IMDb RATING
1.7/10
9.1K
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A comedy centered around three people who each have a lookalike of a lookalike, all with the same name.A comedy centered around three people who each have a lookalike of a lookalike, all with the same name.A comedy centered around three people who each have a lookalike of a lookalike, all with the same name.
- Awards
- 3 wins & 2 nominations total
Riteish Deshmukh
- Kumar
- (as Ritesh Deshmukh)
King Charles III
- Self
- (as Prince Charles)
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Sajid Khan! Why? Just Why? Why do you need to make films? OK, The story is just the confusion created by 3 doppelgangers (Humshakals) Based on just the above sentence, would you make a 160 minute long film? Only Sajid Khan would.. Saif, Ritesh and Ram will be seen in lead roles, whereas Bipasha, Tamanaah and Esha would be seen in Cameos (I would say) 3 Humshakals, one trio- Normal, second trio- Abnormal and the third one - Gays. This film is shameless- Jokes on people in coma, Gay Jokes, Racist Jokes, Sexist Jokes, and irritating Aakhri Pasta (Yes, Once Again!!!) Five silly songs just to increase the length of the film, a drug which can turn you into dogs, vodka and cocaine parathas and what not. Not to forget- Prince Charles speaking Marathi and Hindi.. It doesn't have a story- The film goes on with double meaning, offensive jokes for 150 long minutes. Please skip it, I would rather recommend you to watch Himmatwala, yes you read it right, on TV. Don't go for it.
Worst acting. Worst direction. Worst story line. Nothing is good about the movie except music. Thanks to Himesh for adding a plus point. Its not 9 time entertainer, it will give 9 time headache. Saif is the worst of all — he is unconvincing as the man behaving as a dog, as the waitress. Just about everything he does in the movie is like he's just sleep-walking. With no story or comedy on offer, even Riteish and Ram are unable to save the day for Sajid Khan. Skip this movie if you do not want a bad headache and other after-effects of being tortured.No start we can afford for this crap. There is no option to give 0 or -ve rating, it deserves this only. Among all the actors Saif is at worst. Even a Himmatwala cannot watch this.
Hoped they had a 0 or even minus rating!!
Thankfully (or not) we had a 8 year old amidst us and as she was finding this movie quite a fun, we had a good time hearing her laugh and watching her rolling in the seat :-)
Otherwise, i assure u we would have had a stroke or would have to get ourselves admitted in Agra mental asylum ourselves!! My sympathies with guys who were not as lucky as us ....
Yes we had a few laughs because my friend had warned me it would be intolerable and our expectations were ... NONE whatsoever!!
That said,, what really struck me was the obvious fact in the movie that
THE WRITER AND DIRECTOR HAD MADE THIS MOVIE WITH A PRESUMPTION THAT Indian AUDIENCE HAS AN IQ OF AN 8 YEAR OLD!!!!
WHY ELSE DO ALL THE 'BIG BUDGET' movies like Chennai Express, Dubang 2 are made out to be as BRAINLESS as possible!!! THE DIRECTORS and producers who r investing millions are not totally idiots are they!
Lets face it--- a low level shameless Hollywood rip-off ( Krish, Dahomey 3) or a BRAINLESS comedy like ( Kolyma returns, house-full, Chennai express, Humshakals) MAKE BIG BUCKS IN THE BOX OFFICE than a meaningful one like queen, Dil Chahta Hai etc
And this brings us to an ugly truth conclusion that --
Just as 70% of India lives in villages, 90% of India's audience love low IQ / poor imitation movies which are usually racist/ show women as men's sex slaves or have non-veg jokes at the cost of homosexuals and others...
Akshay Kumar and SRK have very well understood this phenomenon and accordingly have changed the type of movies they sign up for. in the last ten years, they have hardly made any movie which has even an iota of meaning in it--
And yet they have gone on to become the richest of the lot!!!!
Akshay Kumar, after Herapheri success, suddenly resorted to such brainless comedies ..
SRK - it's hard to believe that a guy who has acted in Swades and My Name Is Khan ,, prefers to act in movies like Om Shanti Om and Chennai Express!!
Both siblings- Farah (with SRK's blessings) and Sajid have eagerly embraced this formula of BRAINLESS movies and unabashedly churn out such black-hole movies...
And unless the 90% Indian audience, Whose brain has been addled by Ekta Kapur soap operas, wake up from their stupor,, this is going to go on :-)
Mera Bharat Mahan!
