Coolie No. 1 (2020 film)
| 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 masala film directed by David Dhawan and produced by Vashu Bhagnani. A reboot of his own 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 8 August 2019 in Bangkok.
The film was set to be theatrically released in India on 1 May 2020, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Later, it was released on 25 December, during Christmas, on Amazon Prime Video.