''C Kkompany'' (alternatively ''C Company'') is a 2008 Indian Hindi-language
comedy film
The comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor. These films are designed to amuse audiences and make them laugh. Films in this genre typically have a happy ending, with dark comedy being an exception to this rule. Comedy is one of the o ...
directed by debutant
Sachin Yardi, and produced by
Ekta Kapoor
Ekta Kapoor (born 7 June 1975) is an Indian television and film producer, known for her work in Hindi television and Bollywood cinema. She is the founder of Balaji Telefilms, Balaji Telefilms Limited, where she serves as joint managing directo ...
and
Shobha Kapoor. The film stars
Tusshar Kapoor,
Rajpal Yadav
Rajpal Naurang Yadav (born 16 March 1971) is an Indian actor and comedian. His breakthrough came in Ram Gopal Varma's ''Jungle'' (2000) with a negative role. Although Yadav has gained widespread recognition for his slapstick comic performances ...
,
Raima Sen
Raima Sen (born Raima Dev Varma) is an Indian actress and model, born into the royal family of Tripura to Bharat Dev Varma and Moon Moon Sen. Sen is known for her work in Hindi and Bengali films.
Early life
Raima Sen was born on 7 November ...
and
Anupam Kher. It released on 29 August 2008 to negative reviews from critics, and was a failure at the box office.
Plot
Three individuals - Akshay Kumar (
Tusshar Kapoor), Mr. Joshi (
Anupam Kher), and Lambodar Jha (
Rajpal Yadav
Rajpal Naurang Yadav (born 16 March 1971) is an Indian actor and comedian. His breakthrough came in Ram Gopal Varma's ''Jungle'' (2000) with a negative role. Although Yadav has gained widespread recognition for his slapstick comic performances ...
) have their own share of troubles as a common man. While Akshay is a struggling crime reporter, Mr. Joshi is a retired accountant troubled by his ungrateful son. Lambodhar works as a mascot in a mall but tells his son he has a business. Lambodar finds it difficult to deal with his wife over his job and is very aggressive to tall people because he is very short and is often mocked for his height. Together they share their plight and find solace in each other's company.
Akshay wants to marry the love of his life, Priya (Raima Sen), the sister of the leader of
D Company, Dattu Bhai. Mr. Joshi wants to get 1 crore from his son, which he claims he has a right to since Mr. Joshi has spent 1 crore raising his son. Akshay wants a portion of this money to run away from India with his girlfriend. To get this money, the trio calls Joshi's son, claiming to be from a large gang called C Kkompany, and threatens to kill his family if he does not comply. Through a series of events, this matter becomes public, and the trio tries to keep it secret. Joshi has a friend whose apartment complex is being taken down by people backed by the D Company. Joshi and Lambhodhar plant a fake bomb in the car of a big D Company-backed businessman, saying that the next time, they could easily put a real bomb if the businessman does not stop the destruction of the apartment complex.
A show called "Sarkar ya C Kkompany" is aired on
Zee TV
ZEE TV also known as Z TV is an Indian Hindi language general entertainment pay television channel owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises. It was launched on 1 October 1992 as the oldest privately owned television channel in India.
History ...
, with Akshay as the anchor. In the show, people call in with their problems, and the viewers see if C Kkompany helps or the Sarkar (government). The trio initially decides to stop their extortion calls since they feel they might get caught, but after realising that people who come for help have problems way worse than theirs, they decide to help them out of sympathy. However, the leader of D Company tries his best to discover the identity of the C Kkompany. He finds out that C Kkompany will be extorting 1 million from Joshi's son and goes to the meeting point (a carnival) to kill the C Kkompany members. He catches the trio, but is impressed and lets them go, while finally agreeing to let Priya marry Akshay.
In the end, Akshay marries Priya, with Dattu Bhai happily watching. Mr. Joshi gets his son's 1 crore Rs., and claims he got a lottery to hide the fact that he was C Kkompany and that he extorted the money. Lambodar starts his own business, and a person has to be at least 6 feet tall to work there. The three live happily ever after, and the movie ends.
