Video: Housefull Trailer

After a poor 2009, Akshay Kumar returns with Sajid Khan’s Housefull. The trailer releases worldwide tomorrow with Karthik Calling Karthik, but has already been released on the internet by Eros International.

The initial minute and a half of the trailer looks good, but soon turns into a typical Akshay Kumar mad-cap comedy. His character though looks pretty interesting and it would certainly be a treat to watch three gorgeous leading ladies share screen space (Bachna Ae Haseeno – Garam Masala, anyone?).

Check out the trailer and tell us what you think.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqPZHVekBZ0

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33 Comments

  • There will be two more similar films this year….. Hehehe. Khatta meeta and Tees maar khan (farah is overrated director). Have a feeling that it will be a super disaster.

  • As indicine said i liked the first 1 min of the trailer too. was expecting something different… next minute is was back to slapping, jumping and falling.. BORING!

  • Hopefully the film will be funny, no doubt about it. BUT can I say without any Akki fan jumping on my back. He needs to do something different. Its become so repetitive that its becoming annoying.

  • howly sh!t !!! r yu kiddin me??? i thought sajid said it’l b biggest AK hit ever…hahahaha. now who would trust these ppl they just claim anythin. I dont see it workin at the BO, big disappointment :S

  • superb trailer.akshay looks supercool.it will be the first blockbuster of 2010.king kumar rocks…….
    @vix just wait and watch buddy.it will be the biggest ak hit

  • roooocking promo dont know what haters waant akki is there to entertain us and he does that quite
    more often than other actors and thiis just looooks so coool

  • yeahh he has action replayy , patiala house & to Khatta Meethaa wich is a satire with some light hearted comedy.
    Also the HouseFull promo is not loud and looks reallly entertaining

  • couldn’t agree more with indicine. the trailer seemed promising as long as the three ladies went on introducing their mr. right…at this time i was expecting a comedy which would be based on some intelligent humor…but as suneil says…then the usual slapping and screaming began.

    Anyways its just a trailer…I seriously hope the movie is more entertaining than the trailer itself.

    All the best to Aki and his fans :)

  • ist half is relatively good but not so much promising.it is the same type of movie as that akshay always gives.some scenes looks like DDD.according to me the film will be average.AKSHAY is a gud actor but he does not choose the right script.so i just want to say to AKSHAY that CHANGE WE NEED.

  • Review Housefull Trailer…

    meri biwi teri biwi , teri biwi teri biwi meri bahan , teri hone wali biwi meri bahan, yeh har baar har aurat teri biwi aur meri bahan bak jati hai. aur teri hi kismat kharab hai.

    last dialogue is very funny and it shows whole story.
    1st one minute movie really looks good, scpecially back ground score is very melodius. but 2nd minute shows tipical Akshay Kumar movie.
    Sajid Khan is genius person and i hope he will make something different like Heyy Babyy.
    Heyy Babyy was also looking like same in Prmos but after watching it was complete different movie.
    Hope so with Housefull sajid will repeat same thing.
    story looks like Garam Masala , that 3 girls in a same house with lot of confusion and lots of Golmaal.
    i love Golmaal type movies that try to hide some thing.
    Last dialogue is superb by Ritesh
    meri biwi teri biwi , teri biwi teri biwi meri bahan , teri hone wali biwi meri bahan, yeh har baar har aurat teri biwi aur meri bahan bak jati hai. aur teri hi kismat kharab hai.

    Rating
    3 /5

  • Suvran

    It’s not that we don’t love these superstars but we have to accept that except amir khan there is no one who knows about story telling. It’s all about a shahrukh khan movie or an akshay kumar movie. But shahrukh has full media with him so it won’t cost him a penny and he will always remain in the top with his 5 star rating lobby.
    But one thing is confirmed for akshay kumar is that very soon he will lost his superstar status.
    It’s pitty for so many akshay kumar fans (and even I also love akshay kumar) but the fact is he knows nothing about a story telling or script knowledge just like salman. From now on each and every film of his will be either an avg or a flop. Last year he got 3 avg hits but this year will be even worser. His film will start getting flop status instead of avg hits. Not a single hit film he will have this year.
    Because we know that each and every movie of his are same slap mad comedy and the more painful thing is that with no comedy in it.
    We love him but we must accept that he does not have the knowledge of making good films. He has the talent and the looks but may be it’s getting too late and this year’s failure will be the hightime or a last chance for him. His next films like khatta metha & tees maar khan are same slap mad comedy and if he sign another this kind of movie then those movies will not even surpassed 20 crore net in the market.
    Are you listening akshay? from whom your are getting the support for doing these same kind of movies again & again. They are not ur wellwisher, they are demons of your life.
    One word to summarise- Akshay kumar will lose his superstar status by the end of this year completely. Painful but it’s fact and he has to start from scratch once again. Good luck akshay for that juncture. And may be he will then………. but don’t you think it will be too late then to gain the stardom once again.

