Deewane Huye Paagal
Tags: murder

Plot synopsis:
Karan (Shahid Kapoor) is a shy and nerdy canteen boy and college student, running a café with his friend Murugan (Johnny Lever), and Tanya (Rimi Sen) is a student in the same college. She is the most popular girl on campus. Karan is in love with Tanya but is too shy to tell her. After he musters some courage and rescues her step-brother from some goons, he catches her attention and is eventually able to invite her to a fake birthday party. On her way there, Tanya witnesses the murder of a scientist, Khurana (Om Puri) by his evil twin brother, the underworld don Mehboob, and as a result is forced to flee the country to save her own life, since the law had been bought out by the very same killers. The scientist had stored a secret code in a stuffed toy, a parrot, now being sought by Mehboob, and Khurana was able to hide the toy in Tanya's car before being killed. Unawares, Tanya leaves the toy at home before fleeing the country, and the toy is later picked up by Karan, ignorant of Tanya's fate.
Three years later, still in love with Tanya, but depressed by her sudden and complete disappearance, Karan stumbles across old schoolmates of hers at a café, and learns from them that she had been living in Dubai all this time. Karan coaxes Murugan to help him track down Tanya in Dubai. They enlist the aid of a local hustler and bounty hunter, Rocky (Akshay Kumar).
Rocky travels to Dubai, where his friend Babloo (Vijay Raaz) has already tracked down Tanya, who has become Natasha, a successful singer and performer. Rocky and Babloo stakeout Natasha's villa to make sure they are on the right track, but as soon as Rocky spots Natasha, it's love at first sight. While he has Natasha under surveillance, Karan and Murugan arrive at the Dubai airport from India. Faced with a potential competitor to woo Natasha, Rocky attempts to eliminate Karan from the picture by lying to him about Tanya. He says that Tanya had taken up drinking and smoking, had had two husbands, six children and also an affair with a gangster, with whom she had a further illegitimate child. He further lies that Tanya had been left wheelchair bound after a drunk driving accident. Karan is heartbroken to hear all this, and decides to go back to Mumbai. He is about to board his flight, when at the last moment, he spots a picture of Tanya as Natasha on a club advertisement printed across an airport Taxi. He is overjoyed, and assumes that Rocky made a mistake, not being aware that Rocky is in fact trying to deceive him.
Things are about to get more complicated, since not only has Rocky to contend with Karan, there are two other people already in her life, trying to catch her in their web of deceit. Local plumber, Sanju Malvani (Sunil Shetty) has been currying favours for Natasha by pretending to be a paraplegic on crutches. Every time Natasha meets someone she likes, Sanju eliminates the competitor using a unique trick. He edits and prints out a fake newspaper featuring an article showing that person as a crook, and comes over to Natasha and shares "the news" with her while acting all shocked himself, thus earning her admiration. On the other hand, there is Tanya's physically disabled live-in friend Tommy (Paresh Rawal), who also has a soft spot for her. Having heard of the death of Tanya's disabled brother a year ago, Tommy has since faked being run over in a car accident and now acts like he himself is disabled and mentally challenged, thus managing to stay close to Natasha by seamlessly filling in the void left behind by her deceased brother.
Nonetheless, Rocky begins his attempted seduction of Natasha. Having wired the villa, and thus overheard what Natasha craves in a man, Rocky shows up at the local shopping mall, pretending to be an architect. Natasha, who is shopping at the mall, is ambushed in the parking lot by a bunch of thugs (who it later transpires are simply mugs hired by Rocky himself). Rocky intervenes, and after seemingly beating the living daylights out of the supposed thugs (the scene is similar to Jean-Claude Van Damme's introductory action sequence from Hard Target (1993)), introduces himself to Natasha, and proceeds to show himself off as a charming professional with a heart of gold. Somewhat awed, Natasha offers Rocky an invitation for tea later in the evening, which he accepts.
When Rocky arrives at her villa later in the evening, he is confronted by several obstacles, Natasha's sister Sweety (Supriya Pilgaonkar), the jealous Tommy and the family's pet dog. Rocky is easily able to charm Sweety, but has to drug the dog, who dies due to an overdose while the sisters are making Rocky a drink in the kitchen. Crisis is avoided when Rocky is able to revive the dog by electrocution using wiring from a lamp in the living room. The parties then quickly depart to the grand opening of Natasha's latest album at a social event, where Rocky now comes face to face with Sanju, who puts Rocky on the spot right away, as he himself is pretending to be an architect!
