Billu Barber is one of the new Bollywood movie in 2009. It’s produced by Gauri Khan (Red Chiles Enterprises) and directed by Priyadarshan, music by Pritam. This film is about a poor man named Billu (Irfan Khan) who owned a Barbershop. Billu lives with his wife Bindiya (Lara Dutta), and his two children Budbudiya (Rajpal Yadav) and Naubat Chacha (Asrani) in the village Budbudda. Billu is very simple man, he doesn’t have any ambition for his life. He has a childhood friend named Sahir Khan (SRK) who known as the Superstar of Bollywood. Billu told this to his family about it, and his family spread about it. This rumor made his family received many prizes from the people in the village who wants to meet Sahir Khan. Billu become the center of attention, people come to him and try to make a friendship so that he will introduce them to Sahir.
Billu refused this friendship and the prizes and said that is very impossible to meet them to Sahir because of many reason. But there’s one man, a rich and powerful man in the village named Sahukar Damchand (Om Puri) who demands to see Sahir and offers Billu expensive gifts in order to gain such a meeting.
One day Sahir Khan came to Budbudda village to make a film shoot. Billu tried so hard to make an appointment to meet Sahir Khan. He wished that Sahir will still recognize him. But he failed, he tried everything and always failed. The people in village accused that Billu lied to them and only took advantage of their kindness. This situation almost made his family doubt his integrity and character. Billu can’t do anything about it. Rather than defend his self, he choose to remain quite about his past friendship with Sahir.
On his last day in the village, Sahir speaks at a local school. He tells to the people about his miserable childhood with a best friend named Billu. In fact one of his reason to make a film shoot to the village is trying to find his old best friend, but he said he cant find him. The townspeople are realizing that they made a mistake on Billu however, take Sahir to Billu's house where the two childhood friends are finally reunited.
This film brought us with a very simple friendship story, and although SRK didn’t play much in the film but still it’s a good movie to watch. It’s also presented Karina Kapoor, Deepika Padukone and Priyanka Chopra in the item scores. The songs and the music were great, make everyone to dance.