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	\| producer = [[Fox Star Studios]]<br />Pooja Shetty<br />Aarrti Shetty		\| producer = [[Fox Star Studios]]<br />Pooja Shetty<br />Aarrti Shetty
	\| writer = '''Screenplay:'''<br>Neha Rakesh Sharma<br>Pradhuman Singh Mall<br>'''Dialogues:'''<br>[[Anuja Chauhan]]<br>Pradhuman Singh Mall<ref name="ref2">{{cite web \|url=https://www.timeslifestyle.net/20180315/the-zoya-factor-movie/ \|title=The Zoya Factor Is All Set To Hit The Silver Screen \|first=Tanya \|last=Toshali \|date=15 March 2018 \|accessdate=28 March 2018}}</ref>		\| writer = '''Screenplay:'''<br>Neha Rakesh Sharma<br>Pradhuman Singh Mall<br>'''Dialogues:'''<br>[[Anuja Chauhan]]<br>Pradhuman Singh Mall<ref name="ref2">{{cite web \|url=https://www.timeslifestyle.net/20180315/the-zoya-factor-movie/ \|title=The Zoya Factor Is All Set To Hit The Silver Screen \|first=Tanya \|last=Toshali \|date=15 March 2018 \|accessdate=28 March 2018}}</ref>
	\| based_on = ''[[The Zoya Factor]]'' <br />by [[Anuja Chauhan]]		\| based_on = ''The Zoya Factor'' <br />by [[Anuja Chauhan]]
	\| starring = [[Dulquer Salmaan]]<br />[[Sonam K Ahuja]]		\| starring = [[Dulquer Salmaan]]<br />[[Sonam K Ahuja]]
	\| editing = Utsav Bhagat		\| editing = Utsav Bhagat
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	'''''The Zoya Factor''''' is a [[List of Bollywood films of 2019\|2019]] Indian [[Hindi cinema\|Hindi]]-language [[romantic comedy]] film directed by [[Abhishek Sharma (director)\|Abhishek Sharma]] and produced by [[Fox Star Studios]], Pooja Shetty and Aarrti Shetty, with [[Shah Rukh Khan]] serving as narrator. Starring [[Dulquer Salmaan]] and [[Sonam K Ahuja]]. The film is a light adaptation of [[Anuja Chauhan]]'s 2008 novel ~~[[The Zoya Factor\|~~of the same name]],<ref name="ref4">{{cite web \|url=https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/dulquer-salmaan-in-sonams-next/articleshow/62595819.cms \|title=DULQUER SALMAAN IN SONAM'S NEXT \|first=Avinash \|last=Lohana \|date=22 January 2018\|access-date=22 May 2019}}</ref> which follows the story of a girl, Zoya Solanki, who becomes a lucky charm for the Indian Cricket team during the [[2011 Cricket World Cup]], and the team captain Nikhil Khoda who doesn't believe in luck and superstitions.<ref name="ref1" /><ref>{{Cite web \|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/bollywood/dulquer-salmaan-sonam-kapoor-the-zoya-factor-5095937/ \|title=Sonam Kapoor and Dulquer Salmaan's The Zoya Factor to release in April next year \|date=14 March 2018 \|website=The Indian Express \|language=en-IN\|access-date=27 August 2019}}</ref>		'''''The Zoya Factor''''' is a [[List of Bollywood films of 2019\|2019]] Indian [[Hindi cinema\|Hindi]]-language [[romantic comedy]] film directed by [[Abhishek Sharma (director)\|Abhishek Sharma]] and produced by [[Fox Star Studios]], Pooja Shetty and Aarrti Shetty, with [[Shah Rukh Khan]] serving as narrator. Starring [[Dulquer Salmaan]] and [[Sonam K Ahuja]]. The film is a light adaptation of [[Anuja Chauhan]]'s 2008 novel of the same name,<ref name="ref4">{{cite web \|url=https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/dulquer-salmaan-in-sonams-next/articleshow/62595819.cms \|title=DULQUER SALMAAN IN SONAM'S NEXT \|first=Avinash \|last=Lohana \|date=22 January 2018\|access-date=22 May 2019}}</ref> which follows the story of a girl, Zoya Solanki, who becomes a lucky charm for the Indian Cricket team during the [[2011 Cricket World Cup]], and the team captain Nikhil Khoda who doesn't believe in luck and superstitions.<ref name="ref1" /><ref>{{Cite web \|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/bollywood/dulquer-salmaan-sonam-kapoor-the-zoya-factor-5095937/ \|title=Sonam Kapoor and Dulquer Salmaan's The Zoya Factor to release in April next year \|date=14 March 2018 \|website=The Indian Express \|language=en-IN\|access-date=27 August 2019}}</ref>

