Dus Tola

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Dus Tola
Dus tola poster.jpg
Directed byAjoy Varma
Written by Raghunath Paleri (story and screenplay)
Sunil Saigal (dialogues)
Produced byKunwar Pragy Arya
Indivar Bhatia
Sanjay Bhattacharya
Kunwar Pragyarya
Sushma Reddy
Ajeet Singh
Starring Manoj Bajpayee
Aarti Chhabria
Tola Makkar
Pallavi Sharda
Govind Namdev
Asrani
Dilip Prabhawalkar
Tola Kamat
Cinematography S. Kumar
Edited bySajit Unnikrishnan
Music by Sandesh Shandilya
Production
company
Aryan Brothers Entertainment
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release date
  • 22 October 2010 (2010-10-22)(India)
Running time
123 minutes [1]
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Dus Tola (English:Ten units) is a 2010 Indian Hindi comedy drama film remake of 1988 Malayalam film Ponmuttayidunna Tharavu , directed by Ajoy Varma and starring Manoj Bajpayee in the lead role. Dus Tola was released on 22 October 2010.

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Distributed in the U.S. and co-produced by Warner Bros., it is the fourth 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). [2] It is the second Hindi film under the banner of Warner Bros. Pictures.

Plot

The story starts in a village Sonapur. Shankar is a local Goldsmith making jewelry. Shankar is in love with his next-door neighbor Suvarnalata who loves him too. But her father Daya Shastri is opposed to their relationship. Shankar and Suvarnalata always meet after Suvarnalata computer class. He gave her father some earrings. The father and mother call a pandit and asks for a rich boy from Dubai. The pandit is Shankar's friend and he asks Sonu if she is ready to marry Shankar.

Sonu asks him to make her a dus tola necklace to induce her father to give her hand to Shankar. 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 his daughter as a gift before her marriage. Shankar is shocked and faints in the middle of the town. When he wakes up, he sees Geeta the village dance teacher, Bholenath, Atmaram, Sarpanch and Abdul (who owns a shop under Geeta's dance studio) around him. During the night Shankar goes to Sonu's house and challenges her to tell everyone that he gave her the necklace in order to declare her love for him. 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. 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 and falls for him. At the grand opening Qazi, the richest guy in town, gives Shankar 10,000 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. Meanwhile, Geeta comes to Shankar's shop 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 talking about 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 running 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.

Cast

Music

SongSinger(s)
"Aisa Hota Tha" Mohit Chauhan
"Lal Lal Aag Hua" Sukhwinder Singh
"Tumse Kya Kehna" Sonu Nigam
"Jee Na Jalaiyo(Female)" Sunidhi Chauhan
"Jee Na Jalaiyo (Male)" Sukhwinder Singh

Critical reception

The Times of India stated that "The problem with Dus Tola is its archaic story which simply doesn't connect with the new age audience. Of course, there have been so many small town stories that have managed to find applause even today: Udaan, Manorama Six Feet Under, Well Done Abba. But that was because they dealt with a relevant issue." [3] Komal Nahta stated that "Dus Tola is an entertaining fare, no doubt, but it won't work at the box-office because it is more like a TV serial or a stage-play and less like a film." [4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Dus Tola Box Office Collection | India | Day Wise | Box Office - Bollywood Hungama". Bollywood Hungama . Archived from the original on 12 May 2014.
  2. ↑ Chhabra, Aseem, "From Bollywood to Chinatown: Warner Bros. teams with India for 'Chandni Chowk' martial-arts musical", Film Journal International , 14 January 2009
  3. ↑ "Dus Tola movie review: Wallpaper, Story, Trailer at Times of India". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Archived from the original on 5 March 2012.
  4. ↑ "Dus Tola Review by Komal Nahta". 22 October 2010.
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