Yes Boss (film)

Yes Boss is a 1997 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film directed by Aziz Mirza starring Aditya Pancholi, Shah Rukh Khan and Juhi Chawla in the lead roles. Produced by Ratan Jain, it is based on the film For Love Or Money (1993) starring Michael J Fox.

Yes Boss proved to be one of the most successful films of the year, and was declared a super-hit at the box-office, with a worldwide gross of inr 230000000. At the 43rd Filmfare Awards, it received 6 nominations, including Best Actor (Khan), Best Actress (Chawla) and Best Villain (Pancholi), and won Best Male Playback Singer (Abhijeet Bhattacharya for "Main Koi Aisa Geet Gaoon")

Yes Boss partially inspired the Malayalam film Junior Senior (2005) and was remade in Tamil as Guru En Aalu (2009). The rights of the film are owned by Khan's production company Red Chillies Entertainment.

Plot
Ambitious, Rahul Joshi wants to be rich, and is lucky enough to find a job with extra earnings from his boss, Siddharth, a lustful person having extramarital affairs, who has deviously trapped the rich Sheela. Rahul earns overtime money in keeping the affairs a secret. Later, Siddharth is lustfully attracted to the elegant and gorgeous Seema Kapoor, an aspiring model also desiring a life of luxury. Siddharth asks Rahul to help him trap Seema too. Helpless, Rahul does so, but also has a soft spot for her. Anyway due to his efforts, Seema is impressed by Siddharth's personality. Gradually, the two get closer; Seema begins liking Siddharth. However, she also grows close to Rahul while seeking his help.

As their companionship blossoms, Seema meets Rahul's mom, Sonali, a heart patient sensitive to any shocking news in life. Sheela's cousin Bhushan takes this benefit and tells Sonali that Rahul has married Seema, overjoying her. To not shock her, Rahul and Seema act as a happy couple and slowly fall in love. Siddharth learns about them, and offers Rahul his dream office, with unsaid implication that it was in return for Seema. Rahul realises he was supporting his lustful habits for his dream office by being a bootlicker to him. He says he wants only Seema.

After this fiasco, true love triumphs as Seema decides to spend her life with Rahul and Sonali, who wholeheartedly accepts their relationship again. Rahul decides he'd have a luxurious life for him and Seema by his own money, not by bootlicking anyone.

Production
"Main Koi Aisa Geet" song was shot in Bern, Switzerland.

Music
The film's soundtrack has 6 songs composed by Jatin–Lalit who also composed the background score, with lyrics by Javed Akhtar. Most of the songs are sung by Abhijeet Bhattacharya and won his first Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer for the song "Main Koi Aisa Geet Gaoon". Other contributing artists are Kumar Sanu, Udit Narayan & Alka Yagnik. The song "Suniye To" is based on "Ahla Ma Feki" by Hisham Abbas.

Reception
K. N. Vijiyan of New Straits Times wrote that "with bubbly Shahrukh Khan at his best, you cannot afford to give this movie a miss".

Box office
Yes Boss grossed inr 194800000 in India and $975,000 (₹3.48 crore) in other countries, for a worldwide total of inr 229600000, against its inr 50000000 budget. It had a worldwide opening weekend of inr 30700000, and grossed inr 56500000 in its first week. It is the 12th-highest-grossing Indian film of 1997 worldwide.

India
It opened on Friday, 18 July 1997, across 180 screens, and earned inr 5700000 nett on its opening day. It grossed inr 17900000 nett in its opening weekend, and had a first week of inr 32900000 nett. The film earned a total of inr 113300000 nett, and was declared "Hit" by Box Office India. It is the 14th-highest-grossing film of 1997 in India.

Overseas
It earned $975,000 (₹3.48 crore) outside India. It is the 3rd-highest-grossing film of 1997 behind Dil To Pagal Hai ($3.3 million (₹12.04 crore)) and Pardes ($1.7 million (₹6.12 crore)), which were also Shah Rukh Khan starrers.

Awards

 * 43rd Filmfare Awards :

Won


 * Best Male Playback Singer – Abhijeet Bhattacharya for "Main Koi Aisa Geet Gaoon"

Nominated


 * Best Actor – Shahrukh Khan
 * Best Actress – Juhi Chawla
 * Best Villain – Aditya Pancholi
 * Best Music Director – Jatin–Lalit
 * Best Lyricist – Javed Akhtar for "Chaand Taare"