![]() ![]() The laughs come fast and frequent in the first half as we watch the chaos that ensues on either side in the wake of this incident. This premise is ripe with potential and the filmmakers maintain a light and breezy tone throughout. But she ends up in a wrong truck headed to Lahore, and finds herself in the home of a Pakistani diplomat, whose son Bilal Ahmed (Abhay Deol) is horrified at how this is going to look. Not particularly thrilled about spending the rest of her life with thuggish local coporator Daman Singh Bagga (Jimmy Shergill), Amritsar girl Happy (Diana Penty) leaps into a fruit truck that will take her to her lover, good-for-nothing Guddu (Ali Fazal), with whom she plans to elope. ![]() Treating that idea as merely a starting point, writer-director Mudassar Aziz constructs a winning premise. Cast: Diana Penty, Abhay Deol, Jimmy Sheirgill, Ali Fazal Director: Mudassar Aziz Happy Bhag Jayegi shares virtually nothing by way of DNA with the Julia Roberts starrer Runaway Bride, although in both films the plot is set into motion after the female protagonist, a bride-to-be, makes a dash for it on her wedding day.
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