Barfi!
2012 Indian film by Anurag Basu · Released 2012
Barfi! is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film written and directed by Anurag Basu, and produced by Ronnie Screwvala and Siddharth Roy Kapur under UTV Motion Pictures. The first UTV project to be released under the Disney·UTV brand, the film stars Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra and Ileana D'Cruz (in her Hindi film debut) with Saurabh Shukla, Ashish Vidyarthi, Jisshu Sengupta, Roopa Ganguly and Haradhan Bandopadhyay in supporting roles. Set in Darjeeling, Kolkata and Jalandhar of the 1970s, the film focuses on Barfi (Kapoor), a deaf-mute young man based in Darjeeling, and his relationships with two girls, the beautiful Shruti (D'Cruz) and the autistic Jhilmil (Chopra).
Cast ages when filming began (March 2011)
- Priyanka Chopra, as Jhilmil Chatterjee: 28
- Uday Tikekar, as Mr. Ghosh: 45
- Haradhan Bandopadhyay, as Daju: 84
- Ashish Vidyarthi, as Durjoy Chatterjee: 48
- Roopa Ganguly, as Mrs: 44
- Jisshu Sengupta, as Ranjeet Sengupta: 33–34
- Saurabh Shukla, as Inspector Sudhanshu Dutta: 47–48
- Sumona Chakravarti, as Piyali: 22
- Ileana D'Cruz, as Shruti Ghosh Sengupta: 24