April 18, 2022

Bollywood movies reimagined for the development sector

Yeh funds mujhe de de, Thakur!

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1. Mujhse Partnership Karoge! 

A nonprofit leader (Hrithik Roshan) thinks he is wooing a funder (Kareena Kapoor), only to realise he was corresponding with a fellow nonprofit professional (Rani Mukerji) instead. The two nonprofit leaders get married and spend a happy, but presumably penniless, future together.

2. Kabhi Khushi Kabhie FCRA 

A senior government official (Amitabh Bachchan) throws his adopted son (Shah Rukh Khan) out of the house for starting a nonprofit. In retaliation, the family’s younger son (Hrithik Roshan) becomes an undercover activist working to help nonprofit leaders who have had their FCRA licenses revoked by his father.

3. Jab We Scale

Two nonprofit leaders (Kareena Kapoor and Shahid Kapoor), who are struggling to get their programmes off the ground, decide to collaborate. Together they help the other scale significantly, create the impact they wanted all along, and live idealistically ever after.

A scene from the movie Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara with Farhan Akhtar, Abhay Deol, and Hritik Roshan-Bolllywood

4. Dharna Mana Hai 

Activists document their nightmarish experiences of fighting for reforms in the country, which they then share with their friends on horror story nights. 

5. Unrestricted Grant Na Milegi Dobara 

A group of three nonprofit leaders (Farhan Akhtar, Abhay Deol, and Hrithik Roshan) go to Spain in an attempt to win a contest, the prize for which is a year of unrestricted funding. Instead of having to compete based on their work, they are asked to participate in a series of unrelated challenges that ‘test their leadership’ and help them ‘confront their fears’.

6. Salary Ho Naa Ho

A terminally ill nonprofit founder (Shah Rukh Khan) has not built a second line of leadership. He tries to convince his best friend (Saif Ali Khan) to come on board by highlighting the rewards of working in the sector and concealing that his salary will forever be low.

7. Maine Fieldwork Kiya 

A grassroots nonprofit leader (Salman Khan) has one year to take their best practices and successfully apply them in a new geography. He obviously fails and is then cast in the sequel, Maine Fieldwork Kyun Kiya.

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