(special appearance) Shahbaaz Khan as Raju (special appearance) Jaspal Bhatti as Raju's Boxing manager Aman Verma as TV show host Shamsuddin as a man in song Javed Bhai So re le. Upasana Singh as Niki Ali Khan Pinky Campbell as Priti Gavin Packard as Refree Amrish Puri as sadu sage (special appearance) Atul Agnihotri as a man driving in red car. (guest appearance) Dinesh Hingoo as a man in a car with his family. (cameo appearance) Preeti Bhutani Johnny Lever as Parwana Production Salman Khan was the original choice for Sonu Nigam's role but declined the film because of date issues. Atul Agnihotri was initially signed for Sharad Kapoor's role in the film but later opted for a guest appearance, then the role went to Apurva Agnihotri but declined it due to date issues. Shah Rukh Khan was originally chosen to play Akshay Kumar's role but declined it because he was busy filming Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003) in New York City. Chandrachur Singh was first signed to play Aditya Pancholi's role but then he opted out. Shilpa Shetty was considered to play Manisha Koirala's role, but she declined the role. At one point when the film was announced, Ajay Devgn was supposed to play Suniel Shetty's role, Sanjay Dutt was going to be an extra character similar to his father Sunil Dutt's role in Nagin (1976) and Jackie Shroff playing Raj Babbar's role. A star-studded cast was initially planned for this film featuring Sunny Deol, Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Ajay Devgn, Sanjay Dutt, Jackie Shroff, Chandrachur Singh, Apurva Agnihotri, Aftab Shivdasani, Arshad Warsi, Shilpa Shetty and Armaan Kohli but then the cast subsequently changed and it later starred Sunny Deol, Akshay Kumar, Suniel Shetty, Chandrachur Singh, Aftab Shivdasani, Arshad Warsi, Atul Agnihotri, Shilpa Shetty and Armaan Kohli. The film's theme was initially similar to that of Kohli's previous venture Nagin (1976) at that time, and the heroes were playing young mature men instead of college students later cast subsequently changed to Sunny Deol, Akshay Kumar, Sonu Nigam, Suniel Shetty, Aftab Shivdasani, Aditya Pancholi, Arshad Warsi, Sharad Kapoor, Manisha Koirala and Armaan Kohli in the lead role with a different subject. Reception Critical response This film received highly negative reviews from critics. Ranjita Kulkarni of Rediff.com rated the film 1.5/10 saying, "The performances are half-hearted and the characters half-baked". He also called the film "unoriginal and disappointing". Akshay Kumar