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Why Cheat India

  • 2019
  • 2h 1m
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
3.1K
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Emraan Hashmi in Why Cheat India (2019)
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HindiDark ComedyComedyCrimeDrama

The movie focuses on existing malpractices in country's education system, the whole concept of buying your way through education, jobs and earnings. Even with an evolving education system, t... Read allThe movie focuses on existing malpractices in country's education system, the whole concept of buying your way through education, jobs and earnings. Even with an evolving education system, the country faces scams like SSC and HSC paper leaks, CBSE re-examination, Vyaapam, etc. Th... Read allThe movie focuses on existing malpractices in country's education system, the whole concept of buying your way through education, jobs and earnings. Even with an evolving education system, the country faces scams like SSC and HSC paper leaks, CBSE re-examination, Vyaapam, etc. The movie tries to shift the attention of people to understand the vulnerability of hardwork... Read all

  • Director
    • Soumik Sen
  • Writers
    • Soumik Sen
    • Mishkka Shekhawat
  • Stars
    • Emraan Hashmi
    • Shreya Dhanwanthary
    • Snighdadeep Chatterji
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    6.1/10
    3.1K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Soumik Sen
    • Writers
      • Soumik Sen
      • Mishkka Shekhawat
    • Stars
      • Emraan Hashmi
      • Shreya Dhanwanthary
      • Snighdadeep Chatterji
    • 34User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 nomination total

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    Emraan Hashmi
    Emraan Hashmi
    • Rakesh Kumar Singh
    Shreya Dhanwanthary
    Shreya Dhanwanthary
    • Nupur Dubey
    Snighdadeep Chatterji
    • Satyendera Dubey 'Sattu'
    Shubham Somu Srivastava
    • MBA Student
    Navneet Srivastava
    • Pintu
    Nanda Yadav
    Nanda Yadav
    • Malini Awasthi
    Tanmay Lahiri
    • Salim Qureshi
    Ashmita Kaur Bakshi
    • Neha
    Shibani Bedi
    Shibani Bedi
    • Emraan Hashmi's Wife Sunita
    Durgesh Chauhan
    • MBA father
    Mahesh Chandra Deva
    • Vaidhya
    • (as Mahesh Deva)
    Elena Roxana Maria Fernandes
    Elena Roxana Maria Fernandes
    • Sarah
    Sameeksha Gaur
    • Jahnavi
    • (as Samiksha Gaur)
    Akhilesh kumar Gupta
    • Kurshi assistant
    • (as Akhilesh)
    Amitabh Gupta
    • Rakesh Relative 2
    • (as Amitabha a Gupta)
    Harshit Gupta
    • Student
    • (as Harshit Gupta)
    Rajesh Jais
    • Prosecution lawyer
    Narendra Kanojiya
    • Student
    • Director
      • Soumik Sen
    • Writers
      • Soumik Sen
      • Mishkka Shekhawat
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    User reviews34

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    10arbazkhan-01562

    Go watch cheat India

    Please go an watch cheat India do not listen any nagative reviews it's a awesome subject and awesome acting by Emraan sir you must have to go
    8bhushanrathod

    Excellent story and one of the best movies of Emraan Hashmi

    Emaran Hashmi is the best for such kinda movies. He did his best and got a perfect role. Story line is good but lags in case of music and songs. But still must watch movie...
    10mishraaudacious

    Subject of movie is very good

    Movie is good and idea to bring cheating scandles in admissions and job (like SSC) openly is fantastic.
    6chiragtyagi-43558

    Promising start to befitting end!!!!!

    So this movie let me down....emraan is my fav. He disappoints with the choice of script ....lets talk about good-performance by every character is good....emraan again proves he can do any role....the debutant shines well....2.the theme and thinking of making a movie on this subject 3.1st half is well made it binds u with the serious problem of our country that is curroption in exams what's bad-direction bcz u usually get the song when serious moment is going on which disturbs the plot 2.Script the movie has very loose script and nothing much to offer 3.second half the movie has horrible second half and the movie loose it's plot after 1st half the 2nd half is utterly boring 4.climax movie has a strange climax with suspense that is good but in end emraan start the same work again what's the point???? At the end I will rate it 2.5/5 u can watch it in theatre if u r emraan fan...other wise wait for television premiere....
    5irfan-nasir05

    Pressing issue but weak execution

    The core idea of the movie was solid, but the execution was poor. Being an Emraan Hashmi fan, I had expected the movie to be more entertaining. The beginning kept me hooked, but the later part failed to maintain interest. It could have been made a bit more engaging and thought-provoking. Overall, it's just a one-time watch in my opinion.

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      Emraan Hashmi was using Nokia 6600 model in the movie... during his early movies between 2005-2007 he was also shown using that model when it was newly launched handset in that time..

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    • Release date
      • January 18, 2019 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • India
    • Official site
      • Watch Why Cheat India Online at ZEE5
    • Language
      • Hindi
    • Also known as
      • Зачем обманывать Индию
    • Production companies
      • Ellipsis Entertainment
      • Emraan Hashmi Films
      • T-Series Films
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      • $1,441,893
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      • 2h 1m(121 min)
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