{"id":5954,"date":"2014-10-17T12:56:33","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T16:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/?p=5954"},"modified":"2014-10-17T12:56:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T16:56:33","slug":"movie-preview-the-shaukeens-november-7th-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/2014\/10\/movie-preview-the-shaukeens-november-7th-2014.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Preview : The Shaukeens (November 7th, 2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a film I might regret showcasing here. I do it because director Abhishek Sharma (he also directed <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1629391\/\">&#8220;Tere bin Laden&#8221;<\/a>) shows promise, and because this appears to be a spinoff of the 1982 Rati Agnihotri starrer <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0158213\/\">&#8220;Shaukeen&#8221;<\/a>. The original Shaukeen was a Basu Chatterjee film and was a story of 3 <em>&#8220;tharki&#8221;<\/em> old men. The lasvicious old men exist in this modern avatar too, and with the story-line the way it is, &#8220;The Shaukeens&#8221; could easily go south. I hope it doesn&#8217;t, and I hope the director treads a fine line between the funny and the risqu\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping for the best.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eg4tfauEn7c\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a film I might regret showcasing here. I do it because director Abhishek Sharma (he also directed &#8220;Tere bin Laden&#8221;) shows promise, and because this appears to be a spinoff of the 1982 Rati Agnihotri starrer &#8220;Shaukeen&#8221;. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/2014\/10\/movie-preview-the-shaukeens-november-7th-2014.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_17000648_17000648":"","facebook_10233691416821117_190635594420624":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[186,76,55,153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-186","category-bollywood","category-previews","category-remake"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"sow-carousel-default":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"amodini","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/author\/admin"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"This is a film I might regret showcasing here. 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