Entertainment (2014 film)

Entertainment
Directed by	Sajid-Farhad
Written by	Sajid-Farhad (dialogue)
Screenplay by	Sajid-Farhad
Story by	K. Subhash
Produced by	Ramesh S. Taurani Jayantilal Gada
Starring	Akshay Kumar Tamannaah Bhatia Johnny Lever Sonu Sood Prakash Raj
Cinematography	Manoj Soni
Edited by	Steven Bernard
Music by	Sachin - Jigar
Production company	Tips Industries Limited
Distributed by	Pen Movies
Release date	August 8, 2014 (2014-08-08)
Running time	140 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹45 crore (US$5.4 million)
Box office	₹72.02 crore (US$8.6 million)

Entertainment is a 2014 Bollywood slapstick comedy film directed by duo Sajid-Farhad. Starring Akshay Kumar and Tamannaah Bhatia. the film is produced by Ramesh S. Taurani of Tips Industries Limited Entertainment was released on 8 August 2014 and declared Hit at box office of India.

Earlier titled It's Entertainment, the logo of the movie unveiled on 14 May 2014, whilst the theatrical trailer was released on 19 May 2014.

Plot

The film starts with Akhil Lokande (Akshay Kumar) getting paid for doing an ad, where he gets into a fight, as he wasn't paid the full amount of money that they had promised. This continues with a few other ads, where Akhil constantly ends the fight when he gets a phone call, and says he has to go somewhere. He then arrives on a shoot where Saakshi (Tamannaah Bhatia) is shooting for her television series. After her shoot lets out, they go for a walk around the park, observing other couples. At the end of their walk, Akhil proposes to Saakshi. Akhil and Saakshi go to her father's (Mithun Chakraborty) house, where they are told that until Akhil becomes rich, he can't marry Saakshi. Akhil goes to his film-obsessed friend's shop. He tells him that he is going to visit his father at the hospital because he has chest pain. However, his father(Darshan Jariwala), is actually acting and is dancing around with the nurse, only staying in the hospital because it has service like a 5-Star hotel. Akhil arrives just in time to hear and see this, and goes to beat up his father, when he reveals that Akhil is adopted and his real father wasn't ready for a child so his mother left, but was killed in a train crash. Luckily Akhil survived, and was sent to his adoptive father. Then Akhil beats him up. He goes back to his house, and opens the chest that he never had before, which contains love letters from his real father, to his mother, and a locket with his father and mother's pictures. He discovers that his father is Pannalal Johri (Dalip Tahil) who is a billionaire in Bangkok. Right as he finds this, on the television comes news that Pannalal Johri is dead and his 3000 crore's will go to anyone who can prove that they are related to Pannalal Johri. After arriving at Johri mansion, his father's house at Bangkok, he discovers that a dog named 'Entertainment' is the owner of Johri's property. They try to kill Entertainment, by having Akhil become Entertainment's caretaker, but fail. Saakshi and her father surprise Akhil at the mansion, and discover that Entertainment is the heir, causing the father to declare that Saakshi will never marry Akhil. At this time 2 brothers, Karan (Prakash Raj) and Arjun (Sonu Sood) , the 2nd cousins of Johri , escape jail. Karan and Arjun want to kill Akhil, because they figure that the dog will die in a couple of years anyway, so while Akhil is attempting to kill Entertainment, by drowning him under a thinly iced lake. Karan and Arjun hit the ground at the same time as Akhil causing him to nearly fall in, but Entertainment saves the former, and falls into the lake instead. After a lot of efforts Akhil fails to save entertainment but suddenly entertainment comes out of the water and they devlop feelings for each other. Akhil realizes his mistake and leaves the mansion. Karan and Arjun, citing that their lawyer knows the judge very well, inappropriately acquire the property from the Entertainment- the dog.

Akhil learns this news and returns. He vows that he'll get the property back for Entertainment. Akhil's strategy is to divide (the two brothers) and conquer. He manages to get a job as a servant at the Mansion, now owned by Karan and Arjun. Akhil attempts to split the two brothers, first by introducing Saakshi who seduces the two brothers separately. However, the scheme fails as background music rejoices the two brothers. Akhil again attempts trying to split two brothers, this time by introducing a false impression of ghost of Entertainment-the dog. The two brothers quarrel and accuse each other of illegally disguising as Entertainment. Akhil's friends tape this conversation slyly, however, the CD drops and Karan and Arjun realize that all this was planned by Akhil.

Entertainment runs with the CD. Karan, Arjun and their gang chase the dog, Akhil, and his friends. Akhil manages to beat them all. Later, Karan shoots Akhil, but Entertainment takes the bullet by jumping in front of Akhil. Akhil gets angry and beats up Karan.

