Fukrey

Fukrey is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language comedy film, directed by Mrighdeep Singh Lamba, produced by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani, and starring Pulkit Samrat, Manjot Singh, Varun Sharma, Ali Fazal, Priya Anand, Vishakha Singh, Pankaj Tripathi and Richa Chadda. The story and dialogues are written by Vipul Vig and the screenplay is written by Vig and Lamba. Produced under the Excel Entertainment banner, the film was released on 14 June 2013. Despite a poor opening, the film went on to become a sleeper hit. The film is available on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Disney+ Hotstar. As of August 2023, Fukrey remains the only Excel Entertainment film to not be owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises, as rights of three of its films, viz. Game, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara and Talaash: The Answer Lies Within, were acquired by the network from Star India and Sony Pictures Networks India respectively. Plot Delhi-based school backbenchers Vikas "Hunny" Gulati and Dilip "Choocha" Singh are perpetually dreaming of making it big, and want to get into the local college but don't have the required grades. The college guard Pandit tells them that he can provide them with the leaked class XII papers to them, for a significant amount. Choocha has a god-gift where he can get the winning number of any lottery in his dream and Hunny has the talent to sand the exact number out of his dream. They cannot afford or collect the money required, so they decided to sell the papers to other students but fail there too. Meanwhile, through Pandit, they meet Zafar, a former student of the college and a struggling musician. The fourth character is Lali, whose father Billa, runs a sweet shop. Lali is currently pursuing his degree through correspondence and like Hunny and Choocha, also wants to get into the same college, where his girlfriend Shalu, who ignores him all the time studies but doesn't have the marks. Pandit asks Lali to donate ₹ 250,000 in the college development fund to get admission, but Billa refuses to, saying college is too costly. Zafar's girlfriend, Neetu, who has broken up with him over his career choices is now giving private tuitions to Lali so that he could attain enough marks to get into the college of his dreams and also to make Shalu jealous getting close to Neetu. On the other hand, Zafar's father faces a stroke and is paralysed now, for his treatment, the struggling musician needs money badly. The four meet up at Pandit's office where Hunny explains his scheme.