Hera Pheri
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40 free Hera Pheri trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Few Hindi comedies are quoted as often as Hera Pheri. A cash-strapped landlord and his two bickering tenants answer a call that was never meant for them, and a plan to get rich quick spirals into one of Bollywood's best-loved farces. The sequel, Phir Hera Pheri, sent the same trio back to square one, and the pair of films has been rewatched and quoted ever since. This quiz covers both films: the plot twists, the characters and the actors behind them, the people who wrote and directed the series, the music, and the older films that inspired the stories. A few questions also visit the unrelated 1976 film that shares the title. It suits anyone who grew up rewatching the films on television. The opening questions are friendly, and the later ones are for viewers who know the credits as well as the punchlines.
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Q 01Which actor won the Filmfare Best Comedian award as Baburao, the landlord in Hera Pheri?
Paresh Rawal
Paresh Rawal was seen mainly as a character actor until Hera Pheri turned him into a leading man of mainstream Hindi comedy. He had spent the 1980s and 1990s mostly playing villains.
Q 02Hera Pheri is regarded as which action star's move into comedy, playing the scheming tenant Raju?
Akshay Kumar
Akshay Kumar plays Raju, a daydreamer who has not paid his rent in two years and talks his housemates into the ransom scheme.
Q 03Which actress plays Anuradha, who gets the bank job that Shyam wanted in Hera Pheri?
Tabu
Tabu plays Anuradha, who offers to resign once she learns how broke Shyam is. He tears up her resignation letter and tells her to keep the job.
Q 04Which superstar played the con man Vijay opposite Vinod Khanna in the 1976 film Hera Pheri?
Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan and Vinod Khanna play partners who trick crooks out of their money, a year before the two stars reunited in Amar Akbar Anthony.
Q 05Which escaped animal scatters the loot during the circus climax of Phir Hera Pheri?
A gorilla
A gorilla breaks loose after Munna Bhai provokes it, then strews the hidden loot across the circus ground while every gang gives chase.
Q 06Which comic actor appears in both the 1976 film Hera Pheri and the 2000 comedy of the same name?
Asrani
Asrani plays the bank manager who turns Shyam away in the 2000 film, a generation after his supporting part in the 1976 caper.
Q 07Baburao's much-imitated accent in the Hera Pheri films comes from which Indian language?
Marathi
Marathi gives Baburao his voice: he is written as a Maharashtrian garage owner, though the actor who plays him made his name in Gujarati theatre.
Q 08In Hera Pheri, what sends a kidnapper's ransom call to Baburao's garage instead of Star Fisheries?
A phone directory misprint
A phone directory misprint had swapped the numbers of Star Garage and Star Fisheries, so the kidnapper believed he had reached a rich businessman.
Q 09In the cliffhanger that ends Phir Hera Pheri, what is Raju about to drop into a river?
Antique guns
Antique guns worth crores are in Raju's hands, and he has no idea of their value while his friends ring him frantically to stop.
Q 10What is the name of the gangster whose ransom call reaches the wrong number in Hera Pheri?
Kabira
Kabira announces himself by name whenever his call is answered, a habit the rescued girl copies in a prank call at the very end.
Q 11Which actor plays Shyam, the job-seeker who arrives in Mumbai at the start of Hera Pheri?
Suniel Shetty
Suniel Shetty was an action hero trying his hand at comedy, and his villain in Dhadkan, released the same year, won him a Filmfare Award.
Q 12Which director of Hungama and Bhool Bhulaiyaa made the 2000 comedy Hera Pheri?
Priyadarshan
Priyadarshan had never worked with either of his two leading men before Hera Pheri, and he kept casting its three stars in his later Hindi films.
Q 13In Hera Pheri, what successful career does Raju's widowed mother wrongly believe her son has?
An engineer
An engineer in Kolkata is the lie Raju keeps alive, because he will go to any length to avoid breaking his mother's heart.
Q 21Which writer of Hera Pheri's Hindi screenplay went on to direct the sequel, Phir Hera Pheri?
