Khoka 420 is a Bengali romantic action comedy film directed by Rajib Biswas. The film stars Dev, Subhashree Ganguly, Nusrat Jahan, Tapas Paul, Rajatava Dutta and others. The film is a remake of the 2010 Telugu film Brindavanam[2] starring N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Kajal Agarwal. The film was dubbed into Hindi as "Mere Ustas 420". The film became a major commercial success and became one of the highest grossing Bengali films of the year.

Khoka 420
Khoka 420 Theatrical poster
Directed byRajiv Kumar Biswas
Written bySubhadip Das
Story byVamsi Paidipally
Produced byAshok Dhanuka
Eskay Movies
StarringDev
Subhashree Ganguly
Nusrat Jahan
Tapas Paul
Rajatava Dutta
Haradhan Bandopadhyay
CinematographyShrisha Roy
Edited byMohammad Kalam Khan, Saikat Sengupta
Music byRishi Chanda
Shree Pritam
Savvy
Shrijit
Distributed byEskay Movies and Jalsha Movies Production
Release date
  • 14 June 2013 (2013-06-14)
Running time
157:38 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali
Box office 8crore[1]

Plot

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[3] Krish is the son of a rich man. Krish is romantically interested in Megha (Nusrat Jahan). Megha also loves Krish a.k.a. Krishna. Their relationship goes fine until Megha meets Bhoomi (Subhashree Ganguly), and they become best friends. Bhoomi tells her best friend Megha about his rowdy and tough cousin who her family wants her to marry, but she does not want to. Megha gets worried about her friend and tells the problem to her boyfriend, Krish. Megha makes Bhoomi meet Krish and tells Krish to act as if Krish is Bhoomi's boyfriend and let Bhoomi's family know that Bhoomi is in a relationship with Krish. Krish does not agree at first but later agrees to help out Bhoomi. In the meantime, Bhoomi fall in love with Krish in reality. Krish also gets close to Bhoomi. Later, one day Krish gets to know that Megha and Bhoomi's fathers are step-brothers and they have a family rivalry between them from ages. Krish meets the two brothers' father (Haradhan Bandopadhyay) and gets to know why they have the rivalry and also gets to know that grandfather wants them to be together again. The grandfather gives the responsibility to Krish to get the two families together again and if he is successful he will get the hand in marriage of Megha or Bhoomi – whomever he is in love with. Krish falls in a big problem as he is not interested in all this family rivalry. But later he decides to get the family together. In the meantime, Megha gets the wrong idea that Krish and Bhoomi are cheating her and Krish is in love with Bhoomi and not her. Due to the untimely death of Late Shri Haradhan Bandopadhay, the climax of the movie was changed which made it different from the original story of Brindavanam where Krish marries Bhoomi as Megha explained.

Cast

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Soundtrack

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Khoka 420
Soundtrack album by
Rishi Chanda, Shree Pritam, Savvy and Shrijit
ReleasedMay 2013 (2013-05)
Recorded2013
GenreFeature film soundtrack
LabelEskay Movies
ProducerAshok Dhanuka

The album is scored by Savvy.

Song Name Singer Lyricist Composer Rating
01 "Mad I Am Mad" Mika Singh, Saberi Bhattacharya Gautam Sushmit Savvy 7.0
02 "Solid Case Kheyechhi" Bappi Lahiri, Poornima Shrestha Shree Pritam Shree Pritam 8.0
03 "Bin Tere Tere Bin" Zubeen Garg Smarajit Bandyopadhyay Shree Pritam 9.0
04 "Gobhir Joler Fish" (Title Track) Abhijeet Bhattacharya, Akriti Kakkar Savvy Savvy 9.2
05 "O Bondhu Amar" Shaan, Mahalakshmi Iyer Gautam Sushmit Srijit 7.6
06 "Jay Govinda Jay Gopala" Abhijeet Bhattacharya, Mahalaxmi Iyer Priyo Chattopadhyay Rishi Chanda 8.0

Critical Reception

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Khoka 420 opened with mixed to positive reviews. Jaya Biswas of the Times Of India gave the film 3.5/5 stars and opined "The story is not new, but it is the packaging that makes Khoka 420 an interesting watch. The film has oodles of action and if you happen to be a Dev fan, give it a shot". Anurima Das gave the film 3/5 stars saying "Dev starrer Khoka 420 is a perfect family entertainment package filled with action, romance and drama, the film is definitely a good watch."

References

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  1. ^ "5 films that rocked the box office this year". The Telegraph. Kolkata. Archived from the original on 27 December 2013. Retrieved 22 December 2013.
  2. ^ "Khoka 420 Movie Review, Trailer, & Show timings at Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 28 June 2016.
  3. ^ Biswas, Jaya (16 June 2013). "Khoka 420 movie review". The Times of India. The Times Group. Retrieved 29 August 2013.
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