The tale of C KKcompany continues, and it is found that now Sadashiv Pradhan is making the calls on C KKcompany behalf, unknown to Lambodhar, Joshi, and Akshay. Lambodhar, Joshi, and Akshay explain this to Dattubhai when questioned.
Cast
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Mithun Chakraborty
Mithun Chakraborty (born Gouranga Chakraborty; 16 June 1950) is an Indian actor, film producer, screenwriter, entrepreneur and politician who predominantly works in Hindi cinema, Hindi and Cinema of West Bengal, Bengali cinema. In a career spa ...
as Dattubhai Satellite
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Tusshar Kapoor as Akshay Kumar
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Anupam Kher as Ramakant Joshi
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Rajpal Yadav
Rajpal Naurang Yadav (born 16 March 1971) is an Indian actor and comedian. His breakthrough came in Ram Gopal Varma's ''Jungle'' (2000) with a negative role. Although Yadav has gained widespread recognition for his slapstick comic performances ...
as Lambodar Jha
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Raima Sen
Raima Sen (born Raima Dev Varma) is an Indian actress and model, born into the royal family of Tripura to Bharat Dev Varma and Moon Moon Sen. Sen is known for her work in Hindi and Bengali films.
Early life
Raima Sen was born on 7 November ...
as Priya
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Dilip Prabhawalkar as Sadashiv Pradhan
* Nikhil Ratnaparkhi as Purshottam Joshi
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Sanjay Mishra as Yadav
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Vinay Apte as Inspector Jwale
* Premchand Singh as Builder's Manager
* Raj Pandit as Aarush Jha, Lambodhar's son
Special appearances as themselves;
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Celina Jaitly in song "''Speaker Baje''"
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Ekta Kapoor
Ekta Kapoor (born 7 June 1975) is an Indian television and film producer, known for her work in Hindi television and Bollywood cinema. She is the founder of Balaji Telefilms, Balaji Telefilms Limited, where she serves as joint managing directo ...
in ''
Balaji Telefilms
Balaji Telefilms is an Indian company that produces Indian soap operas in several Indian languages. Balaji Telefilms also owns Alt Balaji, the platform known for producing adult rated content. Balaji Telefilms also produces reality TV, comedy ...
''
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Karan Johar
Karan Yash Johar (born Rahul Kumar Johar; 25 May 1972), often informally referred to as KJo, is an Indian filmmaker, producer and television personality who primarily works in Hindi cinema. He has launched the careers of several successful ac ...
in ''
Karan Banaye Crorepati''
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Mahesh Bhatt
Mahesh Bhatt (born 20 September 1948) is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter known for his works in Hindi cinema. He has received List of awards and nominations received by Mahesh Bhatt, a number of accolades, including four Nati ...
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Sanjay Dutt
Sanjay Balraj Dutt (born 29 July 1959) is an Indian actor, playback singer and film producer who works in Hindi cinema in addition to a few Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Punjabi films. Dutt has won several accolades and acted in over 160 films.
...
in song "''C Kkompany''"
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Saakshi Tanwar as herself
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Disha Vakani as Asha Trivedi
* Prabhat Bhattacharya as Tv actor
Cameo appearances as themselves;(Party scene)
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Hiten Tejwani
Hiten Tejwani is an Indian television actor known for his work in several fictional shows.
Early life and family
Hiten Tejwani was born into a Sindhi Hindu family.
Hiten Tejwani married his '' Kutumb'' and ''Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi' ...
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Gauri Pradhan Tejwani
* Vishal Sabnani
* Shriya Bisht
* Jatin Shah
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Priya Bathija
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Shubhangi Atre
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Krystle D'Souza
Krystle D'Souza (born 1 March 1990) is an Indian actress who mainly works in Television in India, Hindi television. She made her acting debut in 2007 with the role of Kinjal Pandey in ''Kahe Naa Kahe'' and had her breakthrough with ''Ek Hazaar ...
*
Rakshanda Khan
Rakshanda Khan Tyagi (born 27 September 1974) is an Indian Hindi, Hindi television actress. She is married to actor Sachin Tyagi.
Personal life
Khan is married to actor Sachin Tyagi, a father of two daughters from his first marriage. Khan met ...
