In this Coolie No. 1 remix, David Dhawan's talented son Varun essentially plays two roles. One, as Govinda. The other, as Mithun, literally mimicking Prabhujee—as Mithun Da is better known/worshipped among bhakts of trashy Hindi movies.
Dir: David Dhawan
Cast: Varun Dhawan, Sara Ali Khan
On: Amazon Prime Video
Don't lie: Even if you were up and about in the '90s, how many of you really remember David Dhawan's Coolie No. 1 (1991). Pretty sure, none. For all our love and longing for times gone by, pictures like Coolie, Biwi, Hero, 1, 2 whatever, really merge as a thing you watched. Also, because you had little else to.
We fondly remember Govinda in a lot of them—really winging it as an improv artiste, right at the centre of the theatre of the absurd! And then he'd do/say something—God knows whether scripted or not—that would stick. Like that throwaway line about his house being so big that he rides on a motorcycle between rooms in David's Haseena Maan Jaayegi (1999)!
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Likewise, with Mithun Chakroborty's random B movies in the '90s, where he either played a goon or cop avenging his sister's rape. There's his whole filmography on one side, and there is Gunda (1998), the top shrine that certain kinda movie-buffs still bow down to.
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