Teraa Surroor

Plot

Tara Wadia (Farah Karimaee), a singer and girlfriend of a gangster Raghu (Reshammiya) lives with her mother (Shernaz Patel).

One day Raghu confessed before Tara that he had spent a night with a prostitute unintentionally. Disappointedly Tara broke up with him and decided to leave him.

She goes to Dublin where she gets detained after being caught with drugs. Tara calls Raghu for help. Now Raghu must help her and find Anirudh Brahman, the stranger who met Tara on Facebook and invited her to Ireland.

Raghu hired a lawyer to rescue Tara; at least tried to get bail but was refused by the judiciary. Then he makes plans to get Tara out of jail. He came to know about the Robin"Bird" Dhramraj Santino, who has vast experience of fleeing from jails.

Raghu consults with him. Robin says that he would charge him 20 mins each to help him and Raghu agrees. Robin briefed him all plan and the procedures that he must get his girl out of the jail just within 20 minutes before entire city would lock down by automatic system.

How Raghu performs the plan is the rest of the story. After a successful escape, he then found the core culprit behind all this crime and he was shocked that it was turned out to be Haider the close friend of Tara as he wanted to trap Raghu as revenge. Raghu kills him and reunites with his love of his life Tara.

Cast

Marketing

The film was made on a budget of ₹11 crore (US$1.6 million) from which ₹6.5 crore (US$970,000) was used on the production of the film and the remaining ₹4.5 crore (US$670,000) was spent on marketing. The details about the film were unveiled in December 2015. On 27 January 2016, T-Series released the trailer on YouTube and also unveiled the first look poster through Twitter. Two other posters were also released later. On 24 February 2016, another poster was released.

Development

Reshammiya also did tours before release of the film. He performed in Amsterdam and in different cities of India including Pune, Surat, Hyderabad, Kolkata and New Delhi. Reshammiya also visited Ajmer Sharif Dargah on 8 March 2016 with Farah Karimaee to offer prayers for the success of Teraa Surroor. The director Shawan Arranha has told that the budget of the film was recovered through the music even before the release of film. Arranha said: "The producers have already recovered the film's cost through sale of music, satellite and other rights".

Filming

The shooting began in the end of 2015. The film was mostly shot in Dublin, Ireland and a small part was also filmed in India.

Personnel

The soundtrack of Teraa Surroor was composed by Reshammiya. The first track of the soundtrack titled Main Woh Chaand was released on 29 January 2016. It was sung by Darshan Raval. The soundtrack received positive reviews. Mohar Basu of The Times of India rated the music 3 out of 5 where as Sreeju Sudhakaran of Bollywood Life rated the soundtrack 4 out 5. Preeti Lopes of Bollywood capsule rated the album 4.5 out of 5 stating "the music album of ‘Teraa Surroor’ is the best of the year so far. Versatile singing, heart touching lyrics and engrossing compositions along with some great opportunities provided by Himesh Reshammiya to the upcoming talent that our country has in abundance."Badshah also sang the song Teri Yaad with Reshammiya

Release

Official trailer of the film was released on 27 January 2016. The film was released on 11 March 2016. It was released in more than 1,700 cinemas across India with over 5,800 shows per day.

Box office

The film collected ₹14.15 crore (US$2.1 million) in two weeks after release in India.

It grossed ₹3.88 crore (US$580,000) on the first two days. On the first weekend, film grossed ₹6.46 crore (US$960,000), beating Saala Khadoos which collected ₹5.46 crore (US$810,000) on its opening weekend. The film crossed ₹7.84 crore (US$1.2 million) on the fifth day and ₹10.29 crore (US$1.5 million) on the sixth day. It reached ₹11.38 crore (US$1.7 million) on the seventh day. Teraa Surroor also entered the list of Top 10 Highest Opening Weekend Grosses of 2016 in India. The film did decent business at box office.

Soundtrack reception

The soundtrack received positive reviews from Bollywood Hungama, Bolly Spice, and Blog to Bollywood. India-West rated the album 2.5 stars out of 5.

Critical reception

The film mostly gained negative reviews in the critics.

Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express said that Himesh Reshammiya's film is mess. He also said: "The focus stays firmly on Himesh, who remains blank-faced through it all, never cracking a single smile, not even when he is with his girl. All in tons of slo mo, alternating with dizzying camera angles. All drowned in loud background music". Gupta rated the film with a half star.

Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV Movies said: "Teraa Surroor dives deep into a sea of mothballed ideas. No wonders the exercise yields no pearls". He rated the film 1.5 out of 5.

Sreeju Sudhakaran of BollywoodLife.com rated 3 out of 5. He said: "Teraa Surroor delivers as a true Himesh Reshammiya film. It is a typical masala entertainer with some great music. If you liked Aap Kaa Surroor, then Teraa Surroor definitely won't disappoint."

Surabhi Redkar of koimoi.com said: "Watching Himesh Reshammiya try to act like an enticing hero wooing ladies and making the worst of face ever!" He gave 1 star out of five.