Gol Maal (1979 film)

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 - Self
• Dina Pathak - Mrs. Srivastava
• 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

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...
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