Mickey Virus

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Mickey Virus
Mickey Virus Official Poster 2013.jpg
Directed bySaurabh Varma
Screenplay bySaurabh Varma
Aaryaan Saxena
Story bySaurabh Varma
Elvin Raja
Produced byArun Rangachari
Vivek Rangachari
Shahnaab Alam
Starring Manish Paul
Elli Avram
Manish Choudhary
Varun Badola
Puja Gupta
Nitesh Pandey
CinematographyAnshuman Mahaley
Edited byArchit D Rastogi, Finn George Modathara
Production
company
Release date
  • 25 October 2013 (2013-10-25)
Running time
135 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget₹110 million (US$1.4 million) [1]

Mickey Virus is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language Comedy thriller film, written & directed by Saurabh Varma [2] and produced by DAR Motion Pictures in association with Trilogic Digital Media Limited & Awesome Films Pvt. Ltd. The film stars Manish Paul, Elli Avram, Manish Choudhary, Puja Gupta, and Varun Badola in the lead roles. [3] The film, despite receiving postive reviews, was a flop at the box-office. [4] [5]

Contents

Plot

When two hackers are murdered in Delhi, the Delhi Police suspect that the case revolves around hacking. They begin their search to find a computer hacker who can help them crack this case. The head of the police team, ACP Siddhanth, accompanied by Inspector Bhalla, stumbles across Mickey Arora, a lazy but smart hacker who runs a grocery store during the day and creates viruses for anti-virus companies at night, along with his friends, the tomboy Chutney, Floppy, Pancho, and Professor, who assist him in all odd jobs.

ACP Siddhanth hires him to hack down the website of a group of cybercriminals known as the Bhram Gang. Meanwhile, Mickey falls in love with Kamayani, an employee of Excalibur Securities. One day in her office, Kamayani mistakenly gets transferred a large amount of money from a client's account, but, to avoid her being fired, Mickey hacks the company's website to reverse the transaction. The next morning, Micky realises that he has unknowingly stolen ₹1 billion from a Dubai-based don named Anwar Raja, and Kamayani has been murdered. Scared of being framed for both crimes, Mickey seeks help from his friends.

In his quest to search for the real culprit, Mickey traces down the ₹1 billion and finds out that ACP Siddhanth is the mastermind who forced Kamayani to bluff him. Mickey calls ACP and his friends to the parking lot of Nehru Place, where ACP tells him that his friends Floppy, Pancho, and Professor are the Bhram Gang admins and want to kill him for the money, as they did to the two hackers and Kamayani. Surrounded by the goons, Mickey records and telecasts their confession on YouTube. In the end, Inspector Bhalla, along with the police force, arrests ACP Siddhanth and the Bhram Gang. Mickey secretly takes one crore from the stolen ₹1 billion before handing it over to Inspector Bhalla. Credits roll to show a few deleted scenes and bloopers and plays a call recording of Anwar Raja, who orders to kill Mickey.

Cast

Crew

Production

The film was shot in New Delhi, including in office complex of Nehru Place. [7] Several Bollywood biggies like Salman Khan, Madhuri Dixit, Ranbir Kapoor, Anil Kapoor and Karan Johar were featured in a promotional video of Mickey Virus. [8] The movie has come under the scanner of Governmental Agencies as it displays techniques of high-profile robbery which might spur reel to real life robbery incidents. [9] Elli Avram is also one of the contestants of Bigg Boss 7. [10] She would be inside the House of Bigg Boss, cut off from the outside world at the time of Movie Release, making it a first of its kind Bollywood Debut. [11] [12] [13] Mickey Virus is made on a budget of Rs. 110 million, which includes publicity and advertising, and it was released in 1,200 screens in India. [14] Chances are that the film will be remade in Tamil and Telugu. [15]

Soundtrack

Mickey Virus
Soundtrack album by
Faizan Hussain – Agnel Roman
Released3 October 2013 [16]
Genre Soundtrack
Length24:30
Label T-Series
DAR Motion Pictures
Faizan Hussain – Agnel Roman chronology
Paathshaala
(2010)		Mickey Virus
(2013)
Faizan Hussain – Agnel Roman chronology
Ragini MMS
(2011)		Mickey Virus
(2013)

The Soundtrack was released on 3 October 2013 on the digital music platform iTunes. The album consists of six tracks and the only one of them by Faizan Hussain & Agnel Roman, Manoj Yadav and Arun Kumar writing the lyrics. [6] [16]

Track listing
No.TitleLyricsMusicSinger(s)Length
1."Pyaar China Ka Maal Hai"   Manish Paul 3:14
2."Tose Naina"   Arijit Singh 4:24
3."Sajna Ve Sajna Ve"Manoj Yadav  Altamash Faridi & Shadab Faridi 3:59
4."Aankhon Hi Aankhon Ne (Duet Version)"   Mohit Chauhan & Palak Muchhal 4:40
5."Mickey Virus"Arun KumarFaizan Hussain & Agnel Roman Nikhil Paul George, Siddhant Sharma & Agnel Roman3:50
6."Aankhon Hi Aankhon Ne (Female Version)"  Palak Muchhal4:23
Total length:24:30

Marketing

Mickey Virus was promoted by Manish Paul in Bigg Boss on Colors. A promotional clip of Mickey Virus featured Salman Khan, Ranbir Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit Nene, Farah Khan, Karan Johar, Remo D'souza, Kapil Sharma, either dishing out funny one-liners or abusing Mickey. [17] [18] Lauren Gottlieb, Drashti Dhami, Jeetendra and Manish's TV friends Vahbbiz Dorabjee, Vivian Dsena attended the special screening of Mickey Virus. [19] [20]

Critical reception

Mickey Virus received positive to mixed reviews. [4] [21] Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave it 3 out of 5 stars, finding the thriller to be engaging for younger viewers. [22] Madhureeta Mukherjee of Times of India gave it 3 out of 5 stars. [23] Mohar Basu of Koimoi gave it 2.5 out of 5 stars. [24] Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN gave it 2 out of 5 stars, criticizing the length and engagement. [25] Faheem Ruhani of India Today gave it 3 out of 5 stars. [26] Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV gave it 2.5 out of 5 stars. [27] Tushar Joshi of DNA gave it 2.5 stars. [28] Shubhra Gupta of Indian Express gave it 2 stars. [29] Sanjukta sharma of Livemint did not give a rating, but found the film to have a weak plot and premise. [30] Anupama Chopra gave it 2 stars. [31] Zee News gave it 3.5 stars. [32] Nikhil Arora of DesiMartini gave it 2 stars. [33]

Box office

Mickey Virus got a 15–20% opening and collected around ₹16.5 million (US$210,000) nett on first day. [34] It collected ₹71.5 million (US$900,000) nett in its first week and it was declared flop in box office India. [35]

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