Dus Tola
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Dus Tola is a 2010 Hindi comedy
and drama
film, remade from the Hit Malayalam film of the 80's Ponmuttayidunna Tharavu
, directed by Ajoy Varma and starring Manoj Bajpai
in the lead role. Dus Tola was released on 22 October 2010.
Distributed in the U.S. and co-produced by Warner Bros.
, it is the forth Bollywood
movie made and distributed in partnership with a major Hollywood studio, following Sony
's Saawariya
(2007) and Walt Disney Pictures
' animated feature Roadside Romeo
(2008) and Warner Bros. Pictures' Chandni Chowk To China
(2009). It is the second Hindi film under the banner of Warner Bros. Pictures.
) a local Goldsmith making jewelry . Shankar is in love with his next-door neighbors daughter Suvarnalata (Aarti Chhabria) who loves him too. But her father Daya Shastri (Dilip Prabhavalkar
) oppose to their relationship. Shankar and Suvarnalata always meet after Suvarnalata computer class. When Shankar gave her father some earrings he and Suvarnalata were romancing with each other and him jealous and he and his wife Lakshmi call a pandit Aatmaram and asks for a rich boy from Dubai. The pandit is Shankar's friend and he tells Sona a.k.a Suvarnalata is she ready to marry him.
Sonu says make me a dus tola necklace so her father will give her hand to him. Shankar toils to make the perfect dus tola necklace for Sonu which she accepts. But when her father finds it, he tells her to accept the necklace as a gift from an older brother. The next day Daya shows the necklace off to local people and says he gave it to is daughter as a gift before her marriage. Shankar is shocked and faints in the middle of the town. When he wakes up around is Geeta (Pallavi Sharda
) the village dance teacher, Bholenath, Atmaram, Sarpanch and Abdul who owns a shop under Geeta’s dance studio. During the night Shankar goes to Sonu’s house to tell her tomorrow if she loves him tell her that he made the dus tola necklace. The next day, Shankar and his friends go to the house of Daya & Lakshmi but Sonu comes and says she doesn’t know about any necklace except the one that her father gave her. Shankar is heartbroken and Sonu marries a wealthy man from Dubai named Ravi (Siddharth Makkar). Ravi goes to Dubai for a while and Sonu bears him a child. Meanwhile Shankar tries to move on with his life and he opens his own shop called Shankar and Sons. While at the grand opening, Geeta admires Shankar, she slowly falls for him and thinks about him the whole time. At the grand opening Qazi the richest guy in town who is Muslim and everyone wants to see his new wife gives Shankar 10000 rupee and tells him to use it when he really needs it.
Two months pass and Ravi comes back to India to live with Sonu and his daughter after his Dubai visa expired, he says he spent two months in jail. Geeta comes to Shankar's shop and asks to sell her earrings as she is short of money to send home to her family. Shankar remembers that Qazi gave him money so he gives it to Geeta, she realises Shankar really has a heart of gold. Ravi needs money to buy a truck and he comes to Shankar to sell the dus tola necklace which Sonu is always wearing, the very necklace that Shankar toiled to make for her. Shankar tests the gold on the necklace and reveals that it is fake! Suvarnalata reveals to Ravi that Shankar made the fake necklace and Ravi goes in search of him. In a quiet peaceful field Shankar and his friends are in a circle talking about what has transpired with the dus tola necklace when Ravi comes with townspeople and a fight begins. Atmaram escapes and calls Qazi’s wife as he is being injured. She comes runnig for him and her face is revealed to everyone. Shankar’s father is brought in to see what the commotion is about, he reprimands Shankar for making a fake necklace but Shankar explains he had no choice, he had no money so he would have worked hard to give her a new real necklace after their marriage. Shankar admits his mistakes to Ravi who forgives him and returns to his wife Suvarnalata. The next time Shankar sees Geeta standing at a bus stop he pauses for her, realising that she is in fact the real gold. The two of them find a happy ending.
Comedy film
Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...
and drama
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
film, remade from the Hit Malayalam film of the 80's Ponmuttayidunna Tharavu
Ponmuttayidunna Tharavu
Ponmuttayidunna Tharavu is a 1988 Malayalam comedy drama film written by Sreenivasan and directed by Sathyan Anthikkad. Sreenivasan, Jayaram, Urvashi, Innocent, Parvathy and Shari plays the pivotal roles. The film was critically acclaimed and was a big commercial success...