Thankfully (or not) we had a 8 year old amidst us and as she was finding this movie quite a fun, we had a good time hearing her laugh and watching her rolling in the seat :-)
Otherwise, i assure u we would have had a stroke or would have to get ourselves admitted in Agra mental asylum ourselves!! My sympathies with guys who were not as lucky as us ....
Yes we had a few laughs because my friend had warned me it would be intolerable and our expectations were ... NONE whatsoever!!
That said,, what really struck me was the obvious fact in the movie that
THE WRITER AND DIRECTOR HAD MADE THIS MOVIE WITH A PRESUMPTION THAT Indian AUDIENCE HAS AN IQ OF AN 8 YEAR OLD!!!!
WHY ELSE DO ALL THE 'BIG BUDGET' movies like Chennai Express, Dubang 2 are made out to be as BRAINLESS as possible!!! THE DIRECTORS and producers who r investing millions are not totally idiots are they!
Lets face it--- a low level shameless Hollywood rip-off ( Krish, Dahomey 3) or a BRAINLESS comedy like ( Kolyma returns, house-full, Chennai express, Humshakals) MAKE BIG BUCKS IN THE BOX OFFICE than a meaningful one like queen, Dil Chahta Hai etc
And this brings us to an ugly truth conclusion that --
Just as 70% of India lives in villages, 90% of India's audience love low IQ / poor imitation movies which are usually racist/ show women as men's sex slaves or have non-veg jokes at the cost of homosexuals and others...
Akshay Kumar and SRK have very well understood this phenomenon and accordingly have changed the type of movies they sign up for. in the last ten years, they have hardly made any movie which has even an iota of meaning in it--
And yet they have gone on to become the richest of the lot!!!!
Akshay Kumar, after Herapheri success, suddenly resorted to such brainless comedies ..
SRK - it's hard to believe that a guy who has acted in Swades and My Name Is Khan ,, prefers to act in movies like Om Shanti Om and Chennai Express!!
Both siblings- Farah (with SRK's blessings) and Sajid have eagerly embraced this formula of BRAINLESS movies and unabashedly churn out such black-hole movies...
And unless the 90% Indian audience, Whose brain has been addled by Ekta Kapur soap operas, wake up from their stupor,, this is going to go on :-)
Mera Bharat Mahan!
Imagine ... and I mean try to 'visualize' what you are going to read next... "After having watched this movie in a cinema-hall, while on your way back (from it), a mad dog crosses your path. wait ... make it more ... let us say, three mad dogs. You are terrified, assuming that the dogs might bite you but. Somehow those dogs know that you have seen 'Humshakals' and that too in a 'hall'. So, instead of biting you they'll all bow down in front of you showing utter respect to the courage you exhibited!" ... I think you got the point. Why did these actors work in this movie. Why?? Certain scenes are quite funny but overall this movie is s**t.
I watched this movie on Friday, first day first show and have lot of expectation from it, but after watching this movie i had a headache and there was nothing to laugh in the film, there was clueless comedy which doesn't make you laugh and that's why lot of people from cinema ran out from the middle of the film, I also thought to do the same, but hoping that may be this film will have something in the middle or end, but i am extremely disappointed that why i have not left the film and saved my time. This film shows that Sajid Khan didn't learn any lesson from the failure of HimmatWala and yet another Flop film is given by him. If you watch this movie you will waste your time, energy and as well as money. At some of the scenes you will laugh on Saif Ali Khan and Ritesh Dekhmukh comedy, but there are lot of repetition of one comic scene that lay down the movie.
Did you know
- TriviaThe film was a box office disaster. It was heavily criticized on social media, and became a butt of jokes. Bipasha Basu tweeted that she was unhappy with the way her role shaped up. Vashu Bhagnani said he will never work with her again. After its release, Saif Ali Khan said regretted signing onto the film. In an interview, Esha Gupta said she told her father not to watch the film. Akarsh Khurana also spoke out against the film.
- GoofsUnlike flour, cocaine can't be made into paratha because it dissolves in water.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Comedy Nights with Kapil: Happy New Year - Part 1 (2014)
- SoundtracksCaller Tune
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- Filming locations
- Chatsworth House, Edensor, Derbyshire, England, UK(Big House mansion scene)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $11,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $12,278,365
- Runtime
- 2h 39m(159 min)
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