Gol Maal (1979)

Original title

गोल माल

Directed by

Hrishikesh Mukherjee

Genre

comedy film

Country

India

Runtime

2h 24m

Rated

U

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 88 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man creates a fake twin brother to keep his job after his boss discovers he lied about being unmarried. The situation gets more complicated as he tries to maintain both identities.

lightheartedplayfulupbeatfunnywhimsicalfast-pacedcheerfulclever

What happens

Gol Maal (transl. Twisty-Turvy) is a 1979 Indian Hindi-language comedy film directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee and written by Rahi Masoom Raza and Sachin Bhowmick. It is a remake of 1961 Bengali film Kanamachhi, which itself is based on Sailesh Dey's eponymous play. The film was produced by N. C. Sippy, with music by R. D. Burman. The film won several awards and was praised by critics. The film was remade in Tamil as Thillu Mullu (1981), in Kannada as Aasegobba Meesegobba (1990), in Malayalam as Simhavalan Menon (1995), and in Sinhala as Rasa Rahasak. The film was an inspiration for the Hindi movie Bol Bachchan (2012) which was remade in Telugu as Masala (2013). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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