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Desi Boyz
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Rohit Dhawan
Screenplay by	Rohit Dhawan
Story by	Rohit Dhawan
Produced by	Krishika Lulla Vijay Ahuja Jyoti Deshpande
Starring	Akshay Kumar John Abraham Deepika Padukone Chitrangda Singh
Cinematography	Natarajan Subramaniam
Music by	Pritam
Distributed by	Eros Entertainment
Release date	November 25, 2011 (2011-11-25)
Country	Template:Film India
Language	Template:Film Hindi
Budget	₹ 30 crores

Desi Boyz (Template:Lang-hi) is a Hindi comedy drama film directed by debutant Rohit Dhawan, son of director David Dhawan. The film stars Akshay Kumar, John Abraham, Deepika Padukone and Chitrangda Singh in lead roles whilst Sanjay Dutt features in a cameo. The film released on 25 November 2011, and received mixed to positive reviews from critics.

Plot

Desi Boyz is the story of two friends, Jerry alias Jignesh Patel (Akshay Kumar) and Nick Mathur (John Abraham), who live in London and who are hit hard by recession. Jerry does odd jobs for a living as he is an undergraduate but Nick has a white-collar job. However, both find themselves jobless due to the economic downturn. Jerry has a little, school-going nephew Veer (Master Virej Desai) to look after as the child has lost both his parents. Nick is to marry his girlfriend, Radhika Awasthi (Deepika Padukone), who dreams of a lovely wedding, a great honeymoon and a wonderful house to live in after marriage.

Out of job, Jerry finds it difficult to even pay the school fees of his nephew because of which the government is on the verge of giving the custody of his nephew to a foster family. Nick fears, he won’t be able to fulfil the dreams of his to-be wife. It is to tide over the difficult times that Jerry and Nick turn to the oldest profession in the world. They become male escorts, fulfilling the costume fantasies of girls and ladies. Ironically, Jerry can’t ultimately prevent his nephew from being sent to a foster home; and Nick loses Radhika when she learns of what he has been up to while she is away in India. Frustrated, Nick blames Jerry for forcing him into the profession and asks him to move out of his house and life.

Nick now tries hard to win Radhika back and help comes from the most unlikely source – Radhika’s father Suresh (Anupam Kher) who has come to London with her. Meanwhile, Jerry registers in college again to complete his graduation so that he can earn enough money to get his nephew back home. In college, Jerry meets Tanya Sharma (Chitrangada Singh) who used to be his over-sized classmate and is now a hot and a sexy professor in the same college. Sparks fly between Jerry and Tanya. What happens thereafter? Is Jerry able to pass his examinations and get a degree? Does he get a job? Does Radhika forgive Nick? Or does she settle down with Ajay (Omi Vaidya), a lawyer-friend of hers? And what about Jerry’s nephew – does he unite with Jerry?

Cast

• Akshay Kumar as Jignesh Patel (Rocco)
• John Abraham as Nick Mathur (Hunter)
• Deepika Padukone as Radhika Awasthi
• Chitrangda Singh as Tanya Sharma
• Omi Vaidya as Ajay
• Rajat Barmecha as Sameer
• Sartaj Garewal as Menon
• Ashwin Mushran as Defence Lawyer
• Anupam Kher as Suresh
• Shraman Jain as Veer
• Sanjay Dutt in a Cameo
• Bruna Abdullah in a Special Appearance in song "Subha Hone Na De"

Production

Desi Boyz started filming on 7 November 2010, and completed shooting in May 2011. The film was to feature Sonam Kapoor as the lead actress, but she declined the film. There were also rumours of the film being offered to Anushka Sharma, but she denied this. Eventually, Deepika Padukone and Chitrangda Singh were finalised as the female leads. Padukone will be seen opposite John Abraham for the first time and Singh will star opposite Akshay Kumar in her first commercial venture.

After short on extras for a scene at Oxford University, the film used website StarNow.com to recruit extras for filming. The first theatrical trailer was released on 23 September 2011, alongside Mausam, whilst the second trailer was released alongside Ra.One on 26 October 2011.

Release

Desi Boyz got an 'A' certificate from Central Board of Film Certification, although the makers were expecting a U/A certificate. The movie released in the United States on 23 November 2011 due to the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend and released in India two days later on 25 November 2011.

Reception

Desi Boyz received mixed reviews from critics. Subhash K. Jha gave the film 3.5 out of 5 Stars calling "highly entertaining sex comedy movie having Smart, sassy, sexy and sparkling with dark audacious humour". Taran Adarsh gave the film 2 stars, owing to the "tedious and least compelling second hour". However, he praised the chemistry of the lead actors, commenting that "the camaraderie between Akshay and John is piping hot" Raja Sen of Rediff.com gave 1.5 stars calling it a disaster. Aniruddha Guha gave the film 2 stars, and called it "more than tolerable", despite recalling that "the film did make laugh out loud about twice." However film also received some positive reviews, the Times of India called it a good film. Indiaglitz gave it 4 stars. Glamsham gave it 3 stars. Sify gave it 3 stars as well. Komal Nahta also gave it a 3 and a half stars. and it also recieved very well by other critics .

Soundtrack

The film's music is composed by Pritam and lyrics are penned by Irshad Kamil, Kumaar & Amitabh Bhattacharya.

Audio Listing

Reception

The music album of Desi Boyz received positive reviews. Joginder Tuteja of Bollywood Hungama gave the album 4 stars, saying "Music of Desi Boyz exceeds expectations" and described the album as "one of the better 'masala' albums of the year." Furthermore, he chose Subha Hone Na De, Allah Maaf Kare, Make Some Noise For The Desi Boyz and Jhak Maar Ke as favorite picks.

Glamsham gave the music a rating of 4 out of 5 saying, "Pritam builds up a good tempo in Make Some Noise For The Desi Boyz and carries the fun promisingly with Jhak Maar Ke and Tu Mera Hero with an all-together new breed and genre of music."

References

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External links

• Official Website
• Desi Boyz at Bollywood Hungama
• Desi Boyz at IMDb
• Desi Boyz at Metacritic

• 2011 films
• Indian films
• Indian comedy films
• Indian drama films
• Directorial debut films