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{{Short description|2011 film by Anees Bazmee}}
{{long plot|date=February 2015}}
{{Use Indian English|date=August 2014}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2013}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Thank You
| image = Thank You Hindi Movie Poster.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = [[Anees Bazmee]]
| producer = [[Ronnie Screwvala]] [[Twinkle Khanna]]
| writer = Anees Bazmee Rajan Aggarwal Nisar Akhtar Rajiv Kaul [[Ikram Akhtar]]
| based_on = 
| starring = [[Akshay Kumar]] [[Suniel Shetty]] [[Bobby Deol]] [[Irrfan Khan]] [[Sonam Kapoor]] [[Rimi Sen]] [[Celina Jaitly]]
| music = '''Songs''': [[Pritam]] '''Score''': [[Sandeep Shirodkar]]
| cinematography = [[Ravi Yadav]]
| editing = Steven H. Bernard
| studio = [[UTV Motion Pictures]] [[Hari Om Entertainment]]
| distributor = [[UTV Motion Pictures]]
| released = {{Film date |df=yes|2011|4|8|}}
| runtime = 137 minutes
| country = India
| language = Hindi
| budget = {{INR|610}} million<ref name="businessstandard"/>
| gross = {{INR|710}} million<ref name="Box office India"/>
}}
'''''Thank You''''' is a 2011 Indian [[Hindi]]-language [[romantic comedy]] film written and directed by [[Anees Bazmee]] and produced by [[Ronnie Screwvala]] and [[Twinkle Khanna]] under [[UTV Motion Pictures]] and [[Hari Om Entertainment]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mid-day.com/entertainment/2010/mar/240310-Bobby-Deol-Thank-You-Anees-Bazmee-Sonam-Kapoor.htm|title=Bobby Deol in Anees Bazmee's next Thank You|date=24 March 2010|work=[[Mid-Day]]|access-date=14 April 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/Salman-Asin-to-star-in-Anees-Bazmee-s-next/H1-Article1-530647.aspx|title=Salman, Asin to star in Anees Bazmee's next|date=13 April 2010|work=[[Hindustan Times]]|access-date=14 April 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100417083312/http://www.hindustantimes.com/Salman-Asin-to-star-in-Anees-Bazmee-s-next/H1-Article1-530647.aspx|archive-date=17 April 2010|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/92433/Cinema/Sonam+is+a+workaholic.html|title=Sonam is a workaholic|date=12 April 2010|work=[[India Today]]|access-date=14 April 2010}}</ref> The film stars [[Akshay Kumar]], [[Suniel Shetty]], [[Bobby Deol]], [[Irrfan Khan]], [[Sonam Kapoor]], [[Rimi Sen]] and [[Celina Jaitly]] in lead roles while [[Ranjeet]], [[Mukesh Tiwari]], [[Rakhee Tandon (actress)|Rakhee Tandon]], [[Smita Jaykar]] and [[Chahat Khanna]] are featured in supporting roles with [[Mallika Sherawat]] in a special song sequence and [[Vidya Balan]] in a special appearance.

Released on 8 April 2011, and conceptually similar to Bazmee's ''[[No Entry]]'' (2005), ''Thank You'' revolves around three married men and best friends at work, Raj Malhotra (Deol), Vikram Chopra (Khan) and Yogi Mathur (Shetty) who engage in philandering behaviour and run a yacht business, trying to have some fun outside their marriage. However, when suspicion plays its cards right on their wives, the naive Sanjana (Kapoor), the sharp-minded but pressured Shivani (Sen) and the rather pissed Maya (Jaitly) who doubt their husbands, enlisted for help arrives private investigator Kishan Khurana (Kumar), a detective who specializes in extra-marital relationships. However, the course of events that follows Kishan's attempts to expose and reform Raj in order to help Sanjana, who he is apparently in love with, takes twists and turns that are hard for him to deal with, and what follows suit forms the rest of the story.<ref>{{cite web|title=Thank You is like No Entry but not a sequel: Anees Bazmee|url=http://ticketplease.com/Movies/ddb7536a-ff9e-48bd-afc5-5aca6a59b2c7/Thank-You-.aspx|publisher=Noyon Jyoti Parasara (Ticket Please News)|access-date=13 March 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Bollywood sets a wedding date in Dubai|url=http://www.emirates247.com/entertainment/bollywood-sets-a-wedding-date-in-dubai-2011-03-24-1.372500 |publisher=Emirates 24/7|access-date=10 April 2011|author=Bindu Suresh Rai|date=24 March 2011}}</ref> Most of the scenes in this film were shot in [[Vancouver, British Columbia]] and [[Toronto, Ontario]] in Canada.

