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Bhagam Bhag

Bhagam Bhag (transl. Mad rush) is a 2006 Indian Hindi-language comedy thriller film directed by Priyadarshan and written by Neeraj Vora. It was produced by Sunil Shetty and Dhilin Mehta. The film stars Akshay Kumar, Govinda and Paresh Rawal as the three leads alongside Lara Dutta, Rajpal Yadav, Jackie Shroff, Arbaaz Khan, Shakti Kapoor, Manoj Joshi, Razak Khan and Asrani. The film tells the story of a theatre group which travels to London for a show and need a heroine to complete their play, only to be entangled in a murder mystery they did not commit, as well as mistakenly becoming the enemies of a drug cartel and a street gang, in the process.

The film adapted certain subplots of the Malayalam film Mannar Mathai Speaking which itself was based on the 1958 film Vertigo. The film was remade in Telugu as Brahmanandam Drama Company (2008).

The film was released theatrically on 22 December 2006, during Christmas holidays and received mixed reviews from critics but was a commercial success and became the 9th highest-grossing film of the year. Over the years after release, it has become a cult classic due to its humour.

Champak Chaturvedi runs a theatrical troupe in India. His two men, Bunty and Babla, are assigned to either play the role of their play's hero, or the villain. Both men end up squabbling with each other, as both want the hero's part. Champak finds out that Bunty has harassed the play's heroine, Anjali, and punishes him. The group gets a contract to stage 30 plays in Britain by Ravinder Taneja; however, on the day of the departure, Anjali opts out, leaving Champak no alternative but to travel without a heroine, hoping to recruit one while in Britain. Upon arrival in London, Champak declares that whoever brings him a heroine will be given the role of the main hero.

Babla sets about to find a suitable heroine from the Indian population. On the advice of Gullu, a cab driver, he goes to a garden where he is followed by Bunty, and the two agree to take the turns in the role of the hero. While there, Bunty and Babla have their suitcase accidentally switched by two men with one containing heroin, and as a result, both men end up being considered suspects by the local police, whose commissioner is J. D. Mehra. The two men who switched the suitcase are revealed to be working under Manubhai Gandhi, a builder and drug smuggler who is trying to sell drugs to his buyer, Sher Khan. He and his men immediately suspect the trio to be secret police after hearing from Sher Khan that his men had been arrested by the police, and comedy ensues whenever Gandhi and his men bump into them. Gullu takes Bunty to two goons, Guru and Hakka, who know a woman who lives in Germany, but they insist to drive there with the two along with all of their men. Not wanting to go along with this condition, the two trick all the goons into exiting the car while they escape, though Guru is still inside the car.

Bunty eventually recruits a woman named Nisha Chauhan a.k.a. "Munni" who suffers from suicidal tendencies, after she attempts to commit suicide in front of their car, with Guru falling out and breaking his leg in the process. Munni is accepted as the heroine of the play, and through the course of time, both Nisha and Bunty fall in love with each other. Guru and his men find the troupe and chase Bunty to get their revenge, but Bunty escapes, and Hakka accidentally breaks Guru's other leg instead. Nisha's husband, Vikram Chauhan, soon arrives, thanks everyone, and takes his wife back home to Liverpool. A few days later, Bunty receives a phone call from a frantic Nisha, who tells him to come over immediately. He, along with Champak and Babla, arrive there to find her body in flames.

Later, Bunty briefly sees Nisha on the streets, but no one believes him. The group ultimately decide to enact a play in which there is no need for a heroine. On the night of the play, a frightened Champak also sees Nisha in the restroom. Suddenly, Vikram bumps into the trio with a gun in his hand, and Bunty accidentally presses the trigger of the gun, killing him. They hide Vikram's body and Champak's bloodstained kurta in an AC duct to avoid any suspicion. They go on to perform the play, but Vikram's body slides down the vents and falls onto the stage. Mehra, who was present in the audience, investigates the case and finds Champak's kurta and Babla's chain on Vikram's body and has the trio arrested. While the trio is being taken, Gandhi's men throw a grenade in the police car in an attempt to kill them, compelling them to escape.

Bunty suggests that they find Nisha to prove their innocence. After breaking into her house, they find out that Nisha has booked a ticket to Mumbai under the name of Aditi Desai. They call at the number she registered for booking and find out that another girl named Sheetal, who is a friend of Nisha, has brought the ticket for her. Champak accidentally allows himself to get kidnapped by Gandhi's men, and they torture him to get the information that they suspect he knows about their drug smuggling business. Meanwhile, Guru and his men take Gullu's taxi, and won't return it until Gullu brings Bunty to them; he is then captured by his boss, the taxi's owner, who threatens he will imprison Gullu if he doesn't retrieve the taxi. Babla and Bunty follow Sheetal to a train station, where they witness her handing the ticket to Nisha. Bunty catches her and chases her to the top of a clocktower, while Babla calls Mehra about their location. Gullu witnesses this and calls Guru to take Bunty and return the taxi, and the taxi owner to take the taxi back. Gandhi also chooses the clocktower as his destination to complete his deal with Khan and asks him to come there.

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