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. 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. It borrows the basic plot from the 1966 comedy movie Biwi Aur Makan directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee (which was based on the Bengali movie Joy Maa Kali Boarding) and which was an inspiration for the Marathi movie Ashi Hi Banwa Banwi(1989), Telugu movie Chitram Bhalare Vichitram (1991), two Kannada movies - Bombat Hendthi (1992) and Olu Saar Bari Olu (2003), Tamil movie Aanazhagan (1995), Punjabi Mr & Mrs 420 (2014) and Bengali