==Plot==

Raj Malhotra, Vikram Chopra and Yogi Mathur are best friends and business partners who are married to Sanjana, Shivani and Maya respectively, and live in [[Vancouver]], [[Canada]]. The three of them constantly cheat on their wives with not one or two but many women. However, while Yogi is the only unsuccessful one due to Maya having a secret friend spying on him, Raj and Vikram are able to get away with their flirtatious behaviour by fooling their wives and keeping them under check.

One day, when the three wives, who are also friends, meet up, and Maya brings up Sanjana's issue about a free necklace due on Raj when the two met previously that day in a mall, she and Shivani insist on Sanjana having a detective, Kishan Khurana, in reality Maya's "friend", solve the problem. However, when Maya arranges a meeting between them, things don't seem to work out because Sanjana happens to rubbish away Kishan's accusations against Raj. This compels Kishan to try exposing Raj by calling all his girlfriends to the New Year's Eve party, but Kishan's plan goes haywire when Vikram steps in and saves Raj.

Confused to the next day, Raj and Vikram suspect a spy being part of the scandal that was about to occur last night and seek help from friend and Canadian Security Intelligence Service agent KD, who instead suggests hiring a private detective as the matter is too trivial and unprofessional for an intelligence agency to handle. However, as fate would have it, they land up at Kishan's place, and, having recognized him from the party, enlist his help. Kishan, who is apparently crushing on Sanjana, decides to engage Raj and Vikram in a double game, which results in the duo mistakenly assuming Yogi as the informer after Kishan shows them a doctored video of Yogi conversing with Sanjana, and ceasing their friendship with him by exposing him on one of his cheat dates. Later that day, he creates a fracas for Raj by nearly exposing him as a cheater when he is caught in a bathing robe, but Vikram again comes up with an idea, this time about having Raj pose as an undercover cop in the CSIS, who was unintentionally exposed during a "mission" for KD, who played his boss, and was responsible for killing dreaded don King's brother. Sanjana believes the story and forgives Raj, later snubbing Kishan over the exposé.

Realizing that something is wrong with the deal, Kishan learns from Yogi about the plan and decides to expose them by staging himself as King and having them assemble blindfolded, with Sanjana and Shivani in attendance. When the truth is out, Sanjana tries to commit suicide, but Kishan convinces her otherwise, and comes up with a plan to reform Raj and bring his loving former self back to her life, part of which is a plan to entice Raj into jealousy by having Yogi inform him and Vikram of Sanjana beginning an affair and relationship with a dynamic, handsome man, who would be none other than Kishan himself.

Eventually, Kishan's plan of the jealousy game works out well, but trouble brews big time when Shivani, through Kishan's help, has Vikram thrown out of the house upon having obtained ownership of all his property by getting him to unsuspectingly sign "bank account" papers during the time he was advising a troubled Raj, who made a witness. Helpless and destroyed, the three men turn to Kishan for help again, where they request him to blow the covers of their enemies, and vow to batter their fugitives to death, little knowing that they instead have a common enemy in Kishan, who throws a subtle suggestion about the same which they fail to recognize, and while Sanjana is to keep a fast for Raj, Kishan comes up with his own plan and lures the trio to King's house after they end up with his jacket. Kishan then arranges the trio to meet King's wife Maddy, who too is doubting King's possible affair, but the meeting turns out a disaster when they learn that King is innocent and Maddy starts shooting at King left, right and center for flirting with another girl.

