Happy New Year

Happy New Year (2014)

Six would-be thieves enter a prestigious dance competition as a cover for their larger goal of pulling off a major heist.

Date of release
2014-10-24
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (314)
Runtime
3h 0m
Genres
Crime, Comedy
Director
Farah Khan

Casting

Interesting facts

Happy New Year is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language heist action comedy film written and directed by Farah Khan and produced by Gauri Khan under Red Chillies Entertainment. The film features an ensemble cast of Deepika Padukone, Shah Rukh Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Sonu Sood, Boman Irani, Vivaan Shah and Jackie Shroff. The film was planned in 2005 but was shelved for unknown reasons and Farah Khan went on to make Om Shanti Om (2007) and Tees Maar Khan (2010). The film was distributed worldwide by Yash Raj Films. In the film, Charlie assembles a team of non-dancers to take part in a dance competition at a hotel in Dubai in a quest to pull off a diamond heist.

Production

In 2005, Farah Khan originally planned Happy New Year as her second film after Main Hoon Na (2004). The film was planned with an ensemble cast consisting of Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Akshay Kumar, Juhi Chawla, Manisha Koirala, Ameesha Patel, Priyanka Chopra, Raveena Tandon, and Zayed Khan. In 2006, Farah Khan signed then-model Deepika Padukone for the film.

Upon the film's revival in 2012, Priyanka Chopra was initially cast alongside Khan as the female lead, but opted out due to scheduling conflicts. Several other actresses including Sonakshi Sinha, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Parineeti Chopra and Katrina Kaif were considered; however Padukone was finalized, marking her third film opposite Khan after Om Shanti Om and Chennai Express.

Farah Khan announced that filming would begin in September 2013. The first schedule began in Dubai in November 2013. The film was shot extensively at the Atlantis, The Palm in Palm Jumeirah, Dubai.

In January 2014, Shah Rukh Khan injured himself while shooting at the JW Marriott Hotel in Mumbai. Though reported as minor at first, he suffered a fractured shoulder and a torn left knee patella, being advised to rest for a while.

Mehboob Studios was used as one of the major filming locations while certain portions were also filmed near the Wilson College. The final schedule was completed in September 2014.

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