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Ali Asgar
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Dimple Jhangiani
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Vishal Singh
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Karan Patel
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Vikas Sethi
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Pallavi Subhash
Production
Sachin Yardi, who previously worked as a
screenwriter
A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television ...
for films such as ''
Kyaa Kool Hai Hum'' (2005) and ''
Traffic Signal
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'' (2007), got an idea for a story which dealt with ordinary men placed in extraordinary situations. He worked on the script for six months and invested much time on the character sketches.
Speaking about his directorial debut, Yardi felt
direction to be a satisfying experience and helped him have control over his script. After filming, he felt that the film was executed in the way he wanted it and was quite confident about the way it shaped up.
Until this film,
Raima Sen
Raima Sen (born Raima Dev Varma) is an Indian actress and model, born into the royal family of Tripura to Bharat Dev Varma and Moon Moon Sen. Sen is known for her work in Hindi and Bengali films.
Early life
Raima Sen was born on 7 November ...
appeared in supporting roles in several films such as ''
Chokher Bali'' (2003), ''
Parineeta'' (2005), and ''
Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.'' (2007). This was the first time in her commercial movie career that she portrayed a lead character's role. Quite unlike her real life love for food, Sen portrays a role of a
dietitian
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.
Tusshar Kapoor, the sibling brother of producer
Ekta Kapoor
Ekta Kapoor (born 7 June 1975) is an Indian television and film producer, known for her work in Hindi television and Bollywood cinema. She is the founder of Balaji Telefilms, Balaji Telefilms Limited, where she serves as joint managing directo ...
, loved to work in the film due to his sister's conviction to the film.
Soundtrack
# "Speaker Baje" (Dhol Mix) -
Sanjay Dutt
Sanjay Balraj Dutt (born 29 July 1959) is an Indian actor, playback singer and film producer who works in Hindi cinema in addition to a few Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Punjabi films. Dutt has won several accolades and acted in over 160 films.
...
,
Sunidhi Chauhan
Sunidhi Chauhan (pronounced ; born Nidhi Chauhan, 14 August 1983) is an Indian playback singer. Known for her Bold vocal range, she has recorded songs for films in several Indian languages and List of awards and nominations received by Sunidhi ...
,
Anand Raj Anand
# "Jaane Kya Ho Gaya Mujhko" -
Shreya Ghoshal
Shreya Ghoshal (; born 12 March 1984) is an Indian singer. Noted for her wide vocal range and versatility, she is one of the most prolific and influential singers of India. Often referred to as the "Queen of Dynamics'' for her remarkable voc ...
,
K. K., Bappi Lahiri
# "Speaker Baje Speaker Baje" - Sanjay Dutt, Anand Raj Anand, Sunidhi Chauhan
# "C Kkompany" (Remix) - Sanjay Dutt
# "C Kkompany C Kkompany C Kkompany" - Sanjay Dutt
# "Khoka" (Remix) -
Mika Singh
Mika Singh (born 10 June 1977) is an Indian singer, rapper, musician and actor. His songs include "Bas Ek King" (''Singh Is Kinng''), "Mauja Hi Mauja" (''Jab We Met''), "Ibn-e-Batuta" (''Ishqiya''), "Dhanno" (''Housefull (2010 film), Housefull' ...
,
Bappi Lahiri
Bappi Aparesh Lahiri (born Alokesh Aparesh Lahiri; 27 November 1952 – 15 February 2022), also known as Bappi Da, was an Indian singer, composer and record producer. He popularised the use of synthesised disco music in Indian music industry and ...
, Reema Lahiri
# "Khokha.... Khokha Jab Haat Aayega" - Mika Singh, Reema Lahiri
Remake
The movie was remade in
Pakistan
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the Islam by country# ...
as
''Na Maloom Afraad (2014)''.
References
External links
Cast & crew at Indiafm
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{{Balaji Telefilms
2008 films
2000s Hindi-language films
Films scored by Anand Raj Anand
Indian crime comedy films
2008 crime comedy films
Films set in Mumbai
Balaji Motion Pictures films
2008 directorial debut films
Films directed by Sachin Yardi