Dream Girl

<p>Karam is a young stage actor renowned for his ability to imitate female voices and play female characters. To support his father Jagjit financially, Karam uses his female voice to land a job under Mauji alias “W-ji” at a “friendship” call center where female operators entertain clients. Karam dons the persona of “Pooja” and garners admiration from many clients including an adolescent Toto, Rajpal, and Roma, while keeping his job a secret from everyone except his best friend Smiley. At this juncture, Karam falls in love with Mahi and gets engaged to her, but does not yet reveal his job to her. However, Jagjit and Mahi’s brother Mahinder also become Karam’s clients and fall for his Pooja persona, much to his chagrin. Unwilling to deceive his loved ones, Karam tries to distance himself from his clients, but Wji threatens to reveal Karam’s secret if he does not continue working. To complicate matters further, Toto, Rajpal, Mahinder, and Jagjit propose marriage to Pooja while Roma insists on meeting in person. As Karam tries to dissuade his admirers, a series of confrontations with them leads Mahi to suspect him of cheating. Karam finally confesses to Mahi that he did his job out of financial need, and Mahi sympathizes with him. When Mahi and Karam confront Wji for his blackmail, the latter retaliates by attempting to frame Karam for Pooja’s apparent murder. This plan fails when Karam reveals the truth behind Pooja to everyone, after which Rajpal arrests Wji for his deception. In November 2018, announced to be written and directed by and produced by , and . was cast opposite him. The lead character will have three accents in the film. is choreographing the dances with Khurrana in . began in December 2018. Bharucha completed her part of filming in January 2019 in Mumbai. The film was released theatrically on 13 September 2019. acquired digital rights and launched it online on 21 November 2019. received mixed response from critics, who criticised the “empty” and “jumbled-up” writing as well as the “tasteless” and “stale” humour, but praised the performances of the supporting cast. The film holds an approval rating of 50% based on 12 reviews on the review aggregator website , with an average rating of 5.6/10. Charu Thakur of gave the film three stars out of five, noted that was an out-and-out comedy with witty one-liners and jokes, which made it a long comic skit sans a storyline. She concurred with Taran in praising performance of Khurrana and Kapoor. Criticising director for losing subject of the film she concluded, “However, his [Shaandilyaa’s] hesitation to delve deeper into the subject makes it score less on the report card. If you are looking for a light-hearted comedy this weekend, [this film] should definitely be on your list.” Shubhra Gupta of gave two stars out of five and felt the film had many good ideas but those were not executed, stating, “…. these ideas remain half-baked, being mouthed strictly as meaningless dialogue for either laughs or claps”. Praising Khurana for his performance, she concluded, “You stay watching Dream Girl for Khurrana. He plays Karam/Pooja with grace and conviction, and makes this thing sing.” Priyanka Sinha Jha of , praising Khurrana and ensemble of , Vijay Raaz, Annu Kapoor, Abhishek Banerjee, , Rajesh Sharma, Nidhi Bisht and Raj Bhansali for their performances, rates the film with three and half stars out of five. Agreeing with Gupta, she noted that the second half did suffer from lack of . Praising writer-director Raaj Shaandilyaa for ‘keeping the screenplay pithy, the dialogues glib and story on the tracks, she opined, ” will surely entertain the film going audiences while sparking off an important conversation on in Indian cinema.” Writing for Film Companion, said “These are one-joke characters, and this is a one-joke movie. Very quickly, a sense of staleness sets in.” has the opening day collection of 10.05 crore, and second day collection of 16.42 crore, whereas the third day collection was 18.10 crore, taking its total opening weekend collection to 44.57 crore in India. On the fourth day the film crossed 50 crore and became Khurrana’s fastest film to cross 50 crore until his next release, Bala. The film has become the eleventh highest-grossing Bollywood film of 2019. As of 24 October 2019 , with a gross of 169.36 crore in India and 31.44 crore overseas, the film has grossed 200.80 crore worldwide. The music of the film is composed by while lyrics are by and . The remix version of ‘s ” ” was removed due to a copyright issue. All soundtracks listed below have their lyrics credited solely to Kumaar unless noted otherwise: 32) Review By Sanjay</p>