  • Sajid Khan said that Housefull will be the biggest hit. But I think now after watching the promos it will be biggest disaster ever.

  • its a good one and regarding our demand for the stars to change the type of roles . the answer lies in the fact that whenever AKKi or maybe SRK tried to do something different they havenot been that successful (count Tasveer, sangharsh,paheli,swades and now MNIK) and regarding AKKI losing his superstar status one has to understand this status is provided by his fans not critics so till the time his fans are accepting him (count all the duds of 2009) nobody can take his superstar status . has that been the case Salman would have lost his superstar status long time back but he still is superstar.

    On the positive side . i too want this movie to have intelligent humour so that evryone goes and enjoy

  • @ Nauman,

    Dude I must appreciate one thing honestly. I know how big a fan are you of Akki…but I must admire that you didn’t try to hide / defend the negatives which are visible through the trailer.

    gotta give you credit on this.

    :)

  • @Nauman I told u na its usual Akki’s Masala kind of movie.Infact tell u truth i was stunned with Deepika’s introduction of his dream guy.I thought Akki has done it but afterwards sheer disappointment.I dunu how long ppl can enjoy same brainless comic funda stories :)

  • @Akhlaq Bahe ..I have logged into Indicine after so many days due to login problems.Anyways what were the messages about I can answer them now :)

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    THIS IS FOR ALL CINEMA LOVERS

    My Name is Declined: Looking ahead at Shahrukh Khan’s career outlook after MNIK demise
    Monday, February 22, 2010

    Dev Patel of the $370 million (Rs. 1700 crore)
    grosser Slumdog Millionaire is a bigger
    international star than Shahrukh Khan

    The difference between a star and a superstar is that while a star gives hits occasionally, a superstar (whoever he is at the time) is expected to give the biggest hit and the superstar’s films are always expected to take the biggest, top initial across India at the box office. To be excluded from this are actresses like Katrina Kaif or a Kareena Kapoor, who while maybe considered top heroines, are almost always incidental to the film’s box office fate. That is to say, you can replace one with the other and it wouldn’t affect the film’s box office all that much. Barring a Meena Kumari, Hema Malini, Sridevi, Madhuri Dixit and to a lesser extent Aishwarya Rai (though some would dispute this too), heroines don’t have much impact on box office fates of Indian films.

    That brings the discussion to primarily in the domain of actors and leading men, of which Shahrukh Khan has been billed, by the media atleast, as the #1 leading man at the box office, a proposition that continuously falls on its face time and again. In fact Shahrukh Khan has repeatedly failed to measure up to the claim despite heavy political and media support for this actor over the past 15 years. To start off breaking this down before we do the lookahead, let’s use a man he often used to compare himself to for these types of comparisions earlier, Amitabh Bachchan.

    Today in his 60s, Amitabh Bachchan is a star who occasionally delivers hits like Black or Paa or Cheeni Kum. But Amitabh Bachchan was the undisputed superstar of the box office from January 1975 (when Deewar opened at 100% box office on 24th January 1975 and went on to run a platinum jubilee running next to Sholay later in the year) to January 1989 when after opening to 100% and a record box office response, Ganga Jamuna Saraswati crashed in its 2nd week. Still, even after the Ganga Jamuna Saraswati crash the biggest opener of 1989 was not Salman Khan’s Maine Pyaar Kiya, or Anil Kapoor’s Ram Lakhan but rather Amitabh Bachchan’s Toofan. Similarly the biggest opener of 1990 wasn’t Aamir Khan’s Dil or Salman Khan’s post-MPK release Baaghi or even Sunny Deol’s Ghayal, but rather it was Bachchan’s Aaj Ka Arjun. In 1991, the biggest opener was again Amitabh Bachchan’s recordbreaking opener Hum. Even in the ‘disputed’ phase of his ‘reign’ as the superstar, he was delivering the #1 initials and remained the highest paid actor till 1998. But in most of the years between 1973-1992, Bachchan starrers were the top grossers and occasionally as happened to be the case in 1978, the top 4 grossers of the year (Muqaddar Ka Sikandar, Don, Trishul, Ganga Ki Saugandh).

    Now let’s bring this back to Shahrukh Khan. Even in his prime, Shahrukh Khan was never the undisputed superstar unlike Amitabh Bachchan. Right after Kuch Kuch Hota Hai in 1998, his next: Baadshah, sunk; failing to take the top opening of 1999 and then flattening out. Shahrukh Khan was not in either biggest opener nor the biggest grosser of the decade of the 1990s nor of the 2000s. And many feel if he sustained near the top through the 2000s, it was more to do with fact that most of new entries of 2000s decade such as Vivek Oberoi, Abhishek Bachchan, Uday Chopra, Ritesh Deshmukh, Abhay Deol were more there due to family labels and lacked either ambition or talent themselves. But despite this, Shahrukh Khan’s films year in and out did not take the #1 initial. His biggest blockbusters were prone to being outinitialed or outgrossed by films of other 2 Khans, along with a Hrithik Roshan, Sunny Deol (circa Gadar) and couple others like Akshay Kumar later on. Now granted none of them went on to dominate box office themselves, but none of them go around claiming to be Kings or #1s either.

