Happy New Year

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Happy New Year is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language heist comedy thriller film directed by Farah Khan and produced by Gauri Khan under the banner of Red Chillies Entertainment. The film features an ensemble cast of Deepika Padukone, Shah Rukh Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Sonu Sood, Boman Irani, Vivaan Shah and Jackie Shroff. It was distributed worldwide by Yash Raj Films. In the film, a bunch of losers transform themselves into a team that wins over the hearts of the people in the city and across the world, all as part of their quest to pull off the biggest diamond heist ever seen.

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Chandramohan “Charlie” Sharma is a small street boxer who has spent eight years plotting revenge on Charan Grover, who was responsible for Charlie’s father Manohar being convicted and imprisoned as a thief. Charlie learned that some diamonds owned by Grover will be moved on Christmas Eve to the most secure safe in the world, Shalimar in Dubai. He find out that Shalimar is located beneath the Atlantis Hotel. The night the diamonds come, Charlie plans to steal the diamonds and frame Grover. He assembles a team that includes hard-of-hearing strongman and explosives expert Jagmohan “Jag” Prakash, seizure-prone safecracker Tehamton “Tammy” Irani, Jag’s nephew and master hacker Rohan Singh, and Nandu Bhide, who looks identical to Grover’s son Vicky. Jag and Tammy also resent Grover, as they both were close to and worked with Manohar to build Shalimar. Charlie reveals to Nandu that 8 years ago, Grover, who at the time was an African Diamonds Dealer, had hired Manohar to build the most secure safe in the world to keep some diamonds in. Later, as the project had been completed, Grover drugged Manohar and stole his own diamonds framing Manohar for the theft and was sent to prison for 12 years.

The first chamber of Shalimar can only be opened with the finger print of Vicky Grover, meaning the team would have to get Vicky’s fingerprint and disguise Nandu as Vicky. After Nandu opens the door, he would open an AC duct panel to let Charlie and Tammy enter the vault, where they would continue on to crack the safe. The AC duct would be connected to a hotel room above Shalimar, room 9C, which is in the Atlantis Hotel. But, room 9C is reserved for teams participating in the World Dance Championship (WDC). The group must participate in the contest as Team India in order to access the room. After the group fails to learn from several dance instructors, Nandu introduces Charlie to Mohini, a bar dancer who plans to open a dance school with money earned at the bar. Mohini agrees to teach the group to dance without knowing their true intentions, and grows close to Charlie.

The team passes the first round of the dance competition by blackmailing the judges. They dance to a poor reception in the India final, but Rohan hacks the voting system and puts them in first place. Their reception is even more hostile in Dubai, especially from Team North Korea, the defending champions who are sponsored by Grover. During the semifinal match between Team India and Team Korea, Charlie breaks the dance formation to save a young Korean team member from a dangerous stunt, gaining the audience’s admiration. Team India become unexpected fan favorites.

The team is upset to learn that the diamonds will arrive on New Year’s Eve instead of Christmas, meaning they must reach the finals to go on withducts from room 9C, and they continue to steal the diamonds.

As the group prepares to flee by boat with the diamonds, Rohan tells them that Mohini has refused to join them, planning instead to dance in the finals for India. The group fights about whether to join her. When the diamonds are found missing and Team India fails to appear onstage, Grover accuses them of being the thieves; however, the entire group joins Mohini, convincing Grover’s associates and the police that he stole his own diamonds, which were contracted to be sold after WDC. Team India wins teh Championship. As they encounter Grover and Vicky being led away in handcuffs, Charlie reveals himself to Grover as Manohar’s son and gives him the same razor blade Manohar used to commit suicide in prison.

The movie ends with the entire team becoming successful and Charlie proposes to Mohini.