While waiting for him at his office to discuss details of the meeting, Raj and Vikram, along with Yogi, finally figure out in a sudden fit of musical epiphany that Kishan was in on the scam, double-crossing the three men while playing for their wives, posing as Sanjana's boyfriend, Shivani's "brother", and Maya's "friend", having lured them to King's lair out of intent. Sanjana disrupts a fight about to break between the four after Kishan arrives to find himself exposed. Assuming her to be openly in league and love with Kishan, Raj demands a divorce from Sanjana, and a shocked Kishan, in the next few days, manages to convince a crying Sanjana for marriage. However, while trying to invite the trio, Kishan is mistaken as the groom-to-be, and they, drunk, are arrested for smashing a police officer's head.

While in the cell, Raj rues about Sanjana and contemplates deceiving her, when he, Vikram and Yogi are bailed out by an injured King. Raj is in fury and decides to kill Kishan, for which King has his henchman Benny give him a gun. Raj succeeds, but when Sanjana confronts him, it turns out that the assembly of people was for the couple's remarriage. However, Kishan reveals himself to be alive, giving the wives relief, with King and Maddy showing up, as Kishan had arranged for their bail. Seeing his dedication, the wives, and Sanjana's mother and sister, ask Kishan about his reason for helping Sanjana way too personally, something which is unexpected of a professional of his kind. Kishan then reveals that his wife Divya once walked in on him cheating on her and committed suicide by slitting her wrist. Feeling guilty and breaking down, he set off on a mission to help aggrieved ladies of his wife's kind in order to redeem himself. However, it was with Sanjana that he saw a reflection of his wife in her, and decided to help her by any means necessary.

Finally, everything patches up with the three couples reuniting, while Kishan leaves Vancouver for his next mission.

==Cast==
* [[Suniel Shetty]] as Yogi Mathur
* [[Irrfan Khan]] as Vikram Chopra
* [[Akshay Kumar]] as Kishan Khurana
* [[Bobby Deol]] as Raj Malhotra
* [[Sonam Kapoor]] as Sanjana A. Malhotra
* [[Rimi Sen]] as Shivani Chopra
* [[Celina Jaitly]] as Maya Mathur
* [[Mukesh Tiwari]] as King
* [[Rakhee Tandon (actress)|Rakhee Tandon]] as Maddy, King's wife
* [[Ranjeet]] as T.T.
* [[Chahat Khanna]] as Kanisha "Kuku" Arora
* [[Smita Jaykar]] as Tishani Arora
* [[Shillpi Sharma]] as Sweety
* [[Mallika Sherawat]] in a friendly song appearance as Razia
* [[Vidya Balan]] in a special appearance as Divya, Kishan's wife
* [[Lilly Singh]] in an uncredited cameo in the climax scene

== Production ==
Kapoor replaced [[Katrina Kaif]] as the lead actress, since Bazmee wanted to have a change with Kumar's love interest. The film was shot at different locations in [[Vancouver]], [[Toronto]] and [[Bangkok]]. It was made on a budget of {{INR}}500 million, while an additional amount of {{INR}}80 million was spent on promotions.<ref name="businessstandard">{{cite web|title=Screen cautiously prepares to wrestle cricket for attention|url=http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/screen-cautiously-prepares-to-wrestle-cricket-for-attention/431094/|publisher=Business Standard|access-date=10 April 2011|author=Sharmistha Mukherjee|date=5 April 2011}}</ref>

