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{{short description|2014 film by Abhishek Sharma}}
{{Use Indian English|date=November 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}}
{{Infobox film
| name = The Shaukeens
| image = The Shaukeens 2.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = [[Abhishek Sharma (director)|Abhishek Sharma]]
| producer = Ashwin Varde Murad Khetani
| writer = [[Tigmanshu Dhulia]] Sai Kabir
| screenplay = Tigmanshu Dhulia
| story = Samaresh Basu
| based_on = [[Shaukeen]] (1982 film)
| starring = [[Anupam Kher]] [[Annu Kapoor]] [[Piyush Mishra]] [[Lisa Haydon]]
| music = '''Songs:''' [[Yo Yo Honey Singh]] [[Hard Kaur]] Vikram Nagi Aydin Vance [[Arko Pravo Mukherjee|Arko]] '''Background Score:''' [[Sandeep Chowta]]
| cinematography = Amalendu Chaudhary
| editing = Rameshwar S. Bhagat
| studio = [[Cape of Good Films]] Cine1 Studios
| released = {{Film date|2014|11|07|df=yes}}
| distributor = [[AA Films]] [[Yash Raj Films]]
| runtime = 117 minutes
| country = India
| language = Hindi
| budget = {{INR}}30.25 crore<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ibtimes.co.in/the-shaukeens-viewers-review-live-update-613272 |title='The Shaukeens' Viewers Review: Akshay Kumar Starrer Charms |website=[[International Business Times]] |accessdate=26 October 2014}}</ref>
| gross = {{Estimation}} {{INR}}46.3 crore<ref name="BH The Shaukeens"/>
}}
'''''The Shaukeens''''' is a 2014 Indian [[comedy film]] directed by [[Abhishek Sharma (director)|Abhishek Sharma]]. The film features [[Anupam Kher]], [[Annu Kapoor]], [[Piyush Mishra]], and [[Lisa Haydon]] in the lead roles, and [[Akshay Kumar]] as a fictionalized version of himself In a special appearance

The project is a remake of the 1982 film ''[[Shaukeen]]'' directed by [[Basu Chatterjee]], starring [[Ashok Kumar]], [[Utpal Dutt]], [[A. K. Hangal]], [[Rati Agnihotri]], and [[Mithun Chakraborty]]. Partly shot in [[Mauritius]], ''The Shaukeens'' was released on 7 November 2014.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.timesofindia.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news-interviews/Will-Lisa-Haydon-replace-Nargis-in-Shaukeen/articleshow/32663448.cms |title=Will Lisa Haydon replace Nargis in Shaukeen? – TOI Mobile |newspaper=The Times of India |accessdate=26 March 2014|last1=Gupta |first1=Priya }}</ref><ref name="indi">{{cite web |url=http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/screen/mauritius-bound |title=Mauritius bound |publisher=The Indian Express |date=5 September 2014 |accessdate=3 September 2014 |author=Geety Sahgal}}</ref>

==Plot==
The film revolves around 3 old men. Ashok "Lali" Lalwani ([[Anupam Kher]]) is not happy with his wife ([[Rati Agnihotri]]), who is a staunch believer of God and doesn't spend time with him. Kamaldheer "KD" Sharma ([[Annu Kapoor]]) is a bachelor for some unknown reason, while Harishankar "Pinky" Goyal ([[Piyush Mishra]]) is secretly in love with a young Chinese woman, who only knows [[English language|English]] but he himself being uneducated, is unable to express his feelings. The three men plan a holiday to [[Mauritius]] to have some fun, where they meet Ahana Bakshi ([[Lisa Haydon]]), who is a social networking addict and gets annoyed because her rival girls have more [[Facebook]] likes and her ex-boyfriend had been commenting and liking their posts and condemning her at the same time.