, directed by Ajoy Varma and starring Manoj Bajpai
Manoj Bajpai
Manoj Bajpai , also credited as Manoj Bajpayee, is an Indian film actor, known for playing offbeat and unconventional roles. He first shot into fame with his breakthrough role in Ram Gopal Varma's 1998 film Satya.-Early life:...
in the lead role. Dus Tola was released on 22 October 2010.
Distributed in the U.S. and co-produced by Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
, it is the forth Bollywood
Bollywood
Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...
movie made and distributed in partnership with a major Hollywood studio, following Sony
Sony
, commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....
's Saawariya
Saawariya
Saawariya is a 2007 Hindi film based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's short story "White Nights".Co-produced by Sony Pictures Entertainment and released on 9 November 2007, it is the first Bollywood movie to receive a North American release by a Hollywood studio, shortly preceding Walt Disney Pictures'...
(2007) and Walt Disney Pictures
Walt Disney Pictures
Walt Disney Pictures is an American film studio owned by The Walt Disney Company. Walt Disney Pictures and Television, a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Studios and the main production company for live-action feature films within the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, based at the Walt Disney...
' animated feature Roadside Romeo
Roadside Romeo
Roadside Romeo is a 2008 computer animated musical comedy film written and directed by Jugal Hansraj and co-produced by Aditya Chopra and Yash Chopra of Yash Raj Films and Walt Disney Pictures...
(2008) and Warner Bros. Pictures' Chandni Chowk To China
Chandni Chowk To China
Chandni Chowk to China , shortened as CC2C is a Hindi film which released on 16 January 2009. It is directed by Nikhil Advani and stars Akshay Kumar and Deepika Padukone in the lead roles, with Hindi cinema veteran Mithun Chakraborty and Hong Kong action cinema veteran Gordon Liu among the co-stars...
(2009). It is the second Hindi film under the banner of Warner Bros. Pictures.
Plot
The story starts in a small town Sonapur, Shankar (Manoj BajpaiManoj Bajpai
Manoj Bajpai , also credited as Manoj Bajpayee, is an Indian film actor, known for playing offbeat and unconventional roles. He first shot into fame with his breakthrough role in Ram Gopal Varma's 1998 film Satya.-Early life:...
) a local Goldsmith making jewelry . Shankar is in love with his next-door neighbors daughter Suvarnalata (Aarti Chhabria) who loves him too. But her father Daya Shastri (Dilip Prabhavalkar
Dilip Prabhavalkar
Dilip Prabhavalkar is an Indian Marathi film and television actor. Although he has established himself as a prominent Marathi stage and movie actor for a while now, he became particularly known on the national scene for his portrayal of Mahatma Gandhi in the 2006 film, Lage Raho Munna Bhai. He...
) oppose to their relationship. Shankar and Suvarnalata always meet after Suvarnalata computer class. When Shankar gave her father some earrings he and Suvarnalata were romancing with each other and him jealous and he and his wife Lakshmi call a pandit Aatmaram and asks for a rich boy from Dubai. The pandit is Shankar's friend and he tells Sona a.k.a Suvarnalata is she ready to marry him.
Sonu says make me a dus tola necklace so her father will give her hand to him. Shankar toils to make the perfect dus tola necklace for Sonu which she accepts. But when her father finds it, he tells her to accept the necklace as a gift from an older brother. The next day Daya shows the necklace off to local people and says he gave it to is daughter as a gift before her marriage. Shankar is shocked and faints in the middle of the town. When he wakes up around is Geeta (Pallavi Sharda
Pallavi Sharda
Pallavi Sharda is an Indian-Australian film/theatre actress and dancer, trained in the classical Indian dance form of Bharatha Natyam. Born in Perth and brought up in Melbourne she is currently based out of Mumbai. Her Bollywood debut came in the comedic-drama film, Dus Tola, in which she played...
