Dus Tola

Dus Tola
Directed by	Ajoy Varma
Produced by	Kunwar Pragy Arya Sanjay Bhattacharjee Sushma Reddy
Written by	Raghunath Paleri
Starring	Manoj Bajpai Aarti Chhabria Siddharth Makkar Pallavi Sharda Govind Namdeo Asrani Dilip Prabhawalkar Ninad Kamat
Music by	Sandesh Shandilya
Cinematography	S. Kumar
Release date(s)	22 October 2010 (2010-10-22)
Country	India
Language	Hindi

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).^[1] It is the second Hindi film under the banner of Warner Bros. Pictures.

Plot

The story starts in a small town Sonapur, Shankar (Manoj Bajpai) 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.

Cast

• Manoj Bajpai as Shankar Sunar
• Aarti Chhabria as Suvarnalata Shastri
• Siddharth Makkar as Ravi
• Pallavi Sharda as Geeta
• Govind Namdeo as Qazi
• Asrani as Sarpanch
• Dilip Prabhawalkar as Pandit Daya Shastri
• Ninad Kamat as Bholenath
• Asif Basra 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

References

1. ^ Chhabra, Aseem, "From Bollywood to Chinatown: Warner Bros. teams with India for 'Chandni Chowk' martial-arts musical", Film Journal International, 14 January 2009

• http://www.bollyspice.com/view.php/5720-dus-tola-music-launch-by-gulzar-saheb.html
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSuZ1lC09no
• http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movies/cast/14361/index.html
• http://www.songsblasts.com/songs/hindi-songs/dus-tola.html
• http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/filmi-parties/bollywood/First-look-of-Dus-Tola-unveiled/articleshow/6626026.cms
• http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/Manojs-goldrush/articleshow/6643675.cms
• http://dustola.com/

External links

• http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movies/cast/14361/index.html
• http://dustola.com/