Billu Barber

Billu (Irrfan Khan) plays a village barber. His business is running low because he has not been able to upgrade himself according to the changing trends. One fine day, a film unit visits his village to shoot a movie. It stars a superstar (Shahrukh Khan), who was once Billu’s school friend. All at once, Billu’s status in the village changes, and he becomes highly respected. Everyone wants him to meet the superstar. But Billu is unsure, as he feels he cannot compare to the superstar’s status. Besides, he fears that the star may not recognize him. He makes many attempts to meet the star but fails. After all these hardships, he gives up. But people think that he lied about the relationship with the star and start insulting him. His family and children also gets upset.
In the end, for an invited school function, the star reveals his past. He tells the audience that in his school days he had a friend who always stood by him in his hardships. He tells how much the friend helped him by providing food when he was hungry, provided clothes when he did not having any. He tells that the friend gave him the money to join acting by selling his ancestral ear ring and that friend happens to be Billu.
Billoo Barber is a movie produced by Shahrukh Khan. Priyadarshan is the director of Billoo Barber.
Billoo Barber is a remake of Malayalam film Kadha Parayumbol. The movie is also remade in Tamil named Kuselan staring Pasupathy and Rajinikanth in lead role but didn’t perform well on box office.



Star Cast: Shahrukh Khan (Sahir Khan ), Irfan Khan (Billo Barber), Lara Dutta (Billo Barber's wife ), Rajpal Yadav (Jhallan Kumar ), Om Puri (Damchand )
Special Appearance : Kareena Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Deepika Padukone

Director: Priyadarshan
Rating: ***