Knock Out

<p>Bachubhai ( ) has come to a phone booth to make a call. He is interrupted by a man who interrupts him again. Bachubhai tells him to stop interrupting. While moving out of the phone booth after the call, the phone rings. Bachubhai picks up the call only to get surprised by an unknown caller who ensures that Bachubhai does not leave the phone booth until his motive of calling is achieved. Another man interrupts, who is shot dead by that unknown person from a faraway building. After seeing the incident, the police, the public, and the news reporter, Nidhi Srivastav ( ), arrive. Everyone is seeing everything, as Bachubhai has been told to do what the person on the phone call says or he will shoot him. Later, police officer is transferred, and another encounter specialist has been called. Meanwhile, Bachubhai, who is working for a corrupt politician who has 320 billion black money, has been told to transfer the money on a government account to give back the money to the public. Bachubhai does everything as the phone caller says. At the end of the movie, the money has been transferred to the public account, and it is revealed that Veer Vijay Singh ( ) is a Chief of Investigation Bureau. Bachubhai, after transferring the money, nothing happens to him. The film was initially rumored to be a remake of the American film , which the producer Sohail Maklai denied. filed a complaint against the makers of before the film’s release. The had initially passed an injunction against the film’s release after watching both the films. However, the producers were allowed to release the film on appeal, and deposited INR 1.5 crore to the court. The matter was reheard in March 2013, with the court decreeing the case and awarding INR 1.25 crore to Fox, further telling the producers of to not exploit their film in any manner whatsoever from 5 March 2013 onwards. Nikhat Kazmi of gave the film 3 stars out of 5 stars, noting “all the action transpiring around the phone booth” to be the only similarity with . from gave the film 2.5 stars out of 5, similarly pointing out that “what follows after a point bears no resemblance to that film ( )”, and also found it similar to in spite of their different storylines. He praised the focused plot and the finale, while criticizing the film’s occasional repetitiveness. Patcy N. from gave the film 1.5 stars out of 5, praising Irrfan Khan’s performance, while criticizing the climax and the overall execution. The film’s music was given by Gourov Dasgupta, with a background score by Atul Raninga and Sanjay Wandrekar. The soundtrack has five original tunes, one remix, and an alternate version of one song.</p>