Gol Maal

Gol Maal
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Directed by	Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Produced by	N.C Sippy
Written by	Sachin Bhowmick
Starring	Amol Palekar Utpal Dutt
Music by	R.D. Burman
Cinematography	Jaywant Pathare
Editing by	Subhash Gupta
Release date(s)	April 20, 1979
Country	India
Language	Hindi/Urdu

Gol Maal (Devnagari: गोल माल, Urdu: گول مال, meaning hodgepodge, confusion) is a 1979 Bollywood comedy movie directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee. The film was produced by Mukherjee and N.C.Sippy with music by Rahul Dev Burman. It was also remade in Tamil in 1981 as Thillu Mullu, starring Rajinikanth, in kannada in 1990 as Aasegobba Meesegobba starring Shivrajkumar and in Malayalam in 1995 as Simhavalan Menon starring Jagadeesh.

Cast

• Amol Palekar - Ramprasad / Lakshmanprasad
• Utpal Dutt - Bhawani Shankar
• Bindiya Goswami - Urmila
• David - Doctor Kedar Mama
• Amitabh Bachchan - Guest Appearance (himself)
• Deven Verma - as himself and Ramprasad's best friend
• Dina Pathak - Mrs. Srivastava and as Ramprasad's fake mother
• Om Prakash - Police Officer (Guest Appearance)
• Anjan Srivastav - Police Officer Sharma
• Keshto Mukherjee - Drunk
• Manju Singh - Ratna Sharma (Ramprasad's sister)
• Shubha Khote - Kalindi aka Buaji
• Yunus Parvez - Bade Babu

Story

Amol Palekar (as Laxman Prasad)

Ramprasad Dashrathprasad Sharma (Amol Palekar) is looking for a better paying job. He and his sister Ratna (Manju Singh) have no relatives or acquaintances except Dr. Kedar (David). Dr.Kedar tells him about Bhavani Shankar's (Utpal Dutt) firm. Shankar is a weird man. He is a man of traditional values, hence he naturally hates youth wearing modern clothes. He is a sports fan, but thinks lowly of youth knowing anything about sports. But his most weird trait is hatred towards men without moustaches. He thinks that men without moustache's are characterless.

Ramprasad has a moustache, so Bhavani's hatred is no problem to him. He takes care of other problems by wearing kurta & feigning ignorance about sports. Bhavani hires him immediately. Ram is a hardworking guy, so Bhavani (& Ram) have no problems. However, Ram once takes leave by pretending that his mother (who died many years ago) has taken ill, and goes to watch a football match. Bhavani Shankar, who also attended the match, sees him there.

The next day Bhavani summons Ramprasad to his office and asks him about the football match. Remembering the plot of a movie a friend of his is shooting, Ram convinces Bhavani Shankar that he had seen his "moustache-less" identical twin Lucky (alias Lakshmanprasad Dashrathprasad Sharma) at the stadium.

Amol Palekar (as Ram Prasad)

Bhavani Shankar buys his argument & feels bad about accusing him and decides to make amends by hiring Lucky to teach his daughter Urmila (Bindiya Goswami) music. Ramprasad reluctantly shaves his moustache to become Lucky and starts to teach music to Urmila. He is helped by his actor friend Deven Verma (playing himself).

Now Urmila aka Urmi is the exact opposite of her father. She takes immediate liking to Lucky, while Ram is barely noticed by her. Bhavani notices this & gives Ram another job to tutor on the pretext of her exams. Meanwhile, Mrs. Srivastav (Dina Pathak), a socialite, is roped to play the part of Ram, "Lakshman" & Ratna's mother. Like Ram, she also ends up playing her own twin in front of Bhavani.

Ram decides to tell Urmila the truth. Urmila tells him to tell the truth to Bhavani as well. Ram goes to Bhavani to tell the truth, but Bhavani sees Ram's moustache giving away. Bhavani exposes Ram, but ends up thinking that Lucky murdered Ram & impersonated him to marry Urmila.

In a hilarious chase that follows, Bhavani ends up totalling a police jeep. The Senior Inspector (Om Prakash) mistakes him for a thug named Pascal D'Costa & is about to lock him up in the jail. Only when his Inspector identifies Bhavani Shankar by his real identity is he freed. By now, a harried Bhavani has developed hatred for twin as well.

On coming home, he finds that Urmila & Lucky are married. He refuses to give them blessings, until Dr.Kedar comes to the scene & explains the whole situation. Now, Bhavani becomes even more furious, but on everybody's insistence, relents. The film ends with a family photo of Mrs.Srivastav, Ratna, Urmila, Ram, Dr.Kedar, Bhavani's sister Kalindi (Shubha Khote) & Bhavani (who is shown without moustache).

Remakes

• the film was remade into Tamil as Thillu Mullu in 1981
• the film was also remade in Kannada as Aasegobba Meesegobba in 1990
• the film is currently being remade in Hindi as Bol Bachchan

Awards and nominations

• Filmfare Best Actor Award - Amol Palekar
• Filmfare Best Comedian Award- Utpal Dutt
• Filmfare Best Lyricist Award-Gulzar for the song "Aanewala Pal"
• Filmfare Nomination for Best Director-Hrishikesh Mukherjee
• Filmfare Nomination for Best Supporting Actor-Utpal Dutt
• Filmfare Nomination for Best Supporting Actress-Dina Pathak
• Filmfare Nomination for Best Actor in a Comic Role-Deven Verma
• Filmfare Nomination for Best Story-Sailesh Dey[1]

External links

• Gol Maal at the Internet Movie Database