With Natasha and company under surveillance, Rocky now intercepts Sanju trying to discredit him at Natasha's home. Later, when the shocked Natasha confronts Rocky about him being an alleged impostor, Rocky is able to fast-talk his way out of the situation and convince the gullible Natasha that he is indeed not an architect, but a captain on a ship, something his mother does not approve of, thus the ruse. Tommy, however behaves in a somewhat jealous manner and puts Rocky in a confusing situation, involving him jumping on Rocky's back and then accusing the latter of having twisted and bitten his arm. A food bill from a bar drops out of Tommy's pocket during his supposed accusation. This arouses Rocky's suspicions about his supposed "condition".
The next day using that food bill, Rocky and Babloo track down Tommy at a local disco where, unaware that he is being followed, Tommy shows up every week, for a little fun and dance away from his daily existence as a fake disabled victim. Rocky confronts Tommy while he is on the disco floor and threatens to expose him in front of Natasha. At the end, Rocky lets Tommy go, on the condition that the latter will no longer attempt to get in his way of seducing Natasha.
The scene now shifts to the harbour, where Rocky has invited Natasha over for a cruise. While he is coddling her on the harbour front, Natasha spots Karan and Murugan sitting at the grounds. Unaware that Karan is in Dubai searching for her, she is overjoyed to see an old friend from her past. She introduces Karan to Rocky, unaware that they know each other quite well already! Karan, however, seeing Rocky and Natasha all smiles and happy, simply wants to leave them alone out of his love for Tanya. He just wants her to be happy, even if it is with Rocky and not himself, much to Murugan's frustration. While he tries to leave the scene, pretending that he and Murugan have a flight to catch, Natasha convinces Karan to stay one more night in Dubai, and come over for dinner later in the day.
Sanju shows up later at the party, and pulls Natasha aside to reveal his latest newspaper creation, showing Rocky as an international crook, murderer and serial killer wanted by many crime agencies the world over, whose M.O, as Sanju explains is to trap and seduce innocent girls like Natasha and then destroy their lives. Rocky overhears the conversation and while Natasha is occupied elsewhere, chases Sanju outside in the club parking lot. Sanju drops the pre tense of being crippled, throws his crutches on the ground, and runs for dear life. Later, Rocky, Sanju and Tommy are seen sitting in a bar nearby after a confrontation, exposing each other as fraudsters and having a drink together, cursing their luck at the emergence of Karan as the new love in Natasha'a life.
With Rocky having bugged Natasha again, the trio now listen to Natasha's views about them and find out, in a hilarious manner, that all is not what it seems, since she views Sanju as a brother like figure, Tommy as something similar to her deceased brother, and Rocky as a fraud and murderer. They then go to Natasha's house, where she is having coffee with Karan. Rocky uses a gun to shoot some specially medicated pills into the drawing room to be consumed by the dog. One of them is consumed by the dog, but the other is consumed by Sweety. The effects are hilarious as Sweety suddenly becomes hyperactive and so does the dog. Confusion ensues as the dog attacks Karan and he ends up throwing it out the window.
The next day, Karan goes to Natasha's house to propose to her and finds that she has been sent an anonymous letter, informing her that he indeed had hired Rocky to follow her. In a spate of anger, she sends him out of the house. Later, when he goes to Rocky's house to confront him about this, he finds Sanju and Tommy there as well, who also reveal themselves to have been conning Natasha. Further, Sanju reveals that he had written the anonymous letter to Natasha and goes on to reveal his trick with the newspapers, disgusting Karan. Meanwhile, Mehboob and his family, including Sunny, (his illegitimate son, who has also been obsessed with Tanya since college) arrive at Natasha's house and interrogate her about the stuffed toy. Realising that his father had used his obsession to track down Natasha, Sunny turns on his father and kidnaps her. Sweety informs Sanju about this and he along with Rocky, Karan and Tommy follow them after having gotten directions from Murugan, who happened to see them from a taxi. The chase takes them to the middle of a desert, where after some confusion, it is revealed that Khurana had stored the code of a vault in the stuffed toy. The vault had carried a secret solution, two drops of which could decrease a person's age by 25 years. The night Khurana had died, he had found that his brother wanted to use the formula for his own consumption and had tried to escape in Natasha's car as she had been passing by. He had slipped the toy into a package, a birthday present she had been carrying for Karan's fake birthday dinner, thus explaining how he had the toy. Khurana used the toy to counteract his forgetfulness. Natasha sent him out of the car at first, but, undergoing a change of heart, had gone back later just in time to witness Mehboob's son Baljeet kill Khurana.
