Chaalis Chauraasi (transl. Forty eighty-four), is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language crime comedy film directed by Hriday Shetty and starring Naseeruddin Shah, Atul Kulkarni, Kay Kay Menon and Ravi Kishan. Most of the film was shot in Mumbai. It was released on 13 January 2012.
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Cast
Naseeruddin Shah as Pankaj Purushottam Suri (Sir)
Kay Kay Menon as Albert Pinto a.k.a. Pinto
Atul Kulkarni as Bhaskar Sardesai a.k.a. Bobby
Ravi Kishan as Shakti Chinappa a.k.a. Shakti
Rupsha Guha
Rajesh Sharma as Mahesh Naik
Shweta Bhardwaj as Madhu, also appears in the song 'Setting Zala'
Zakir Hussain as Tony Bisleri
Manoj Pahwa as Tilak Shetty
Arbaaz Ali Khan
Yuri Suri as Haryanvi Shethi a.k.a. Tau
Jeet Upendra
Neelima Uttarwar as Gauri Shetty, wife of Tilak
D. Santosh as Chandu
Shital Kohok as bar male singer
Rupsha Guha as bride
Shuvendru Sood as groom
Yashshree Gupta as receptionist, Ad agency
Partha Akerkar as Vivek, Creative Head, Ad agency
Jahangir Karkaria as old Parsi man
Nargis Dastoor as old Parsi woman
Navin Talreja as Husband (HC; Happy couple)
Sonal Joshi as Wife (HC; Happy couple)
Sagar Juneja as Parsi son
Virendra Pandey as watchman in Parsis's bungalow
Chandrakant Dani as Ambulance attendant
Birendra Gupta as Tilak Shetty's accountant
Digvijay Rohidas as Inspector Kalsekar
Jageshwar as Hanif
Amruta Sant as Hanif's girlfriend
Sadat Shamshi as Hotel Dwarka receptionist
Vinay Apte as Sheikh saab
Reetu Jain as 'Badmast' item girl
Reception
Box office
In its first weekend, the film netted around 1.75 crore.
Critical response
Mayank Shekhar from Hindustan Times gave the film three stars out of five, writing, "This one manages to for most of the while. A sense of fun is never lost. It’s the actors, no doubt, who make the ridiculous believable. Hence, you truly enjoy this ride for most of the part. Which is saying a lot." Conversely, Taran Adarsh from Bollywood Hungama gave the film 2 stars out of 5, noting that while it had an attention-grabbing premise and some truly wonderful scenes, the writing lacked the energy and dynamism to keep the viewer hooked, and another reason the film stumbled was the inclusion of songs in the narrative, barring Hawa Hawa. Shubhra Gupta from The Indian Express gave the film one star out of five, writing, "What we get is capable actors floundering, and a film that grows ever more incoherent and tedious as it lurches along among fellows pretending to be cops, bent policemen, mobsters hiding out in seedy hotel rooms, guns going rat-a-tat."
Soundtrack
The songs of the film were composed by Lalit Pandit whereas the title song was sung and composed by Vishal Rajan. The music rights were sold to T-Series and released in December 2011. The rights of the song "Hawa Hawa" were acquired from Pakistani Singer Hasan Jahangir. The film song was sung in two versions, originally sung by Hasan Jahangir. The background score was composed by Sanjoy Chowdhury.