Entertainment is taken to the hospital and saved after the operation. Karan and Arjun come to apologize and are forgiven. Akhil and Saakshi get married while Entertainment also marries a female dog. It is shown that Entertainment and the female dog are helping Akhil and Saakshi's kids and vice-versa.

Cast

• Junior (the wonder dog) as Entertainment
• Akshay Kumar as Akhil Lokhande
• Krishna Abhishek as Jugnoo
• Johnny Lever as Habibullah Shiekh
• Prakash Raj as Karan
• Sonu Sood as Arjun
• Tamannaah Bhatia as Saakshi
• Mithun Chakraborty as Saakshi's Father
• Ritesh Deshmukh as Jagtap Capsules teleshopping host (cameo)
• Shreyas Talpade as cricketer (cameo)
• Remo D'Souza as choreographer (cameo)
• Dalip Tahil as Pannalal Johri (Akhil's dad) (cameo)
• Vrajesh Hirjee as Wannabe groom (cameo)
• Darshan Jariwala as Akhil's adoptive father (cameo)
• Hiten Tejwani as the show actor (cameo)
• Damian Mavis as Thug

Filming

Shooting started on 3 June 2013 in Mumbai where the mahurat shot was filmed. On 1 July shooting started in Bangkok for a 3-months-long schedule where 90% of the film was shot, remaining 10% of the film was shot in Mumbai with one song in Goa during late 2013. The Censor Board of film Certification in India had objected to Abdullah, the name of Johnny Lever's character in the film. The board's objection was based on the fact that the name of the character is sacred and it was mispronounced by several other characters throughout the film and this would have hurt the religious sentiments of people. The board had asked Sajid Farhad to change the character's name. They complied with the board's instructions and changed the name to Habibullah. The changes were made just a week before the release of the film. The board had also objected to use of the word HIV during a joke in the film and subsequently it was muted. Another of board's objection was the use of trident by Kumar's character in the film. The shot was removed.

All the costumes used in the filming were donated to Youth Organization in Defence of Animals. The organization auctioned the clothes and the money collected in this way was used for the benefit of stray animals. Akshay Kumar also bought one clothing item. The lead actress Tammanah Bhatia declared that she would donate all the costumes used by her in her future film projects to such initiatives.

Soundtrack

Untitled

The soundtrack is composed by Sachin - Jigar. It will be the first time that Sachin - Jigar has worked with Akshay Kumar. The song Teri mahima aprampar is taken from telugu film D for Dopidi.

Track#	Song	Singer(s)	Lyrics	Duration (min)
1	"Johnny Johnny"	Jigar Saraiya, Priya Panchaal & Madhav Krishnan	Mayur Puri	3:38
2	"Tera Naam Doon"	Atif Aslam & Shalmali Kholgade	Priya Panchaal	4:44
3	"Veerey Di Wedding"	Mika Singh	Mayur Puri	3:34
4	"Teri Mahima Aprampar"	Udit Narayan & Anushka Manchanda	Ashish Pandit	3:45
5	"Nahi Woh Saamne"	Atif Aslam	Priya Panchaal	1:48
6	"Veerey Di Wedding" (Remix)	Mika Singh	Mayur Puri	3:37
7	"Johnny Johnny" (Remix)	Mika Singh	Mayur Puri	3:38
8	"Maange Maange"	Akshay Kumar		2:57

Critical Reception

The Bollywood review aggregator website Sahi Nahi reported a score of 52% based on 43 reviews. Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave it 3.5 stars saying "On the whole, ENTERTAINMENT is a joy ride that lives up to its title. Go, laugh out loud and get entertained!". Gayatri Sankar of Zee News gave the film 4 stars stating "If you like watching clean films and wish to take your family along for a movie, then 'Entertainment' best suits your requirement. Three and half a star for the film and half a star for rockstar Junior!." Salis Afaque of Salis Magazine gave the film 3 stars. Meena Iyer of Times of India also gave the film 3 stars stating "Akshay Kumar is in top form. Having done a multitude of masala movies, he's become a khiladi. His bonding with the dog (especially in comic scenes) has those 'oh-so-cute' moments. The golden retriever is not a wonderful actor; but his eyes can melt your heart." Shubha Shetty-Saha of Mid-Day gave the movie 3.5 of 5 stars noting "'Entertainment' pleasantly surprises with its delightful absurdity and sure gets you roaring with laughter at several points." Mihir Fadnavis of First Post gave the movie a rating of 59 out of 100 saying "It is Akshay Kumar's funniest film since Hera Pheri" Entertainment is far from logics but still is way ahead of many undeserving yet whooping-earner comedy flicks, posted IndiaTV news.

Box office

The film collected ₹72.02 crore (US$8.6 million)India.

External links

• Entertainment at IMDb
• Entertainment at Bollywood Hungama