A modern Indian adaptation of the Charles Dickens literary classic Great Expectations that revolves around the life of Noor (Aditya Roy Kapur), who is madly and deeply in love with the enchantress Firdaus (Katrina Kaif). But Firdaus is a pawn in the hands of Begum (Tabu) who herself has suffered loss in love and is now using Firdaus to break Noor s heart. What happens next in their love story forms the rest of the movie.
DCP Anant Shrivastav 'The Professor,' a police officer in the winter of his career, a failure in the establishment's eyes and more important, in his own. Now on the eve of his daughter's wedding, Shrivastav was being given an crucial assignment. This was his one last chance to do something. Make a difference. Sr. Inspector Shekhar Sachdev. Street-smart, brave, but rotten to the core. An unscrupulous, amoral and self-serving officer for whom the line between good and bad, right and wrong had blurred a long time ago. He didn't want part pf any suicide mission, but he had no choice.
Housefull starts off with Akshay Kumar being unemployed except for any casino hiring him as a hex of good luck to the gamblers. All in the first 20 minutes or so you see him have hit after hit of bad luck. He is so depressed after losing his latest girlfriend (they all meet with very bad luck when he starts to date them ) he decides to go back to London and see his old friend who has always been their for him no matter how bad things are.
