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''Fraud Saiyaan'' () is a 2019 Indian
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-language romantic
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drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...
directed by Sourabh Shrivastava and produced by
Prakash Jha Prakash Jha (born 27 February 1952) is an Indian film producer, actor, director and screenwriter, mostly known for his political and socio-political films such as ''Hip Hip Hurray (film), Hip Hip Hurray'' (1984), ''Damul'' (1984), ''Mrityudand ...
, Disha Jha and Kanishk Gangwal. The film stars
Arshad Warsi Arshad Khan (born 19 April 1968) is an Indian actor who appears in Hindi films. He is the recipient of List of roles and awards of Arshad Warsi, several awards including a Filmfare Award from five nominations and is noted for acting in varied f ...
,
Saurabh Shukla Saurabh Shukla (born 5 March 1963) is an Indian actor, screenwriter, and film director who works in Hindi and a few Tamil language, Tamil and Telugu language, Telugu films. He is best known for his roles in ''Satya (1998 film), Satya'' (1998), ...
and
Sara Loren Sara Hussain (), better known as Sara Loren (born 11 December 1985), is a Pakistani actress and model mostly, known for working in Bollywood, Hindi as well as Lollywood, Urdu movies and television. She is best known for playing a role as Barkha ...
, and features Deepali Pansare,
Flora Saini Flora Saini, also known by her screen name Asha Saini or Mayuri, is an Indian actress and model. She predominantly works in Telugu and Hindi films, and also appeared in a number of Kannada and Tamil films. She has done more than 80 projects a ...
and Nivedita Tiwari in supporting roles. Filming locations included
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,
Raisen Raisen is a town and a municipality in Raisen district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. It is the administrative headquarters of Raisen District. Raisen takes its name from the massive fort at the top of a hill. The town is located at ...
,
Bhopal Bhopal (; ISO 15919, ISO: Bhōpāl, ) is the capital (political), capital city of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and the administrative headquarters of both Bhopal district and Bhopal division. It is known as the ''City of Lakes,'' due to ...
and
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. The soundtrack was composed by Sohail Sen, while Udai Prakash Singh handled the art direction. The film was released worldwide on 18 January 2019.


Plot

Bhola Prasad Tripathi is a
con man A scam, or a confidence trick, is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust. Confidence tricks exploit victims using a combination of the victim's credulity, naivety, compassion, vanity, confidence, irresponsibi ...
who marries rich women to live off them. He is living a happy married life with Sunita. Her uncle (Tauji) is visiting
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, so she arranges for her husband to meet with Tauji at railway station. Bhola does not arrive to meet Tauji. Instead, he has been fleeing from local goons and happens to meet Tauji on the train. Both meet on the train but do not recognise each other until Sunita send Bhola's photos to Tauji on his mobile phone. Once Tauji recognises Bhola, he pursues him by keeping his identity hidden and learns of Bhola's scams and his relationships with various women in different parts of the city. Tauji, a detective who is hired by the police to catch him, becomes his associate. When Bhola meets Payal, who is shown as a widow, he plans to con her but eventually falls in love with her. He finally robs her on the wedding day but is unable flee due to his feelings for her. He returns only to find out that she is also a fraudster like him who marries rich men for money. They both escape but Bhola is caught by the police. He is bailed after a week by Tauji and Payal, who plans the next con but he ditches her at the end and takes away all the jewellery and cash.


