Tumse Na Ho Payega (2023 film)

Tumse Na Ho Payega is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language Comedy drama film directed by Abhishek Sinha and written by Nitesh Tiwari, Nikhil Mehrotra and Varun Agarwal. It is produced by Star Studios, Ronnie Screwvala, Siddharth Roy Kapur, Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari and Nitesh Tiwari. It stars Ishwak Singh, Mahima Makwana, Gaurav Pandey, Gurpreet Saini and Karan Jotwani in the lead role.

The film was released on 29 September 2023 on Disney+ Hotstar.

Plot
Gaurav Shukla is a 28 years aged individual who is frustrated with his job. He narrates his story to the audience while the story keeps continuing. He introduces his two best friends Sharad Malhotra "Mal" and Hardik Vaghela. At the pub, they met Gaurav's childhood crush, Devika & Arjun Kapoor, Devika's boyfriend. Since their School Days Arjun has been a Topper & they were backbenchers. Gaurav while peeing at the office washroom was shouting at his frustrated life and decides to leave the company, Which his Boss Overhears while peeing. His boss first tried to convince him then fired him from the office. Arjun's Mother "Anu Aunty"has come over to Gaurav's home to show off his Son's Promotion but after hearing that Gaurav has left the job (as announced by gaurav himself) started gossiping about it. Anu Aunty is a society Self -Appointed Gurdian who only gossips and judge children on their success and failure. Gaurav's Crush and his friends only know that he had been fired from the job.

At Arjun's Promotion party Gaurav shared his unique startup idea to his friends about delivering homemade food for office going bachelors. In earlier days he used to carry a tiffin for his ex colleague. He along with Mal and Devika then started delivering Boxes to their respective offices (Gaurav for Devika and his office). The idea started to work & both of them started to target areas by expanding their business, and they succeed in this process and organise a party where Arjun again making fun of them. They decided to show Arjun what they can do.

They meet investors and appointed Few staff and develop a app where if a person opens the app they will find mom's around 2km will deliver food. Things started to get messed as their Investor runs the company like the way Gaurav was working earlier. The company begins to lose its touch as it fires the main chef (which were the mothers) and hired professionals. The quality started falling and the company lost its customer, then the duo had an argument with the Investor and decided to return his invested amount but they got to know that they have to return money upon company valuation which is 10 crore 50 lakh. With returning the amount only left with 10 lakh decided to give the employee the last salary.

Now the investor has conspired against Gaurav and Mal and they have arrested. In jail they got offer from Arjun's company to sell the company on 30 crore although Mal agreed but Gaurav did not. They had a quarrel and upon getting bailed by vaghela they get separated.

Gaurav again unemployed started looking for a job and Mal also return to his previous job. Then one day his mother gave her Provident Fund & Gratuity to restart the business. Anu aunty had come over to Gaurav's house to tell him that he will once again be failure but Gaurav and his mother shout at her and asked to leave the house. Gaurav does so and once again become successful. He started making things like previous. He proposed to Devika and also tells that she has to reply before he had a meeting with the Investors as he feels that he always have a doubt if Devika says after a successful meeting.

So next day Devika accepted Gaurav's proposal and investors agreed to Gaurav's clause making him successful both professional and personal. He brings back Mal and repays all their loan. He also makes Arjun jealous by dancing with Devika in front of him.

Meanwhile Anu aunty has announced that his son Arjun has joined Harvard Business School for further studies will now earn in dollars and sent a sweet box to Gaurav's mother but she replies that "Arjun is a just a student and Gaurav is his Teacher". In London Arjun's Class teacher invites Gaurav and Mal as their Special Guest and asked for a speech. They deliver the speech while mocking Arjun. It explores the contrast between living for oneself and conforming to societal expectations, ultimately questioning whether Gaurav's belief in pursuing his dreams will triumph over society's persistent message of 'You Can't Do It'.

Cast

 * Ishwak Singh as Gaurav Shukla
 * Mahima Makwana as Devika
 * Gaurav Pandey as Sharad Malhotra "Mal"
 * Gurpreet Saini as Hardik Vaghela
 * Karan Jotwani as Arjun Kapoor
 * Amala Akkineni as Pooja Shukla, Gaurav's mother
 * Parmeet Sethi as Investor
 * Meghna Malik as Anu Kapoor "Anu Aunty", Arjun's mother
 * Lovlesh Khaneja as Neerav Shah
 * Omkar Das Manikpuri as Birju Chaiwala
 * Varun Agarwal as himself (cameo as a Harvard Business School student)

Production
In May 2022, the filming of the film began. Initially, the film was titled "Bas Karo Aunty". Later, the name was changed to "Tumse Na Ho Payega" and trailer of the same was released on 13 September 2023. The film is based on Varun Agarwal's debut novel How I Braved Anu Aunty and Co-Founded a Million Dollar Company.

Music
The music of the film is composed by Abhishek Arora and Ananya Purkayastha while lyrics written by Kausar Munir and Puneet Sharma.

Critical Response
The film was released on 29 September 2023. The film received mixed to positive reviews from critics. Dhaval Roy of The Times of India gave the film 3/5 ratings calling it, "An inspirational story about defining success on ones own term." Grace Cyrill of India Today rated the film 3/5 and quotes, "Ishwak's film will make us miss 'maa ke hath ka khana'". Deepak Gahlot of Scroll.in wrote, "A spirited cast enlivens a predictable plot."

Sonal Pandya of Times Now rated the film 2.5/5, "Bumpy Comedy Tackles Highs And Lows Of Entrepreneur’s Journey."

Viewership
Tumse Na Ho Payega garnered 4,600,000 views in its initial week of debut on Disney+ Hotstar, securing the first position among the most-watched Indian content across all streaming platforms during the same week. According to Ormax Media report of 2023, Tumse Na Ho Payega became fourth most watched Hindi film of 2023 with 14.3 million views.