Summary
Four friends meet an underworld don who, on his deathbed, clues them in on hidden treasure buried in Goa. The group race towards Goa, not knowing that their plans will soon be foiled, albeit hilariously, by a police officer, who is also after the money.
Good for
- Family movie night
- Friends night
- Party vibe
Where to watch
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 72GoodWatch 71
IMDb7.6
Audience score68%
Box office
5.1×its budget
- Budget
- $2 M
- Worldwide
- $12 M
Worldwide it earned $10 M more than it cost.
Running time
2 h 15 min
Longer than 9 in 10 comedies, +35 min on the typical 100
typical 100135Half of all comedies run 91–111 min.
Reach
Streams in 78 countries, rent or buy in 11 more
+68Released
2007
September 7, 2007
19 years ago
Genres
ComedyAdventureLanguage
Hindi
Original language
Made in
- India
and 19 more28 people
- Sanjay DuttKabir Nayak
- Arshad WarsiAditya "Adi" Shrivastav
- Riteish DeshmukhDeshbandhu Roy
- Javed JaffreyManav Shrivastav
- Aashish ChaudharyBoman Contractor
- AsraniNari Contractor
- Sanjay MishraDacoit Babu Bhai
- Prem ChopraBose
Vijay RaazDev Kumar "D.K." Malik
Vijay PatkarAir Traffic Controller
Murali SharmaInspector Kulkarni
Vinay AptePrabhakarana....Chinnaswami Mutthuswami Venugopal Iyer
Suhasini MulayLandlady
Tiku TalsaniaM.I. Chaturvedi
Rana Jung BahadurDhabha Owner
Surendra RajanOrphanage Man
Ninad KamatFunction Host- AMAnkita M. SharmaShabnam "Shabboo"
Manoj PahwaPilot Amyjot Randhwa
Kiku ShardaConstable- DSD. SantoshEncounter Cop
- SCSahil ChauhaKid Himesh Reshammiya Mascot
Kurush DebooAmit Dwivedi
Sanjay SwarajSamir Agarwal
Directing · 1
- Indra Kumar Director, Producer
Writing · 5
- Paritosh Painter Screenplay, Story
- Balvinder Singh Suri Dialogue
- Tania Rose Original Story
- William Rose Original Story
- Bunty Rathore Dialogue
Production · 1
- Ashok Thakeria Producer
Camera · 1
- Vijay Kumar Arora Director of Photography
Editing · 1
- Sanjay Sankla Editor
Sound · 1
- Adnan Sami Original Music Composer
Art · 1
- Bijon Das Gupta Art Direction
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