Happy New Year (2014 movie)

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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 byFarah Khan
Produced byKaruna Badwal
Karim Morani
Gauri Khan
Written byMayur Puri (Dialogue)
Screenplay byFarah Khan
Althea Kaushal
Story byFarah Khan
StarringShah Rukh Khan
Deepika Padukone[1]
Abhishek Bachchan
Sonu Sood
Boman Irani
Vivaan Shah
Jackie Shroff
Narrated byShah Rukh Khan
Music bySongs:
Vishal Shekhar
Dr Zeus
Manj Musik
Background Score:
John Stewart Eduri
CinematographyManush Nandan
Edited byAnand Subaya
Tushar Parekh
Production
company
Distributed byYash Raj Films
Release date
  • 24 October 2014 (2014-10-24) (India)
Running time
181 minutes[2]
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
BudgetINR100 crore[3]
Box officeINR408 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 INR50 crore (US$8.5 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 INR408 crore (US$69 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

References

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