Genre: Comedy
Duration: 135 minutes
Coolie No 1 is the masterpiece of David Dhawan starring his son Varun Dhawan and Sara Ali Khan in the lead roles.
The original Coolie No 1 released in 1995 starring Govinda and Karishma Kapoor in the lead roles. The storyline of the new Coolie No 1 was pretty much the same as the original where Raju played by Varun Dhawan is a coolie working at the train station.
A pandit is invited to the house of the Rosario family but the father is not accepting any offers for his daughters hand in marriage from anyone who isn’t filthy rich. The pandit decides he is going to teach Jefferey Rosario a lesson.
He meets Raju and who is instantly smitten by Sarah Rosario’s photo and the pandit decides he is going to get Raju to pose as a rich man and marry Sarah.
Raju and the pandit set off on their journey and Sarah falls hopelessly in love with Raj Pratap Singh and does not realise he is actually a coolie.
Post the wedding Raju must now pretend that his father has thrown him out the massive house they own and in the middle of all the madness he also gets caught working at the station where he says he actually has a twin brother called Raju.
Things start getting out of hand as lies on top of lies keep being told until Sarah finds out the truth. Will she forgive Raju and will Jefferey accept his poor coolie son in law?
Coolie No 1 is a funny film and the songs will bring back all those memories from the original film however Varun Dhawan and Sara Ali Khan do not step into Govinda and Karishma’s shoes very well and although there are scenes where you will laugh along you also wish they had left the original film well alone and not tries to re-make it.
The songs Mirchi Lagi Toh and Teri Bhabhi will get you singing and dancing along though and the scenery is beautiful and fresh, exactly what we need to see on our screens during this pandemic.