Rocky intervenes and cleverly destroys the toy after having it speak the code into Natasha's ear, making sure she cannot be killed, the code being in her mind now. A gunfight ensues, during which Natasha discovers Tommy and Sanju's deceit, much to her shock and disgust. After the commotion, Baljeet, wanting the solution all for himself, to sell to a Chinese buyer and make millions, kidnaps Natasha. Rocky and Sanju follow them on bikes and finally manage to catch up with them. After beating up all the men, they take Natasha to her house where a further argument ensues as to who should be more worthy of Natasha. The argument ends when Karan arrives with Raj Sinha (Aftab Shivdasani) and tells Natasha about Sanju's newspaper scams (which the latter confesses), one of which had exposed Raj as a drug dealer and addict earlier. Raj and Natasha are reunited. Wishing them luck, Karan leaves in sadness after the others are left cursing.
Natasha realises her love for Karan and stops him as he is leaving, saying that she and Raj had had no future ever since their earlier break up. She then accepts and reciprocates his love and they finally unite. This tearful union is once again being witnessed by a grumbling Rocky, Sanju and Tommy along with Sunny. Rocky impatiently tells them to stop cursing and asks them to admit to the fact that they were never worthy enough for her. He then turns to Babloo and suggests, in a whisper, that they try to find out where Karan and Tanya are going for their honeymoon and they eagerly put on a pair of earphones. In the last frame, the camera pans to Tanya and Karan walking away towards the sunset, hand in hand.
At the end, the narrator says that after all the effort he had undertaken to acquire the solution, Mehboob had become too overexcited and had consumed the whole quantity instead of two drops. He had ended up becoming a baby and Sunny unwittingly became his father. The film ends as the narrator requests the audience not to forget him.

Review: Silly....
Based on the 1998 American cult movie 'There's Something About Mary', Vikram Bhatt's 'Deewane Huye Paagal' is a silly film, that doesn't pay the correct homage to the film it adores.Remember Ben Stiller sterling performance in 'There's Something About Mary', Diaz's charm, the witty dialog placed wonderfully in the screenplay and super direction.
Sadly, 'Deewane Huye Paagal' is a letdown by very silly jokes, characters, dialog and mediocre direction.The film begins ably, but loses energy 60-minutes in the film.
The culmination is the biggest downer.
It's plain bad.
Bhatt is a pro when it comes to making Horror films, and after watching this film, your assured that Comedy isn't his favorite dish.In the acting department, Shahid Kapoor is mechanical.
One could've never imagined that he would transform into a caliber that would even nod a film like 'Kaminey' and perform superbly.
An actor who has taken Giant Strides!
Akshay Kumar is over-the-top, but that's the demand of the character.
Sunil Shetty is good.
Rimi Sen looks stunning and plays her part nicely.
Paresh Rawal hams.
Johnny Lever is his usual self.
Vijay Raaz stands out, a true scene-stealer.
Vivek Oberoi's interpretation of a Narrator is an eye-sore.On the whole, not much left to talk about.
Verdict: Strictly Average!.
Pretty decent!.
Well I must say I quite enjoyed the movie even though I was expecting it to be another one of those boring comedies with the same story line.
Well the movie is a rip-off of There's Something About Mary.
The whole plot and characters are similar.
So I give it very low points for originality.
But I have to admit, that although the storyline was not original, the jokes fitted into the story were pretty hilarious.
Paresh Rawal is well used in this film, along with some pretty good scenes from Sunil Shetty, Johnny Lever and other members of the film.I enjoyed it much much more than Garam Masala, and it really won't be a BIG waste of time if you go watch it.
I'd recommend it if you really have the time.
It is entertaining..
Jokes picked up from 'Something About Marry' Straight Up!!.
If you haven't watched 'There's Something About Marry' then you might enjoy this lame movie ....
Lame because every joke is lifted directly off 'Something About Marry'.Seems like nothing original is left in Indian film industry (or may be very little).
Stay away from this piece of junk, watch 'There's Something About Marry' and you'll laugh throughout the movie.
After watching the original you can watch 'DHP' just to compare how cheesy it is!!
Its sad to see that good actors like OM Puri are working in such movies.
As far as other actors are concerned they are ordinary actors not like Amir or Shahrukh who like to work in quality movies only..
There Is Something About Tanya.
Despite being an Indianized version of There Is Something About Mary, DHP is a really entertaining film.
So, you get the idea of the story.Akshay Kumar is really good in the film.
Paresh Rawal is also good, but not as much as he was in Awara Paagal Deewana or Hera Pheri.
Shahid Kapoor and Rimii Sen give decent performances.
Johnny Lever and Vijay Raaz are good in their supporting roles.