The three men try to impress her by pretending to like her collections made from weird things like animal body parts, which although are stingy. However, her Facebook obsession reaches heights and Ahana decides to commit suicide, but is interrupted when she sees her idol, Rajiv Bhatia alias Akshay Kumar ([[Akshay Kumar]]) shooting for a song. She tells the three men, how she's a huge fan of Akshay and wishes to meet him. The three men try to get her to meet Akshay, much to his disturbance . Meanwhile, Akshay is revealed to be secretly an alcoholic, who drinks alcoholic beverages filled in coconut, so that it appears like he's drinking coconut water. He agrees to work with Ranjit Basu ([[Subrat Dutta]]), a filmmaker, who is well known for his films earning more than ₹3 billion and National Awards, and working with him would make Akshay, a better competitor to other superstars, and also earn him a National Award. However, Basu tells him, that he's not able to get in the character. The frustration of not getting into the required character and drinking too much alcohol causes Akshay to burst out in front of public and media on Pinky, who tells that Ahana had promised sex if he gets her to meet Akshay. Akshay publicly humiliates the three men and Ahana, by calling them perverts and slut shaming Ahana. But this however, backfires on him as he is a public figure. Moreover, he realises his mistake when Lali's wife blames KD and Pinky for this.

This time, Akshay visits just when the three men are about to leave, and asks them to forgive him and meets Ahana to apologise her. It is revealed that KD remained a bachelor because he loved Lali's younger sister, who is a divorcee but KD didn't want this to ruin his friendship with Lali. Akshay tells Ahana that to rectify his mistake, he has kept a conference, and that he intends to correct their public image. He tells the media in the press conference that he is working in a film Alcoholic, and what he did earlier was a promotional strategy and Lali, KD and Pinky are his uncles and know him from past. He also tells that Ahana is the new heroine of the film called "Alcoholic". While, the three men happily leave back to India. But Akshay finds himself even more frustrated, when he isn't able to get a good shot from Ahana, although he somehow manages to shoot the title track.

==Cast==
* [[Anupam Kher]] as Ashok "Lali" Lalwani
* [[Annu Kapoor]] as Kamaldheer "KD" Sharma
* [[Piyush Mishra]] as Harishankar "Pinky" Goyal
* [[Lisa Haydon]] as Ahana Bakshi
* [[Akshay Kumar]] as a fictionalized version of himself(Special Appearance)
* [[Rati Agnihotri]] as Mrs. Lalwani<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mid-day.com/articles/akshay-kumar-doesnt-want-to-over-promote-himself-for-the-shaukeens/15639156 |title=Akshay Kumar doesn't want to over-promote himself for 'The Shaukeens' |publisher=Mid-day |date=27 September 2014 |accessdate=27 September 2014 |author=Asira Tarannum}}</ref>
* [[Manoj Joshi (actor)|Manoj Joshi]]
* [[Kavin Dave]]
* [[Gaurav Gera]] as Bhanu
* [[Vandita Shrivastava]] as Escort
* [[Abhishek Bachchan]] in a special appearance
* [[Kareena Kapoor]] in a special appearance
* [[Sunil Shetty]] in a special appearance
* [[Dimple Kapadia]] in a special appearance
* [[Subrat Dutta]] as Ranjit Basu
* [[Amrit Maghera]] in a special appearance in the song "Meherbani"
* [[Rajni Basumatary]] as Angie (Angela)

==Production==
The shooting of the film started on 25 April 2014 in [[Cape Town, South Africa]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/bollywood/akshay-kumar-lisa-haydon-start-shooting-for-shaukeen-remake/ |title=Akshay Kumar, Lisa Haydon start shooting for 'Shaukeen' remake |newspaper=The Indian Express |date=28 April 2014 |accessdate=28 April 2014}}</ref> The indoor scenes were shot in a hotel room. Next schedule of filming started in [[Mauritius]] in early May 2014. The next schedule began in [[Delhi]] in May itself.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/screen/akshay-kumars-shaukeen-remake-kicks-off/ |title=Akshay Kumar's 'Shaukeen' remake kicks off |newspaper=The Indian Express |date=3 May 2014 |accessdate=3 May 2014}}</ref> [[Anupam Kher]] twitted that he was going to Delhi for outdoor shooting in Delhi on 11 May 2014.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/bollywood/anupam-kher-in-delhi-for-shaukeen-shoot/ |title=Anupam Kher in Delhi for 'Shaukeen' shoot |newspaper=Indian Express |date=11 May 2014 |accessdate=11 May 2014}}</ref> Last schedule was shot in [[Cape Town]] in August 2014.

