''Doordarshan'' () is a 2020 Indian
Hindi
Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...
-language
comedy drama
Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau ''dramedy'', is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and Drama (film and television), drama. The modern, scripted-television examples tend to have more humorous bits than simple co ...
film written and directed by Gagan Puri and produced by Ritu Arya under the Arya Films banner. Based in spirit on the 2003 German film ''
Good Bye, Lenin!
''Good Bye Lenin!'' is a 2003 German tragicomedy film, directed by Wolfgang Becker. The cast includes Daniel Brühl, Katrin Sass, Chulpan Khamatova, and Maria Simon. The story follows a family in East Germany (GDR); the mother (Sass) is dedica ...
'', and named after the
eponymous Indian public broadcaster, it stars
Dolly Ahluwalia
Dolly Ahluwalia is an Indian actress and costume designer who was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2001 for costume design.[Mahie Gill
Rimpy Kaur "Mahie" Gill (born 19 December 1975) is an Indian actress, working in the Hindi and Punjabi film industries. She is best known for her role of Paro in Anurag Kashyap's critically acclaimed Hindi film ''Dev.D'', a modern take on Sarat ...]
and
Manu Rishi Chaddha
Manu Rishi Chadha (born 3 January 1971) is an Indian actor, lyricist, script and dialogue writer who works in Hindi films. Rishi is trained under theatre director Arvind Gaur for six years. He won the Filmfare Best Dialogue Award, 2009 for ''Oy ...
in the lead roles. The film was released in theatres on 28 February 2020, and subsequently was released on Netflix on 27 July 2020.
Plot
Sunil "Chiku" Bhateja lives with his young daughter Sweety and son Sunny and is going through a rough phase with his estranged wife Priya "Billo" Bhateja who is demanding a divorce from him. His mother Darshan Kaur Bhateja is in a state of coma for the last 30 years and the rented place belongs to his friend Goldie. Sunil is unwilling to vacate the home due to Darshan's state.
Sunny has a crush on Goldie's daughter Twinkle, and the father is furious about it. Sunny's friend Pappi regularly gets magazines with porn stories and both enjoy reading them. Both are alone at home when Pappi reads out the latest edition of the magazine to Sunny in the room where Darshan is resting. As fate would have it, Darshan wakes up from coma listening to the porn story, and the name of the central character "Bimla" sticks in her mind. However, she falls unconscious again. Later when the doctor examines her, he tells them that she would soon regain her consciousness but her mind is in a very weak state, and thus, they must ensure that they don't do anything to dishearten her.
Everyone quickly starts working on a changeover of the look of the house to the 80s as that's when Darshan went into the coma. The biggest hurdle is that Sunil will have to convince Priya to return home. Sunil pleads her to return and on the insistence of her aunt, she agrees. Here, Sunil has asked his children to pose as househelps. When Darshan finally regains consciousness, Sunil tells her that it has only been 6 months since she has been in a coma and that he is still in high school. When Darshan questions his obesity, he tells her that he is suffering from a thyroid-related disease, hence the weight gain.
Everyone does their part to make her believe that everything is hunky-dory, but Darshan consistently questions who "Bimla" is to which there is initially no answer until Sunny decides to throw Pappi under the bus by suggesting "she" is a friend's mother. Later, she coaxes Priya to marry Sunil and to everyone's surprise, she agrees. A fake marriage ceremony is arranged and they are remarried. On the night of the wedding, Sunil and Priya have a heartful conversation and both of them drop the idea of divorce. Darshan wakes up early the next day and sees that everyone is asleep as they are tired from the wedding ceremony. She receives the newspaper and checks the date to realize that it has been 30 years since her accident which led to her coma. She steps out of the home alone to see the outside world and returns disappointed to see that the society has lost basic morals.
Later, Sunil explains everything and she is happy that Priya had indeed married Sunil. Later, she urges to watch her favourite Hindu mythological serial ''
Ramayan
The ''Rāmāyana'' (; sa, रामायणम्, ) is a Sanskrit epic composed over a period of nearly a millennium, with scholars' estimates for the earliest stage of the text ranging from the 8th to 4th centuries BCE, and later stages ...
'' on TV. Instead of playing a ''Ramayan'' CD, however, Sweety puts in a porn CD of Sunny and finally it is revealed who Bimla is.
Cast
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Mahie Gill
Rimpy Kaur "Mahie" Gill (born 19 December 1975) is an Indian actress, working in the Hindi and Punjabi film industries. She is best known for her role of Paro in Anurag Kashyap's critically acclaimed Hindi film ''Dev.D'', a modern take on Sarat ...
as Priya "Billo" Bhateja
*
Manu Rishi Chaddha
Manu Rishi Chadha (born 3 January 1971) is an Indian actor, lyricist, script and dialogue writer who works in Hindi films. Rishi is trained under theatre director Arvind Gaur for six years. He won the Filmfare Best Dialogue Award, 2009 for ''Oy ...
as Sunil "Chiku" Bhateja
*
Dolly Ahluwalia
Dolly Ahluwalia is an Indian actress and costume designer who was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2001 for costume design.[Mehak Manwani
Mehak Manwani is an Indian television and film actress who appears in Bollywood films. She made her debut in Bollywood with the film ''Sixteen''. She has also done a cameo role in the Bollywood movie ''Fukrey'' (2013) as Lali's girl.she studie ...]
as Twinkle
* sardhul Rana as Sunny Bhateja
*
Supriya Shukla
Supriya Shukla (née Raina) is an Indian television and film actress. She is known for her role as Sarla Arora in Zee TV's popular dramas ''Kundali Bhagya'' and ''Kumkum Bhagya
''Kumkum Bhagya'' () (from 2021 onwards) is an Indian Hindi-la ...
as Geetu
*
Rajesh Sharma as Goldie
* Archita Sharma as Sweety Bhateja
*
Sumit Gulati as Pappi / Pappu
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Manoj Bakshi
Manoj Bakshi is an Indian actor who acts in films, television and theatre. He is famous for his roles in ''Bajrangi Bhaijaan'' (2015), '' Delhi Belly'' (2011), ''Jab Tak Hai Jaan'' (2012), ''Gori Tere Pyaar Mein'' (2013), ''Junooniyat'' (2016) ...
as Hindi teacher
*
Aditya Kumar
Aditya Kumar is an Indian actor who acted in film ''Gangs of Wasseypur – Part 2, Gangs of Wasseypur II''.
Early life
Aditya Kumar was born in Bihar Sharif, Nalanda district, Bihar, India.Meet Bros
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Initially starting out ...
, who also composed the background score in their first venture as score composers, and lyrics were written by
Kumaar
Rakesh Kumar Pal, known mononymously as Kumaar, is an Indian lyricist active in Bollywood cinema. Some of his more successful songs include '' Rula ke gaya ishq, '' Tu bhi royega'', '' Dil ki aadat'', ''Baby Doll'','' Chittiyaan Kalaiyaan'', ...
.
References
External links
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2020s Hindi-language films
Indian comedy-drama films
2020 comedy-drama films