Taaza Khabar follows the story of a public toilet cleaner, Vasya, whose life changes one day when he receives the boon of foreseeing the future.
Taaza Khabar is a Hindi-language comedy-drama series starring popular YouTuber, Bhuvan Bam, along with Shriya Pilgoankar, Nitya Mathur, Shilpa Shukla, J D Chakravarthy, Deven Bhojan, Parthamesh Parab, Mithilest Chaturvedi, and Atisha Naik. The series is produced by Bhuvan Bam and Rohit Raj, with the screenplay written by Hussein Dalal, Abbas Dalal, and Bhuvan Bam.
Taaza Khabar Story Summary
Vasant, better known as Vasya by his friends and family, is an ambitious young man in his 20s who aspires to be rich one day. But, as of now, he is stuck looking after a public toilet in the downtrodden part of Mumbai. Vasya spends his days dreaming about being rich while cleaning and taking care of the public toilet.
One day, Vasya’s friend Peter runs to his workplace and tells him to hurry back home as his mother is being beaten up by her employer, Bilimoria, for stealing money worth two thousand rupees. Upon reaching the scene, he sees a huge crowd of people gathered and his mother being beaten up by the old man. He runs back to his workplace after some arguments to retrieve the two thousand that his mother had stolen from Bilimoria.
Upon handing the old man the money, he takes his mom back to their house where he promises her that he would buy Bilimoira’s house as an act of revenge someday for publicly humiliating her. When asked about why she stole the money, Vasya’s mother replies that it was to buy Vasya a birthday gift for it was his birthday the next day.
That evening Vasya visits his love interest, Madhu, who works at a brothel. Madhu always wanted to open her boutique for which she had been saving up money that she earned from the men coming to her at the brothel. After he meets with Madhu, Vasya comes across the district’s party member, Shetty, while leaving Madhu’s place. Shetty also has a crush on Madhu and gets jealous when he sees Vasya leaving Madhu’s room. The brothel owner, Reshma, and Shetty work together in the money laundering business, and Reshma hands the money to Vasya for safekeeping till the next day.
The next day Vasya heads to his work as normal. When he reaches the public toilet he sees a crowd gathered outside a stall yelling for a lady to come out. When he goes to check the situation, he sees an elderly beggared lady laying on the floor, seemingly passed out. He reluctantly helps the lady and washes her off and hands her some money. Being grateful to Vasya, she hands him one of her bangles and tells him that he will be getting things before time. Thinking nothing of it, Vasya goes on with his day.
That night, when Vasya was on his way back home, two men approach him in a dark alleyway and beat him up, taking Shetty’s money that Reshma had given to Vasya for safekeeping with them. Vasya stumbles his way back home, having sustained wounds from the beating and with a broken phone. Waking up the next morning, he sees that there is a new news app downloaded on his phone. What he didn’t know was that this would change the course of his life. The app could predict what was about to happen before it happened.
That morning, Vasya and his friend go to the new bridge that was being inaugurated by none other than Shetty. Vasya hears his phone ding while he stood amongst the crowd cheering for the inauguration, and he sees that the news was about the bridge collapsing. Thinking he must’ve confused the bridge for some other bridge, Vasya thinks nothing of it, until the bridge collapses and injures several people.
Having made sense of the sudden development, Vasya sees it as a boon and goes to his best friend to show him the news app. But his friend Peter says that he is unable to see anything and it is only a blank white screen. Vasya understood that only he can see the future and decided to use his newly found powers to get rich.
To test his newfound boon, Vasya sees that there is a vase in a nearby antique store that is worth more than 9 lakhs but is sold for only 50 grand. Vasya and Peter decide that they’d buy the vase and sell it for 9 lakhs pocketing the profit. However, when the duo reach the antique store and ask for the price of the vase, the shop owner tells them that the vase is worth 2 lakhs. Questioning the news he’d read, Vasya tells his friend to leave the vase and walk out. Peter accidentally drops the vase which prompts the two to run away. The vase breaks and the price drops to the initial 50 grand that was mentioned in the news and is bought by a tourist, unbeknownst to Vasya and Peter.
