Chaalis Chauraasi

Chaalis Chauraasi, is a Bollywood crime comedy film directed by Hriday Shetty and starring Naseeruddin Shah, Atul Kulkarni, Kay Kay Menon and Ravi Kishan. Most of the film was shot in Mumbai. It was released on 13 January 2012.

Cast

 * Naseeruddin Shah as Pankaj Purushottam Suri (Sir)
 * Kay Kay Menon as Albert Pinto a.k.a. Pinto
 * Atul Kulkarni as Bhaskar Sardesai a.k.a. Bobby
 * Ravi Kishan as Shakti Chinappa a.k.a. Shakti
 * Rupsha Guha
 * Rajesh Sharma as Mahesh Naik
 * Shweta Bhardwaj as Madhu, also appears in the song 'Setting Zala'
 * Zakir Hussain as Tony Bisleri
 * Manoj Pahwa as Tilak Shetty
 * Arbaaz Ali Khan
 * Yuri Suri as Haryanvi Shethi a.k.a. Tau
 * Jeet Upendra
 * Neelima Uttarwar as Gauri Shetty, wife of Tilak
 * D. Santosh as Chandu
 * Shital Kohok as bar male singer
 * Rupsha Guha as bride
 * Shuvendru Sood as groom
 * Yashshree Gupta as receptionist, Ad agency
 * Partha Akerkar as Vivek, Creative Head, Ad agency
 * Jahangir Karkaria as old Parsi man
 * Nargis Dastoor as old Parsi woman
 * Navin Talreja as Husband (HC; Happy couple)
 * Sonal Joshi as Wife (HC; Happy couple)
 * Sagar Juneja as Parsi son
 * Virendra Pandey as watchman in Parsis's bungalow
 * Chandrakant Dani as Ambulance attendant
 * Birendra Gupta as Tilak Shetty's accountant
 * Digvijay Rohidas as Inspector Kalsekar
 * Jageshwar as Hanif
 * Amruta Sant as Hanif's girlfriend
 * Sadat Shamshi as Hotel Dwarka receptionist
 * Vinay Apte as Sheikh saab
 * Reetu Jain as 'Badmast' item girl

Box office
In its first weekend, the film netted around 75.75 lakh. Its lifetime collection was INR 2.58 and it was a disaster at the box office.

Soundtrack
The songs of the movie were composed by Lalit Pandit whereas the title song was sung and composed by Vishal Rajan. The music rights were sold to T-Series and released in December 2011. The rights of the song "Hawa Hawa" were acquired from Pakistani Singer Hasan Jahangir. The movie song was sung in two versions, originally sung by Hasan Jahangir. The background score was composed by Sanjoy Chowdhury.