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Sooper Se Ooper

2013 film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ7562720
Source-derived summary

Sooper Se Ooper (transl. Above super) is a 2013 Hindi film written & directed by Shekhar Ghosh, cinematography by Mohana Krishna under the banner of Reliance Entertainment and Jigsaw Pictures Pvt. Ltd. The trailer of this movie was released on 27 September and the movie on 25 October 2013.

Cast

Vir Das as Ranvir

Kirti Kulhari as Gulabo

Gulshan Grover as Madho Singh Rathod

Deepak Dobriyal as Kukreja

Yashpal Sharma as Bhairu

Mohan Kapoor as Lal

Datta Sonawane

Vinod Nahardih as Tyagi Don

Tinnu Anand as Salim Bhai

Plot

Ranvir's fortune is in dumps, and selling his ancestral land in Mumbai is the only way to survive. Kukreja, who has put everything at stake, has to get this land to stay away from the wrath of a 'bhai' and also achieve his dream of becoming a builder. For both Ranvir and Kukreja, this plot of land means everything, and they need to get it by any means necessary. But the key to the land is Ranvir's mama, Madho Singh Rathore, in Mandawa, Jhunjhunu. Since the will wasn't made in Ranvir's name, Mama has to give the NOC. Ranvir has to get his mama to Mumbai within a month, and Kukreja has to stop him from reaching Mumbai. We see the transformation of our protagonist Ranvir from a materialistic city youth to someone who is all for family and values, and antagonist Kukreja from a 'dalla' to a gangster through this journey, which has some real and funny characters as well. In the 1st half, the city goes to a village, and in the 2nd, the village comes to the city.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Sooper Se Ooper” is 2013 film. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Sooper, Ooper and film, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2013-01-01. For this dossier, Sooper, Ooper and film is the immediate research focus.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7562720. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from Sooper Se Ooper” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.