''Yeh Dooriyan'' ( These distances) is a 2011

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film directed by Deepshikha, starring

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, Keshav Arora,

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, Kunicka Lal,

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in the lead roles.

Plot

Simi Nagpal (

), a 35 years old independent and beautiful woman, runs a dance academy for a living. she is divorced and left with 2 children by her husband Aditya Nagpal (

) to look after, the only problem is the societal pressures that ask her to remarry. She is clear that only if a man named Raj Arora (Keshav Arora) accepts her children, will she marry.

Cast

Deepshikha Nagpal Deepshikha Nagpal simply known as Deepshikha, is an Indian actress and film director. She received acclaim in the Hindi film industry only after the release of '' Koyla''. She was also seen in the Bollywood movie ''Dhoom Dhadaka'' with Satish Ka ...

as Simi A. Nagpal * Keshav Arora as Raj Arora *

as Abhay *

as Aditya Nagpal, Simmi’s ex - husband * Achint Kaur as Pammi V. Mathur * Rajesh Khera as Vishal Mathur, Pammi’s husband * Chitrashi Rawat as Nikki * Kunika as Raj's Mother *

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as Bobby *

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as Himself *

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* Baby Vidhir as Guddu Nagpal, Aditya's son * Bharat Bohra as Manager

Reception

Critical reception

Yeh Dooriyan was thumbed down by all top critics.

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of Koimoi gave it half out of five stars and wrote in his review - "On the whole, Yeh Dooriyan is a poor fare which will meet with a disastrous fate at the box-office windows". Nikita Kapoor of FilmiTadka rated it with 1 out of 5 stars and said - "Yeh Dooriyan has nothing new or unique, out of the various departments that Deepshikha has tried to handle though this film, acting is the only part she has got right. We at FilmiTadka give Yeh Dooriyan 1 out of 5 stars".

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gave it 2 out of 5 stars and wrote - "Deepshikha, on her part, does put in a restrained act as the suffering heroine, but can't say the same for the male acts. The men in the film are either hysterical (husband) or plastic (boyfriend) and the girlie gang (Delnaaz and Chitrashi) are borderline bimbettes".

Music

Track listings

Accolades

References

External links

Official Website
* {{IMDb title, 1826051 2010s Hindi-language films Indian comedy films Films shot in India Films scored by Sanjoy Chowdhury 2011 comedy films Hindi-language comedy films