Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara



Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (You won't get this life again) is a 2011 Bollywood Buddy Road Trip film directed by Zoya Akhtar (of Luck by Chance fame. Is starred by Hrithik Roshan, Abhay Deol, Farhan Akhtar, Katrina Kaif and Kalki Koechlin. It follow three friends during a trip to Spain and their misadventures there.

Kabir Dewan, an architect from Mumbai (Deol), has proposed to his longtime girlfriend Natasha (Koechlin). While the preparations are ongoing, Kabir decides that, as a last thing before marriage, to finally get into a long delayed bachelor trip to Spain with his two best friends, Imran Qureshi (Akhtar) a copywriter, and Arjun Saluja (Roshan) a workaholic financial broker currently living in london. Arjun is reluctant to do the trip, as he could loss pay for missing work; meanwhile, Imran has the secret agenda of using the trip to find his biological father, one artist named Salman Habib, of whose existence he was aware only recently.

The plan is simple: encounter in Barcelona, get to do deep sea diving in the Costa Brava, then do skydiving in Seville, and finally do the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona. In the Costa Brava they meet Laila (Kaif), an anglo-indian woman who happens to be their diving instructor, and who immediately connects with Arjun. Ahead, a month of extreme sports, roadtrio, and experience that change their lives forever.


 * Bridezilla: Nataha becomes increasingly this, to Kabir's increasing bafflement.
 * Better as Friends:
 * Clingy Jealous Girl: Natasha, to the point that she flies to Spain just because he saw Laila in the background and believed she was flirting with Kabir (in reality, Laila was carpooling with them out of attraction for Arjun)
 * Cool Car: a part of the travel is done in an amazing red convertible.
 * Daddy Had a Good Reason For Abandoning You:
 * Face Your Fears: turns out that each activity in the travel that each one of the friends was planned was purposefully chosen to help their friend(s) to get over their fears.
 * Freudian Excuse: Arjun is a money spider workaholic because he experienced profound poverty as a child and doesn't want to be without financial stability ever again.
 * Freudian Trio:
 * Imran is the Id, with his trickstery, prankstery, free personality
 * Arjun is The Superego, being more rational and less emotional than his friends
 * Kabir is The Ego, who gets stuck reconciling the two above and being the sane-ish of them.
 * Forgiveness: Part of the backstory is that Arjun and Imran had a fallout four years ago, due to Imran having had an affair with Arjun girlfriend's at the time. The way Imran saw things, the relationship was in the rocks already before his "intervention" and he just helped to free his friend from an inconvenient woman, so he should be forgiven already; Arjun, even years later and not loving the girl anymore, is still hurt by said betrayal. Imran finally realizes how his actions actually hurt Arjun, and finally ask for forgiveness.
 * If We Get Through This: when preparing for the Running of the Bulls the three friends agree that in they survive the running intact they'll do the thing they had dragged their feet for too long ( for Arjun, for Kabir,  for Imran).
 * Married to the Job: Arjun, to the point his friends trow off his phone so he can finally enjoy the trip.
 * Once More, with Clarity: The first scene of the film is Kabir proposing to Natasha. Then in a flashback, we see what really prompted the proposal.
 * The Trickster: Imran and Kabir have both a tendency of create situations to make others embarrass themselves or confess things.
 * Toros Y Flamenco: mostly averted. Albeit the stereotypical festivals of La Tomatina and the Running of the Bulls plus a flamenco tableau in Seville appear, Spain is presented in a modern (albeit touristic) way.
 * Uptight Loves Wild: Arjun falls in love with the free-spirited Laila
 * Wacky Marriage Proposal: Kabir to Natasha
 * Where Da White Women At?: a variation: Nuria, an Spanish girl, express attraction for Imram precisely because he's a dark-skinned Indian (or at least, darker-skinned than her).
 * Workaholic: Arjun