No Entry

No Entry
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Anees Bazmee
Written by	Anees Bazmee
Based on	Charlie Chaplin (Tamil)
Produced by	Boney Kapoor
Starring	Salman Khan Anil kapoor Fardeen Khan Bipasha Basu Esha Deol Lara Dutta Celina Jaitly
Cinematography	Ashok Mehta, Arvind Soni
Edited by	Sanjay Sankla
Music by	Soundtrack: Anu Malik Background Score: Salim–Sulaiman
Production companies	SK Film Entertainment, Sahara One Motion Pictures
Distributed by	K. Sera Sera
Release date	26 August 2005 (2005-08-26)
Running time	161 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹22 crore
Box office	₹74.85 crore

No Entry is an 2005 Indian Hindi-language comedy film written and directed by Anees Bazmee. It is produced by Boney Kapoor, and stars an ensemble cast of Salman Khan, Anil kapoor, Fardeen Khan, Bipasha Basu, Esha Deol, Lara Dutta and Celina Jaitly, while Sameera Reddy makes a cameo appearance. The soundtrack of the film is composed by Anu Malik. The film was released worldwide on 26 August 2005. Made on a production budget of ₹220 million, it went on to become the highest-grossing Hindi film of 2005, earning over ₹798.5 million worldwide. It is an official remake of the 2002 Tamil film Charlie Chaplin. This film is remade in Bengali as Kelor Kirti in 2016 starring Dev Adhikari , Ankush Hazra and Jisshu Sengupta. Dev was in place of Salman Khan, Ankush in place of Fardeen Khan and Jisshu in place of Anil Kapoor.

Plot[]

Kishan, a wealthy print-media owner is married to the suspicious-minded Kajal, who thinks he is having an affair with another woman, though he is faithful to her and never wills to betray her anyway. His friend Prem, a rich businessman has the opposite situation has many affairs with some gorgeous hot girls, even though he is married to Pooja, who is very trusting. Kishan's employee, Shekhar, accidentally falls in love with Sanjana, who hates lies and doesn't tolerate other woman in a man's life.

As Kishan takes Prem's photos with his girlfriend and threatens to informs Pooja, Prem sends Bobby, a call girl to seduce Kishan. The plan is that he'll fall in Prem's trap. Kishan plans to meet Bobby at his home while Kajal travels Ajmer. As her passport is left at home, she returns and finds Bobby with Kishan in their out-house, which they'd given Shekhar to live in. Then the lies start; Kishan tells her that Bobby is Shekhar's wife; Sanjana, set to marry Shekhar, thinks Bobby is Kishan's wife.

Prem, in order to save his friends' marriages, tells Sanjana and Kajal that Bobby is Kishan's second wife. It becomes a bundle of confusion, arguments and comedy when all the various couples meet together. The truth is eventually told through many comedic encounters, and eventually Kishan, Prem and Shekhar seemingly turn over a new leaf. It is hinted at the film end, however, that the three friends haven't fully turned over a new leaf with the entrance of Sameera Reddy in a cameo.

Cast[]

• Salman Khan as Prem Khanna
• Anil Kapoor as Kishan Singhania
• Fardeen Khan as Shekhar "Sunny" Taneja
• Bipasha Basu as Bobby Shirke, a call girl hired by Prem to seduce Kishan
• Lara Dutta as Kajal Singhania, Kishan's wife who has a suspicion from the beginning that he is having extramarital relationships with other women
• Esha Deol as Pooja Khanna, Prem's highly trusting wife, who is unaware of his extramarital affairs
• Aastha Gill as Malabar
• Celina Jaitly as Sanjana Taneja, Shekhar's love interest, and eventually wife, who is hateful of liers and can't tolerate mistresses in her husband's life
• Boman Irani as Parwind Kumar Gupta, the Home Minister, also known as P.K. Gupta

Cameo appearance[]

