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ek" target="_blank">Ek Khiladi ek" target="_blank">Ek Haseena (translation: One Player, One Beauty) is a 2005 Indian Hindi-language crime thriller film directed by Suparn Verma, according to whom it is inspired by 14 con films, including the American films Confidence and House of Games. It stars Fardeen Khan, Feroz Khan, Kay Kay Menon and Koena Mitra. The film was released on 18 November 2005, and was a commercial failure.




Plot


ek" target="_blank">Ek Khiladi ek" target="_blank">Ek Haseena 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.




Cast


Fardeen Khan as Arjun Verma
Koena Mitra as Dr. Natasha Kapoor, Psychiatrist
Rohit Roy as Rohit Kapoor
Feroz Khan as Jahangir Khan, Businessman
Kay Kay Menon as Kaif
Gulshan Grover as Sikander
Kurush Deboo as Chipu / Sunny Dastur
Amin Hajee as Jack
Mukul Dev as Bhatia
Daya Shankar Pandey as Inspector Sharma
Rajesh Vivek as Inspector D'Souza
Makrand Deshpande as G. Singh
Murali Sharma as Jai Patel
Sharad Kapoor as CBI Inspector Sardesai / Vijay Kapoor, Pune Crime Branch
Mumaith Khan (special appearance)
Rakhi Sawant (special appearance)
Zabyn Khan (special appearance)




Themes and influences


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 Memento. He also paid homage to Harpo Marx through Amin Hajee's character, who whistles throughout the film and doesn't talk. He compared Fardeen Khan's character to the French actor Alain Delon as seen in Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Cercle Rouge and Le Samourai, and called him the Amitabh Bachchan for the present century.
When questioned if the film is a rip-off of the American film Confidence as pointed out by many people, Verma explained that while there were mentions of the film being copied from Confidence, The Sting, and even Criminal, 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.




Soundtrack



The music is composed by Pritam Chakraborty while the Lyrics are penned by Shabbir Ahmed, Amitabh Verma, Dev Kohli, Subrat Sinha and Mayur Puri.




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Reception


Taran Adarsh from Bollywood Hungama 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, Confidence and House of Games. On the contrary, Raja Sen from Rediff.com 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 Matchstick Men.




References






External links


ek" target="_blank">Ek Khiladi ek" target="_blank">Ek Haseena at IMDb
ek" target="_blank">Ek Khiladi ek" target="_blank">Ek Haseena at Rotten Tomatoes

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