Welcome To New York is a 2018 Indian Hindi-language 3D comedy film, directed by Chakri Toleti, produced by Vashu Bhagnani and Jackky Bhagnani, and starring Diljit Dosanjh, Sonakshi Sinha, Karan Johar, Ritesh Deshmukh, Boman Irani, Lara Dutta, Sushant Singh Rajput and Rana Daggubati.
The film released on 23 February 2018.
Plot
Teji (Diljit Dosanjh), a sloppy recovery agent who dreams of being an actor, and Jeenal Patel (Sonakshi Sinha), a fashion designer, become part of a big Bollywood event (IIFA) in New York.
In between Karan Johar gets kidnapped but it is revealed that he is not Karan but Arjun.
Cast
Main cast
Diljit Dosanjh as Teji
Sonakshi Sinha as Jeenal Patel
Karan Johar as Himself/Arjun
Lara Dutta as Sophie
Boman Irani as Mr. Garry
Ritesh Deshmukh as Himself
Rajendra Shastri as Jeenal Patel's Grandfather
Sammy Jonas Heaney as Johnathon (Bollywood debut)
Cameo Appearances
Preity Zinta
Akshay Kumar
Rani Mukerji
Sushant Singh Rajput
Rana Daggubati
Salman Khan
Saif Ali Khan
Emraan Hashmi
Katrina Kaif
Suniel Shetty
Varun Dhawan
Tiger Shroff
Aditya Roy Kapur
Disha Patani
Neha Dhupia
Taapsee Pannu
Shahid Kapoor
Mohit Sinha
Alia Bhatt
Arjun Kapoor
Sonu Sood
Arbaaz Khan
Sohail Khan
Kriti Sanon
Bipasha Basu
Lara Dutta
Priyanka Chopra
Soundtrack
The music of the film is composed by Sajid–Wajid, Shamir Tandon and Meet Bros while lyrics have been penned by Kausar Munir, Kumaar, Charanjeet Charan, Sajid Khan and Danish Sabri.
Reception
Critical response
Rajeev Masand of News 18 severely criticized the film saying that, "Welcome to New York isn't merely a bad film, or even a terrible one.
It's depressing.
Not because the plot is all over the place (it is!), not because the actors appear to be doing whatever they like (they are!), and not because it has no vision or ambition (it doesn't!) – but because it's an exercise in sheer pointlessness.
Really, this film has no reason to exist."
and gave it a rating of 1 out of 5.
Rohit Vats of Hindustan Times gave the film a rating of 0.5 out of 5 and concluded his review by saying that, "Welcome To New York is totally lost in New York, and looks nothing more than an extended IIFA trailer.
It's not worth wasting your time, money, patience and intelligence on this mind-numbing promotional video.".
Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express gave the film a rating of 1 out of 5 and said that, "Welcome To New York turns out to be a limp, lame tribute to Bollywood".
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