Billu (2009)

Director:

Priyadarshan

Writers:

Manisha Korde (dialogue)
Priyadarshan (screenplay)

Release Date:

12 February 2009 (Australia)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

Based on the story of friendship between Krishna and Sudama.

Plot Keywords:

Barber | One Word Title | Character Name In Title

Cast

Irrfan Khan	...	Billu Vilas Pardesi
Shahrukh Khan	...	Sahir Khan
Lara Dutta	...	Bindiya B. Pardesi
Om Puri	...	Daamchand
Rajpal Yadav	...	Jhalan Kumar
Asrani	...	Mobat Chacha
Kareena Kapoor	...	Herself 'Marjaani'
Deepika Padukone	...	Herself 'Love mera hit hit'
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Uday Atroliyer	...	Sub-Inspector
Ahsan Bakshi	...	Police Inspector
Ashwini Bhatt	...	Yeshwant - Sahir's P.A.
Sunil Bob	...	School Committee Member
Priyanka Chopra	...	Herself 'You Get me rocking and reeling'
Pratik Dalvi	...	Ronak 'Duggu' B. Pardesi
Jagdish	...	Madan - Billu's competitor
Manoj Joshi	...	Damodar Dubey - School Committee Member
Rasika Joshi	...	Mrs. Gahalot - School Principal
Vineet Kapoor	...	School Committee Member
Mitali Mayekar	...	Gunja B. Pardesi
Rushi Mistry	...	D.S.P.
Lalit Parashar	...	Neighbour
Atul Parchure	...	Charandas Chaubey - Guesthouse Manager
Kanchan Rawat	...	Schoolteacher
Shankar Sachdev	...	D.P. Kansana - Municipal Officer
Rishikesh Sharma	...	Police Inspector
Chirag Vohra	...	Movie Director
Ameya Wagh	...	Jeetendra - Employee of 'Modern Madan'

Also Known As:

Billu Barber (India: English title) (working title)

Runtime:

137 min

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Ireland:PG | Canada:G (Manitoba/Ontario/Quebec) | Canada:PG (Alberta/British Columbia) | Australia:G | New Zealand:PG | UK:PG | Hong Kong:I | Singapore:PG | Sweden:Btl

Filming Locations:

Film City, Goregaon, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Company:

Eros Entertainment

Trivia:

Sahir Khan's illustrious career, showcased as various clips from his numerous movies (and with the posters that fans carry and posters that are in Billu's shop) make ready use of Shahrukh Khan's real life movie career, utilizing clips from Baazigar, Darr, Trimurti, Karan Arjun, Pardes, Koyla, Yes Boss, Dil To Pagal Hai, Duplicate, Dil Se, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Baadshah, Mohabbatien, Josh, One 2 Ka 4, Asoka, Devdas, Chalte Chalte, Kal Ho Na Ho, Main Hoon Na, Swades, Paheli, Chak De! India, Om Shanti Om, and others.

Movie Connections:

References Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998)

Soundtrack:

Billu Bhayankar

Not a must watch but surely an entertainer

No one expects a masterpiece from Priyadarshan because he does what he is best at, that is, entertaining the audience; be it the comedy in hera-pheri or hungama, or the tragedy in kyun ki or the recent emotional melodrama Billu. Even though the first half of the movie was pretty boring but what saved the movie was its nice script and great piece of acting by everyone from SRK to Irfan khan to even the child artists and other supporting cast. The item songs of DEEPIKA and KAREENA gave the value of my money though PRIYANKA's song made me wanting more of her(she was looking so wonderfully sexy). Soundtrack was also good if not rocking. All in all, it was a regular entertainer with good music, good script,good acting and average screenplay.