    Which is exactly what the problem with Shahrukh Khan is and has been. Despite the Indian media collective and congress government literally taking the country’s resources and putting it on the line for this guy, his biggest film ever, My Name Is Khan failed to open anywhere near the top, missing the top in opening at the box office by a distance and will have had a comparatively premature demise at the end also, causing many losses. By the end of the year, several films of several stars will leave box office collections of Khan in the dust.

    And now after MNIK, Shahrukh Khan does not have any more releases coming up this year. He’s 45 and it is difficult to see where his trajectory goes from here as he’s facing a number of problems. Let’s examine these problems in detail and regardless of political correctness.

    Firstly though he aspires to be an international star, internationally he will never be reaching level of even a Dev Patel (of the $370 million grossing Slumdog Millionaire fame) let alone an Antonio Banderas in the 90s, a crossover star there, due to cultural reasons. A muslim chanting ‘My Name Is Khan’ was never going to become a big star in America, and only a deluded understanding of USA held by likes of Karan Johar would have imagined so. Johar’s understanding of India itself is doubtful let alone America, Karan Johar is a bigger deal among industry tweeters than he is with Indian audiences. Which is why his Koffee with Karan or Lift Kara De end up getting lower TRPs in India than many other trivial shows. What is going to be an advantage in Karachi will be a disadvantage in mainstream Chicago or Chandrapur as we’ll discuss below. America is a liberal country and tolerates muslims also, but it is not a foolish country, or unidimensional the way depicted in ridiculous bollywood cinema like Kurbaan and MNIK. These movies have no chance outside the usual Karan Johar/Khan segments from handful of countries settled as generation 1 migrants to USA.

    So mainstream America is out for Shahrukh Khan. If the goal then is to become a middle eastern icon because of his proclivity to utter My Name Is Khan, then well there are a couple problems with that also. Culturally, the mid-east is not particularly homogeneously understanding of Hindi nor liberal enough overall which cinema needs. Secondly, and more importantly, a Qatar or a Baharain or even Pakistan, they are not all that consequential compared to India economically, let alone the west. If they were, they would have had their own established film industries by now. India is ahead of them all. It is the world’s 2nd largest country by population and one of the major markets on earth, and will always be the dominant, determining market for Hindi films, with an economy that’s outperforming the global recession and even some western countries. In Mumbai, many multiplexes’ ticket rates are now about same as what US customers pay at US theaters. Ticket prices in even multiplexes like Indore, Madhya Pradesh and Kanpur are now substantial, except since Mumbai is quite saturated this is where the major theater economy growth will be coming in the years ahead. So if you keep your eye on the ball, the arrows are pointing towards the Hindi markets once more, and you can’t ignore the audiences’ sensibilities there.

    Following off from that, secondly, because of the increasing cloud around his ’support for Pakistanis like Sohail Tanvir’ politics, the middle India audiences are tuning Shahrukh Khan out. Especially middle class and mass screens Hindus (which were never particularly heavily in support of Shahrukh Khan cinema anyway). This is backed up by increasingly pedestrian TRPs when he is on television which is more dominated by this demographic. But bottomline is even at box office you can’t get to those top all India initials let alone top overall grossers if the Hindis don’t let you. It simply can’t be done. It can work the other way (ex. Gadar) but not in this direction.

    Finally his politics apart, the other big problem for Shahrukh Khan is now age, which is not on his side. He’s closer to 50 than 30. An entire new generation of audiences has entered the theaters to whom overseas locales are no big deal, are much more confident about India (last year’s big hits: 3I, Ajab Prem, Paa etc. all primarily set in India) and for whom Shahrukh Khan-Kajol movies like Kuch Kuch Hota Hai are themselves old, dated cinema.

    This happens to all stars and aspiring superstars at some point. And there is nothing to be done about that. New stars are here and will come who will look, fresher, quicker, and more in tune with the times than Khan. And it will strike to him that people don’t go to cinemas to watch khans. They go to cinema to get entertained. And accumulated hostilites from the Hindus, and accumulated wrinkles on the face, accumulated lack of speed brought on by the natural process of aging, tend to point to Shahrukh Khan’s declining fortunes in the coming years. Not unlike an Anil Kapoor after the early-90s, if he’s lucky.

    The days of staking claim to the #1 superstardom for Shah Rukh Khan have been gone for a few years now and are probably gone forever. The question is how long can he delay the inevitable and remain a star.

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