Hera Pheri (2000)

Three unemployed men find the answer to all their money problems when they recieve a call from a kidnapper. However, things do not go as planned...

Director:

Priyadarshan

Writers:

Siddique (story), Lal (story),

Stars:

Paresh Rawal, Akshay Kumar, Sunil Shetty

5 wins & 3 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Paresh Rawal	...	Baburao Ganpatrao Apte
Akshay Kumar	...	Raju
Sunil Shetty	...	Ghanshyam (Shyam)
Tabu	...	Anuradha Shivshankar Panikar
Om Puri	...	Kharak Singh
Gulshan Grover	...	Kabira
Kulbhushan Kharbanda	...	Devi Prasad
Mukesh Khanna	...	Police Inspector, Prakash
Asrani	...	Bank Manager
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Sulabha Arya	...	Raju's mom
Dinesh Hingoo	...	Chaman Jhinga
Mushtaq Khan	...	Devi Prasad's servant
Kashmira Shah	...	Kabira's Sidekick

Storyline

Baburao is a landlord in India, who is very near-sighted, and always in financial trouble. He has a tenant named Raja, who has not paid his rent for several months. He also has anther tenant named Shyam, who has come to the city to look for a job in his late father's place, but is unable to find employment. The three men quarrel amongst themselves frequently. Then one day, the three men get a phone call from a kidnapper named Kabira, and decide to make use of this phone call to overcome their financial problems - pretend to be the real kidnappers, increase the ransom amount, keep the incremental amount for themselves, and then give the original ransom demanded to Kabira. Will they get away with this idea?

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Plot Keywords:

kidnapper | kidnapping | daydreamer | telephone call | critically acclaimed | 

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Genres:

Comedy

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Details

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Release Date:

31 March 2000 (India)

Filming Locations:

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Company Credits

Production Co:

A.G. Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

156 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

The song "Mujhse milti hai..." filmed on Akshay Kumar and Rambha, whose promos were aired on television, was deleted from the final cut of the movie.

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Quotes

Raju: [Baburao is trying to pay off all his debt even before getting money from kidnappers] Cow is grazing and you are planning to sell curd !
Baburao Ganpatrao Apte: What?
Raju: Dont plan for expenditure before we get money

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Connections

Remake of Ramji Rao Speaking (1989)

User Reviews

Fun all the way!!!

Priyadarshan has a habit of making either extremely boring movies or extremely colourful ones, and I am happy to say that this is one of his finer efforts. This movie is a fun ride from start to finish. The characters are well projected and have a solid background, but more importantly the storyline is well written without flaws, which makes this clean comedy. Bravo Priyadarshan!!!

PS:Never thought someone would give a leading role to Paresh Rawal

I give it a 9/10