Dream Girl (2019 film)
Dream Girl is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film directed by Raaj Shaandilyaa in his directorial debut and produced by Ekta Kapoor. The film focuses on a cross-gender actor (played by Ayushmann Khurrana) whose female voice impersonation begets attention from others, and talks about depression and loneliness. It also stars Nushrat Bharucha, Annu Kapoor, Manjot Singh, Vijay Raaz and Abhishek Banerjee. Initially supposed to be titled Googly, it was renamed Dream Girl. The film was released on 13 September 2019 to a surprise blockbuster response and entered the 100 Crore Club. It was a critical and commercial blockbuster, grossing around 148 crore net in India and over  worldwide, becoming one of the highest-grossing Hindi films of 2019. In August 2022, a spiritual sequel titled Dream Girl 2 entered production, and it was released in August 2023. It stars an ensemble cast of Ayushmann Khurrana, Ananya Panday, Annu Kapoor, Paresh Rawal, Asrani, Rajpal Yadav, Vijay Raaz, Manjot Singh, Abhishek Banerjee and Seema Pahwa. Premise
Karam always plays female character in plays as he has good ability of imitiating a female voice. He is looking for job and finds an ad offering 70,000 per month. His interviewer, Mauji, rejects him and shows him his call center where only ladies work as fantasy entertainers. Karam receives one of the call in name of Pooja and shocks everyone with his ability. Mauji employs him and his business soon picks up and Karam has admirers in Toto, Rajpal (a cop), Roma and his brother-in-law, Mahinder. At one point Karam feels what will his lover, Mahi, feel when she finds about his job and the biggest tragedy he comes across is his father, Jagjit Singh, is also one of his admirers. 