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Rabba Ve sahelis🤗 Hope everyone is doing great, and the stateside friends got a good, long break this weekend 😊
We had chanced upon Khosla ka Ghosla on Netflix one fine day, and not too long into the film, realized this one was a gem. As Doc said, truly in the finest tradition of Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Basu Bhattacharya👍🏼Though it has all the outward appearance of a morality tale, the movie at its heart, is the story of a father and a son. The universal conflict between young and old, yesterday and tomorrow, staying rooted to traditions, or breaking free and moving ahead. Pravin Dabbas's character wanting to change his name from Chiraunji Lal to something less mortifying is just the perfect encapsulation of this conflict.😆 And its dnouement is when his father confesses to his friend Mr. Sahni that he is so forecefully against tricking Khurana because he is afraid that by doing so, his son might be jeopardizing his chances of going to America! 😊Jaideep Sahni's dialogues,script and story is masterful and captures the setting of a middle class Delhi family beautifully. The opening sequence is nothing less than genius in that it introduces us to the characters through the eyes of Mr. Khosla ...whatever happens later is thus a discovery, and we get the feeling of character development...or perhaps, character revelation.To top it all, direction and the natural acting make this movie worth a second dekko...and a third!😃Loved Anupam Kher, Naveen Nischol (old favourite on account of his striking resemblance to my father😃), Boman Irani and Ranvir Sheory stand out among the stellar cast.Thoroughly enjoyed watching them again...thanks much to Payalia for the recommendation!!🤗
Visi, missed ya 🤗 . Hope Mallika-e-Florida-stan is thriving. I thought the print on Netflix was middling, usually we get HD quality prints. Was it just me?
Yes, that conflict over Cherry's name was so funny and rang so true. I laughed hard at the conversation between Asif and Cherry on his name. Later the conversation between father Khosla and Singh saab was also so very lovely. Jaideep Sahni's dialog was brilliant.
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