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Coolie No. 1(2020)- Review

Coolie No. 1(2020)- Review



Coolie No. 1 (2020) is a comedy film, remake of the 1995 film Coolie No. 1 starring Govinda and Karisma Kapoor in the lead roles. It starts with Jeffery Rozario (Paresh Rawal) who wishes to marry his daughter, his only criteria is choosing a boy who is extremely wealthy. Soon he gets acquainted with Kunwar Raj Pratap Singh (Varun Dhawan), who is a billionaire, has a slew of cars, and dines with famous cricketers & film stars and has phone calls with Trump & Modi. Sounds way too good to be true right? That is because it isn’t remotely true. Kunwar Raj Pratap Singh is in reality Raju a coolie. In order to get married to Jeffery’s daughter Sarah (Sara Ali Khan), Raju is portraying the persona of being ultra-rich, after he is convinced by pundit Jai Kishan (Javed Jaffrey) to do so if he wishes to marry Sarah. Jai Kishan has an ulterior motive of bringing the pride of Jeffery, after he was balefully insulted by him. Raju, in trying to keep up the ruse of being rich gets tied down in his own spiral of lies, which creates supposedly funny situations.
The story is what one would expect, not logical but giving out hilarious content. At the core of it, it mimics the original film with a few variations applying modern touches to it. Varun Dhawan puts good effort in his portrayal of Raju, but it seems too much effort as at times it feels like he is over acting. Due to Dhawan’s similar acting style across most of his movies, the character of Raju & its portrayal seem very much like the main character played by Dhawan in ‘Main Tera Hero (2014)’. Raju’s recurring mimicry of famous actors & dialogues can get annoying after a point of time. The film surely tries to cast actors famed because of their comical prowess namely Paresh Rawal, Javed Jaffrey, Rajpal Yadav & Johnny Lever, but even with these, the film does not meet the expectations of the viewers. Particularly Jaffery’s portrayal of Jai Kishan & him being casted in that role can be questioned.
From time to time Bollywood has proved movies can be funnier even with its absurd & illogical story line, but this movie’s story is not even remotely backed by a funny movie to the level one would expect. The fight scenes seem redundant and unnecessary with the story line. The soundtrack has a good set of artists creating it with fairly good songs, but the songs seem forced in the context of the movie and try to stretch the movie for no apparent reason. The movie does not even give time to build up to the story or get familiar with the characters, rather delves directly in it within a few scenes.
Overall the movie isn’t extraordinary or indulging. No one would see anything different from similar types of existing movies. You will not miss out on much or actually anything if choose not to watch the film. The movie is at most worthy of your sparest of spare times, surely not one for which you should be making time for.


Acting- 6
Casting- 6.5
Cinematography- 8
Dialogue- 6
Directing- 7.5
Editing & Effects- 6
Sound & Music- 7.5
Story- 4
Storytelling- 4
Rating- 5.5


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