Foul Play) is a 2000 Indian Hindi-language heist comedy drama film directed by Priyadarshan and written by Neeraj Vora, starring Akshay Kumar, Suniel Shetty, Paresh Rawal, Tabu, Om Puri and Gulshan Grover.

[11] The film is noted for its authenticity and depiction of economic problem of lower middle class families in India, situational comedy, dialogues, performances of the lead trio Kumar, Rawal and Shetty.

The film begins with Ghanshyam (Suniel Shetty), also known as Shyam, arriving in Mumbai from Gurgaon seeking a job at the private bank where his late father, Sundarlal, worked earlier.

However, the bank manager (Asrani) informs Shyam that another person, Shivshankar Panikar, died two minutes after Sundarlal in the accident.

Raju deceives everyone, even his widowed mother, Savitri Devi (Sulabha Arya), who resides in an old age home in Mumbai and believes her son to have been a successful engineer in Kolkata.

Meanwhile, Shyam approaches the "Star Garage" owned by Baburao Ganpatrao Apte (Paresh Rawal), a bespectacled near-sighted man, who owes a familial debt with many moneylenders and has hard time dealing with all of them.

As a result, the trio falls into hilarious situations that usually involve Raju verbally harassing Shyam and deliberately trying to create chaos which all Baburao miserably has to resolve.

Shyam now decides to give up the job at the bank and borrow ₹35,000 from Anuradha instead in order to repay his debt to Khadak Singh.

However, he learns that Anuradha is living with her mentally ill mother (Bhairavi Vaidya) in abject poverty and still has to pay the rent to her landlord.

The lives of the trio take an unexpected turn when they receive a phone call on Baburao's telephone from a ruthless crime lord, Kabira (Gulshan Grover), and his female gang member, Radha (Kashmira Shah).

Baburao realises why he has been constantly receiving wrong numbers from people wishing to speak to Devi Prasad since the past few days, which has been annoying him to no end.

Shyam and Baburao initially hesitate to go through with the idea, but finally agree when Raju convinces them that even though this is wrong, it is a golden chance to earn easy money as well as save the life of an innocent girl.

However, Devi Prasad prevents the police from arresting the trio and allows them to escape, so that his granddaughter will remain safe and will be handed over to him back.

From the obtained bag, the trio divides the money into half and attempts to give one of the ₹20 lakhs to Kabira's gang in order to get Rinku released.

In the moments immediately after Shyam and Baburao hang up the telephone, an ecstatic Raju returns home with the money, leaving them both dumbfounded.

As it is too late now, a remorseful Shyam and Baburao explain their earlier misunderstanding to Raju, who breaks down in tears as in this world, all he really cares for is his mother, who will now see her son getting arrested and sent to prison.

At the last moment, however, just as the police are about to close the door on the car, Devi Prasad arrives at the scene, stating that there has been a terrible misunderstanding and that he is not holding the trio guilty.

Nevertheless, Devi Prasad insists that he should be expressing gratitude to them instead, as well as allowing the trio to keep the money of ₹39.65 lakhs for themselves as a reward from him for saving his granddaughter's life.

All lyrics are written by SameerThe film did not open well upon release, but picked up later and became a box office success,[11] grossing Rs.

"[17] Alok Kumar of Planet Bollywood wrote, "All in all, Priyadarshan's Hera Pheri is a delight to watch for its performances, some songs, and an interesting storyline.

Indian audiences would be doing Bollywood injustice if they accepted an inane film like Dulhan Hum Le Jayenge and rejected a thrilling and entertaining Hera Pheri.

Let's see if in a dull year of flicks like Mela, Krodh, and Bulandi a good film like Hera Pheri can make an impact.