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- IMDb link: 2417560
- IMDb rating: 7.3 (3,813 votes) Search
- Genres: Comedy
- Director: Nitin Kakkar
- Cast: Sharib Hashmi, Inaamulhaq, Kumud Mishra, Gopal Dutt and others
- Release date: 6 Jun 2014
- Release year: 2012
- Runtime: 117 minutes
- Country: India
- Keywords: reference to sachin tendulkar, satire comedy, terrorist, rajasthan, bollywood, border crossing
Plot
Storyline
A Bollywood assistant director is kidnapped by terrorists who mistake him for an American. While held captive in Pakistan, he discovers his captor deals in pirated Hindi films, leading to unexpected cultural connections.
In Mumbai, affable Bollywood buff and wanna-be-actor Sunny, who works as an assistant director, fantasizes on becoming a heart-throb star. However, at every audition he is summarily thrown out. Undeterred, he goes with an American crew to remote areas in Rajasthan to work on a documentary. One day an Islamic terrorist group kidnaps him for the American crew-member. Sunny finds himself on enemy border amidst guns and pathani-clad guards, who decide to keep him hostage until they locate their original target. The house In which he is confined belongs to a Pakistani, whose trade stems from pirated Hindi films, which he brings back every time he crosses the border. Soon, the two factions realize that they share a human and cultural bond. The film shows how cinema can be the universal panacea for co-existence.
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