Musical artist [[Yo Yo Honey Singh|Honey Singh]] was signed for a song in the film. Singh has earlier collaborated with [[Akshay Kumar]] a few times, and on his request to the rapper-performer for one special number for the film, Singh offered him three songs for the film.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report-honey-singh-offers-bonanza-for-akshay-kumar-s-shaukeen-1981510 |title=Honey Singh offers bonanza for Akshay Kumar's 'Shaukeen' |newspaper=DNA}}</ref>

Initially, [[Nargis Fakhri]] was signed for the film but when she left the project for a Hollywood film, ''Spy''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://movies.ndtv.com/bollywood/akshay-kumar-to-romance-nargis-fakhri-in-shaukeen-remake-371856 |title=Akshay Kumar to romance Nargis Fakhri in Shaukeen remake |newspaper=NDTV |accessdate=27 May 2013}}</ref> the role was offered to [[Shraddha Kapoor]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/shraddha-kapoor-to-replace-nargis-fakhri-for-shaukeen-remake/article1-1195146.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140315092936/http://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/shraddha-kapoor-to-replace-nargis-fakhri-for-shaukeen-remake/article1-1195146.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 March 2014 |title=Shraddha Kapoor to replace Nargis Fakhri for Shaukeen remake |newspaper=hindustantimes |accessdate=14 March 2014}}</ref> The part was finally offered to [[Lisa Haydon]] who accepted it. It was her first solo heroine film.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/1141011/jsp/t2/story_18913516.jsp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141013165401/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1141011/jsp/t2/story_18913516.jsp |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 October 2014 |title=Lisa Haydon is Ahana in the Shaukeens after being Vijaylakshmi in Queen |work=The Telegraph|access-date=26 June 2018}}</ref> [[Akshay Kumar]] was signed to play partner of Ahana played by Haydon, a role which [[Mithun Chakraborty]] had portrayed in the original film.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news-interviews/Nargis-Fakhri-dropped-from-Shaukeen-remake/articleshow/31871899.cms |title=Nargis Fakhri dropped from Shaukeen remake |newspaper=timesofindia |accessdate=12 March 2014}}</ref>

==Soundtrack==
The songs in the film are composed by [[Yo Yo Honey Singh]], [[Arko Pravo Mukherjee|Arko]], [[Hard Kaur]] & Vikram Negi. The [[film score]] is composed by [[Sandeep Chowta]].

{{track listing
| extra_column = Singer(s)
| title1 = Alcoholic
| extra1 = Yo Yo Honey Singh
| music1 = [[Yo Yo Honey Singh]]
| length1 = 3:20
| title2 = Meherbani
| extra2 = [[Jubin Nautiyal]]
| music2 = [[Arko Pravo Mukherjee|Arko]]
| length2 = 4:04
| title3 = Manali Trance
| extra3 = [[Neha Kakkar]], Lil Golu
| music3 = Yo Yo Honey Singh
| length3 = 3:23
| title4 = Aashiq Mizaaj
| extra4 = [[Aman Trikha]]
| music4 = [[Hard Kaur]]
| length4 = 3:46
| title5 = Ishq Kutta Hai
| extra5 = [[Mika Singh]]
| music5 = Vikram Negi
| length5 = 4:44
| title6 = Lonely
| extra6 = [[Anu Malik]]
| music6 = Vikram Negi
| length6 = 3:04
}}

==Box office==
''The Shaukeens'' collected {{INRConvert|324|m}} from the domestic box office and was declared "Average".<ref name="BH The Shaukeens">{{cite web |url=http://www.koimoi.com/box-office/the-shaukeens-2nd-week-box-office-collections/ |title=The Shaukeens: 2nd Week Box Office Collections |accessdate=20 November 2014 |website=Koimoi.com}}</ref><ref name="Koimoi">{{cite web |url=http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/moviemicro/boxoffice/id/596434 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102041955/http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/moviemicro/boxoffice/id/596434 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2 November 2013 |title=The Shaukeens |website=[[Bollywood Hungama]] |accessdate=20 November 2014}}</ref>

==References==

{{reflist|30em}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|3848888}}
{{Akshay Kumar}}

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