Originally posted by: aekiel
This used to be common in Bollywood stories of the 70's, 80's and even 90's- the hero almost always did mazdoori (lifting bricks, bags, manual labour stuff) to earn money.
Thankfully they moved out of the trope- essentially a transition to a more urban centric story with service jobs.
It's kinda unrealistic for everyone to have forgotten Dhruv though- the folks he studied with at school? The teachers? The peon at the hospital? Plus the records at various places (they're digitalised too) It's like a even bigger version of the mass obliviate from the HP World.
Which is why I prefer the landing in an alternate dimension trope though- it would be more logical.