Tees Maar Khan revolves around a conman named Tabrez Mirza Khan [Akshay Kumar] who has been a criminal since youth. Two police officers Chatterjee [Aman Verma] and Mukherjee [Murali Sharma] are after him. He is in love with the struggling actress Anya [Katrina Kaif]. He takes a job to rob a non-stop train loaded with precious antiques. He cons the people of Dhulia village into helping him by saying that he will make a historical film about their village. He fools the greedy actor Aatish Kapoor [Akshay Khanna], who was eager to get the Oscar award and fakes him to work in his film. However, the robbery goes well but all the villagers and Tabrez Mirza Khan get arrested. He claims they are innocent but he gets arrested anyway. At the movies premiere, Aatish, Anya, TMK s mother, Dollar, Soda, Burger and all the villagers walk in the Red Carpet along with Tees Maar Khan and the police. After the film, Tees Maar Khan escapes. Later, at his private jet, the Johri brothers enjoy what they got until Tees Maar Khan and his gang throw both of them out of the plane. The film ends with TMK and his mother becoming rich, Aatish receiving Oscar awards from actor Anil Kapoor, Anya becoming an actress and the whole Dhulia village opening their own saloons, party halls and the village inspector opening a poster signing stall to all the people from America. The crew of the film are seen receiving the Oscar awards in the song "Happy Ending".

Production

Priyanka Chopra was earlier rumored to play the part of Anya, but that rumor was later dropped after Katrina Kaif was chosen to play the female lead. The script is penned by director Farah Khans husband Shirish Kunder. Sanjay Dutt was confirmed to play the role of Sutradhaar [narrator] for the film. Farah stated in an interview that she wanted someone with a voice which people can even recognize in their sleep. An entire train was made and 500m track laid for Rs. 75 lacs to shoot the climax scenes.

Release

Tees Maar Khan premiered in U.K on 21 December, in Fiji on 22 December and in Canada on 23 December 2010.

Soundtrack

The music of the film is composed by the music duo of Vishal-Shekhar and debutant music composer Shirish Kunder. Lyrics are penned by Vishal Dadlani, Anvita Dutt Guptan and Shirish Kunder. The music was launched on 14 November 2010. The entire cast and crew traveled on a train booked from Mumbai to Lonavala for the music launch. Sonu Nigam has given 54 voices for the title track of the film. The Song Sheila Ki Jawani became one of the biggest hits and fetched Sunidhi Chauhan a Filmfare Award.

Box office

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India

Awards and nominations

;2011 Star Screen Awards * Won - Best Actress [Popular Choice] - Katrina Kaif ;2011 Zee Cine Awards Won * Zee Cine Award for Best Choreography - Farah Khan for "Sheela Ki Jawani" Nominated *Best Track of the Year - "Sheela Ki Jawani" *Best Music - Vishal-Shekhar *Best Male Playback Singer - Sonu Nigam for "Tees Maar Khan" *Best Female Playback Singer - Sunidhi Chauhan for "Sheela Ki Jawani" *Best Lyricist - Vishal Dadlani for "Sheela Ki Jawani" *Zee Cine Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Male - Akshaye Khanna *Best Cinematography - P.S. Vinod

Critical response

= Tees Maar Khan received mostly negative reviews from critics. Anupama Chopra of NDTV wrote, "Tees Maar Khan, adapted from After the Fox, by writers Shrish and Ashmit Kunder, is disappointingly limp and insistently low IQ. The film has little of the effervescence and flair of a typical Farah Khan film." Aseem Chhabra of Rediff.com, who rated the film 1.5/5, stated, "Even at two hours, the film feels like one long and tedious exercise in bad humour. Some people laughed during the screening I attended in New York City. However, most sat with glum faces, in a sense of disbelief ..... How could a talented person like Khan make such an unfunny film?" Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave a modest rating of 3/5 in his review and said, "Farah Khans brand new outing Tees Maar Khan will make the most absurd, bizarre and wacky cinema of yore pale in comparison. Not just your cell phone, even your brain needs to be put on switched off mode at the commencement of this film." Nikhat Kazmi of the Times of India awarded 2.5/5 stars while commenting, "Sadly, Tees Maar Khan begins as a spoof and remains a spoof, till the very end. All the characters end up as mere caricatures and completely fail to build up an emotional quotient in the film." Yahoo! Movies gave the film 1.5/5 stars. Komal Nahta of Koimoi.com gave it a rating of 2/5 and stated, "Too much of farcical comedy; lack of emotions; over-the-top characters; unbelievable script ..... Tees Maar Khan is definitely a disappointment; but it will bring back the invested money and a bit more." Aniruddha Guha of Daily News and Analysis gave the film 2 stars and remarked, "Even Sheila can''t make Tees Maar Khan watchable ... Though the story is interesting [Neil Simon of After The Fox should ideally get the credit], the writing is so pedestrian and Farah Khan''s presentation so lacklustre that you wonder how the film was greenlighted at all." Gaurav Malani of The Economic Times gave 2 stars saying, "To sum up in Tees Maar Khan''s trademark style of dialogue delivery, Akshay Kumar se zara hatke comedy expect karna aur Akshaye Khanna se kuch bhi expect karna bekaar hain. Tees Maar Khan doesn''t even guarantee thirty good laughs in its three hour runtime." Kaveree Bamzai of India Today rated it 2½/5 saying, "Its an oddly half-hearted film from a woman [Farah Khan] who is never known to do anything in half measure." Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN rated the movie 2/5 suggesting, "If you''re outraged by such low-brow humor, Tees Maar Khan is going to be a long, hard slog for you."

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