Dolly Ahluwalia

Acting

Dolly Ahluwalia

Dolly Ahluwalia is an Indian actress and costume designer who was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2001 for costume design. She has won the National Film Award thrice, twice for Best Costume Design for Bandit Queen (1993) and Haider (2014), and then as Best Supporting Actress for Vicky Donor (2012), which is also her best known role as an actor.

Acting credits

Main Vaapas Aaunga poster
7.0

Haunted by a childhood romance and recollections of love lost during the 1947 Partition of India, 95-year-old Ishar Singh Grewal shares his story with his grandson Nirvair, the past unfolding through memories of migration, longing, and a romance that endures across generations.

Main Vaapas Aaunga

2026

Sitaare Zameen Par poster
6.9

A disgraced basketball coach is given the chance to coach a team of players who are intellectually disabled as part of community services. Gulshan has apprehensions at first and feels out of place but soon realizes they just might have what it takes to make it to the national championships.

Sitaare Zameen Par

2025

Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani poster
7.3

On a trekking trip, an introverted Naina falls for a charming ex-classmate, whose thirst for adventure drives them apart. Years later, their paths cross again.

Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani

2013

Son of Sardaar 2 poster
4.4

Years after settling an epic family feud and surviving house arrest in Punjab, Jassi Singh Randhawa returns this time chasing love, not trouble. But when he lands in Scotland to win back his estranged wife, he stumbles into a hostage crisis, a mafia war and the most bizarre Sardaar wedding of the century.

Son of Sardaar 2

2025

The Great Shamsuddin Family poster
7.8

Set over one day in Delhi, Bani, a writer, is racing against a career-defining 12-hour deadline. Mothers, aunts, cousins and former romantic interests descend on her apartment, each bringing their own emergencies and Bani has to navigate interfaith complexities, generational conflicts and family expectations as she faces a dilemma, which could alter her life trajectory forever.

The Great Shamsuddin Family

2025

Calorie poster
NR

Calorie follows three generations of women whose present and past collide during an emotionally packed summer in India. Monika is a stressed-out single mom of two teens, calorie-obsessed Alia and rebellious Simi. She decides to send her girls to India to visit their great aunt and uncle. Monika hopes that connecting her daughters to their Punjabi roots will set them straight. But what begins as a reluctant trip soon turns into a transformative coming-of-age journey. Amid culture shock, family clashes, and unexpected bonds, Alia and Simi discover a hidden family tragedy that Monika has kept hidden from them and whose wounds threaten to splinter the entire family in this bittersweet female-driven drama.

Calorie

2025

Bell Bottom poster
6.2

By the early ‘80s, India had already witnessed multiple airplane hijacks. In 1984, the country was made to face another such challenge. BellBottom, a RAW Agent, sees through the plan and thus begins India's first overseas covert operation. An operation, lead by a forgotten hero, that went on to create one of the most defining moments for India.

Bell Bottom

2021

Love Aaj Kal poster
6.3

Two lovers break up after they realize that their career goals are pulling them in different directions.

Love Aaj Kal

2009

Good Morning poster
1.0

Good Morning explores the insecurities and obsessions of a married man who is completely dedicated to his wife. His world is shattered one day when he finds his wife with another man. What happens next is cold, diabolical and shocking.

Good Morning

2011

Bajatey Raho poster
5.8

Surviving family members and friends of a man who was conned by the cunning businessman Sabbarwahl, string together a series of their own cons in an attempt to bring him down.

Bajatey Raho

2013

Aadharshila poster
10.0

Ajay is an aspiring filmmaker who dreams of directing his first feature while his wife, Asha, works as a teacher. He balances odd jobs with his cinematic ambitions, navigating the harsh realities of the film industry while always holding onto the hope of finally making his film.

Aadharshila

1982

Yahaan poster
5.4

In the disputed territory of Kashmir, a young Muslim woman meets and falls in love with a Hindu man.

Yahaan

2005

Door Ke Darshan poster
5.5

When the matriarch of a dysfunctional family wakes up after a long induced coma, the members of the household set aside their differences to help her adapt to the changes.

Door Ke Darshan

2020

Aloo Chaat poster
4.2

What do you do when your entire family is against the bride of your choice? Do you replace your family? Or do you replace the bride? Or do you make an aloo-chaat of your life? Aloo Chaat the film, is rich in masala - with plots within sub-plots, with wisecracks dripping endlessly like that tangy chutney, and is a treat that you don't want to miss.It tickles you, shakes you, rattles you, and gags you as it takes you through the narrow lanes and equally narrow minds of orthodox Delhi parents, to a wider world of love and romance, and an unexpected twist in the tale...

Aloo Chaat

2009

Vicky Donor poster
6.8

A man is brought in by an infertility doctor to supply him with his sperm, where he becomes the biggest sperm donor for his clinic.

Vicky Donor

2012

Badnaam Gali poster
6.6

A single pregnant woman living without her husband or any man, alone, in a society of people where everyone questions her character and mysterious lifestyle. Reluctantly, Divyendu Sharma finds himself involved in her life. His aunt, played by Dolly Ahluwalia, is a woman who lives in Badnaam lane (name of the residential complex in Delhi) and keeps track of the society she lives in and keeps her nephew informed about the whereabouts of its residents, particularly the Bengali surrogate woman, Patralekhaa.

Badnaam Gali

2019

Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana poster
6.3

On-the-run from the London mafia, Omi returns to his ancestral village – a place he’d flown from with his grandad’s money and grander ‘London Dreams’. Will Omi be able to hide his failures while chasing love, and the lost recipe of the infamous dish, ‘Chicken Khurana’?

Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana

2012

Lashtam Pashtam poster
4.0

Set in Dubai, the story explores the bond between two friends, an Indian and a Pakistani, who play as the doubles partners in Tennis.

Lashtam Pashtam

2018

Thank You For Coming poster
4.8

Opting for a stable fiancé over genuine romance, a food blogger experiences sexual satisfaction for the first time at her engagement party. However, she must find out who her mysterious lover is.

Thank You For Coming

2023

Axone poster
6.0

This bittersweet comedy follows North-east Indians in Delhi who are attempting to organize a wedding party, but soon find everything going wrong.

Axone

2019

Khajoor Pe Atke poster
5.5

On hearing the news that one of the Sharma family members in Mumbai, Devendar may pass off anytime, his siblings - Jeetendar, Ravindar and Lalita, immediately rush down to be with him and his family for support, along with their families from across the country.

Khajoor Pe Atke

2018

Chhatriwali poster
6.4

Sanya is an unemployed chemistry genius looking for a job. However, she also wants to use her knowledge of chemistry to help young minds move beyond the taboos of sex with the right education.

Chhatriwali

2023

Pramod Gupta J E poster
NR

There is one thing that has eluded Junior Engineer Pramod Gupta all through his life: contentment. For a long while, he thought money could buy it, but even after amassing a fortune through corruption, he couldn't the find peace of mind he sought. So, he decides to leave his job and become a poet, but that doesn't work out either. As he grows more and more desperate, Pramod Gupta tries every trick in the book to find contentment, but to no avail. What he doesn't realise is that the answer to his quest is not as elusive as he assumes it to be.

Pramod Gupta J E

2016