Doordarshan (film)

Doordarshan
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Gagan Puri
Written by	Gagan Puri
Produced by	Ritu Arya Sandeep Arya
Starring	Mahie Gill Manu Rishi Chaddha Dolly Ahluwalia Supriya Shukla Rajesh Sharma Mehak Manwani Manoj Bakshi Aditya Kumar Shardul Rana Archita Sharma
Cinematography	Soni Singh
Edited by	Shubham Srivastava
Music by	Meet Bros
Production company	Arya Films
Distributed by	PVR Pictures
Release date	28 February 2020 (2020-02-28)
Running time	119 minutes[1]
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Doordarshan (transl. Distant vision; Television) is a 2020 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film directed by Gagan Puri and produced by Arya Films (Ritu Arya), loosely based on 2003 German film Good Bye, Lenin!. The film stars Mahie Gill and Manu Rishi Chaddha.^[2][3] The film was released in theatres on 28 February 2020, and subsequently was released on Netflix on 27 July 2020.^[4]

Plot[]

Sunil Bhateja lives with his young daughter Sweety and son Sunny and is going through a rough phase with his estranged wife who is demanding a divorce from him. His mother Darshan is in a state of coma for the last 30 years and the rented place belongs to his friend Goldie. Sunil is not willing to vacate the home on the pretext of the state of his mother. Sunny has a crush on Twinkle, the daughter of Goldie, who is furious about it. Sunny's friend Pappi regularly gets magazines with porn stories and both enjoy reading them. Both are alone at home when Pappi reads out the latest edition of the magazine to Sunny in the room where their grandmother Darshan is resting. As fate would have, grandma wakes up from coma listening to the porn story, and the name of the central character "Bimla" sticks in her mind. However, she falls unconscious again. Later when the doctor examines her, he tells them that she would soon regain her consciousness but her mind is in a very weak state. So they should ensure that they don't do anything to dishearten her.

Everyone quickly starts working on a changeover of the look of the house to the 80s as that's when Darshan went into the coma. The biggest hurdle is that Sunil will have to convince his wife Billo to return home. Sunil pleads her to return and on the insistence of Billo's mother she agrees. Here Sunil has asked his children to pretend as house helps. When Darshan finally regains consciousness, Sunil tells her that it has only been 6 months since she has been in a coma and that he is still in high school. When Darshan questions his obesity, he tells her that he is suffering from thyroid-related disease and hence the weight gain.

Everyone does their part to make her believe that everything is hunky-dory, however, Darshan consistently questions who Bimla is to which there is no answer. Later she coaxes Billo to marry Sunil and to everyone's surprise, Billo agrees. A fake marriage ceremony is arranged and they are remarried. On the night of the wedding, Sunil and Billo have a heartful conversation and both of them drop the idea of divorce. Next day Darshan wakes up early and sees that everyone is asleep as they are tired from the wedding ceremony. She receives the newspaper and checks the date to realize that it has been 30 years since her accident which led to her coma. She steps out of the home alone to see the outside world and returns disappointed to see that society has lost basic morals.

Later Sunil explains everything and she is happy that Billo had indeed married Sunil. Later she urges to watch her favourite Hindu mythological serial on TV. Instead of playing the CD of the mythological serial, Sweety puts in a porn CD of Sunny and finally it is revealed who Bimla is.

Cast[]

• Mahie Gill as Priya Bhateja aka Billoo
• Manu Rishi Chaddha as Sunil Bhateja aka Chikoo
• Dolly Ahluwalia as Dharshan Kaur Bhateja
• Mehak Manwani as Twinkle
• Shardul Rana as Sunny Bhateja
• Supriya Shukla as Geetu
• Rajesh Sharma as Goldy
• Archita Sharma as Sweety Bhateja
• as Pappi / Pappu
• Manoj Bakshi as Hindi teacher
• Aditya Kumar as Bunty
• Naresh Gosain as Mr. Malhotra

Marketing and Release[]

The film was released on 28 February 2020^[5]

Soundtrack[]

Doordarshan
Soundtrack album by Meet Bros
Released	27 February 2020[6]
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Length	5:55
Language	Hindi
Label	Zee Music Company
External audio Official Audio Jukebox on YouTube

The film's songs are composed by Meet Bros and written by Kumaar.

References[]

External links[]

• Doordarshan at IMDb
• Doordarshan at Bollywood Hungama