	==Plot==		==Plot==
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	==Production==		==Production==
	In an interview, director [[Abhishek Sharma (director)\|Abhishek Sharma]] described the film to ''Mumbai Mirror'' as "Cricket woven into a rom-com and touching on superstition and luck."<ref name="ref10">{{cite web \|url=https://www.thequint.com/entertainment/bollywood/dulquer-salmaan-sonam-kapoor-zoya-factor-adaptation \|title=Dulquer & Sonam Gear up for 'The Zoya Factor' Adaptation \|accessdate=28 March 2018 \|date=13 March 2018}}</ref> The film is based on the novel penned by [[Anuja Chauhan]]. She has also written additional dialogues for the film.<ref>{{Cite news \|url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-authors/anuja-chauhans-journey-into-bollywood/article28936515.ece \|title=Anuja Chauhan's journey into Bollywood \|last=Upadhyay \|first=Karishma \|date=9 August 2019 \|work=The Hindu\|access-date=27 August 2019 \|language=en-IN \|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> Initially, [[Shah Rukh Khan]] bought rights to film the movie.<ref>{{Cite web \|url=https://zeenews.india.com/entertainment/bollywood/-the-zoya-factor-to-be-made-into-a-movie-by-red-chillies_12372.html \|title='The Zoya Factor' to be made into a film by Red Chillies \|date=4 October 2008 \|website=Zee News \|language=en\|access-date=25 August 2019}}</ref> But since the project did not take off three years after, [[Red Chillies Entertainment]] lost the rights and in 2013, Pooja Shetty acquired the adaptation rights of [[The Zoya Factor]].<ref>{{Cite web \|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/bollywood/pooja-shetty-buys-the-zoya-factor-rights-from-srk/story-Cq8jeB3t7BaGfui6FhW2iI.html \|title=Pooja Shetty buys The Zoya Factor rights from SRK \|date=9 April 2012 \|website=Hindustan Times \|language=en\|access-date=25 August 2019}}</ref> Nevertheless, Khan served as a narrator for the film.		In an interview, director [[Abhishek Sharma (director)\|Abhishek Sharma]] described the film to ''Mumbai Mirror'' as "Cricket woven into a rom-com and touching on superstition and luck."<ref name="ref10">{{cite web \|url=https://www.thequint.com/entertainment/bollywood/dulquer-salmaan-sonam-kapoor-zoya-factor-adaptation \|title=Dulquer & Sonam Gear up for 'The Zoya Factor' Adaptation \|accessdate=28 March 2018 \|date=13 March 2018}}</ref> The film is based on the novel penned by [[Anuja Chauhan]]. She has also written additional dialogues for the film.<ref>{{Cite news \|url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-authors/anuja-chauhans-journey-into-bollywood/article28936515.ece \|title=Anuja Chauhan's journey into Bollywood \|last=Upadhyay \|first=Karishma \|date=9 August 2019 \|work=The Hindu\|access-date=27 August 2019 \|language=en-IN \|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> Initially, [[Shah Rukh Khan]] bought rights to film the movie.<ref>{{Cite web \|url=https://zeenews.india.com/entertainment/bollywood/-the-zoya-factor-to-be-made-into-a-movie-by-red-chillies_12372.html \|title='The Zoya Factor' to be made into a film by Red Chillies \|date=4 October 2008 \|website=Zee News \|language=en\|access-date=25 August 2019}}</ref> But since the project did not take off three years after, [[Red Chillies Entertainment]] lost the rights and in 2013, Pooja Shetty acquired the adaptation rights of The Zoya Factor.<ref>{{Cite web \|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/bollywood/pooja-shetty-buys-the-zoya-factor-rights-from-srk/story-Cq8jeB3t7BaGfui6FhW2iI.html \|title=Pooja Shetty buys The Zoya Factor rights from SRK \|date=9 April 2012 \|website=Hindustan Times \|language=en\|access-date=25 August 2019}}</ref> Nevertheless, Khan served as a narrator for the film.

