Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena

<p>focuses on the duo of Arjun Verma and his best friend Rohit Kapoor, who con people for a living. During their latest of escapades, the duo manages to con the rich accountant of a don by the name of Sikander, resulting in them stealing millions of rupees. Soon after, Rohit is killed by Kharbu’s men, and Arjun escapes to another city. Kharbu manages to track him down and orders him to pay up the stolen sum plus interest or face Sikander’s retirement plan. To get his hands on the millions, Arjun sets up a special team who will help him execute the plan. Also involved in the team is Natasha Kapoor, a psychiatrist who ends up being conned by the group but eventually succeeds in seeking revenge. Thrown into this mix is another character by the name of Jehangir Khan, who slows down Arjun’s plans to get his hands on the money. But later it is shown that it was the plan of Arjun to seek revenge for the death of Rohit as Sikander is arrested by police in a drug case. The film ends with Arjun going with friends and his lover Natasha with the Jahangir money. According to Verma, the film is “a remake of every con film ever made, every real con you’ve ever read about. It’s imbibed from everything I’ve ever seen.” The film’s opening in reverse, where the coin goes into the palm, was a homage to . He also paid homage to through Amin Hajee’s character, who whistles throughout the film and doesn’t talk. He compared Fardeen Khan’s character to the French actor as seen in ‘s and , and called him the for the present century. When questioned if the film is a rip-off of the American film as pointed out by many people, Verma explained that while there were mentions of the film being copied from , , and even , he just thought there were moments from a lot of films. He admitted there were certain similarities in the second half, but also claimed the film was not a rip-off but an amalgamation of several films he had loved. The music is composed by while the Lyrics are penned by , Amitabh Verma, Dev Kohli, Subrat Sinha and . from gave the film 2 stars out of 5, feeling it was “too western a flick to find patronage from the Indian audiences” and had “the soul of an English film in the body of a Hindi flick”. He noted the film’s inspirations from two American films, and . On the contrary, Raja Sen from remarked the film was “not a rip-off of an English DVD you might have rented last week.” However, he pointed out the film had entire sequences lifted from other films, such as</p>