Hera Pheri (2000 film)
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| Hindi | हेरा फेरी |
| Directed by | Priyadarshan |
| Produced by | A.G. Nadiadwala |
| Screenplay by | Neeraj Vora |
| Story by | Siddique-Lal |
| Starring |
Akshay Kumar Suniel Shetty Paresh Rawal Tabu |
| Music by |
Songs: Anu Malik Background Score: Surinder Sodhi |
| Cinematography | Jeeva |
| Edited by | N. Gopalakrishnan |
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145 mins |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Box office | ₹175 million (equivalent to ₹510 million or US$7.5 million in 2016) (India only) |
Hera Pheri is a 2000 Indian comedy film directed by Priyadarshan starring Akshay Kumar, Paresh Rawal, Sunil Shetty and Tabu. It is a remake of the 1989 Malayalam film Ramji Rao Speaking. The film spawned a sequel, Phir Hera Pheri, released in 2006. Hera Pheri 3 will succeed Phir Hera Pheri and is in pre-production.
Over the years it has become a cult classic. It was voted as the best Bollywood comedy film of all time in an online poll conducted by The Indian Express.Paresh Rawal won the best comedian award in Filmfare, IIFA and Star Screen Awards.
Raju (Akshay Kumar) is a tenant of Baburao Ganpatrao Apte a.k.a. Babu Bhaiyya (Paresh Rawal) and has not paid his rent for a long time. Raju does not believe in hard work and wants to earn easy money. He cons everybody, even his mother (Sulabha Arya), who thinks that her son works in Calcutta. Baburao, a bespectacled long-sighted man, runs the "Star Garage". He has a familial debt with many money-lenders and has hard time with them.
Shyam a.k.a. Ghanshyam (Sunil Shetty) has come to Mumbai from Gurgaon seeking a job in his late father's bank. Apparently his father died in a fire that broke out in the bank and he claims that the bank owes him the job. He badly needs the money for his friend Khadak Singh's (Om Puri) sister's marriage. A young woman, Anuradha Panniker (Tabu), is also in the running for the job, her father having died two minutes after Shyam's. Shyam meets Raju and a misunderstanding causes Shyam to think that Raju is a pickpocket. A fight ensues between the two, and Raju escapes, leaving his wallet with Shyam. After Raju leaves, Shyam discovers that he had his own wallet on him all the time. Unfortunately, this realisation comes just as Raju returns with two policemen, insisting that Shyam has robbed him.
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