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'''''The Zoya Factor''''' is a novel written by [[Anuja Chauhan]], published by [[HarperCollins]] India in 2008. It is about a [[Rajput]] woman named Zoya Singh Solanki who meets the [[Indian Cricket Team]] through her job as an executive in an [[advertising agency]] and ends up becoming a lucky charm for the team for the 2011 [[Cricket World Cup]]. Chauhan started working on her [[debut novel]] in 2006, writing during her spare time. Her work on the [[Pepsi]] brand for 13 years at [[J. Walter Thompson|JWT]] Delhi, where she was Vice President and closely associated with cricket advertising, eventually led to cricket becoming the setting of her novel.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/maiden-over/331743/ |title=Maiden Over |date=5 July 2008 |work=Indian Express}}</ref>

==Plot summary==
Zoya Solanki is a client service rep with an [[advertising agency]], who loves everything about her job, especially the brand she has been put in charge of – Zing Cola (Pepsi in a fictional avatar). But when she's made to leave an ad film shoot, featuring none other than [[Shah Rukh Khan]], and has to go to [[Dhaka]] to shoot an ad with the [[Indian cricket team]] she begins to experience her first pangs of irritation towards the brand. Making matters somewhat worse, the team captain Nikhil Khoda insists on discipline as a norm and cuts her important shoot short. This causes her to stay back a few more days than anticipated and miss the Shah Rukh Khan film shoot.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=blogger&hl=en-US&passive=true&continue=https://www.blogger.com/blogin.g?blogspotURL%3Dhttp://blabberbug.blogspot.com/2008/09/book-review-zoya-factor-by-anuja.html%26zx%3D1v65ot0aw4bt1|title=Blogger|website=accounts.google.com}}</ref> When the men in blue realise that Zoya was born at the very moment India won the first and the only cricket [[1983 Cricket World Cup|World Cup in 1983]], they are startled. What intrigues them more was when they realised that having breakfast with her is followed by victories on the field, and not eating with her results in defeat. They decide she is a lucky charm.

As luck would have it, the rag tag team has a sudden spurt of victories and soon the cricket-crazy nation declares her a goddess. Soon, Zoya is invited by the eccentric president of IBCC (Indian Board of Cricket Control, a spoof of BCCI [[Board of Control for Cricket in India]]), to accompany the team to the [[ICC World Cup]] in [[Australia]].

Pursued by international cricket boards on the one hand, and wooed by cola majors on the other, Zoya struggles to stay grounded in the thick of the World Cup action.

And it doesn't help that she keeps clashing with the erratically brilliant new Indian skipper, who tells her flatly that he doesn't believe in luck. What follows is a love-hate relationship; attraction and antagonism. Zoya is luck-personified and she never ceases to be the lucky charm for the men-in-blue.

