Dus Tola
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| Directed by | Ajoy Varma |
| Produced by |
Kunwar Pragy Arya Sanjay Bhattacharjee Sushma Reddy |
| Written by | Raghunath Paleri |
| Starring |
Manoj Bajpayee Aarti Chhabria Siddharth Makkar Pallavi Sharda Govind Namdeo Asrani Dilip Prabhawalkar Ninad Kamat |
| Music by | Sandesh Shandilya |
| Cinematography | S. Kumar ISC |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | ₹8 million (US$120,000) |
| Box office | ₹1 million (US$15,000) |
Dus Tola (English:Ten units) is a 2010 Indian Hindi comedy drama film, remade from the Hit Malayalam film of the 80s Ponmuttayidunna Tharavu, directed by Ajoy Varma and starring Manoj Bajpayee in the lead role. Dus Tola was released on 22 October 2010.
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). It is the second Hindi film under the banner of Warner Bros. Pictures.
The story starts in a small town Sonapur. Shankar (Manoj Bajpayee) is a local Goldsmith making jewelry. Shankar is in love with his next-door neighbor Suvarnalata (Sonu, Aarti Chabria) who loves him too. But her father Daya Shastri (Dilip Prabhavalkar) is opposed to their relationship. Shankar and Suvarnalata always meet after Suvarnalata computer class. He gave her father some earrings. The father and mother (Lakshmi) call a pandit (Aatmaram) 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 (Pallavi Sharda 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 (Siddharth Makkar). 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.
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