) the village dance teacher, Bholenath, Atmaram, Sarpanch and Abdul who owns a shop under Geeta’s dance studio. During the night Shankar goes to Sonu’s house to tell her tomorrow if she loves him tell her that he made the dus tola necklace. The next day, Shankar and his friends go to the house of Daya & Lakshmi but Sonu comes and says she doesn’t know about any necklace except the one that her father gave her. Shankar is heartbroken and Sonu marries a wealthy man from Dubai named Ravi (Siddharth Makkar). Ravi goes to Dubai for a while and Sonu bears him a child. Meanwhile Shankar tries to move on with his life and he opens his own shop called Shankar and Sons. While at the grand opening, Geeta admires Shankar, she slowly falls for him and thinks about him the whole time. At the grand opening Qazi the richest guy in town who is Muslim and everyone wants to see his new wife gives Shankar 10000 rupee and tells him to use it when he really needs it.
Two months pass and Ravi comes back to India to live with Sonu and his daughter after his Dubai visa expired, he says he spent two months in jail. Geeta comes to Shankar's shop and asks to sell her earrings as she is short of money to send home to her family. Shankar remembers that Qazi gave him money so he gives it to Geeta, she realises Shankar really has a heart of gold. Ravi needs money to buy a truck and he comes to Shankar to sell the dus tola necklace which Sonu is always wearing, the very necklace that Shankar toiled to make for her. Shankar tests the gold on the necklace and reveals that it is fake! Suvarnalata reveals to Ravi that Shankar made the fake necklace and Ravi goes in search of him. In a quiet peaceful field Shankar and his friends are in a circle talking about what has transpired with the dus tola necklace when Ravi comes with townspeople and a fight begins. Atmaram escapes and calls Qazi’s wife as he is being injured. She comes runnig for him and her face is revealed to everyone. Shankar’s father is brought in to see what the commotion is about, he reprimands Shankar for making a fake necklace but Shankar explains he had no choice, he had no money so he would have worked hard to give her a new real necklace after their marriage. Shankar admits his mistakes to Ravi who forgives him and returns to his wife Suvarnalata. The next time Shankar sees Geeta standing at a bus stop he pauses for her, realising that she is in fact the real gold. The two of them find a happy ending.
Cast
- Manoj BajpaiManoj BajpaiManoj Bajpai , also credited as Manoj Bajpayee, is an Indian film actor, known for playing offbeat and unconventional roles. He first shot into fame with his breakthrough role in Ram Gopal Varma's 1998 film Satya.-Early life:...
as Shankar Sunar - Aarti Chhabria as Suvarnalata Shastri
- Siddharth Makkar as Ravi
- Pallavi ShardaPallavi ShardaPallavi Sharda is an Indian-Australian film/theatre actress and dancer, trained in the classical Indian dance form of Bharatha Natyam. Born in Perth and brought up in Melbourne she is currently based out of Mumbai. Her Bollywood debut came in the comedic-drama film, Dus Tola, in which she played...
as Geeta - Govind NamdeoGovind NamdeoGovind Namdeo is an Indian film actor. Govind made his debut as a corrupt cop in David Dhawan's Shola Aur Shabnam . He has acted in numerous A grade movies...
as Qazi - AsraniAsraniGovardhan Asrani , popularly known simply as Asrani, is an actor in Indian films whose Bollywood career has spanned over 35 years. His wife Manju Bansal is an actress.-Early life:...
as Sarpanch - Dilip Prabhawalkar as Pandit Daya Shastri
- Ninad KamatNinad KamatNinad Kamat is an Indian Bollywood film actor. Some of his movies are Zabardast, Kabhi Up Kabhi Down, Shiva, Lage Raho Munnabhai, 7½ Phere, Viruddh, Dus, Parineeta, Zeher, Sangharsh, Doli Sajake Rakhna. He has also worked as a Playback Singer in Shiva and Darna Mana Hai...
as Bholenath - Asif BasraAsif BasraAsif Basra is an Indian film, television and theater actor. He is best known for his role in the American comedy film Outsourced.-Career:He performed in Anurag Kashyap's Black Friday and Rahul Dholakia's Parzania, which received much critical appreciation. He also appeared in Micheal O...
as Aatmaram - Bharti Achrekar as Lakshmi
- Brijendra Kala as Abdul Chaiwala
- Kunwar Pragy Arya as Ravi's Uncle
- Kishore Nandlaskar as Bhaskar
- Suhita Thatte as Padma
- Shiju Kataria as Anju
External links
- http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movies/cast/14361/index.html
- http://dustola.com/