Dil Bechara (2020) on Netflix
NR20201h 41mComedyDramaRomance
Kizie Basu, twenty-one, is being treated for thyroid cancer when she meets Manny, in remission from osteosarcoma. Manny and JP are making a film and want her to play the lead.
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- Netflix4.3/5
- IMDb8.3/10138,626 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes87%
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Plot summary
Immanuel Rajkumar Jr., known as Manny, is twenty-three and has had osteosarcoma, which is no longer active. He and his friend Jagdish Pandey, called JP, who has glaucoma and sight in only one eye, are shooting a film of their own in which Manny plays the male lead. Manny asks Kizie Basu, a twenty-one-year-old being treated for thyroid cancer, to take the female part. The two grow close: he loves the films of Rajinikanth, and she loves Hindi music, above all an unfinished song left by the retired songwriter Abhimanyu Veer. They choose Seri, the Tamil word for okay, as their private word, a reminder to stay positive. As they keep shooting, they fall in love.
Cast
- Sunit Tandonas Dr. Jha
- Franaita Jijinaas Foizey
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Dil Bechara (2020)
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- In October 2018, director Mukesh Chhabra was suspended by Fox Star Studios over sexual harassment allegations during India's #MeToo movement, and filming of Dil Bechara was stalled until late December 2018.
- The trailer, released on 6 July 2020, became the most-liked Indian trailer with 5 million likes in under 24 hours, beating Vijay's Bigil, which had 2.1 million, and earlier surpassing the Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame trailers.
- Sushant Singh Rajput had dubbed every portion of his role except the climax before his death in June 2020, so the makers brought in radio jockey Aditya Chaudhary to dub his voice for the film's climax sequence.
- Back in September 2014, Varun Dhawan and Deepika Padukone were reported as the lead pair of the planned Bollywood remake, with producer-director duo Homi Adajania and Dinesh Vijan confirming their association with it.
- A nine-day Paris shoot was put off because of civil unrest across France, and the dates booked for filming Saif Ali Khan's scenes lapsed as a result.
- Sanjana Sanghi, playing the Bengali Kizie, spent months on Bangla diction and cultural training with an NSD graduate so she could converse with her on-screen parents Swastika Mukherjee and Saswata Chatterjee, and joined cancer support groups to talk to young survivors.
- After a fan spotted an unreleased hidden track in the original score, A. R. Rahman agreed on Twitter to complete the song, which came out as the bonus single "Never Say Goodbye" on 2 September 2020.
- When Hotstar stopped operating in the United States, Dil Bechara moved to Hulu on 1 September 2021 and became one of the first Indian and non-English titles distributed exclusively on that site.
