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Rangeela(1980): Playing the middleclass Mumbai girl Mili(the protagonist’s name was a sly tribute by director Ram Gopal Varma to Hrishikesh Mukherjee) Urmila rocked the boxoffice and shook up every definition of how the conventional heroine conducted herself on screen.Bindaas is the word that comes to mind when describing Urmila in Rangeela. There was a child within him waiting to have fun as soon as the churlish disciplinarian stopped looking. Amol Palekar played that child.Ģ. As a child we often invent an imaginary ‘other’ for ourselves who does all the things that we are forbidden from doing so. Hrishida played on that childhood fantasy. To what do we attribute the enduring appeal of this comedy of mistaken identity?It’s partly to do with the idea of wish-fulfilment through a doppelganger. They both did 5 films each with the director. Enter the disciplinarian Bhawani Shankar(Utpal Dutt) who has a job, but also an autocratic attitude to anything that’s frivolous or fun-filled.To Bhawani Shankar any young man who has shaved off his moustache is not serious about life.In a fit of desperation Ram pastes a mouche on his upperlip, puts on a Kurta borrowed from Asrani’s wardrobe(that’s a long story) and poses as the sedate god-fearing regimented office junkie. And it’s hard to imagine the film without Utpal bossing over the timid Amol in a way that would in today’s work space by defined as harassment.Both Utpal and Amol shared a very special rapport with Hrishida. He is Ramprasad a closet- musician struggling to find a 9-5 job in the tumultuous post-Emergency Mumbai of the 1970s.
Golmaal(1979): Hrishida’s Golmaal is a study of an imagined double identity. Amol Palekar handles the complexities of the comedy of errors with an élan eschewing over-statement.
Here are 3 films that cannot fail to make you happy.And there are many more to comeġ. Feeling the heat and tension of the crisis? Fiqar not! Nothing like a good happy positive film to launch you into the orbit of optimism.