His friend Raju is a struggling actor who has been waiting on Shekhar to write a film script so he can star in his movie.

The film's soundtrack is composed by Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendonsa, with lyrics penned by Javed Akhtar.

Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave the film one out of five, writing, "On the whole, SHORT KUT - THE CON IS ON is a poor show all the way.

"[4] Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express wrote, "Shortkut suffers from director Neeraj Vora's customary inability to infuse any newness or subtlety into a plot that could easily have gone the other way.

"[5] Gaurav Malani of The Economic Times gave the film 1 out of 5, writing, "The derived screenplay is patchy and its shows as writer Neeraj Vora struggles to script weak characters and weaker conflicts.