==Reception==

===Critical===
Though earning more than INR 1 billion and emerging as a commercial success, ''Thank You'' opened to negative reviews from critics. [[Taran Adarsh]] of [[Bollywood Hungama]] rated the film with 2/5 Stars saying, "What could've been an honest take on dishonesty fails to leave a mark eventually".<ref>{{cite web|last=Adarsh|first=Taran|title=Thank You: Movie Review|url=http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movies/review/12747/index.html|publisher=[[Bollywood Hungama]]|access-date=10 April 2011|author-link=Taran Adarsh|date=8 April 2011}}</ref> [[Rajeev Masand]] of [[CNN-IBN]] gave the film one star and stated, "Badly scripted, shoddily photographed and embarrassingly performed, ''Thank You'' is one of those rare films that gets absolutely nothing right."<ref>{{cite web |last=Masand |first=Rajeev |title=Masand:'Thank You' is an awful film |url=http://ibnlive.in.com/news/masandthank-you-is-an-awful-film/148706-47-84.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110410121402/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/masandthank-you-is-an-awful-film/148706-47-84.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=10 April 2011 |publisher=[[CNN-IBN]]|access-date=10 April 2011|author-link=Rajeev Masand|date=9 April 2011}}</ref> [[Anupama Chopra]] of [[NDTV]] gave one and a half stars and commented, "My brains were battered to pulp and my eardrums are still recovering from Pritam's cacophonous sound-track."<ref>{{cite web|last=Chopra|first=Anupama|title=Review: Thank You|url=http://movies.ndtv.com/movie_review.aspx?lang=hindi&id=610|publisher=[[NDTV]]|access-date=10 April 2011|author-link=Anupama Chopra|date=8 April 2011}}</ref> [[Nikhat Kazmi]] of the ''[[Times of India]]'' awarded two and a half stars saying, "You have a film that can be an average weekend getaway. Nothing more, not even Mallika Sherawat's [[item number]]."<ref>{{cite web|last=Kazmi|first=Nikhat|title=Thank You Movie Review|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/movie-reviews/hindi/Thank-You/movie-review/7899971.cms|publisher=[[Times of India]]|access-date=10 April 2011|date=7 April 2011}}</ref>

===Box office===
''Thank You'' had a below average opening of {{INR}}50 million according to ''Box Office India''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Thank You First Day Business|url=http://boxofficeindia.com/boxnewsdetail.php?page=shownews&articleid=2745&nCat=box_office_news |publisher=Boxofficeindia.com |access-date=11 April 2011|date=9 April 2011}}</ref> It showed a 20% increase on Saturday, bringing the two-day total to {{INR}}110 million nett.<ref>{{cite web|title=Saturday Update: Thank You Shows Growth|url=http://boxofficeindia.com/boxnewsdetail.php?page=shownews&articleid=2747&nCat=box_office_news|publisher=Boxofficeindia.com|access-date=11 April 2011|date=10 April 2011}}</ref> The film grossed approximately {{INR}}320 million by the end of the weekend<ref>{{cite web|title=Thank You First Weekend Business|url=http://boxofficeindia.com/boxnewsdetail.php?page=shownews&articleid=2753&nCat=box_office_news |publisher=Boxofficeindia.com|access-date=11 April 2011|date=11 April 2011}}</ref> and {{INR}}520 million nett by the end of its first week.<ref>{{cite web|title=Teen Thay Bhai Non Starter Thank You Below The Mark First Week|url=http://boxofficeindia.com/boxdetail.php?page=shownews&articleid=2776&nCat=box_office_report|publisher=Boxofficeindia.com|access-date=17 April 2011}}</ref>
It raked in {{INR}}112.5 million in its second week taking the total to {{INR}}400 million net.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dum Maaro Dum Dull Opening Thank You Steady Second Week|url=http://boxofficeindia.com/boxdetail.php?page=shownews&articleid=2805&nCat=box_office_report |publisher=Boxofficeindia.com |access-date=28 April 2011|date=23 April 2011}}</ref> The film netted a total of {{INR}}600 million in India taking its worldwide total {{INR}}1.08 billion.<ref name="Box office India">{{cite web|url=http://boxofficeindia.com/boxnewsdetail.php?page=shownews&articleid=3944&nCat=|title= 2011 Worldwide Figures: Twenty Films Cross 50 Crore|publisher=Box office India|access-date=22 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120215132739/http://www.boxofficeindia.com/boxnewsdetail.php?page=shownews&articleid=3944&nCat=|archive-date=15 February 2012}}</ref> The film was declared ''average'' by BoxofficeIndia.com.<ref name="bo2010">{{cite web|title=All India 2011 (Figures in INR Crore)|url=http://boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=368&catName=MjAxMQ==|publisher=Boxofficeindia.com|access-date=20 June 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130604214749/http://boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=368&catName=MjAxMQ==|archive-date=4 June 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The film however managed to recover 90% of its cost through the sale of satellite, music and territorial rights.<ref name="businessstandard"/> The satellite and music rights were sold to [[Colors (TV channel)|Colors]] and [[T-Series (company)|T-Series]] respectively for a sum of {{INR}}300 million.<ref name="businessstandard"/>

