Dunki (2023) opens in London, the place three aged buddies – Manu (Taapsee Pannu), Buggu (Vikram Kochhar), and Balli (Anil Grover) – make plans to return to their hometown Laltu in India after 25 years overseas. When bother crops up within the form of their incapability to accumulate visas, Manu hits upon an concept to get again house the identical method they left it, and to execute her concept she wants one Hardy (Khan), a lover and guardian angel she hasn’t seen since he was deported from the UK.
Hardy, too, has spent the final quarter of a century ready for information of Manu, and when he will get it, he abandons an opportunity at finishing a hat-trick of victories within the native aged athletics competitors and dives headfirst into making preparations for her and the opposite two to make their method again to India.
Dunki then flashes again 25 years to Laltu, the place Manu, Buggu, and Balli are all desperately making an attempt all kinds of schemes to make it to the UK, together with paying an agent who finally ends up duping them. Enter Hardy, or Hardayal Singh Dhillon, a soldier not too long ago discharged from hospital, the place he was recovering from wounds sustained throughout fight. It seems that Manu’s brother saved Hardy’s life while shedding his personal, and that’s why Hardy is in Laltu. He swiftly turns into part of the group, which quickly collects Sukhi (Vicky Kaushal), who needs to assist the love of his life escape her abusive husband in London. The group joins an English-language class as preparation for the IELTS, however solely Balli will get via the ultimate examination, leaving the opposite 4 in a repair.
From London, Balli calls Sukhi to interrupt to him the information of his lover having dedicated suicide. In flip, Sukhi douses himself in kerosene and commits self-immolation, devastating Manu, Buggu, and Hardy. At the funeral, the latter vows to get Manu and Buggu into the UK by the final resort out there: the Dunki route.
