Khokababu
Theatrical poster
Directed by	D. Shankar Aiyya
Written by	Shayak Ganguly
Produced by	Ashok Dhanuka Eskay Movies
Starring	Dev Subhashree Ganguly Ferdous Laboni Sarkar Biswajit Chakraborty Locket Chatterjee Ashish Vidyarthi Biplab Chatterjee Subhasish Mukherjee
Cinematography	Sirsha Ray
Edited by	Mohammad Kalam Khan, Saikat Sengupta
Music by	Rishi Chanda
Distributed by	Eskay Movies
Release date	13 January 2012 (2012-01-13)
Running time	158 minutes
Country	India
Language	Bengali

Khokababu is an Indian Bengali action comedy film directed by Shankar Aiyya.^[1] The film stars Dev, Subhashree Ganguly, Ferdous, and Laboni Sarkar in the lead roles. This film is an unofficial remake of a Telugu film, Dhee.

Synopsis

The film is about Abir Roy a.k.a. Khoka/Khokababu (Dev) who is a cool and clever guy. Shankar Das a.k.a. Bhaiji (Ferdous) is a well-known don in his territory whom everybody fears and obeys. Khoka joins Bhaiji's circle as an accountant where he has a wacky senior Khanra Babu (Subhashish Mukherjee). Khoka with his super wit starts to obtain every luxury that a perfect office should have and starts to hoax Bhaiji. Problems occur when Khoka falls in love with Bhaiji's sister Pooja (Subhashree Ganguly). Anyone who even looks in her direction is simply dealt with in the cruelest possible way. Khoka somehow manages to win over Pooja and also gains the complete trust of Bhaiji by changing the system in which his business operates. Bhaiji asks him to look after Pooja as he considers his other employees to be incapable. Khoka and Pooja fall in love with each other and even get secretly married. She even goes to his house to stay for 3 days as Bhaiji's rival Ballu (Ashish Vidyarthi) is after her life. Bhaiji is completely unaware of Khoka and Pooja's relationship, however, he does come to know about it later. Can their love survive when Bhaiji is over-possessive about his sister and goons like Ballu are on the loose to take revenge on Bhaiji by killing his sister Pooja? That's how our super-clever Chalu Cheez Khokababu takes the story ahead.

Cast

• Dev as Abir a.k.a. Khoka/ Khokababu
• Subhashree Ganguly as Pooja
• Ferdous as Shankar Das a.k.a. Bhaiji
• Laboni Sarkar as Khoka's mother
• Tathoi Deb as Khoka's sister
• Biswajit Chakraborty as Khoka's father
• Locket Chatterjee as Bhaiji's wife
• Ashish Vidyarthi as Ballu
• Biplab Chattopadhyay as Jatin Prasad
• Subhasish Mukherjee as Khanra Babu
• Partha Sarathi Chakraborty as Peto
• Aritra Dutta Banik as Circuit
• Arindam Dutta as Raja
• Raju Majumdar as Khoka's friend

Box office

Khokababu collected Rs 15 million from its music release and 20 million from the satellite rights before its release. After that it opened as a thunderous hit in the Bengal theatres and in the first day it collected 3 million. It collected approx 40 million in 100 days.^[2]

Reviews

Khokababu opened with positive reviews from the critics. Gomolo.com gave it 3/5 saying "Viewers will not be disappointed at all with Khokababu which is a complete masala film with all the necessary ingredients in it." Subham Bhattacharyya, the Tollywood movies information, collection and ratings giver gave it 7/10 saying "It's a pure entertainment. We all can enjoy the film as per sure no time to bore". Burrp gave it 4/5 stars saying "It is a very good movie to watch, it is complete paisa wasool, with solid comedy, stylish action sequences, good music, and great location. Roshini Mukherjee of The Times Of India gave the film 3.5 stars out of 5 saying "Our advise, keep that logic behind, dig into a tub of corn and let Khokababu do the rest".^[3]

Soundtrack

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