Dunki: 4 money lessons you can learn from the Shah Rukh Khan film

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Bollywood has created a mythical version of Punjab that’s all unending mustard fields, water flowing through canals, homes where elderly ‘beeji’ and ‘bauji’s word is law, brothers live happily with brothers, their wives make gigantic glasses of lassi and alu ke parathe and gajar ka halwa… Don’t forget that omnipresent tractor in the big courtyard of their ‘khandani’ haveli, and the one gurudwara that looks after the rest of the ‘pind’…

In this picture perfect Punjab the arrival of an outsider usually causes an upheaval a la Dilwale Dulhaiya Le Jaayenge or Namastey London, but you never really see the seamier, reality based version of a people battling real life problems like Udta Punjab.

Trouble arises when directors like Rajkumar Hirani attempt to merge both. The result is like being held down by the scruff of your neck in a bucket of sweet lassi by an evil grandma possessed by this need to get to ‘Kaneda’. Only that the filmmakers are not following real life events and the story feels late by at least 40 years.

What money lessons can this half-baked ‘pieces of cake’ film teach the savvy investor?

Dunki is about three friends who are down and out of luck who think that they must get away to England to better their lives. Their need seems to be real: Tapsee Pannu is Manu Randhawa who works at a dhaba because her home has been taken over by the creditor; Vikram Kochhar is Buggu Lakhanpal who hates seeing his mum being ogled by men because she wears trousers at her job as a security guard and Anil Grover is Balli Kakkad who is fed up of hearing the sewing machine which is mother is practically stuck to. 

All around them are Emigrate to England Visa scams. From agents who will help them get fake degrees to agents who