Yaariyan

Yaariyan Movie Details:

Yaariyan Movie Cast and Characters:

• Himansh Kohli as Lakshya
• Rakul Preet Singh as Saloni
• Serah Singh as Jenny
• Nicole Faria as Jiya
• Shreyas Pardiwalla as Pardy
• Dev Sharma as Neil
• Jatin Suri as Debu
• Vikas Verma as Mike
• Evelyn Sharma as Jannet
• Sayali Bhagat as Nikki Mahajan
• Gabriella Giardina as Elizabeth
• Deepti Naval as Girls’ hostel warden and Debu’s mother
• Smita Jaykar as Lakshya’s mother
• Gulshan Grover as College Principal
• Hemant Pandey as Saloni’s father
• Manish Kumar as Jenny’s boyfriend
• Yo Yo Honey Singh as Batbelly

Storyline:

A college student must win an inter-college competition to save his college from being demolished by property builders.

About Yaariyan Movie:

• In early 2012, producer Bhushan Kumar announced making a film in the college romance genre and that Divya Khosla Kumar would be the director.
• Rakul Preet Singh made her Hindi film debut with this movie.
• This movie’s director Divya Kumar Khosla went trekking in the mountains in North Sikkim with lead actor Himansh Kohli, to make sure that his character of a trekker looked convincing.
• Nicole Faria made her debut in the film industry with this movie.
• The shoot began in Mumbai followed by shoots in Sikkim and Darjeeling. In Darjeeling, the movie was shot in St Joseph’s School, Darjeeling.
• The film was also partially shot in Cape Town. Song Sunny Sunny was shot in the Bo-Kaap area of Cape Town.
• The film was released on 10 January 2014 with 1200 screens release in India. It received negative reviews from critics but was a box office success grossing ₹550 million against its ₹100 million budget.
• The film was screened in the UAE and had a limited release.
• Yaariyan was panned by the critics but was a box-office success because of its songs.
• A stand-alone sequel titled Yaariyan 2 was released on 20 October 2023 under Radhika Rao and Vinay Sapru’s direction.