==Soundtrack==
{{Infobox album
| name = Thank You
| type = soundtrack
| artist = [[Pritam]]
| cover =
| alt =
| released = 3 March 2011<ref>{{cite web|url=https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/thank-you-original-motion-picture-soundtrack/1122165709 |title=Thank You (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) |publisher=[[iTunes]]}}</ref>
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [[Film soundtrack]]
| length =
| label = [[T-Series (company)|T-Series]]
| producer =
| prev_title = [[United Six]]
| prev_year = 2011
| next_title = [[Dum Maaro Dum (film)|Dum Maaro Dum]]
| next_year = 2011
}}
The film's soundtrack was composed by [[Pritam]]. Lyrics were penned by Kumaar, Ashish Pandit and [[Amitabh Bhattacharya]]. The song "Pyaar Do Pyaar Lo" is originally taken from the film ''[[Janbaaz]]'', and is the first remake of the song, the second being "Ek Toh Kum Zindagani" by [[Tanishk Bagchi]] for ''[[Marjaavaan]]''. An additional song "Viah Di Raat (''Khushiyan Da Mela'')" was used in the film but has not been included in the soundtrack album.

The [[film score]] is composed by [[Sandeep Shirodkar]].

===Track listing===
{{Track listing
| extra_column = Singer(s)
| title1 = Pyaar Do Pyaar Lo
| extra1 = [[Mika Singh]]
| lyrics1 = [[Amitabh Bhattacharya]]
| length1 = 5:15
| title2 = Razia
| extra2 = [[Master Saleem]], [[Ritu Pathak]]
| lyrics2 = Ashish Pandit
| length2 = 4:54
| title3 = Full Volume
| extra3 = [[Neeraj Shridhar]], [[Richa Sharma (singer)|Richa Sharma]], [[Suzanne D'Mello]]
| lyrics3 = Kumaar
| length3 = 4:07
| title4 = My Heart Is Beating
| extra4 = [[Sonu Nigam]]
| lyrics4 = Kumaar
| length4 = 3:54
| title5 = Pyaar Mein
| extra5 = Neeraj Shridhar, [[Javed Ali]]
| lyrics5 = Amitabh Bhattacharya
| length5 = 4:37
| title6= Haan Har Gharein
| extra6= Javed Ali, Priyani Vani
| lyrics6= Ashish Pandit
| length6=
| title7= Khushiwon Di Mela
| extra7= [[Shahid Mallya]]
| lyrics7= Ashish Pandit
| length7=
| title8= Pyaar Do Pyaar Lo
| note8 = Remix
| extra8 = Mika Singh
| lyrics8 = Amitabh Bhattacharya
| length8= 4:39
| title9= Razia
| note9 = Remix
| extra9= Master Saleem, Ritu Pathak
| lyrics9 = Ashish Pandit
| length9 = 4:26
| title10 = Full Volume
| note10 = Remix
| extra10 = Neeraj Shridhar, Richa Sharma
| lyrics10 = Kumaar
| length10 = 4:25
| title11 = My Heart Is Beating
| note11 = Remix
| extra11 = Sonu Nigam
| lyrics11 = Kumaar
| length11= 4:44
}}

==References==
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== External links ==
* {{Official website|http://www.thankyouthefilm.com}}
* {{IMDb title|1720254|Thank You}}

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