Jul 18, 2003 01:26 PM
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(Updated Jul 18, 2003 02:35 PM)
This is one of my all time favorite movies.
A complete low budget family entertainer and a typical bombay ka movie.
The story revolves around Nancy, a young girl (played wonderfully by Tina Munim who looks slim and stunning in the film) and her family. She happens to be a romantic, sensitive girl who has lost her love recently. Upset with the incident, she tries not to get involved with anyone else. Pat comes Mr Golmal (Amol Palekar who plays the role of Tony) into the same train as she is and starts drawing her cartoons (incidentally he is a cartoonist) to charm her.
Nancy initially hesitant, starts giving in to his friendship which is whole heartedly backed up by her uncle(David).
Now the fun part !!!
Amol palekar wants to take it easy and get to know her well before deciding anything. marriage is last on his mind whereas Tina munim wants some kind of commitment.
Her mother (brilliantly played by Pearl Padamsee)is a typical nagging, worrying mom always very curious to know about the boys who come home to meet Nancy.
Right from the day one, she starts paining Nancy about who the boy is, how much he earns, whether he is temporary or permanent, who all are there in his family etc etc. Whenever Amol palekar visits them, she keeps asking about their future plans and plays a dutiful host by always feeding Amol with all kinds of fruits.
''''''Tony chalo, phal khaalo, Acha seb khalo...seb nahi pasand ? to Kela khaalo''''''
Some of the hilarious moments are when Nancy's younger brother Sabby , a thin bushy haired teenager (Ranjit Chowdhary,who starred in surprise surprise, Bollywood Hollywood and Fire) keeps playing melancholic tunes on his violin when he is least expected to be in the room.
Once when Nancy's friend Hazel comes to visit her, Tony also happens to be there. Hazel tries to act cool and tries to feed him grapes by sitting very close to him, also wearing a very short skirt. Both Nancy and mother are speechless at this behaviour and bushy haired Sabby struts into the room and starts playing a ''you lost the battle'' kind of a tune. Immediately he is yelled at and pushed into a dark room from where the tunes continue to pour in....
Its a hilarious moment in the movie.
Another eye catching scene is when Amol's mother (that famous parsi woman who acts in Bobby movie and tells rishi :''''chaaalo Aunty ne pappi do'''').
drags him to a Mehmood's movie. They end up sitting close to Nancy and her mother without knowing who they are. Both women blabber about the movie continously and finally an exasperated man in the crowd shouts ''If I knew these two women narrate so well, I wouldnt have paid for the ticket, just directly heard the story from them''.
Finally the movie turns out be alls well that ends well.
Nancy and Tony get married with Pearl Padamsee heaving a sigh of relief and bushy haired Sabby playing violin in the background.
Some of the memorable songs in this movie are ::
1. Uthe sabke kadam, tara rum pum pum
2. No bole tum na maine kuch kaha, kaha.
3. suniye, kahiye, kehte sunte, Baaton Baaton mein pyaar ho jaayega.
A very sweet movie over all. A must see for those who like simple movies with Hrishikesh Mukherjee kinda sense of humour.
~~~~I forgot to add this earlier. This review also happens to be my 25th review on Mouthshut ~~~~~:
I am truly happy with my association with M.S.
wishing all its members good luck and wishes.
Lavanya
