2018 Film Welcome To New York

The film was released on 23 February 2018.

Welcome To New York
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Chakri Toleti
Written by	Dheeraj Rattan
Produced by	Deepshikha Deshmukh Vashu Bhagnani Jackky Bhagnani Andre Timmins Viraf Sarkari Sabbas Joseph
Starring	Diljit Dosanjh Sonakshi Sinha Karan Johar Ritesh Deshmukh Boman Irani Lara Dutta Sushant Singh Rajput Rana Daggubati
Cinematography	Santosh Thundiyil Neha Parti Matiyani
Edited by	Ritesh Soni
Music by	Sajid–Wajid Meet Bros Shamir Tandon
Production company	Wiz Films
Distributed by	Pooja Entertainment Eros International Magic Cloud Media & Entertainment
Release date	23 February 2018 (2018-02-23)
Running time	117 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Box office	₹12.56 crore

Teji (Diljit Dosanjh), a sloppy recovery agent who dreams of being an actor, and Jeenal Patel (Sonakshi Sinha), a fashion designer, become part of a big Bollywood event (IIFA) in New York. In between Karan Johar gets kidnapped but it is revealed that he is not Karan but Arjun.

Main cast

• Diljit Dosanjh as Teji
• Sonakshi Sinha as Jeenal Patel
• Karan Johar as himself/Arjun
• Lara Dutta as Sophie
• Boman Irani as Mr. Garry
• Ritesh Deshmukh as himself
• Rajendra Shastri as Jeenal Patel's Grandfather
• Sammy Jonas Heaney as Johnathon (Bollywood debut)

Cameo appearances

• Preity Zinta
• Sushant Singh Rajput
• Rana Daggubati
• Salman Khan
• Suniel Shetty
• Katrina Kaif
• Tiger Shroff
• Aditya Roy Kapur
• Disha Patani
• Shahid Kapoor
• Mohit Sinha
• Bipasha Basu

The music of the film is composed by Sajid–Wajid, Shamir Tandon and Meet Bros while lyrics have been penned by Kausar Munir, Kumaar, Charanjeet Charan, Sajid Khan and Danish Sabri.

Critical response

Rajeev Masand of News 18 severely criticized the film saying that, "Welcome to New York isn't merely a bad film, or even a terrible one. It's depressing. Not because the plot is all over the place (it is!), not because the actors appear to be doing whatever they like (they are!), and not because it has no vision or ambition (it doesn't!) – but because it's an exercise in sheer pointlessness. Really, this film has no reason to exist." and gave it a rating of 1 out of 5. Rohit Vats of Hindustan Times gave the film a rating of 0.5 out of 5 and concluded his review by saying that, "Welcome To New York is totally lost in New York, and looks nothing more than an extended IIFA trailer. It's not worth wasting your time, money, patience and intelligence on this mind-numbing promotional video.". Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express gave the film a rating of 1 out of 5 and said that, "Welcome To New York turns out to be a limp, lame tribute to Bollywood".