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Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Abhiraj Minawala
Produced by	Salman Khan
Written by	Niren Bhatt Aditya Pratap Singh
Starring	Aayush Sharma Warina Hussain Ram Kapoor Ronit Roy Pratik Gandhi Amit Bhatt
Music by	Songs: Tanishk Bagchi Lijo George – DJ Chetas JAM8 Score: Sanchit Balhara
Cinematography	Jishnu Bhattacharjee
Editing by	Riteish Sony
Studio	Salman Khan Films
Distributed by	Salman Khan Films Yash Raj Films (Overseas)
Release date(s)	5 October 2018 (2018-10-05)
Running time	139 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹270 million
Money made	₹181.4 million

Loveyatri: A Journey of Love is a 2018 Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film produced by Salman Khan under Salman Khan Films and directed by debutante Abhiraj K. Minawala. It is inspired by the 2006 Telugu film Devadasu. It stars Aayush Sharma and Warina Hussain in its lead roles and was released on 05 October 2018.

Plot

The story starts with Sushrut "Susu" Pandya's teacher refunding his tuition fee to his parents as he thinks Susu is completely unambitious. His father is always tired of asking him to plan his future but he is stuck with his dream of opening a Garba academy.

The story then shifts to London where Michelle Patel is a very bright college student. Her father Sameer Patel owns a chain of laundry there. Their relatives fool them by faking Sameer's brother Natthu's heart attack as they want them to come to Vadodara. Terrified, they reach India and find out the truth. On everybody's insistence, they plan to stay there for 9 days until the festival of Navaratri.

At Garba, Susu sees and falls in love with Michelle at first sight. His best friends dig out her information from her relative Khushboo.

With his Garba singer and clothing store owner uncle Rasik Desai's advice he plans to charm Michelle. As per plan while performing Garba, Susu stays around Michelle and she accidentally hits dandiya on his eye. He fakes an injury. She calls him to apologize. Susu acts as if he was deeply injured.

He spends time with Michelle and they become good friends. Khushboo sees them together and says to Susu that she will reveal the truth to Michelle. Susu is terrified and reveals the truth himself to Michelle. Michelle says she already understood that the injury was fake as he goofed up and bandaged the incorrect side of his forehead. Also, he kept the bandage just for a day then forgot to put it.

Michelle takes him to her mother's NGO, which provided women employment. It had shut down after her death when Michelle was 10 years old. Earlier, when Michelle was 4 years old, Sam went to London to earn money to support her mother's dreams but could not come back due to his business and immigration issues. Her mother died waiting for her dad. Michelle reveals her dream of reopening the NGO. She also reveals her actual name Manisha which was changed by Sam after she moved to London to post her mom's death. Susu decides he will call her by the name Manisha.

Soon, Sam gets to know about Michelle and Susu from her friend Khushboo. He calls Sushrut on a Ferris wheel and says that there is a difference between them, similar to the top and bottom of the wheel. He asks him to stay away from Michelle as there is a huge difference between their status and class. He also lies, that she is in a relationship with Chris. Michelle receives an email that she got admission to London's top business school. She is very happy and throws a pizza party for Susu and his friends. Out of happiness, she informs the pay package of the college (after graduating) is 85000 pounds (75 lakhs INR). Susu assumes she is showing off and also cheating on him with Chris. He insults her badly at the restaurant. She does not respond and goes away from the restaurant.

Later Susu's friends inform Rasik about the incident. On Rasik's insistence, Susu realizes his mistake and wants to apologize. When Michelle is going back to London, Susu and his friends try to reach the Ahmadabad airport from Vadodara to stop her but their activa meets an accident on the way and they are unable to reach them.

10 months pass by. Susu still remembers Michelle and tries for ways to go to London. Finally, he gets an opportunity when Rasik's Garba troop gets a contract to perform in London. He pleases the officer by doing the garba in his visa interview and gets the visa and reaches London. While searching for Michelle, he remembers and goes to 'Shelter Home' where Michelle volunteers every Sunday. He meets her and apologizes. Michelle shares her number and promises to meet him.

The next day he hangs out with Michelle and her friends and meets Chris, and assumes him to be her boyfriend. He gets jealous and feels bad when Michelle speaks to Chris.

Susu, heartbroken, goes to a pub where Rasik motivates him by telling him Indians learn about love from movies. He tells him about Yash Chopra, Sooraj Barjatya, Aamir Khan (Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak), Shahrukh Khan (Veer-Zaara) and Salman Khan (Tere Naam) and asks to declare his love to Michelle.

The next day he sees London with Michelle and her friends and is spotted by Sam. Then on the Tower Bridge (London Bridge), Susu expresses his love and speaks to her about Chris assuming him to be her boyfriend.

He calls his friends and comes to know that his friend, Nagendra "Negative" Pathak (Pratik Gandhi) and Khushboo have become a couple. They also motivate him to speak to Michelle again as Michelle had never told him about Chris directly.

Sam meets Susu again and reminds them about the status gap between them by showing him the Ferris wheel London Eye. Susu realizes that Sam had brainwashed him about Chris and confronts him. To frame Susu, Sam breaks his own car's window and puts Susu's hand on his collar. Police come and arrests Sushrut. Gujrati Police officers Bhavesh (Sohail Khan) and Jignesh (Arbaaz Khan) sets him free after hearing his story while everybody is searching for Susu.

Michelle meets Rasik and finally gets to know, that Sam lied to Susu about Chris. She confronts Sam about it and her love and NGO dreams. She tells Sam that he has always imposed his choices on her but she wants to be with Susu. She runs down where Susu is waiting with Rasik and Garba party. She informs Susu that Chris is gay and not her boyfriend. Sam finally had to agree to their marriage when Jignesh and Bhavesh threatened him that they have the CCTV recording of him breaking the car windows and they will arrest him if he does not agree to the marriage.

In the end, they return to India and Michelle fulfils her dream to reopen her mother's NGO and Susu opens his own Garba academy. The last statement states they lived happily ever after.

Cast

Production

Salman Khan announced the film in 2017. He also confirmed via Twitter that the film would star his brother-in-law Aayush Sharma and would be directed by Abhiraj Minawala. Abhiraj was Ali Abbas Zafar's assistant director for Sultan and Tiger Zinda Hai. In February 2018, Salman announced that Warina Hussain would be the leading lady of the film. The film is the Bollywood debut for both Aayush and Warina. Loveyatri is a romantic drama set against the backdrop of Navratri in Gujarat. Aayush stars as a Garba teacher from Baroda, who falls in love with an NRI, played by Warina, when she visits the town during the festival.

The film was shot in two schedules. Several scenes were also shot in Vadodara in March 2018. This was followed by the second half starting in April 2018 in London. Principal photography completed in June 2018.

Soundtrack

Tanishk Bagchi, Lijo George – DJ Chetas and JAM8 composed the soundtrack of the film while the lyrics are penned by Shabbir Ahmed, Manoj Muntashir, Darshan Raval, Tanishk Bagchi, Badshah, Niren Bhatt, Yo Yo Honey Singh and Hommie Dilliwala.

The soundtrack of the film was released by T-Series on 3 October 2018.

Warina Hussain promoting Loveratri at R. D. National College in Bandra