Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (2019)

Original title

एक लड़की को देखा तोह ऐसा लगा

Directed by

Shelly Chopra Dhar

Genre

romance film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

India

Runtime

2h 01m

Rated

TP

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 64 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman named Sweety is a closeted lesbian trying to find the courage to tell her traditional Punjabi family. With the help of a friend, she navigates love and acceptance while planning to reveal her true self.

heartfeltlightheartedemotionalwarmupbeatfamily-centeredbittersweethopeful

What happens

Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (transl. How I felt when I saw that girl) is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language coming-of-age romantic comedy-drama film directed by Shelly Chopra Dhar. The screenplay was written by Dhar and Gazal Dhaliwal, with the story inspired by the 1919 novel A Damsel in Distress by P. G. Wodehouse. It stars Anil Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor, Rajkummar Rao, and Juhi Chawla, alongside Abhishek Duhan, Madhumalti Kapoor, Seema Pahwa, Brijendra Kala, Alka Kaushal and Kanwaljit Singh in supporting roles with Regena Cassandrra appears in an extended cameo role and Akshay Oberoi makes a special appearance in the film. The film tells the story of Sweety Chaudhary, a closeted lesbian, and her attempts to come out to her conservative and traditional Punjabi family. The film, named after a song of the same name from the 1994 film 1942: A Love Story, is the first collaboration between real-life father and daughter, Anil Kapoor and Sonam Kapoor and was the Hindi film debut of Regena Cassandrra. It was released worldwide on 1 February 2019 to positive reviews from critics, but it bombed at the box office. The screenplay was selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for its library's Core Collection. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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