Gol Maal

Infobox Film
name = Gol Maal


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caption = A VCD Cover of the film
director = Hrishikesh Mukherjee
producer = N.C Sippy
writer = Sachin Bhowmick
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starring = Amol Palekar
Utpal Dutt
music = R.D. Burman
cinematography = Jaywant Pathare
editing = Subhash Gupta
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released = 1979
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country = India
language = Hindi
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imdb_id = 0079221

"Gol Maal" (Devnagari: गोल माल, meaning "hotch-potch", "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.

Cast

*Amol Palekar - Ramprasad / Lakshmanprasad
*Utpal Dutt - Bhawani Shankar
*Bindiya Goswami - Urmila
*David - Doctor Kedar Mama
*Deven Verma - Self
*Dina Pathak - Mrs. Srivastava
*Om Prakash - Police Officer (Guest Appearance)
*Amitabh Bachchan - Self (Guest Appearance)
*Deepak Parashar - Ramprasad's friend
*Aruna Irani - Self (Guest Appearance)

tory

Gol Maal could be translated as "Risky/Crooked Business" or "Hanky Panky". It is the story of a fun loving and happy-go-lucky guy Ramprasad Dashrathprasad Sharma (Amol Palekar), who is a chartered accountant and is out looking for a job. His uncle advises him to seek employment at his friend Bhavani Shankar's (Utpal Dutt) firm who is a very strict person, abhors recommendation for jobs, has a fascination for Indian values, displays a vehement stance against sports-mania amongst the youth (but is a sports fan himself) and the cultural arts, and considers sporting a moustache as a sign of pride. He believes that a moustache represents one's conscience. Mr Shankar is willing to pay a few hundred rupees extra, as salary to any employee, as long as he fits his values.On his uncle's advice Ramprasad gets a job by exaggerating his Indian values by wearing an excessively short kurta pajama instead of his usual flashy shirts, using his full name without abbreviations, feigning ignorance of music and sports and demonstrating professionalism.

He once takes leave by pretending that his mother (who died many years ago) has taken ill, and goes to watch a hockey match. Unfortunately, Bhavani Shankar, who also attended the match, sees him there. The next day Bhavani summons Ramprasad to his office and asks him about the hockey 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.

Bhavani Shankar buys his argument. Ramprasad offers to resign since he has lost the confidence of his boss. Bhavani Shankar 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 mustache to become Lucky and starts to mentor Urmila. He is helped by his actor friend Deven Verma (playing himself) in securing a fake moustache and spirit gum. And thus begins Gol Maal - the comedy of errors. In all the confusion Ram finds that he also has to arrange for a mother, a role filled by Mrs Srivastav (Dina Pathak) a socialite with an acting hobby, deal with Urmila's love to Lucky and hatred towards Ramprasad, and come out unscathed in the end.

Awards & 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 [http://deep750.googlepages.com/FilmfareAwards.pdf]

Trivia

*Gol Maal was the beginning of the Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Amol Palekar team that went on to provide laughter in movies like Naram Garam (1981), Rang Birangi (1983) and Jhoothi (1986).
*Amitabh Bachchan, Rekha, Hema Malini and Zeenat Aman appeared as themselves in cameo appearances for this move.
*Rahul Dev Burman sung the title track accompanied by his assistant Sapan Chakraborty
* The Movie was remade in Tamil as Thillu Mullu, with Superstar Rajnikanth reprising Amol Palekar's Role

External links

*imdb title|id=0079221