The same day, Vasya sees that a man by the name of Manish Bhosle answers a question that will earn him 1 Crore in a game show. Peter tells Vasya that the man is known to Peter and that they can give him the answer in exchange for money. Vasya gives Manish the first letter of the answer and Manish wins the prize. However, Manish’s wife denies the deal and doesn’t give Vasya the agreed-upon money.
Even though Vasya doesn’t get the money, he becomes sure of the powers and decides to gather his friends to start a business to earn more money through his newfound boon. He gathers Mehboob bhai (his employer), Madhu (his love interest), Peter (his best friend), and Shazia (Mehboob Bhai’s daughter). The five of them begin their journey to becoming rich using Vasya’s powers.
The next day, Shetty’s men come to get the money that Aapa had given to Vasya, but since he did not have the money he tries stalling them and the group breaks into a fight. Vasya is badly beaten up and decides that he needs to find a quicker way to get the money back to Shetty. Vasya reads in his news app that the rate of cryptocurrency is going to shoot up overnight. Shazia overhears the conversation and proposes that they can invest in cryptocurrency and get rich overnight. With the help of her boyfriend, Shazia invests in crypto, and the next day their money multiplies tenfolds.
The money is split five ways and Vasya takes some of his shares to the brothel where Madhu worked. He hands the money to Aapa and buys Madhu’s freedom from being a prostitute. Shetty comes to know of this and is furious with Vasya for taking away Madhu before he could.
The team is now pumped for their future as they now see the potential they could unleash from knowing the future before it happens. Vasya decides that they should start betting on cricket matches. They begin by betting small but their income doubles very fast. This allows them to bet with bigger numbers.
Vasya and Madhu decide that they would need a house of their own if they want to continue doing the betting from a safe place. The two go to Bilimoria’s house as Vasya wanted to exact revenge on him for humiliating his mother. But Billimoria shoos them away, angering Vasya more in the process.
Vasya, in a fit of rage, wants to become richer. This prompts him to seek out the advice of Aapa who takes him to meet a big shot match better, Kismat. Kismat works with huge sums of money, betting them for rich people. Vasya and his team join the big-shot betting game and continue to grow their finances.
Taaza Khabar Ending Explained
The rapid growth in the status of Vasya and his team prompts the police to question him about how he’s managed to become rich overnight. Vasya stalls the question and walks out with the promise to let the policeman know about his moves so that they too can earn from his skills. Vasya goes back to the hotel room where all of the rest of his teammates are waiting and assumes that it is one of them who ratted him out to the police. He becomes hostile towards the members and treats them with distrust.
To be on the good side of the police, Vasya lets the police win a couple of matches but soon realizes that his affair with the police will be harmful to him in the future. Meanwhile, Madhu asks Vasya’s help to grow her boutique line for which Vasya hires a struggling actress, Suhani, to advertise for Madhu’s clothing line. Madhu notices that Vasya has changed drastically after his sudden rise to success; he has become more arrogant and entitled and no longer looks at her with the same love he did before he had the money.
What Causes Vasya To Come Back To His Senses?
Days go by, and Vasya continues to bet for the police but he decides that it is high time. He sits with his team and begins betting insane amounts of money which make the other members question his motives. Peter tells Vasya to rethink his decisions but Vasya shuts him off saying that Peter should listen to Vasya as he is in charge.
The match is lost and Vasya gets a call from the policeman he is betting for. The policeman threatens Vasya that he will arrest him because it’s his fault that the policeman lost his money. Vasya, having planned this before, tells him that he had recorded the call where the policeman openly confesses to betting and if Vasya goes down, the policeman goes down with him.
Consumed by greed, Vasya starts adopting threat as his mode to take what he wants. First, he blackmails Bilimoria to sell his house to him by threatening to kill his beloved dog. Then he bankrupts Kismat, the man who helped him climb up the social ladder to eliminate competition.
Noticing the change in Vasya’s personality, his friends and teammates decide that it is better if they move away from him. The team breaks and Vasya becomes the only man standing. He realizes how far he’s come and how much he’s changed under the influence of money and power that he has collected over the years. Vasya goes back to his old home where he realizes that the boon that had helped him reach the status he is in now is also the curse that has bought him down. As he reminisces his past he gets a notification on his phone that reads that Vasant Gawde aka Vasya was found dead.
Taaza Khabar is now streaming on Disney+ Hotstar.
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