Cast

*
Arshad Warsi Arshad Khan (born 19 April 1968) is an Indian actor who appears in Hindi films. He is the recipient of List of roles and awards of Arshad Warsi, several awards including a Filmfare Award from five nominations and is noted for acting in varied f ...
as Bhola Prasad Tripathi / Rana Bhola Pratap Singh ** Mohit Balchandani as young Bhola *
Saurabh Shukla Saurabh Shukla (born 5 March 1963) is an Indian actor, screenwriter, and film director who works in Hindi and a few Tamil language, Tamil and Telugu language, Telugu films. He is best known for his roles in ''Satya (1998 film), Satya'' (1998), ...
as Murari Chaurasia *
Flora Saini Flora Saini, also known by her screen name Asha Saini or Mayuri, is an Indian actress and model. She predominantly works in Telugu and Hindi films, and also appeared in a number of Kannada and Tamil films. She has done more than 80 projects a ...
as Shraddha *
Deepali Pansare Deepali Pansare is an Indian actress who primarily works in Hindi television and Hindi films. Pansare is known for portraying Suhaagi in ''Neer Bhare Tere Naina Devi'', Payal Singh Raizada in '' Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon?'', Devyani Kelkar in ...
as Sunita *
Sara Loren Sara Hussain (), better known as Sara Loren (born 11 December 1985), is a Pakistani actress and model mostly, known for working in Bollywood, Hindi as well as Lollywood, Urdu movies and television. She is best known for playing a role as Barkha ...
as Payal *
Varun Badola Varun Badola (born 7 January 1974) is an Indian actor, known largely for his roles in Hindi television. Early life Varun Badola was born on 7 January 1974. His father is a known artist, Vishwa Mohan Badola. He has two elder sisters – Alka, ...
as Badri * Nivedita Tiwari as Mala Dubey * Peeyush Suhaney as Dulare * Preeti Sood as Preeti * Parul Bansal as Shrishti * Bhawana Pani as Chanda *
Parag Tyagi Parag Tyagi is an Indian actor from Modinagar. He made his television debut as Vinod Karanjkar in Zee TV's '' Pavitra Rishta'' and went on to appear in '' Brahmarakshas'', '' Jodha Akbar,'' and '' Shakti Astitva Ke Ehsaas Ki''. He is married t ...
as Chandani's husband * Anangsha Biswas as Astha * Amanda Rosario (
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"Ladies Paan") *
Elli Avram Elisabet Avramidou Granlund (; born 1990), known professionally as Elli AvrRam, is a Swedish-Greek actress and is now based in Mumbai, India. She is known for her Hindi film '' Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon''. AvrRam came to prominence after participa ...
as Chandani (
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"
Chamma Chamma "Chamma Chamma" is a Hindi song from the 1998 Indian film '' China Gate'' sung by Alka Yagnik and was picturised on Urmila Matondkar which became extremely popular. Song It is a classical celebration song or Folk dance song with Filmi Lyrics. ...
") * Ritesh M M Shukla as Train vendor


Production

Principal photography Principal photography is the phase of producing a film or television show in which the bulk of shooting takes place, as distinct from the phases of pre-production and post-production. Personnel Besides the main film personnel, such as the ...
commenced in October 2014 and was completed by 20 December. Warsi's character has 13 wives in the film. Priyanka Mundada was the film's costume designer.


Marketing and release

The film was released worldwide on 18 January 2019.


Reception

The film received negative reviews from critics. Writing for ''
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'', Meena Iyer rated it one and a half stars out of five and opined, "Don't bother with this farce, fraud or whatever in cinema's name you would like to refer to this one as". Pallabi Dey Purkayastha of ''
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'' rated the film one star out of five and concurred with Iyer, concluding, "Regardless of whether you enjoy con-man stories or you're a fan of Arshad's comedic talents, ''Fraud Saiyyan'' is not the kind of film that you should spend your time and effort on".


Box office

The film collected 52
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nett in India in its opening week.


Soundtrack

The music of the film has been composed by
Sohail Sen Sohail Sen (born 24 June 1984) is an Indian film composer, musician and singer who works in Bollywood. He debuted as a film composer with the Hindi film ''Sirf'' (2008), which went majorly unnoticed. Later, he gained fame as a Hindi film compo ...
and
Kumaar Rakesh Kumar Pal, known mononymously as Kumaar, is an Indian lyricist who works in Hindi cinema. Some of his songs include "Rula Ke Gaya Ishq", " Tu Bhi Royega", "Dil Ki Aadat", " Baby Doll', " Chittiyaan Kalaiyaan", " Sooraj Dooba Hain", "Lo ...
has penned the lyrics. The song "Chamma Chamma" which featured Elli Avram, is a recreated song from 1998 film China Gate which originally featured
Urmila Matondkar Urmila Matondkar (born 4 February 1974) is an Indian actress and politician. Known for her work primarily in Hindi cinema, Hindi films, in addition to Telugu cinema, Telugu, Malayalam cinema, Malayalam, Marathi cinema, Marathi and Tamil cinema ...
and was composed by
Anu Malik Anwar Sardar "Anu" Malik (born 2 November 1960) is an Indian music composer, singer, music arranger and score composer. He is the recipient of a National Film Award and three Filmfare Awards, who primarily composes music for the Hindi film ...
.


References


External links

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