Happy New Year (2014 movie)

Happy New Year (sometimes abbreviated as HNY) is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film ^[4] directed by Farah Khan and produced by Gauri Khan under the banner of Red Chillies Entertainment. The film features an ensemble cast of Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Abhishek Bachchan, Sonu Sood, Boman Irani, Vivaan Shah and Jackie Shroff. It was distributed worldwide by Yash Raj Films.^[5] The film marked the third collaboration of Khan with the director; they previously worked on Main Hoon Na (2004) and Om Shanti Om (2007), the latter of which also featured Padukone as the female lead.

Happy New Year
Directed by	Farah Khan
Written by	Mayur Puri (Dialogue)
Screenplay by	Farah Khan Althea Kaushal
Story by	Farah Khan
Produced by	Karuna Badwal Karim Morani Gauri Khan
Starring	Shah Rukh Khan Deepika Padukone[1] Abhishek Bachchan Sonu Sood Boman Irani Vivaan Shah Jackie Shroff
Narrated by	Shah Rukh Khan
Cinematography	Manush Nandan
Edited by	Anand Subaya Tushar Parekh
Music by	Songs: Vishal Shekhar Dr Zeus Manj Musik Background Score: John Stewart Eduri
Production company	Red Chillies Entertainment
Distributed by	Yash Raj Films
Release date	24 October 2014 (2014-10-24) (India)
Running time	181 minutes[2]
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹100 crore[3]
Box office	₹408 crore

Happy New Year was released on October 24, 2014, during Diwali with dubbed versions in Tamil and Telugu and it was the biggest film release in India up until then.^[6] The film received mixed reviews and became a blockbuster grossing ₹50 crore (US$6.6 million) in India on its first day, setting the record for the highest first-day collection made by an Indian film to that point, and over ₹408 crore (US$54 million) worldwide, and it became the second highest-grossing Bollywood film of 2014 and among the highest-grossing Bollywood films of all time.

Sypnopsis

A gang of amateur dancers takes part in a dancing competition to avenge their personal vendetta.^[7]

Cast

• Shah Rukh Khan as Chandramohan Manohar Sharma / "Charlie": Mohini's lover; Charan Grover's nemesis
• Deepika Padukone as Mohini Joshi: Charlie's love interest; Vicky Grover's love interest^[1]
• Abhishek Bachchan as Nandu Bhide / Vicky Grover charan's son (Dual role)
• Sonu Sood as ex capt- Jagmohan Prakash Singh / "Jag": Rohan's Uncle
• Boman Irani as Temhton Irani / "Tammy" Manohar's friend
• Vivaan Shah as Rohan Singh, Jag's nephew
• Jackie Shroff as Charan Grover, Vicky's father, the main antagonist.
• Mohan Kapur as Charan's assistant
• Varun Pruthi as Charan's assistant Sartaj Gill
• Kavi Shastri as Mr. Gupta
• Anupam Kher as Manohar Sharma, Charlie's late father (Cameo Appearance)
• Daisy Irani as Namita Irani (Cameo Appearance)
• Sarah-Jane Dias as Laila: India's ambassador at WDC (Cameo Appearance)^[8]
• Dino Morea as Host of World Dance Championship (Cameo Appearance)^[9]
• Kiku Sharda as Saroj Khan (Cameo Appearance)
• Prabhu Deva as Dance Instructor (Cameo Appearance)^[10]
• Malaika Arora Khan as the Heroine of a Film (Cameo Appearance)^[11]
• Anurag Kashyap as Himself/Judge of World Dance Championship Auditions (Cameo Appearance)^[12]
• Vishal Dadlani as Himself/Judge of World Dance Championship Auditions (Cameo Appearance)^[12]
• Sajid Khan as Himself/Director of a Film (Special Appearance)^[13]
• Geeta Kapoor as Herself/Judge of World Dance Championship (Cameo Appearance)
• Jay J Jakkrit as Team Korea Leader