The film marked the third collaboration of the lead actor, producer and director they previously worked on Main Hoon Na (2004) and Om Shanti Om (2007), the latter of which also featured Padukone as the female lead. It was distributed worldwide by Yash Raj Films.
The film features an ensemble cast of Deepika Padukone, Shah Rukh Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Sonu Sood, Boman Irani, Vivaan Shah and Jackie Shroff. Happy New Year (sometimes abbreviated as HNY) is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language action comedy caper film directed by Farah Khan and produced by Gauri Khan under the banner of Red Chillies Entertainment.