Neeraj Vora
Neeraj Vora first made his mark writing Rangeela, and he was preparing a third Hera Pheri film when he died in 2017.
Q 22Which director of Zanjeer and Muqaddar Ka Sikandar made the 1976 caper film Hera Pheri?
Prakash Mehra
Prakash Mehra went on to make seven more films with his Zanjeer star, and the 1976 Hera Pheri was one of the hits among them.
Q 23Which actor, star of Krantiveer and Ab Tak Chhappan, is the unseen narrator of Phir Hera Pheri?
Nana Patekar
Nana Patekar is heard but never seen, in a film that opens with a prologue on what each of the trio lost after getting rich.
Q 14Hera Pheri is a Hindi remake of which 1989 Malayalam comedy?
Ramji Rao Speaking
Ramji Rao Speaking was the first film directed by the duo Siddique–Lal, and its landlord Mannar Mathai became Baburao in the Hindi version.
Q 15Which actress plays the con woman who poses as a bank manager in Phir Hera Pheri?
Bipasha Basu
Bipasha Basu plays the fraudster who promises to double the trio's money in 21 days, then disappears with every rupee of it.
Q 16In Hera Pheri's climactic brawl, what does Baburao lose just before he sprays bullets from an AK-47?
His spectacles
His spectacles go missing in the scuffle, so the near-sighted landlord ends up shooting the rifle blindly across the floor.
Q 17Phir Hera Pheri is loosely based on Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, by which British director?
Guy Ritchie
Guy Ritchie wrote and directed the crime comedy in 1998, eight years before the Hindi sequel reworked its plot.
Q 18In Phir Hera Pheri, which speech trait marks Tiwari, the dreaded gangster the trio owe money?
A lisp
A lisp softens every threat Tiwari makes, yet Pappu knows the gangster will kill him if the borrowed money is not repaid.
Q 19Which actor, nicknamed the 'Bad Man' of Hindi cinema, plays the kidnapper in Hera Pheri?
Gulshan Grover
Gulshan Grover earned the 'Bad Man' tag through a long run of villain roles, and footage of his gangster was reused in the 2006 sequel.
Q 20Which Ardh Satya star plays Khadak Singh, the friend who comes to collect a debt in Hera Pheri?
Om Puri
Om Puri, a National Award winner for serious drama, plays the creditor who wants his money back to pay for his sister's wedding.
Q 24Which actor plays Pappu, the small-time goon who lends Raju money in Phir Hera Pheri?
Rajpal Yadav
Rajpal Yadav plays Pappu, who puts in the last 20 lakh rupees of the deposit, money he had himself borrowed from a gangster.
Q 25After losing their bungalow to the scam in Phir Hera Pheri, where do the trio end up living?
A chawl
A chawl, or tenement, is all they can afford, because Raju had sold the bungalow to raise part of the deposit the fraudster asked for.
Q 26Which music director composed Phir Hera Pheri's songs and sang three of them himself?
Himesh Reshammiya
Himesh Reshammiya had only just broken through as a singer with Aashiq Banaya Aapne, and this album went on to sell around a million copies.
Q 27Hera Pheri was remade in 2002 as Dhanalakshmi, I Love You in which South Indian language?
Telugu
Telugu audiences got their version two years after the Hindi film, with the actor Naresh taking the landlord's part.
Q 28What does 'hera pheri', the Hindi phrase that titles the 2000 comedy, roughly mean in English?
Foul play
Foul play is the usual English rendering, so the sequel's title, Phir Hera Pheri, promises the same mischief once again.
Q 29In 2022, which younger star was reported to be replacing Raju's original actor in Hera Pheri 3?
Kartik Aaryan
Kartik Aaryan was named in a tweet by the actor who plays Baburao, but by February 2023 the original trio were reported back on set together.
Q 30What nickname do Raju and Shyam use for their landlord, Baburao Ganpatrao Apte, in Hera Pheri?
Babu Bhaiya
Babu Bhaiya is how his tenants address the short-tempered owner of Star Garage, and it is the name fans still use for him.