Khel Khel Mein is an Indian Hindi-language comedy suspense thriller drama film. It is written and directed by Mudassar Aziz. The film stars Akshay Kumar, Fardeen Khan, Taapsee Pannu, Vaani Kapoor, Ammy Virk, Aditya Seal and Pragya Jaiswal. This film is based on the Italian film titled Perfect Strangers released in 2016.
The storyline of the movie revolves around three married Indian couples of entirely different personalities, who are also friends. They gather at an Indian wedding in Udaipur and their secrets get revealed while playing a game.
Initially, Akshay Kumar and Taapsee Pannu were casted as the leads. Later, Fardeen Khan came on board marking his return to films after 14 years. Lastly, Vaani Kapoor, Pragya Jaiswal, Ammy Virk and Aditya Seal were casted in the other major roles. The principal photography of the film commenced by October 2023. The film was majorly shot in London and Udaipur and the shoot got over in April 2024.
When and where to watch Khel Khel Mein online?
The movie is all set to release on the OTT platform. This movie will start streaming on Wednesday, 9th October on Netflix. The synopsis of the movie reads, “An unhappily married couple and five friends decide to share every call or text they get over one night with each other. There's nothing to hide – right?”
This movie is the remake of Perfect Stranger. Perfect Strangers is the world's most remade movie. It has been remade more than 20 times in countries including Germany, Greece, Spain, Turkey, France, South Korea, Mexico, China, Russia, Poland, Vietnam, Iceland, Japan, Romania, Israel, Egypt, and India.
The movie was scheduled to release on 6th September 2024, but the release date got preponed to 15th August 2024 in theatres, along with Shraddha Kapoor starring Stree 2 and John Abraham's Vedaa. It was created on an estimated budget of Rs 100 crore including Akshay Kumar's fee of Rs 60 crore. The movie completed its box office run with a total of Rs 37 crore in India and grossed Rs 55 crore worldwide. Stree 2 featuring Shraddha Kapoor and Rajkummar Rao broke multiple records by collecting more than Rs 600 crore in India and Rs 845 crore across the world.