Good to see Johnny Lever back in his comedic form.But it is Suniel Shetty who is the surprise packet in DHP.
Good see him in a good role.
He makes the best use of it.
He has plenty of scenes where he manages to raise some of the biggest laughs.On the whole, DHP is a thoroughly enjoyable entertainer.
Good doses of comedy, gloss, music and stunts..
a really funny movie!.
I was really excited when I heard about Deewane Huye Paagal because it is the sequel to Awara Paagal Deewana, which is one of my favorite comedies, so I couldn't wait to see it.
And I'll tell you that when I did, I thought it was hilarious!!
The story is nicely developed, and even though there are a lot of characters, somehow, the plot never becomes confusing.Performances, out of all the actors, were very good!
Akshay Kumar is great, once again, and you find yourself laughing out loud at the way he acts and his dialogues!
Shahid Kapoor plays the character of a very shy and innocent guy well, and he's easy to root for in the movie.
I can't say anything specifically about Rimi Sen except that she was good.
Sunil Shetty proves that he can do comedy.
I loved his character and all of his dialogues.
And last but not least, one of the funniest actors around, Paresh Rawal, is wonderful once again!
Awara Paagal Deewana and Deewane Huye Paagal-both very fun comedies!.
Best comedy film of 2005.
I enjoyed this watchable film it was so hilarious there was lots of good action good comedy and good actingAkshay Kumar is excellent as the funny hero Shahid did wellActress did good in her movie Other were much decent My rating 10/10 or 5/5 *****\***** or **********\**********.
Karan loves Tanya ,but here is also the gang of mad lovers who can do anything to win Tanya's heart.Here is a don who has his own agenda..
PERFORMANCES: Akshay,Paresh,and Sunil are excellent in their roles.But , Shahid hasn't much to do and Rimi also.
In supporting cast there is Johny Lever( not really funny),OmPuri ,but they are not funny.DIRECTION and STORY: After Awara Paagal Deewana(2002) Vikram Bhatt's direction is average this time but he handles the weak story well.Story is not new but have good comic elements.
FINAL VERDICT: If you have watched Awara Paagal Deewana ,watch this one also for good entertainment.
BEST SCENES:(1) watch out for the first meeting of Sunil and Paresh in film you will guaranteed a laugh.(2) watch where Akshay tells Shahid about Rimi's marriage..
Complete Rip off of "Something about Mary".
my title says it all.
This movie is funny and good to pass time with but the constant rips of S.A.M keep u turned off.
Hollywood need to start suing Bollywood for all its rip off even if those rips and originals both suck.
"Akshay Kumar has returned back to some really good acting after a terrible mess in Garam Masala.
"Akshay Kumar has returned back to some really good acting after a terrible mess in Garam Masala.
Paresh Rawal is well used in this film, along with some pretty good scenes from Sunil Shetty, Johnny Lever and other members of the film." is true as said by other user also true is was said about "SUNIEL SHETTY WAS AMAZING LIKE PARESH RAWAL.
HE MOVES HIS THAT NO ONE CAN MOVE BODY LIKE HE DID.
THAT WHY HE IS A MACHO MAN OF BOLLYWOOD AND KING OF TOP ACTION." also written by other user I'm doing this to make up the stupid 10 line rule complete BS..
Worth It. I would say Paresh Rawal repeated his acts from Awara Pagal Dewana.Best performance in the movie was by Vijay Raz I think.
Johnny Lever after a long time was not given much scope.
Akshay Kumar was 1st rate in comedy.
I have not watched SOMETHING ABOUT MARRY but everyone told me that the story of this flick is lifted from that Hollywood Movie.
Which is nothing new.
Vikram Bhatt's Awaara Pagal Dewana was also inspired from Hollywood's "The Whole 9 Yards".
Still I liked it.
Garam Masala and this cannot be compared as Priyadarshan makes Comedies on error.
Which is lovely style in Bollywood.
Vikram Bhatt did well but Songs were Just about OK.
Anu Malik's singing is not what i look forward to..
One real bad remake.
I walked out of the film, i paid 9 dollars to watch one of the years worst comedies.
The acting was horrid in the film.
Akshay Kumars excessive crotch banging and Sunil Shetty's horrible portrayal of Tucker from something about Mary would make anyone wan to walk out.
This is definitely the worst American remake ever.
The songs weren't even original one was the beat of Kevin Littles hug me hug me and the other of jazzy b's dil lutiya.
The best song would be the remix of Chakle Chakle, thats it and it might be stolen too.
I walked into the theater thinking this should be good because its the Hera Pheri cast, but two hours into it i stopped hoping for something funny and original to come out.