• Neetha Shetty as Preeti Sachdev, Sanjana's best friend
• Paresh Ganatra as Jagmohan Shirke
• Dinesh Hingoo as Dr. Dilip Raisingh / Hotel employee
• Pratima Kazmi as Damini Gupta, an aspiring Chief Minister
• Razak Khan as Johnny Toteywala
• Sameera Reddy as Nisha Khadoria / Beach Girl
• Anjan Srivastav as Judge Mrityunjay Saxena

Production[]

Development[]

During the production of No Entry, speculations arose that it would be a remake of the film Masti (2004). The comparisons were made due to both films revolving around the same subject of extra-marital affairs. However, producer Boney Kapoor strongly denied the similarities and clarified that No Entry would be a remake of the Tamil movie titled Charlie Chaplin (2002). Kapoor also stressed that he would never endorse innuendo-based films such as Masti.^[1]

Reception[]

Box office[]

It was a big success, grossing ₹97.64 crore worldwide.^[2] The film topped the Chennai box office on its opening weekend.^[3]

Critical Response[]

Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave the film 3.5 stars out of 5, and stated "No Entry is a joyride that is bound to click with the masses in a big way. At the box-office, No Entry has all it takes to prove a success story on account of its massive star cast and excellent comedy it has to offer. Go have fun!"^[4] India Today stated, "The movie is mostly about suspicious, nagging wives, extramarital affairs and lots of semi-clad, sexy bodies cavorting in foreign locations."^[5] Patsy N of Rediff.com stated, "If we can watch men sleeping around, and laugh about them, why can't we do the same with movies about woman having extramarital affairs?"^[6]

Jaspreet Pandohar of BBC gave the film 2 out of 5 stars, and stated "After tackling a romance and thriller, writer/director Anees Bazmee tries his hand at comedy with No Entry, a caper jammed-packed with Bollywood stars. Great gags sadly deteriorate into a series of stinky slapstick scenes you'll wish had never entered your life."^[7] Marc Savlov of Austin Chronicle gave the film 3.5 out of 5 stars, and stated "Writer-turned-director Bazmee has crafted a relatively smart and snarky war of the sexes minus the sex but with plenty of juicily hammy performances and enough outrageous one-liners, sight gags, and mistaken-identity yuks."^[8] Ekanshu Khera of Planet Bollywood gave the film 3.5 stars out of 5, and stated "Well-etched characters, hysterical situations, showcase of stars, witty dialogues, striking cinematography and scenic locales are some of the moments that stand out."^[9]

Soundtrack[]

The music of the film was composed by Anu Malik. Lyrics were written by Sameer.

Track listing[]

Remakes[]

No Entry Pudhe Dhoka Aahey is the Marathi remake of No Entry, released on 7 September 2012. It is directed by Ankush Choudhary, who is also one of the lead actors in the movie. The star cast of the movie are Sai Tamhankar, Ankush Choudhary, Bharat Jadhav, Aniket Vishwasrao, Kranti Redkar, Manva Naik.^[10]

A Bengali remake, titled Kelor Kirti, directed by Raja Chanda, was released in 2016. The movie star castes are Dev, Jisshu Sengupta, Ankush Hazra, Mimi Chakraborty, Nusrat Jahan, Sayantika Banerjee, Koushani Mukherjee and others.

In 2010, Remade into Malayalam as Happy Husband which was a commercial success starting Jayaram, Jayasuriya and Indrajith in the lead role while Bhavana, Rima kallingal, Samvritha Sunil done the female lead.

Sequel[]

There were various reports coming about the sequel No Exit since 2008. In August 2020, while confirming the sequel, director Anees Bazmee informed that the script is ready and Salman Khan, Anil Kapoor and Fardeen Khan will return and play double roles. There will be 10 actresses, and use of VFX too in the sequel, which is expected to release on Eid 2025.

See also[]

• List of highest-grossing Bollywood films

References[]

External links[]

• No Entry at IMDb