Billu is a poor barber who lives with his wife Bindiya and their two children, Gunja and Ronak in the village of Budbuda. He also spends time with his close friends Budbudiya and Naubat Chacha. Billu lives an uneventful life until Bollywood superstar Sahir Khan comes to the village for a film shoot.
Plot: Billu (Irrfan) is a village barber with a humble life: he got a wife, two kids, no electricity at home, and mounting debt to his kids' school and local shark loan. He jokingly told his children that the most famous actor in the country Sahir Khan (SRK) was his childhood friend before he move to the current village. of course, it is supposed to be village banter that no one is able to prove anyway, right? But one day the actor happen to film his new movie in a nearby village. His children proudly brag to everyone that the actor is their father's BFF and all hell break loose: Everyone wants proof.
If The Salon and Beauty Parlors Association has its way, Shah Rukh Khan will have to rename his film Billu Barber to Billu hairdresser. The association has allegedly problem with the word barber as they find it "derogatory and insulting term".
It is to be noted that for promoting the film, SRK has recently tied up with over 500 'barber' shops across Mumbai and has sent them vinyls of the film, and cassettes and CDs of the film to be displayed and played at their shops.
Unlike its scaring off title, Billoo bhayankar is rather amusing. After the ho-hum Marjaani, Gulzar [Images] makes a tickling comeback with this comical celebration of Billu, the barber -- Billoo hamaar jaise ustare ki dhaar, jaise saboon ki jhaag, jaise lotion khushboodar. Animatedly rendered by Ajay Jhingaran and Raghuveer, Billu cuts a better picture than most situational numbers of its genre.