Nehlle Pe Dehlla

About the film

Nehlle Pe Dehlla (transl. Tit for tat) is a 2007 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film directed by Ajay Chandok. The film stars Saif Ali Khan, Sanjay Dutt, Bipasha Basu and Kim Sharma. The film was completed in 2002 but was released in 2007.

Plot

Jimmy and Johnny are small-time crooks who dream of becoming rich. They are in jail, where they regularly end up for their misdeeds. A hotel manager, Ballu, embezzles 300,000,000 rupees from his company. Johnny and Jimmy learn about this and plan to blackmail him. They join the hotel as waiters and wait for the perfect opportunity. But a terrible mobster trio led by Dilher and his brothers, Hansa and Jazzy, kills Ballu. When Johnny and Jimmy find Ballu dead, they take his body and present him as if he were alive. They continue this deception while trying to find the real culprits.

Johnny meets Ballu's niece, Puja, and Jimmy meets her friend, Kim. They all fall in love. After discovering the real culprits, along with a corpse and a map leading to the money, they set off on a chase to find it, with Dilher, Hansa, and Jazzy also pursuing the same goal.

When they arrive, they find that the mobsters have already taken the money. They track the trio to their hideout and recover it. The mobsters then confront Jimmy and Johnny, and when they refuse to hand over the money, the trio kidnaps Puja and Jimmy. Kim and Johnny attempt a rescue by offering the money to the mobsters. A fight breaks out, and eventually the police arrive. The trio is arrested. Johnny marries Puja, and Jimmy marries her friend. They go on to live a happy and clean life with her uncle's money.

Reception

The BBC wrote a scathing review of the film, describing it as a "farce from beginning to end". Taran Adarsh called it a "poor show all the way".

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