I say watch the film on DVD, you might even think you've wasted your money there..
Movie was just too irritating.
If you haven't watched 'There's something about Mary', you might enjoy the story of the movie.
Only the 'scientist' variable is an added component to the story.Akshay was too irritating after the first 15 minutes of his intro.
But I was impressed with Johnny Lever's comedy rather than Paresh Rawal.There are too much off unnecessary stunts in the movie, which is plainly meant to show off and does not add anything to the movie scenario.But I was impressed that they did not take a complete rip off of the original movie, but made a few stitches in the movie..
Deewane Paagal Nahi Hue. After the success of APD, The team Akshay, Suneil, Aftab(cameo), Paresh Rawal, Music Director Anu Malik, Producer Firoz Nadiadwala and Director return with Deewane Huye Paagal.
The film is a remake of There's Something About Mary(1998) which is a cult comedy and very famous in Hollywood, In fact earlier it was remade in Pyaar Ishq Aur Mohabbat(2001) by Rajiv Rai but he changed it into a romantic film and it flopped, Vikram Bhatt however keeps it a comedy.
Vikram Bhatt is known to make remakes, his most films were remakes.
The film released in 2005 just few weeks after the success of GARAM MASALA when Akshay Kumar's comedies were successful but surprisingly it failed to work.
Perhaps the promotions gave people an indication that it was an out n out comedy but because it was a romantic comedy it didn't work?
The film starts off on a slow note, the initial scenes are hardly that good and the irritating narration of Vivek Oberoi is painful, The fun starts once Akshay is introduced.
Compared to that film, Here Vikram Bhatt adds lot of action, more slapstick comedy and song and dance.
There are some scenes copied same to same like the dog scenes which are not too funny in recreation, There also add a new character of Paresh Rawal,Johny Lever which weren't there in the original.
Some scenes are funny like Akshay's escapades, The scene when the truth is revealed of characters and the chaos But the added subplot of Suresh Menon, Om Puri doesn't really evoke mirth In fact the comedy at several portions is too slapsticky and the ending focuses more on action like APD and the end just like the original but more overdone is okay.Direction by Vikram Bhatt is good Music by Anu Malik is good, Chakle Chakle which is a copy of an English song is okay, It's sung by Anu Malik and he is good Anu Malik also lends his voice for Mere Jaane Jigar and sings superbly The best song is Aisi Umar MeinAkshay Kumar dominates the show, Unlike in APD where Paresh dominated He does a superb job in a comic role, Those days Akshay Kumar's comic bone was getting utilised a lot after the success of MSK and Garam Masala.
Shahid Kapur is decent but is mostly overshadowed by others.
Rimii Sen is annoyingly dubbed and doesn't look good, blame it on her make up and all she doesn't look fit for the role, but her acting is okay Suneil Shetty overdoes his walking to add to the fun of the character but he does provide some funny moments.
Paresh Rawal gets some funny scenes but it's nothing great unlike in APD.
Johny Lever is funny, but irritates at times Suresh Menon annoys, Om Puri is as usual, Supriya is funny Asrani and other sre okay.
Below average compared to the original....
While it is not a complete ripoff of the Hollywood blockbuster from Farrelly brothers (There is Something about Mary), it is largely based on it.
The whole Ompuri/Magic formula angle does not work and is totally unnecessary.
However the biggest annoyance is Vivek Oberoi popping in and out at the narrator (played by the Farrelly brothers themselves in the original).
Similar material would have been gold in Priyadarshan's hand.
Akshay and Paresh Rawal are the only performers of any notice in the movie, rest of the cast is poor to average in terms of performance.
Shahid Kapur was particularly disappointing playing the role Ben Stiller played in the original, no laughs for him at all!!
Anu Malik is no longer the music director he once was a decade or so ago, he has not delivered a knockout soundtrack in ages.
Overall it might be best to re-watch the original; a definite miss for everyone who is not a hard-core Akshay Kumar/Paresh Rawal comedy fan..
Audience hue Pagal.
One of the horrible movie I have ever watched.
I saw this movie in Mumbai, my last ever picture in Mumbai.
I paid Rs. 200/- to watch the movie and the movie wasn't worth 25/- even.Akshay hams too much in the movie so are Sunil, Paresh & all others.
The only saving grace of the movie was Rimi Sen who was fresh out from Dhoom then.
She certainly is improving film after film.
She was good in Hungama.
She plays the same kind of role.
In Hungama there were two guys after her.
In this movie, there are seven characters who are after her.
I don't want to waste my time writing review of the movie coz there is no story altogether.A must skip.