Khoka 420 (2013)

Interesting facts

Khoka 420 is a 2013 Indian Bengali-language romantic action comedy film directed by Rajib Biswas. The film stars Dev, Subhashree, Nusrat, Tapas Paul, Rajatava Dutta and others. The film is a remake of the 2010 Telugu film Brindavanam starring N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Kajal Agarwal. The film served as a spiritual sequel to the 2012 film Khokababu and the second installment of the Khokababu series. The film was dubbed into Hindi as "Mere Ustad 420".

Production

The director Rajib Biswas informed that initially he planned to have only one music director for the film but later decided to sign in four. He gave the songs to the four music composers and asked them to work on the songs. After listening to their versions, Biswas decided to keep the best one of each of their renditions, which displayed their signature styles.

He also hired four choreographers for the film to add a different style of dance to each of the dance numbers in the movie. He also mentioned that added the song "Jai Govinda Jai" in the film, as a token of his offering and respect to Lord Krishna.

The film has been mostly shot across West Bengal and Hyderabad. Parts of the film, including one of the songs have been shot at Macau. Khoka 420 also became the first Bengali film to be shot in Macau.

The team promoted their film across Kolkata. As a part of the promotions, Subhashree and Nusrat appeared on a special episode of the CID Kolkata Bureau show, telecasted on TV. In the show, a crazy fan Paritosh kidnapped them while they were going for the film and promotions and he also killed the driver of the car in which they were travelling. CID started the investigations and Paritosh proposed Subhashree to marry him in custody.

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