''Tom, Dick, & Harry'' is a 2006 Indian

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-language

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released on 12 May 2006. It stars

Dino Morea Dino Morea (; born 9 December 1975) is an Indian actor and former model who has appeared in Hindi, Tamil language, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, and Telugu language, Telugu films. He began his career as a fashion model and made his film debut in ' ...

Jimmy Sheirgill Jimmy Sheirgill (born Jasjit Singh Gill; 3 December 1970), also known as Jimmy Shergill, is an Indian actor and producer who primarily works in Hindi and Punjabi language, Punjabi films. Sheirgill began his film career with the 1996 thriller ...

Anuj Sawhney Anuj Sawhney (born 9th March 1974) is an former Indian Bollywood actor in Bollywood Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, is primarily produced in Mumbai. The popular term Bollywood is a portmanteau ...

Celina Jaitly Celina Jaitly (born 24 November 1981) is an Indian beauty pageant titleholder and former actress. She mainly worked in Hindi cinema. She won the title of Femina Miss India 2001 and became 4th runner-up at Miss Universe 2001. She made her acting ...

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Kim Sharma Kim Michelle Sharma is an Indian actress and model who works in Hindi and Telugu films. She made her acting debut in the 2000-romantic drama ''Mohabbatein'' for which she won the IIFA Award for Star Debut of the Year – Female. Sharma went ...

Gulshan Grover Gulshan Grover (born 21 September 1955) is an Indian actor and film producer who has appeared in over 100 films. He is popularly known as the "Bad Man" of Hindi cinema because of his ability to create an impact with his negative roles in films. ...

and

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. It had music by

Himesh Reshammiya Himesh Reshammiya (born 23 July 1973) is an Indian playback singer, music director, songwriter, film and music producer, and actor in Hindi cinema, with over 1,300 songs to his credit as a music director. He started his career as a music direct ...

who made a special appearance in the film. The screenplay is actually a mixture of two different plots taken from two different films with similar titles: the 1941 American classic '' Tom, Dick and Harry'' and the 1993 Hong Kong hit ''

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''. It pays a small tribute to Bollywood as it contains multiple references to older films and has a number of Bollywood characters from earlier movies.

Plot

This is a comedy about three physically impaired men: Tarun/Tom (deaf), Deepak/Dick (blind), and Harshvardhan/Harry (mute). They live together as paying guests, and their life takes an endearing turn when a beautiful girl named Celina comes to live in the bungalow opposite their house. They start making their moves to cast an impression on her, who is least interested in acknowledging their presence. In Tom’s life there’s Bijlee, a fisherwoman, who is completely besotted by him and does not leave any stone unturned to express her desire. On the other hand, there is Suprano (Gulshan Grover), a bad man who is out to prove that he is the worst villain ever and has with him some of Bollywood's most dreaded criminals, Shakaal from the film '' Shaan'', Gabbar Singh from ''

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,'' and

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from '' Mr. India'', making an indestructible Suprano. Tom, Dick, and Harry unknowingly become the target of Supran by being the biggest barriers in his business deals. The movie depicts the three friends' struggles with their disabilities and how they have to fight against Suprano.

Cast

as Tarun "Tom" *

as Harshvardhan "Harry" *

as Deepak "Dick" *

as Celina *

as Bijli *

as Suprano *

as Inspector P.K. Waghmare *

as Happy Singh *

Kunika Kunika Sadanand, known mononymously as Kunika, is an Indian actress, advocate, producer and social activist. She is known for her various characters in many Indian films as a villain and in comic roles. Also a singer, she has released three ...

as Jassi Singh * Shashi Kiran as Shopkeeper Sadanand *

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as Celina's uncle D,souza *

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Dharam Dayal Teja *

as himself in songs "Tanha Jiya Na Jaye", "Tere Sang Ishq" and "Zara Jhoom Jhoom" (special appearance) *

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as herself in song "Tere Sang Ishq" (special apperarance)

Reception

Critical reception

The film received mixed but mostly negative reviews.

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from

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said "The choice of the story and screenplay is what acts as a major turn-off, the music is the only saving grace. Dino Morea tries hard, but in vain. His timing is just not right. Jimmy Shergill doesn't deliver either. And why is he looking pale at most times? Anuj Sawhney is excellent and is the best performer in the crowd. He's a complete natural. Celina is wasted. Kim Sharma will be loved by the commoners. Gulshan Grover is efficient as the weird don. On the whole, ''Tom Dick and Harry'' is too weak a fare to leave any impression whatsoever". Nikhil Kumar of Apunkachoice.com called the film "Silly, childish humour, poor script and shoddy direction mark the triple whammy for ''Tom Dick And Harry'', which is tripe of a film. The movie's director Deepak Tijori ought to know that childish buffoonery is not synonymous to comedy".

Box office

It grossed 8 crores at the box office, altogether the total net gross was 11 crores. Overall it was declared average.

Soundtrack

Music is composed by

and lyrics by

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Sequels

A sequel, titled ''Tom, Dick, and Harry: Rock Again...'', entered production in 2009. It was directed by

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and starred a completely different cast altogether. The film featured the song "Mein Tere Pyar Mein" by

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which has been produced by

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studio. In 2016, another sequel went into production directed by

Deepak Tijori Deepak Tijori (born 28 August 1961) is an Indian film director and actor who works in Bollywood and Gujarati cinema, Gujarati films and is well known for his supporting roles in ''Aashiqui'' (1990), ''Khiladi (1992 film), Khiladi'' (1992), ''J ...

and starring Jimmy Sheirgill,

Aftab Shivdasani Aftab Shivdasani (born 25 June 1978) is an Indian actor, producer and model known for his works in Hindi and also working for Tamil and Kannada film industry. Shivdasani was selected as the Farex baby at the age of 14 months and eventually app ...

Sharman Joshi Sharman Joshi (born 28 April 1979) is an Indian actor who primarily works in Hindi films. Joshi is a recipient of several awards including an IIFA Award and nominations for two Filmfare Awards. Joshi began his career with supporting parts in ...

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and

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References

External links

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