''Hum Tum Shabana'' () is a 2011 Indian

romantic comedy Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a sub-genre of comedy and Romance novel, romance fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount all obstacles. Ro ...

film. It stars Tusshar Kapoor, Shreyas Talpade and Minissha Lamba.

Plot

''Hum Tum Shabana'' revolves around three characters. The two men compete to woo the woman, but then it turns into a desperate battle to lose her.

Cast

* Tusshar Kapoor as Rishi Malhotra * Shreyas Talpade as Karthik Iyer * Minissha Lamba as Shabana Raza * Sanjay Mishra as Munna Military (Manoj Tyagi) * Mantra as Nandu * Satish Kaushik as Chacha Panju * Pia Trivedi as Rhea Dixit * Rahul Singh as Ravi Aggarwal * Rajesh Khattar as Vikram Malhotra *

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as Puja (Cameo appearance) * Surveen Chawla as Shabana (Cameo appearance) *

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as himself (Cameo appearance) * Karmveer Choudhary as Gangster * Vaarssh Bhatnagar as Bittu

Soundtrack

The music of the film was composed by music director duo Sachin–Jigar. # "Musik Bandh Na Karo" - Abhishek Nailwal, Palash Sen, Anushka Manchanda # "Hey Na Na Shabana" - Raghav Mathur # "Thank U Mr DJ" -

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, Suzanna D'Mello # "Piya Kesariyo" - Anushka Manchanda, Jigar Saraiya # "Kaari Kaari" - Vijay Prakash, Shalini Singh, Tochi Raina - Lyrics: Mayur Puri # "Hey Na Na Shabana" (Party Map Remix) Remix - DJ Akhil Talreja # "Musik Bandh Na Karo" (Remix) Remix - Kiran Kamath

Reception

Critical response

''Hum Tum Shabana'' received negative reviews all throughout. Preeti Arora of Rediff.com said, "... an unashamed attempt to ape the Golmaal series, Hum Tum Shabana is a rudderless ship which simultaneously endeavors to straddle many genres. And fails miserably," and gave it half a star out of 5 stars. The Indian Express rated it half a star as well. Taran Adarsh of

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giving it 1.5 out of 5 stars, said that it has a funny first half but a disappointing second hour. Nupur Barua of fullhyd.com lamented the fact that Sagar Ballary, the director, "seems to prefer the Golmaal and Dhamaal styles, rather than that of his first film Bheja Fry." fullhyd.com rated the movie 4/10.

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's Nikhat Kazmi wasn't positive about the film either, and rated it 2/5.

References

External links

* * {{IMDb title, 2034011 2010s Hindi-language films 2010s Indian films 2011 films 2011 romantic comedy films Films directed by Sagar Ballary Indian romantic comedy films