Bunty Aur Babli

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Bunty Aur Babli is a 2005 Indian Hindi-language crime comedy film directed by Shaad Ali and written by Jaideep Sahni, based on a story by Aditya Chopra, who produces the film under the Yash Raj Films.

The film, inspired by the 1967 American film Bonnie and Clyde, stars Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, and Rani Mukerji in lead roles[2] and marks the first of the many collaborations between the former two (father and son respectively in real life). The younger Bachchan and Mukerji play the titular con-artist partners-in-crime, while the elder Bachchan plays the DCP whose focus is solely to catch them.

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Rakesh Trivedi is from a small village named Fursatganj. His father is a ticket collector on a train and wants him to get into a similar occupation as well. However, Rakesh has big dreams; he is forever coming up with new business schemes and is convinced he will make it big one day. He adamantly refuses any notion that he will one day work in a 9-to-5 environment. Rakesh’s father gives him an ultimatum – go on the job interview he has arranged or get out of the house.

Vimmi Saluja is the daughter of a Punjabi family in another small village named Pankinagar; she spends her hours watching films and studying supermodels and dreams of becoming Miss India. However, Vimmi’s parents tell her they have arranged her marriage to a young man with a decent job which she is not interested in.

Rakesh and Vimmi pack their bags and sneak out in the dark of the night. They bump into each other at a train station and become friends after realizing their stories are similar. They support and encourage each other to achieve their dreams: Vimmi tries to enter the Miss India contest but gets thrown out after an argument when she refuses to sleep with someone to get a part. Rakesh tries to sell his ideas for an investment scheme, but a businessman turns him away.

A man he had met at a restaurant stole ideas from Rakesh’s presentation file and when he enters the office, the interviewer states someone before he came in with the same idea. After finding out that the businessman who Rakesh had approached used his idea to make money, he and Vimmi con him and take the money they believe is rightfully theirs.
Once they realize how easy it is to con people, they decide to run some more cons to raise money to make it to Bombay.

Unfortunately, they find the lifestyle too exciting to give up. Adopting the names of ‘Bunty’ and ‘Babli’, they successfully pull off con after con, looting the rich dressed as local guides, religious priests, health inspectors, business partners, etc. Their flamboyant antics make them famous in newspapers nationwide. Soon, their friendship leads to romance and they decide to continue conning as husband and wife.

Little do Bunty and Babli know that DCP Dashrath Singh is catching up with their cons, getting closer each day. He relentlessly pursues them across India in the hopes of putting them behind bars. To complicate matters, Bunty and Babli have a child and, after a very close call eluding Dashrath, they decide to quit conning for their child’s sake. This decision leads to their capture by Dashrath. While in custody, their heartfelt confessions and conversation soften the policeman’s heart and he lets them go, certain he had destroyed Bunty and Babli’s career as criminals.

Three years later, Dashrath rescues Bunty and Babli from their mundane domestic lives by offering them to work for the nation thwarting the activities of other scammers.