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film directed by Hriday Shetty and starring

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. Most of the film was shot in

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. It was released on 13 January 2012.

Cast

as Pankaj Purushottam Suri (Sir) *

as Albert Pinto Pinto *

as Bhaskar Sardesai a.k.a. Bobby *

as Shakti Chinappa a.k.a. Shakti * Rupsha Guha * Rajesh Sharma as Mahesh Naik * Shweta Bhardwaj as Madhu, also appears in the song 'Setting Zala' * Zakir Hussain as Tony Bisleri *

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as Tilak Shetty * Arbaaz Ali Khan *

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as Haryanvi Shethi a.k.a. Tau *

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* Neelima Uttarwar as Gauri Shetty, wife of Tilak * D. Santosh as Chandu * Shital Kohok as bar male singer * Rupsha Guha as bride * Shuvendru Sood as groom * Yashshree Gupta as receptionist, Ad agency * Partha Akerkar as Vivek, Creative Head, Ad agency * Jahangir Karkaria as old Parsi man * Nargis Dastoor as old Parsi woman * Navin Talreja as Husband (HC; Happy couple) * Sonal Joshi as Wife (HC; Happy couple) * Sagar Juneja as Parsi son * Virendra Pandey as watchman in Parsis's bungalow * Chandrakant Dani as Ambulance attendant * Birendra Gupta as Tilak Shetty's accountant * Digvijay Rohidas as Inspector Kalsekar * Jageshwar as Hanif * Amruta Sant as Hanif's girlfriend * Sadat Shamshi as Hotel Dwarka receptionist *

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as Sheikh saab * Reetu Jain as 'Badmast'

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Reception

Box office

In its first weekend, the film netted around 1.75

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Critical response

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gave the film three out of five, writing, "This one manages to for most of the while. A sense of fun is never lost. It’s the actors, no doubt, who make the ridiculous believable. Hence, you truly enjoy this ride for most of the part. Which is saying a lot." Conversely,

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gave the film 1 out of 5, writing, "What we get is capable actors floundering, and a film that grows ever more incoherent and tedious as it lurches along among fellows pretending to be cops, bent policemen, mobsters hiding out in seedy hotel rooms, guns going rat-a-tat."

Soundtrack

The songs of the film were composed by Lalit Pandit whereas the title song was sung and composed by Vishal Rajan. The music rights were sold to T-Series and released in December 2011. The rights of the song "Hawa Hawa" were acquired from Pakistani Singer Hasan Jahangir. The film song was sung in two versions, originally sung by Hasan Jahangir. The background score was composed by

Sanjoy Chowdhury Sanjoy Chowdhury is an Indian film score composer. He debuted in 1998, by composing the background score of the Malayalam movie, ''Ennu Swantham Janakikutty''. Shortly afterwards, filmmaker John Matthew Matthan roped him in to compose the backgrou ...

References

External links

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Official website
2012 films Films shot in Mumbai 2012 crime comedy films 2010s Hindi-language films 2010s Indian films Indian crime comedy films