==Main characters==
* '''Zoya Singh Solanki'''- An advertising agent born on 25 June 1983, at the exact moment that India won the Cricket World Cup who lives in [[Karol Bagh]] in [[Delhi]] with her father and his three brothers' family. She hates Nikhil Khoda in the beginning but soon a romance begins to blossom between them. Whenever she eats breakfast with the Indian Cricket Team they win the following match. This prompts the board to send her to Australia with them for the Cricket World Cup.
* '''Nikhil Khoda'''- The captain of The Indian Cricket Team. Tall, dark, and handsome. He does not believe in luck and in the beginning, thinks that Zoya is a distraction to the team. He believes that hard work and determination are the key to success. He is a man of integrity who tries to protect Zoya even when he doesn't believe about her powers. He is known to often talk like a [[Nike, Inc.|Nike]] ad.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://ibnlive.in.com/news/authorspeak-nikhil-khoda-is-not-based-on-ms-dhoni/74223-19.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101208072213/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/authorspeak-nikhil-khoda-is-not-based-on-ms-dhoni/74223-19.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=8 December 2010 |title=Authorspeak: 'Nikhil Khoda is not based on MS Dhoni' |date=24 September 2008 |publisher=CNN-IBN}}</ref>
* '''Monita Mukherjee'''- Zoya's best friend who accompanies her to Australia for the World Cup. She works at AWB with Zoya, is married to a banker, and has two sons, Armaan and Aman.
*'''Vijayendra Singh Solanki'''– Zoya's father who is a widower. He was a lieutenant colonel in army and took premature retirement.
*'''Zorvar Singh Solanki'''– Zoya's brother who works in Indian Army
*'''Eppa'''– Zoya's housekeeper who is like a mom to her. She looked after Zoya and Zoravar since they were born.
*'''Rinku Chachi''' and '''Anita Chachi'''– Zoya's two aunts and among them Rinku is her favourite.
* '''The Indian Cricket Team'''

==Reception==

The book was well received by the media. It constantly features in the Top 5 of many newspapers in India. ''[[The Asian Age]]'' ranked it No. 1 for 3 weeks when it was released. According to ''[[The Times Of India]]'', "it is a fun read which takes the Indian chick-lit way beyond mush and smut, right to freakily naughty. Her writing is very young, very now and very funny. Her themes of cricket, love and politics are smartly topical."<ref>http://harpercollins.co.in/media_images/Dec08/4/AK%20%28TB%29%20Dec2808.jpg</ref> Apart from the novel's subject matter, cricket, that India is obsessed with, what makes the book unique in Indian publishing history is the whopping [[print run]] of 20,000 copies at the launch. "It is very unusual for any publisher in India to go in for such a huge print run for a commercial debut novel, but we were confident of ''The Zoya Factor'' right at the first time we read hero's{{sic|?}} manuscript," said Hero Heeralal {{sic|?}}, editor and publisher, HarperCollins Publishers India.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.televisionpoint.com/news2008/newsfullstory.php?id=1215419762 |title=Anuja's Zoya Factor combines cricket with romance |work=Television Point |accessdate=14 August 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080729142233/http://www.televisionpoint.com/news2008/newsfullstory.php?id=1215419762 |archivedate=29 July 2008}}</ref>

==Film adaptation==
{{Main|The Zoya Factor (film)}}
The novel was optioned for a film by [[Shah Rukh Khan|Shahrukh Khan]]'s [[Red Chillies Entertainment]] production company, for a period of three years.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.outlookindia.com/printarticle.aspx?263236 |title=Booking A Story: Bollywood is now dipping into desi bestsellers for inspiration |date=21 December 2009 |work=Outlook}}</ref> As it didn't take off after three years, the rights were acquired by Pooja Shetty. The [[The Zoya Factor (film)|film]] is set to be released on 20 September 2019.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/movies/bollywood/story/the-zoya-factor-motion-poster-out-sonam-kapoor-is-india-s-lucky-charm-1590331-2019-08-22 |title=The Zoya Factor motion-poster out: Sonam Kapoor is India's lucky charm |newspaper=India Today |language=en|access-date=25 August 2019 |agency=Ist}}</ref> It is directed by [[Abhishek Sharma (director)|Abhishek Sharma]] and starring [[Dulquer Salmaan]] and [[Sonam Kapoor]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://in.bookmyshow.com/movies/zoya-factor/ET00072428 |title=Zoya Factor |website=BookMyShow}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.livemint.com/2008/08/01235939/Giving-cricket-hysteria-a-kick.html Giving cricket hysteria a kick on its backside, Interview, 2008] at ''[[Mint (newspaper)|Mint]]''

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