Aaja Nachley Movie 2007

Movie Information

Producer:Aditya Chopra 

Director:Anil Mehta 

Music:Salim Merchant, Sulaiman Merchant 

Lyrics:Piyush Mishra, Jaideep Sahni, Asif Ali Beg 

Release Date:30 November 2007

Cast:Madhuri Dixit, Akshaye Khanna, Konkona Sen Sharma, Kunal Kapoor, Ranvir Shorey

Plot: Diya (Madhuri Dixit) is a divorced mother living in New York and must go back to India after she receives news that her dance guru is on his deathbed. When she arrives in Shamli, a small city in western Uttar Pradesh, she finds that he has died and left her the responsibility of saving and reviving the Ajanta Theater where she used to dance. The Ajanta Theater has not been danced in or cleaned in the longest time. She enlists the help of the village doctor who informed her about her guru's illness. (In reality, there is an Ajanta Theatre in Shamli which inspired the writer of the film.).

The problem is that a political leader (Akshaye Khanna) wants it torn down and turned into a shopping mall. The storyline follows Diya and her challenge to stand up for what she believes in and fight for the cause to the end, while trying to win back the love and support of the people of the town whom she walked out on ten years ago. At first she tries to dance like she would when she was at home, but no one was impressed. She was shocked by how much has changed, but didn't give up. How she does it starts with her idea of creating a musical like she did when she lived in India. Tryouts begin and so do stories.