The Extended Canon
Hera Pheri
हेरा फेरी · 2000
Three broke tenants get a wrong-number ransom call and decide to collect it themselves. Everything goes wrong, repeatedly.
- Director
- Priyadarshan
- Year
- 2000
- Genre
- Comedy
- Cast
- Akshay Kumar, Suniel Shetty, Paresh Rawal, Tabu
Why it's in the canon
Paresh Rawal's Baburao is the most meme-immortal character in Indian film history.
Three broke tenants get a wrong-number ransom call and decide to collect it themselves. Everything goes wrong, repeatedly.
Hera Pheri sits in the 2000s alongside Lagaan and Dil Chahta Hai — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Priyadarshan.
- Released in 2000, in the 2000s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Comedy.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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