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Coolie No. 1 (2020)

Coolie No. 1 poster
Directed by
David Dhawan
Genre
romantic comedy
Country
India
Runtime
2h 14m
Rated
14A
Rating
5.1 of 10 from 72 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A matchmaker gets insulted by a rich businessman and decides to get revenge. He tricks a poor porter into pretending to be wealthy and marries him to the businessman's daughter.

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What happens

Coolie No. 1 is a 2020 Indian Hindi-language masala film directed by David Dhawan and produced by Vashu Bhagnani. A reboot of his own 1995 film of the same name, which itself is a remake of the Tamil film Chinna Mapillai (1993), the film stars Varun Dhawan, Sara Ali Khan, and Paresh Rawal. When a matchmaker is insulted by Jeffrey Rozario, a rich businessman, he vows to exact revenge. As a result, he makes a porter pretend to be a rich man and marries him off to Rozario's daughter. Principal photography began on 8 August 2019 in Bangkok. The film was set to be theatrically released in India on 1 May 2020, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Later, it was released on 25 December, during Christmas, on Amazon Prime Video. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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