Knock Out (2010 film)

Knock Out
File:Knockout movie.jpg Theatrical poster
Directed by	Mani Shankar
Produced by	Sohail Maklai
Written by	Mani Shankar
Starring	Sanjay Dutt Irfan Khan Kangana Ranaut Gulshan Grover Rukhsar Rehman Sushant Singh Abdullah Jaidi
Music by	Gourov Dasgupta Vishal Dadlani (lyrics) Panchhi Jalonvi (lyrics) Shellee (lyrics)
Cinematography	Natarajan Subramaniam
Distributed by	Sohail Maklai Entertainment Pvt Ltd Aap Entertainment Limited
Release date	15 October 2010 (2010-10-15)
Running time	117 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Box office	₹622 million (US$7.1 million)

Knock Out is an Indian Hindi-language action-thriller film directed by Mani Shankar. Released on 15 October 2010, the film stars Sanjay Dutt, Irrfan Khan and Kangana Ranaut. Knock Out is an unauthorized remake of Phone Booth. In October 2010, the Bombay High Court ordered the film's producers to pay a portion of their revenues to 20th Century Fox, who own the rights to Phone Booth. The film was a hit at the box office.

Plot

Bachubhai (Irrfan Khan) has come to a phone booth to make a call. He is interrupted by a man who interrupts him again. Bachubhai tells him to stop interrupting. While moving out of the phone booth after the call, the phone rings. Bachubhai picks up the call only to get surprised by an unknown caller who ensures that Bachubhai does not leave the phone booth until his motive of calling is achieved. Another man interrupts who is shot dead by that unknown person from a far away building. As seeing the incident, police, public, and news reporter Nidhi Srivastav Kangana Ranaut arrive. Everyone is seeing everything as Bachubhai has been told to do what the person on the phone call says or he will shoot him. Later, Police officer Sushant Singh is transferred, and another encounter specialist has been called. Meanwhile, Bachubhai, who is working for a corrupt politician who has 320 billion black money, has been told to transfer the money on a government account to give back the money to the public. Bachubhai does everything as the phone caller says. At the end of the movie, the money has been transferred to the public account, and it is revealed that Veer Vijay Singh (Sanjay Dutt) is a Chief of Investigation Bureau. Bachubhai, after transferring the money, nothing happens to him.

Cast

• Sanjay Dutt as Veer Vijay Singh, Chief of Ops, IB/Colonel Gill
• Irrfan Khan as Bachchoo Bhai/ Tony Khosla
• Kangana Ranaut as Nidhi Srivastava, India TV reporter
• Gulshan Grover as Bapuji
• Rukhsar Rehman as Lakshmi, Tony's wife
• Sushant Singh as Inspector Vikram
• Asif Basra as Raghav
• Bikramjeet Kanwarpal as editor, Nidhi's boss
• Kurush Deboo as Sandwichwala
• Abhay Shukla as Prithvi
• Shankar Sachdeva as Mishra
• Shriya Sharma as Sweety, Tony's daughter
• Naseer Abdullah as Bhalla
• Namrata Thapa as Roshni
• Apoorva Lakhia as Ranvir Singh
• Ashraful Haque as Junkie
• Shreya Narayan as Jesse
• Aparna as Bharti
• Silvio Simac as fighter on terrace
• Rajendra Jadhav as Gundurao
• Vinay Verma as Commissioner
• M D Pasha as Suvarna
• Hussain Shaikh as Party President
• Gary Warren D'souza as Swiss Bank Manager
• Randheer Nahar as Pandey
• Shivraj as RBI Officer

Reception

Knock Out received mixed reviews by critics. Nikhat Kazmi of The Times of India rated the film 2 out of 5 stars.

Soundtrack

The film's music was given by Gourov Dasgupta, with a background score by Atul Raninga and Sanjay Wandrekar. The soundtrack has five original tunes, one remix, and an alternate version of one song.

#	Song	Singers	Lyrics	Music Director
1.	"Knock Out" Title track	Vishal Dadlani	Panchhi Jalonvi	Gourav Dasgupta
2.	"Khushnuma Sa"	Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
3.	"Hungama"	Sunidhi Chauhan
4.	"Maula"	KK
5.	"Khushnuma Sa Woh"	Krishna Beura	Shelle
6.	"Hungama" (Remix)	Sunidhi Chauhan	Panchhi Jalonvi
7.	"Gangubai Pe Aai Jawani"	Sumitra Iyer, Sanjeev-Darshan	Sameer	Sanjeev-Darshan

External links

• Knock Out on IMDb