Paying Guests

Paying Guests
Paying Guests
Directed by	Paritosh Painter
Written by	Paritosh Painter
Based on	Sailesh Dey's Bengali play Joymakali Boarding
Produced by	Subhash Ghai; Raju Farooqui;
Starring	Shreyas Talpade; Vatsal Seth; Javed Jaffrey; Ashish Chaudhary; Celina Jaitly; Riya Sen; Neha Dhupia; Sayali Bhagat;
Cinematography	Selva Kumar
Edited by	Manish More
Music by	Sajid–Wajid
Production; company	Mukta Arts
Release date	19 June 2009;
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Paying Guests is a 2009 Indian Hindi-language comedy drama film starring Ashish Chaudhary, Shreyas Talpade, Javed Jaffrey, Vatsal Seth, Celina Jaitly, Neha Dhupia, Riya Sen, Sayali Bhagat and Johnny Lever. The film is a Hindi adaptation of Sailesh Dey's Bengali play Joymakali Boarding. It is directed by Paritosh Painter under Subhash Ghai's Mukta Arts banner. It is a comedy film revolving around four close friends who reside together in Pattaya.

Shooting started in the second week of April 2008. Riya Sen was originally offered Neha Dhupia's role, Aarti Gupta, but declined and instead chose the role as Jayesh's melodramatic girlfriend, Alpita. A sequel, Paying Guests 2, is in production and will take place against the backdrop of a beauty pageant.