Namastey London is a 2007 Hindi-language Comedy Drama film written by Suresh Nair and Ritesh Shah. The movie is directed by Vipul Amrutlal Shah and produced by Bharat S Shah and Vipul Amrutlal Shah. A man takes his thoroughly-British daughter to his home country, India. There, he arranges her marriage to someone she considers a fool. The daughter attempts to outwit them, but the groom quietly and patiently hatches his own plan. Namastey london features Akshay Kumar in the lead role along with an ensemble cast including Katrina Kaif, Rishi Kapoor, Nina Wadia, Upen Patel, Clive Standen and Javed Sheikh. The screenplay is written by Suresh Nair. The music was composed by IIFA Award winner Himesh Reshammiya along with Salim Merchant and Salim-sulaiman. Cinematography was done by Jonathan Bloom and Dariusz Wolski and editing by Amitabh Shukla. The film has a running time of 128 minutes. It was released on 23rd March 2007. Namastey London was made on a budget of ₹31 crore and it was a hit at box office gross of ₹37 crore. Distribution rights for the motion picture were acquired by Adlabs Films. A man takes his thoroughly-British daughter to his home country, India. There, he arranges her marriage to someone she considers a fool. The daughter attempts to outwit them, but the groom quietly and patiently hatches his own plan.