• Gol Maal

    Release Date: April 20, 1979
    Language: Hindi

    Genre: Music, Musical, Comedy, Family

    Starring: Amol Palekar, Utpal Dutt, Bindiya Goswami, Deven Verma

Plot

It is the story of a fun loving and happy-go-lucky guy Ramprasad Dashrathprasad Sharma, 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 firm. Shankar 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 and the cultural arts and considers sporting a mustache as a sign of pride. He believes that a mustache represents one's conscience. Mr. Shankar is willing to pay a few...

It is the story of a fun loving and happy-go-lucky guy Ramprasad Dashrathprasad Sharma, 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 firm. Shankar 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 and the cultural arts and considers sporting a mustache as a sign of pride. He believes that a mustache 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 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 music. Ramprasad reluctantly shaves his mustache to become Lucky and starts to mentor Urmila. He is helped by his actor friend in securing a fake mustache 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 a socialite with an acting hobby, deal with Urmila's love to Lucky and hatred towards Ramprasad, and come out unscathed in the end.

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  • Amit Rathod - February 01, 2011

    one of the best amol palekar performance given here awosome screenplay given by the cast

    one of the best amol palekar performance given here awosome screenplay given by the cast

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