mumbai-Pune-Mumbai 2 was released on 12 November 2015. The third installment of the film Mumbai-Pune-Mumbai 3 was released on 7 December 2018. It has Swapnil Joshi and Mukta Barve in the lead roles.
It was remade in Hindi in 2014 as Mumbai Delhi Mumbai, in Kannada as Pyarge Aagbittaite, in Telugu as Made in Vizag and in Punjabi as Chandigarh Amritsar Chandigarh. In Gujarati, it is remade as "Taari Saathe".