Humshakals

Humshakals (2014)

हमशकल्स

Nine Times The Fun

A comedy centered around three people who each have a lookalike of a lookalike, all with the same name.

Date of release
2014-06-20
TMDB
3.2 / 10 (63)
Runtime
2h 40m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Sajid Khan

Casting

Interesting facts

Humshakals (transl. Lookalikes) is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language comedy film directed by Sajid Khan and produced by Vashu Bhagnani. The film stars Saif Ali Khan, Riteish Deshmukh, Ram Kapoor, Tamannaah Bhatia, Esha Gupta and Bipasha Basu in the lead roles, with Satish Shah, Nawab Shah, Chunky Pandey and Darshan Jariwala in supporting roles. In the film, Khan, Deshmukh and Kapoor each portray three characters, totalling nine roles. The music for the film was composed by Himesh Reshammiya, with cinematography by Ravi Yadav and editing by Bunty Nagi. The film was shot extensively in various international locations and co-produced by Fox Star Studios.

Production

The shooting of the film commenced on 24 September 2013 in London. The team shot in Mauritius for the final part of the film starting on 22 February 2014. Two songs and other sequences were shot at the La Plantation Resort & Spa, Le Méridien, Intercontinental Resort, Bagatelle Mall of Mauritius and the Northern Beaches, with Mauritian extras also having participated in the shooting.

After the film's release and subsequent poor critical response, Saif Ali Khan told the press that "The film didn't have a script as such, it was all there in Sajid's mind."

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