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Welcome To New York
Welcome To New York
Soundtrack album by Sajid–Wajid, Shamir Tandon and Meet Bros
Released	16 February 2018
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Length	17:15
Language	Hindi
Label	Sony Music India
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Welcome To New York
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;
Running time	117 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Box office	₹6.95 crore

Welcome To New York is a 2018 Indian Hindi-language 3D comedy film, directed by Chakri Toleti, produced by Vashu Bhagnani and Jackky Bhagnani, and starring Diljit Dosanjh, Sonakshi Sinha, Karan Johar, Ritesh Deshmukh, Boman Irani, Lara Dutta, Sushant Singh Rajput and Rana Daggubati. The film was released on 23 February 2018.^[2]

Plot

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.^[3]

Cast

Main cast

Diljit Dosanjh as Teji^[4]
Sonakshi Sinha as Jeenal Patel^[4]
Karan Johar as himself/Arjun^[4]
Lara Dutta as Sophie^[4]
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 as themselves

Soundtrack

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.

Track listing
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Ishtehaar"	Charanjeet Charan	Shamir Tandon	Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Dhvani Bhanushali	4:18
2.	"Nain Phisal Gaye"	Kausar Munir	Sajid–Wajid	Payal Dev	3:39
3.	"Pant Mein Gun"	Sajid Khan, Danish Sabri	Sajid–Wajid	Diljit Dosanjh, Sajid–Wajid	3:13
4.	"Meher Hai Rab Di"	Kumaar	Meet Bros	Mika Singh, Khushboo Grewal	3:07
5.	"Smiley Song"	Kumaar	Shamir Tandon	Boman Irani, Dhvani Bhanushali	2:58
Total length:					17:15

Reception

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.^[6] 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.".^[7] 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".^[8]