Gol Maal

<p>Ramprasad Dashrathprasad Sharma, a chartered accountant and singer, lives with his sister Ratna and searches for a job after completing his education. His uncle Kedar informs him of an opening at his acquaintance Bhavani Shankar’s firm called Urmila Traders. Shankar is a man of traditional values who hates modern attire and sports. He also carries an irrational contempt for men without mustaches. Following Kedar’s advice, Sharma appears for the interview in a kurta and feigns ignorance about sports, impressing Shankar who hires him immediately. A few days later, he takes leave to watch a hockey match by lying that his mother, who is long dead, has fallen ill. Shankar, who secretly enjoys sports, attends the same match and spots Sharma. When confronted the next day, Sharma lies again that it was his clean-shaven twin brother, Lakshmanprasad aka Lucky, who was at the match. Bhavani Shankar buys the lie and summons Lucky to teach music to his daughter Urmila. Taking help from his friend Deven, Sharma shaves his mustache and starts living a double life as Lucky- a modern, easy-going man completely opposite to Ramprasad. Urmila immediately takes a liking to him. Sometime later, Bhavani Shankar expresses his wish to meet Sharma’s mother. Sharma recruits a socialite, Kamala Srivastava to pretend to be his mother. Kamala faces a similar situation when Shankar recognises her real self at a party, and she too lies that she has a twin sister, confusing the man. Bhavani Shankar notices Urmila’s fondness for Lucky, and decides to get her married to Ramprasad instead, whom he considers a better match, upsetting Urmila. Sharma eventually reveals the truth to her, and decides to drop his persona of Lucky. They tell Shankar that Lucky ran away, but Shankar notices Sharma’s fake mustache and assumes that Lucky killed and impersonated Ramprasad in order to marry Urmila. He then chases the fleeing Sharma and Urmila in his car but gets arrested. When released, he finds them both married and refuses to give his blessings to the union until Kedar and Deven explain the situation. Shankar eventually concedes, and ends up shaving his own mustache. The music of the film was composed by and lyrics were written by . Hrishikesh Mukherjee had first selected to enact the heroine’s part, but felt that he would be wasting a talented actress in a film where the hero was the mainstay. He replaced her with Bindiya Goswami. The whole film was shot in 40 working days. ‘s 2002 film had many scenes plagiarised from . The 2012 film , directed by is loosely based on Gol Maal. It was also later remade in as . The Malayalam movie This article about a Hindi film of the 1970s is a . You can help Wikipedia by .</p>