Jump to content

Hoichoi Unlimited

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hoichoi Unlimited
Hoichoi Unlimited Movie Poster
Directed byAniket Chattopadhyay
Written byAniket Chattopadhyay
Screenplay byAniket Chattopadhyay
Story byAniket Chattopadhyay
Produced byDev Adhikari
Gurupada Adhikari
StarringDev
Kharaj Mukherjee
Saswata Chatterjee
Rajatabha Dutta
Arna Mukhopadhyay
Koushani Mukherjee
Puja Banerjee
Roja Paromita Dey
Koneenica Banerjee
Manasi Sinha
Sayantani Guhathakurta
CinematographyIswar Chandra Barik
Edited byMd Kalam
Music bySavvy
Sayan Seth
Production
company
Distributed byDev Entertainment Ventures
Release date
  • 12 October 2018 (2018-10-12)
Running time
140:23 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Hoichoi Unlimited is a 2018 Indian Bengali-language comedy, action thriller film directed by Aniket Chattopadhyay. The film produced by Dev Entertainment Ventures features Dev, Koushani Mukherjee, Puja Banerjee, Roja Paromita Dey, Arna Mukhopadhyay, Kharaj Mukherjee and Saswata Chatterjee in lead roles. The initial shooting was completed on locations in Kolkata before the unit moved to Uzbekistan.[1] The movie has been released in Bengali, along with Arabic, Hindi, English and several other international languages. The film has also been released in Russia, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine and Azerbaijan.[2]

Plot

[edit]

Kumar, son-in-law of renowned industrialist Kajal Sen; Bijon, a housing construction businessman, who has two wives; Ajam Khan, a motor mechanic, whose wife is a small-time actress; and Animesh Chaklader, a retired air force personal decide to have some fun romance and plan to go to Uzbekistan.

The lied to their wives and relatives before leaving for Tashkent via Delhi.

Animesh's pishi arrives from hometown traveling to Mumbai on the same day they plan to leave. After much struggle they reach airport, but to their dismay they again encounter pishi. So they disguise themselves as foreigners traveling to Samarkhand. After reaching New Delhi for a layover. Bijon founds out that the flight which they has supposed to travel(As they all have told to their respectives wives,even pishi is on same flight) is hijacked by terrorists, which makes him panicked. After reaching Tashkent, they all meet Lola their travel guide. Where they go for a city tour. Finally Bijon speaks up about Plane Hijacking incident, which shocks everyone.For more information they go back to their room to watch the news. According to the news, all of them are accused for hijacking the plane. The Uzbek Authorities have ordered to arrest the suspect. Which makes their life even miserable.

Problems ensures more when their wives, get to know about it. And they arrive in Tashkent, staying in the same hotel. So they decided to flee to Bukhara. But another problem raises, as Indian Government has sent the RAW supported by local police to arrest them. As they are about to flee, they are almost caught by their wives,Police,and RAW. And a chaotic chase takes place. At last they all are rescued by Lola and they successfully reach Bukhara. In Bukhara all are in dismay how to leave Uzbekistan. As they have been framed as hijackers, especially Ajam who is considered by media as leader. Animesh(Air Force Veteran)suggests to get inside the hijacked aircraft, rescue the passengers and prove their innocence. With the help of Lola and Uzbekistan Army. They finally get inside the Aircraft through Cargo compartment. Unfortunately, Bijon gets fainted after he accidentally hits his head. In the cargo compartment, they successfully nab one of them, who surprisingly carrying a fake rifle. As rest of the hijackers are nabbed and passengers are rescues. The leader terrorist opens fire on the group. Lola gets shot, while guarding to save Kumar. After the terrorist runs out of ammunition. Kumar takes him down in hand to hand combat and gets him arrested.

After reaching Kolkata, they all receive a Hero's welcome by the State Government and the media. Where they are declared as RAW agents. The film ends as all the husband reconcile with wives and declared heroes. Bijon's both wives decide to stay together because of his heroism, when asked, about his other marriages he replies "I can get married due to various reasons". And they all happily leave.

Cast

[edit]

Soundtrack

[edit]

All music is composed by Savvy, Sayan Raj Seth

No.TitleLyricsSinger(s)Length
1."Sujon Majhi Re"Raja ChandaAbhijeet Bhattacharya03:28
2."Hobe Re Hoichoi"Riddhi BaruaMika Singh, Madhubanti Bagchi, Rap: Malik Sahab03:10
3."Oh Baby"Raja ChandaArmaan Malik, Nikhita Gandhi04:14
4."Pala Pala"Riddhi BaruaAmit Mishra, Aditya Sengupta03:07
5."Hobe Re Hoichoi" Nakash Aziz03:01
6."Hoichoi Unlimited Mashup"VariousVarious03:37

Reception

[edit]

The Times of India gave the film 2.5 out of 5 saying, "It caters to the lowest common denominator, but that's enough to invite roars of laughter and guffaws from the audience. It will tickle your funny bone, but only if its prone for such predilection and declear a massive flop at box office"[4]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Hoichoi Unlimited' new poster: Dev's funny avatar will make". Times of India. 18 June 2018. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
  2. ^ "রাজ কাপুরেrর পর ভারতীয় ছবিকে গর্বিত করলেন দেব" (in Bengali). bengali.mahanagar24x7.com. 4 July 2018. Archived from the original on 5 July 2018. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
  3. ^ "Sayantani Guhathakurta joins 'Hoichoi Unlimited' cast". The Times of India. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
  4. ^ "Hoichoi Unlimited Movie Review {2.5/5}: Critic Review of Hoichoi Unlimited by Times of India". The Times of India. 14 October 2018. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
[edit]