Dream Girl is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film directed by Raaj Shaandilyaa in his directorial debut and produced by Ekta Kapoor.

[7][8] It stars Ayushmann Khurrana as a cross-gender actor whose female voice impersonation begets attention from others, talking about depression and loneliness.

[9][10][11] Released on 13 September 2019, Dream Girl was a major critical and commercial success, entering the 100 Crore Club in India.

Karam dons the persona of “Pooja” and garners admiration from many clients including an adolescent Toto, P. C. Rajpal, and misandrist Roma, while keeping his job a secret from everyone except his best friend Smiley.

To complicate matters further, Toto, Rajpal, Mahinder, and Jagjit propose marriage to Pooja while Roma insists on meeting in person.

[17][18] Dream Girl received mixed response from critics, who criticised the "empty" and "jumbled-up" writing as well as the "tasteless" and "stale" humour,[19] but praised the performances of the supporting cast.

[20] Charu Thakur of India Today gave the film three stars out of five, noted that Dream Girl was an out-and-out comedy with witty one-liners and jokes, which made it a long comic skit sans a storyline.

"[22] Priyanka Sinha Jha of News18, praising Khurrana and ensemble of Manjot Singh, Vijay Raaz, Annu Kapoor, Abhishek Banerjee, Nushrat Bharucha, Rajesh Sharma, Nidhi Bisht and Raj Bhansali for their performances, rates the film with three and half stars out of five.

Praising writer-director Raaj Shaandilyaa for 'keeping the screenplay pithy, the dialogues glib and story on the tracks, she opined, "Dream Girl will surely entertain the film going audiences while sparking off an important conversation on gender constructs in Indian cinema.