Gol Maal

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For 2006 film, see Golmaal (2006 film).

A VCD Cover of the film

Gol Maal 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.

1 Cast
2 Story
3 Filmfare Awards
4 Trivia
5 External links

[edit] Cast

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

[edit] Story

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

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 C.A. and is Looking out for a job. His uncle advises him to seek employment at his friend Bhavani Shankar's firm (Utpal Dutt) who is a very strict person and has a fascination for Indian values and the "moustache". He believes that a moustache represents one's conscience. Mr Shankar is ready to pay a few hundred rupees as salary to a young inexperienced man 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, simulating ignorance of music and sports and demonstrating professionalism.)

He once takes leave for sickness and goes to watch a hockey match and unfortunately gets seen by Bhavani Shankar. The next day Bhavani Shankar summons Ramprasad to his room and asks him about the hockey match. Remembering the plot of a movie a friend of his is shooting, he 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) to sing and Ramprasad to teach her economics.

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 he also has to arrange for a mother, 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.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Filmfare Awards

Best Actor - Amol Palekar
Best Comedian - Utpal Dutt

[edit] 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 and Rekha appeared as themselves in cameo appearances for this move.
Rahul Dev Burman sung the title track accompanied by his assistant Sapan Chakraborty