2 States – Alia Bhatt & Arjun Kapoor

Love marriages around the world are simple. Boy loves girl. Girl loves boy. They get married. In India, there are few more steps…

Boy loves girl. Girl loves boy. Girl’s family has to love the boy. Boy’s family has to love the girl. Girl’s family has to love the boy’s family. Boy’s family has to love the girl’s family.

And if the boy and girl still love each other, they get married.

2 States is a story about a journey of one such couple, Krish Malhotra and Ananya Swaminathan. They meet at the IIM-Ahmedabad and during the course they fall in love. Complications arise after the course comes to an end and they decide to get married. Krish and Ananya belong to two different states of India. Krish, a North Indian Punjabi boy from Delhi, and Ananya, a Tamilian Brahmin from Chennai. They take a conscious decision; till their parents don’t agree they won’t get married. Everything goes down hill when the parents meet. There is a cultural clash and the parents oppose the wedding. To convert their love story into a love marriage, the couple faces a tough battle in front of them. For its easy to fight and rebel, but much harder to convince.

Will Krish and Ananya’s love for each other sustain the battles? Will they manage to convince their parents and make it to their wedding?  The film thus is a humorous take on inter community marriages in India.

2 States CAST & CREW

CAST

Arjun Kapoor            -Krish Malhotra

Alia Bhatt              -Ananya Swaminathan

Amrita Singh            -Kavita Malhotra – Krish’s Mother

Revathy                 -Radha – Ananya’s Mother

Ronit Roy               -Vikram Malhotra – Krish’s Father

Shiv Subrahmanyam       -Shiv Swaminathan – Ananya’s Father

CREW

Directed by                      ABHISHEK VARMAN

Producers                         SAJID NADIADWALA

KARAN JOHAR

Co Producer                      APOORVA MEHTA

Director of Photography           BINOD PRADHAN

Production Design                 AMRITA MAHAL NAKAI

Editor                            NAMRATA RAO

Associate Producer (NGEPL)        RAKESH MADHOTRA

Executive Producer                PRAVIN KHAIRNAR

Supervising Producer              MARIJKE deSOUZA

Music                             SHANKAR EHSAAN LOY

Lyrics                            AMITABH BHATTACHARYA

Sound Design                      ALI MERCHANT

Costume Designers                 MANISH MALHOTRA

SHIRAZ SIDDIQUE

                                  NATASCHA CHARAK & NIKITA MOHANTY

Adapted to Screenplay by          ABHISHEK VARMAN

Dialogues by                      HUSSAIN DALAL

Based on the best selling novel

“2 States:

The Story of My Marriage” by          CHETAN BHAGAT

Choreographer                     REMO D’SOUZA

Casting Director                  NANDINI SHRIKENT

Background Score                  TUBBY – PARIK

Media Consultant                  HYPE

Visual Promotions                 RAVI PADDA & BINNY PADDA

Publicity Design                  MARCHING ANTS