Gulabo Sitabo
After a long time I came across a really good film and was happy about it. Gulaabo Sitabo is a English Hindi film starring Amitabh Bachchan and Ayushmann Khurana.
The storyline is good the dialogue is crisp and witty and the acting is excellent.
Mirza is a 78 year old man who owns a large mansion Fatima Mahal. A haveli where 12 families reside paying a ridiculous rent of Rs.50 per month.
In fact the building is very old and in a very dilapidated and Mirza is a stingy old man who keeps picking fight with his tenants and steals from them. Bankey one of the tenants, bullies Mirza and makes excuses each time and escapes paying rent. He too is illiterate like Mirza and works in a flour mill to support a family of three sisters and mother.
Mirza is awaiting the death of his begum who is 17 years elder than him. Because the haveli is in her name - it is her ancestral property. She is very old and senile and very sick but she does not die. (She asks Mirza - did I marry you you or have I eloped with you. When he answers that she is very much married to him, she asks again "to phir mai kiske saath bhaagi thi?" - then whom had I eloped with)
Then to external players enter and Shukla from archaeology department and Christopher Clark a lawyer. And the story takes a curious turn. Like wolves there are people who want to gobble up the haveli.
But the movie has a very interesting and unexpected ending which makes you feel relieved.
Watching the film, you feel that you have really entered their Luknowi world where each person is completely miserable in his own way.
The storyline is good the dialogue is crisp and witty and the acting is excellent.
Mirza is a 78 year old man who owns a large mansion Fatima Mahal. A haveli where 12 families reside paying a ridiculous rent of Rs.50 per month.
In fact the building is very old and in a very dilapidated and Mirza is a stingy old man who keeps picking fight with his tenants and steals from them. Bankey one of the tenants, bullies Mirza and makes excuses each time and escapes paying rent. He too is illiterate like Mirza and works in a flour mill to support a family of three sisters and mother.
Mirza is awaiting the death of his begum who is 17 years elder than him. Because the haveli is in her name - it is her ancestral property. She is very old and senile and very sick but she does not die. (She asks Mirza - did I marry you you or have I eloped with you. When he answers that she is very much married to him, she asks again "to phir mai kiske saath bhaagi thi?" - then whom had I eloped with)
Then to external players enter and Shukla from archaeology department and Christopher Clark a lawyer. And the story takes a curious turn. Like wolves there are people who want to gobble up the haveli.
But the movie has a very interesting and unexpected ending which makes you feel relieved.
Watching the film, you feel that you have really entered their Luknowi world where each person is completely miserable in his own way.
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