Coolie No. 1 | |
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Directed by | David Dhawan |
Screenplay by | Rumi Jaffrey |
Based on | Chinna Mapillai by P. Kalaimani |
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Cinematography | Ravi K. Chandran |
Edited by | Ritesh Soni |
Music by | Songs: Salim–Sulaiman Anand-Milind Tanishk Bagchi Lijo George-DJ Chetas Javed-Mohsin Background Score: Salim–Sulaiman |
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Distributed by | Amazon Prime Video Tips Industries |
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Running time | 135 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | Hindi |
Coolie No. 1 is a 2020 Indian Hindi-language comedy masala film directed by David Dhawan and produced by Vashu Bhagnani. A reboot of the 1995 film of the same name, which itself is a remake of the Tamil film Chinna Mapillai (1993), the film stars Varun Dhawan, Sara Ali Khan, and Paresh Rawal. When a matchmaker is insulted by Jeffrey Rozario, a rich businessman, he vows to exact revenge. As a result, he makes a porter pretend to be a rich man and marries him off to Rozario's daughter.
Principal photography began on August 8, 2019 in Bangkok.
The film was set to be theatrically released in India on May 1, 2020, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [2] Later, it was released on December 25, during Christmas, on Amazon Prime Video.