Over the past couple of years, remakes have flooded the Hindi film market, but what is striking is that most of them, like Khoobsurat and Chashme Baddoor, are titles of comedies from the first half of the 1980s. The two mentioned above did not do wonders at the box office, so you'd wonder why Abhishek Sharma, director of Tere Bin Laden, chose a not-so-great movie, Shaukeen, to make a contemporary version of.
To begin with, the oddly-named The Shaukeens, is two movies in one, which we'll explain as you read along. The basic plot revolves around three old friends, who think that ....