Ladies vs Ricky Bahl

Ladies vs Ricky Bahl is a 2011 Indian romantic comedy film directed by Maneesh Sharma and produced by Aditya Chopra. It stars Ranveer Singh opposite Anushka Sharma in lead roles along with Dipannita Sharma, Aditi Sharma and debutant Parineeti Chopra. Ranveer plays a conman named Ricky Bahl who cons women until three of these women unite to con him back. The story was loosely inspired by Jeffey archers novel Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less and American comedy John Tucker Must Die. It was released onDecember 2011. It got mixed to positive response from critics and was a average at the box office.

Dimple convinces her father, Mr. Chaddha Shireesh Sharma to help Sunny get his ancestral property back, to which he agrees as the bungalow is on a sought after road. He sends his goons to forcibly evict the tenants. After this, Mr. Chaddha convinces Sunny to sell him the property for much less than market value. Later, Mr. Chaddha is arrested for evicting the tenants as unbeknownst to Mr. Chaddha, the family living there had a stay order due to a family dispute in the court for years on ownership. However, this dispute did not involve a Sunny Singh. Dimple becomes heartbroken on knowing shes been conned and tries to find Sunny, who has already made his escape by boarding a flight to Mumbai. Sunny Singh in reality is only one of the fake identities of a serial conartist named Ricky Bahl Ranveer Singh.In Mumbai, Ricky reemerges working as a cleaner at an office building where he spies on Raina Parulekar Dipannita Sharma, a headstrong gogetter businesswoman in a large PR firm called Synergy Communications. Shes been ordered by her boss to obtain a rare M.F. Hussain painting. Ricky later meets Raina where he, pretending to be an art aficionado named Deven Shah, tells her that he has been loaned the painting she needs by reputed businessmen, the Suri brothers, for an art exhibition. Raina, desperate to deliver on her promise, makes a deal with one of the Suri brothers, Manojwho is actually Ricky, using a voice encryption software over the phone. She agrees to buy the painting for Rs. 12million. He tells Raina to give half the amount as an advance to Deven, as well as a cheque for Devens commission. At a grand party hosted by Synergy, the painting is unveiled but the real Manoj Suri contacts Rainas boss and reprimands him over the phone saying that he never sold the painting so this one must be a fake. At this her boss says how will we justify such a big scam?. As if, for such a huge company who can spend 60 lacs on a painting, its a scam that someone sold them a duplica

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