Knock Out is an Indian Hindi psychological thriller film directed by Mani Shankar. Released on 15 October 2010, the film stars Sanjay Dutt, Irfan Khan and Kangana Ranaut. Knock Outis an unauthorized remake of Phone Booth. In October 2010, the Bombay High Court ordered the film’s producers to pay a portion of their revenues to 20th Century Fox who own the rights to Phone Booth. The film was a flop at the Indian boxoffice.

Plot

Bachubhai (Irfan Khan) has come to the phone booth to make a call. He is interrupted by a man who interrupts him again. Bachubhai tells him to stop interrupting. While moving out of the phone booth after the call, the phone rang. Bachubhai picks up the call only to get surprised by an unknown caller who ensures that bachubhai do not leave the phone booth until his motive of calling is achieved. Another man interrupts who is shot dead by that unknown person from a far away building. As seeing the incident, police, public and news reporter Nidhi Srivastav as Kangana Ranaut is here. Everyone is seeing everything as Bachubhai has been told to do what the person on phone call says or he will shoot him. Later Police officer Sushant Singh is transferred and another encounter specialist has been called. Meanwhile, bachubhai who is working for a corrupt politician who has 320 billion black money has been told to transfer the money on a government account to give back the money to the public. Bachubhai does everything as the phone caller says. At the end of the movie the money has been transferred to the public account and it is revealed that Veer Vijay Singh as Sanjay Dutt is a Chief of Investigation Bureau. Bachubhai after transferring the money is now safe.

Cast

• • Sanjay Dutt as Veer Vijay Singh, Chief of Ops, IB/Colonel Gill
  • Kangana Ranaut as Nidhi Srivastava, India TV reporter
  • Irfan Khan as Bachchoo/ Tony Khosla
  • Gulshan Grover as Bapuji
  • Rukhsar Rehman as Lakshmi, Tony’s wife
  • Apoorva Lakhia as Ranvir Singh
  • Sushant Singh as Inspector Vikram
  • Asif Basra as Raghav
  • Silvio Simac as fighter on terrace
  • Bikramjeet Kanwarpal as Nidhi’s boss
  • Kurush Deboo as Sandwichwala
  • Abhay Shukla as Prithvi
  • Shankar Sachdeva as Mishra
  • Shriya Sharma as Sweety, Tony’s daughter
  • Naseer Abdullah as Bhalla
  • Namrata Thapa as Roshni
  • Ashraful Haque as Junkie
  • Shreya Narayan as Jesse
  • Aparna as Bharti
  • Rajendra Jadhav as Gundurao
  • Vinay Verma as Commissioner
  • M D Pasha as Suvarna
  • Hussain Shaikh as Party President
  • Gary Warren D’souza as Swiss Bank Manager
  • Randheer Nahar as Pandey
  • Shivraj as RBI Officer

Reception

Knock Out was poorly received by critics. Nikhat Kazmi of The Times of India rated the film 2 out of 5 stars.

Soundtrack

The film’s music is given by Gourov Dasgupta with background score by Atul Raninga and Sanjay Wandrekar. The soundtrack has five original tunes, one remix and an alternate version of one song.

References

External links

• Knock Out on IMDb