Mickey Virus

<p>When two are murdered in Delhi, the suspect that the case revolves around hacking. They begin their search to find a computer hacker who can help them crack this case. The head of the police team, Siddhanth, accompanied by Bhalla, stumbles across Mickey Arora, a lazy but smart hacker who runs a grocery store during the day and creates viruses for anti-virus companies at night, along with his friends, the tomboy Shalu “Chutney” Sharma, Manjot “Floppy” Gill, Palwinder “Pancho” Singh, and Professor, who assist him in all odd jobs. ACP Siddhanth hires him to hack the website of a group of cybercriminals known as the Bhram Gang. Meanwhile, Mickey falls in love with Kamayani, an employee of Excalibur Securities. One day in her office, Kamayani mistakenly gets transferred a large amount of money from a client’s account, but, to avoid her being fired, Mickey hacks the company’s website to reverse the transaction. The next morning, Micky realises that he has unwittingly stolen ₹1 billion from a Dubai-based don named Anwar Raja, and Kamayani has been murdered. Scared of being framed for both crimes, Mickey seeks help from his friends. In his quest to search for the real culprit, Mickey traces the ₹1 billion and finds out that ACP Siddhanth is the mastermind who forced Kamayani to bluff him. Mickey calls ACP and his friends to the parking lot of Nehru Place, where ACP tells him that his friends Floppy, Pancho, and Professor are the Bhram Gang admins and want to kill him for the money, as they did to the two hackers and Kamayani. Surrounded by the goons, Mickey records and telecasts their confession on . In the end, Inspector Bhalla, along with the police force, arrests ACP Siddhanth and the Bhram Gang. Mickey secretly takes one crore from the stolen ₹1 billion before handing it over to Inspector Bhalla. Credits roll to show a few deleted scenes and bloopers and plays a call recording of Anwar Raja, who orders to kill Mickey. The film was shot in , including in office complex of . Several Bollywood biggies like , , , and were featured in a promotional video of . The movie has come under the scanner of Governmental Agencies as it displays techniques of high-profile robbery which might spur reel to real life robbery incidents. is also one of the contestants of . She would be inside the House of , cut off from the outside world at the time of Movie Release, making it a first of its kind Bollywood Debut. is made on a budget of Rs. 110 million, which includes publicity and advertising, and it was released in 1,200 screens in India. Chances are that the film will be remade in Tamil and Telugu. The Soundtrack was released on 3 October 2013 on the digital music platform . The album consists of six tracks and the only one of them by Faizan Hussain & Agnel Roman, Manoj Yadav and Arun Kumar writing the lyrics. was promoted by Manish Paul in on Colors. A promotional clip of featured , Ranbir Kapoor, , Madhuri Dixit Nene, , , Remo D’souza, , either dishing out funny one-liners or abusing Mickey. , , and Manish’s TV friends , attended the special screening of . received positive to mixed reviews. of gave it 3 out of 5 stars, finding the thriller to be engaging for younger viewers. Madhureeta Mukherjee of Times of India gave it 3 out of 5 stars. Mohar Basu of Koimoi gave it 2.5 out of 5 stars. of gave it 2 out of 5 stars, criticizing the length and engagement. Faheem Ruhani of gave it 3 out of 5 stars. Saibal Chatterjee of gave it 2.5 out of 5 stars. Tushar Joshi of DNA gave it 2.5 stars. Shubhra Gupta of Indian Express gave it 2 stars. Sanjukta sharma of Livemint did not give a rating, but found the film to have a weak plot and premise. gave it 2 stars. Zee News gave it 3.5 stars. Nikhil Arora of DesiMartini gave it 2 stars. got a 15–20% opening and collected around (US$200,000) nett on first day. It collected (US$850,000) nett in its first week and it was declared flop in box office India.</p>