Heyy Babyy is a Hindi film starring Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan, Fardeen Khan, Riteish Deshmukh and Boman Irani. It is the first full-length feature film directed by Sajid Khan. It released on 24 August 2007.
The film is a remake of the American comedy Three Men and a Baby from 1987.
Plot
Arush Mehra lives a fairly wealthy lifestyle in Sydney, Australia along with two room-mates Tanmay Joglekar, and Ali Haider. He works for a food chain, while Tanmay entertains children as 'Eddy Teddy', while Ali takes care of their apartment. All three are womanizers and usually end up sleeping with around 30 different women every One day they find a baby girl right outside their door with a note that tells them to take care of her, since she is the daughter of one of them. The three boys go to all the girls they dated and slept with, and none of them claim that this baby girl is theirs. The boys try to take care of the baby, but she becomes a huge pain, so they drop her off at a church, but then realize they love her, so they take the baby back and name her Angel. They love her, pamper her, and grow a huge attachment towards her. One day, a girl, named Isha, comes to take Angel back, claiming her to be her daughter. The boys are shocked, but that's when Arush tells them about his past.
(1 year ago) Arush travels to Delhi to attend, his friend Arjun's wedding, and this is where he meets with Isha Sahni, who also resides in Australia, he impresses and wins her over, and they spend a night together, but shortly thereafter Isha catches him sleeping with Devika, Isha's friend, so they both split up. Arush returns to Sydney and forgets about this incident.
Tanmay and Ali are shocked after hearing the story and the boys find it very diffict to live without Angel. Arush ends up challenging Isha that she has to marry someone faithful within 7 days that will accept Angel, if shes not successful she will have to give Angel back to him, so they both sign a contract to make the deal final. The boys worry that they might lose the bet since, Isha is very beautiful and wealthy, Arush makes a plan to win Isha and his daughter Angel back with the help of Ali, Tanmay and Isha's father. Firstly Ali disguises himself up as a freaky, traditional boy, with the help of Isha's father, but it backfires when Isha thinks his good for her and Angel. To scare Isha, Ali attempts to shoot an apple off the top of a boy's head, at a fair, which angers Isha, and she decides not to marry him. Then on the same day Tanmay/Eddy Teddy meets her at the fair, after seeing his affection towards kids, she decides he will be good for Angel and herself.
A few days later, Isha finds out the truth, and plans to fly with Angel on her private jet, since she was fooled and has lost the deal. Tanmay and Ali take the contract with them as well as phoning the police, and get their right on time. Just when the police were about to take Angel away from Isha, Arush comes and tears up the contract and allows Isha and Angel to go their separate ways.
Arush, Tanmay and Ali are nevertheless upset until their bell rings the next day. The boys are amazed because they find Angel at their doorsteps. A few moments later, Isha turns up telling Arush that it was very hard for them both to forget him. She agrees to marry him and on their reception day, she is shocked to learn that her father was having an affair with a woman younger than him.
Cast
Production
Some shooting took place in Australia[1] and in Filmistan Studios in Mumbai[2]
An Australian features in a promotional video which was not to be in the film. The girl band from Sydney are called Australian Divas[3]
This will be the first Hindi movie to be released on Blu-ray disc.[4]
Music
The music is composed by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy. The song listing is as follows.
Reception
Reviews
The film opened to positive reviews, though many criticized the slow pace of the film in the second half. Taran Adarsh gave the film 4 out of 5 stars saying the film is an entertainer that has something for everyone. He also praised the performances of the lead stars.[5] Critic, Aparajita Ghosh gave the film 3 out 5 stars saying Heyy Babyy packs in enough masala and emotion to keep you entertained throughout its running time.[6] Noyon Jyoti Parasara of AOL India stated "Sajid Khan's debut is one movie you can go and watch and leave your brains behind. Go laugh aloud!" [1]
Box office
Heyy Babyy opened to packed houses in over 650 cinemas in India The opening was at 90%+ and continued to do well in the days following.[7] It has done a gross of Rs. 54 crores in India, $1.4 million in USA and £763k in UK[8]
Overseas, the film opened to a huge response and has taken the second biggest opening in the UK after Salaam-e-Ishq: A Tribute to Love (2007).[9] Heyy Babyy debuted at number 10 and made £289,761 at a screen average of £4,765.[9]
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