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Gol Maal (1979)

Name: Gol Maal (1979)
Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Released: 1979
Duration: 2 h 23 min 49 s

by Hrishikesh Mukherjee 1979G General

1970s Hrishikesh Mukherjee mode:farce production:middle-cinema

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Directed by: Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Produced by: Hrishikesh Mukherjee, N. C. Sippy, Romu N. Sippy
Written by: Rahi Masoom Raza, Sachin Bhowmick, Sailesh Dey
Music by: Rahul Dev Burman
Lyrics by: Gulzar
Singers: Amit Kumar, Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, Rahul Dev Burman, Sapan Chakraborty
Cinematography: Jaywant Pathare
Edited by: Subhash Gupta
Cast: Amol Palekar, Bindiya Goswami, Utpal Dutt, Dina Pathak, Deven Verma

Description

A young man gets a job by pretending to be the earnest moustached sort his employer insists on, then has to produce a hockey-playing twin brother to explain himself, then a mother. Hrishikesh Mukherjee's best comedy, and Utpal Dutt as the employer won the Filmfare award for it.

The songs

Aanewala Pal Jane Wala Hai — Kishore Kumar · music Rahul Dev Burman · words Gulzar
Sapne Me Dekha Sapna — Kishore Kumar, Amit Kumar · music Rahul Dev Burman · words Gulzar
Gol Maal Hai Bhai Sab Gol Maal Hai — Rahul Dev Burman, Sapan Chakravarty · music Rahul Dev Burman · words Gulzar
Ek Baat Kahoon — Lata Mangeshkar · music Rahul Dev Burman · words Gulzar

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Read about it: Wikipedia
Wikipedia's summary box credits Gol Maal to two writers and omits Sailesh Dey, who wrote the story it is built on and was nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Story for it. The same page lists that nomination further down. The film archive credits three writers, with the story Dey's alone.
How we know
Wikipedia's infobox gives writer = Rahi Masoom Raza (dialogues), screenplay = Sachin Bhowmick. Its awards section lists 'Best Story - Sailesh Dey' among the nominations. indiancine.ma gives story = ['Sailesh Dey'] and writer = ['Sailesh Dey', 'Sachin Bhowmick', 'Rahi Masoom Reza']. The archive also records an editor, Subhash Gupta, and two producers, Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Romu N. Sippy, that the infobox does not name.

The article's opening paragraph and its own table of remakes do not agree. The paragraph names a Malayalam remake, Simhavalan Menon, which the table leaves out; the table lists a second Tamil remake from 2013 which the paragraph leaves out.
How we know
Lead: remade in Tamil as Thillu Mullu (1981), in Kannada as Aasegobba Meesegobba (1990), in Malayalam as Simhavalan Menon (1995), in Sinhala as Rasa Rahasak. Remakes table: 1981 Thillu Mullu, 1988 Rasa Rahasak, 1990 Aasegobba Meesegobba, 2013 Thillu Mullu - no Malayalam row at all.
In the film archive: indiancine.ma

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Taken up again in

Aane Wala Pal — not in this catalogue yet
A song from this film.
Golmaal Hai Bhai Sab Golmaal Hai — not in this catalogue yet
A song from this film.
Khubsoorat — not in this catalogue yet
The following year's comedy, about the same kind of household tyrant.
Naram Garam — not in this catalogue yet
The same director and star, two years later.
Sapna Mera Toot Gaya — not in this catalogue yet
A song from this film.
Thillu Mullu (1981) — not in this catalogue yet
K. Balachander's Tamil remake, the first of five across four languages, with a second Tamil version in 2013.

The same people, elsewhere

Aakhree Raasta (1986)
Rahi Masoom Raza wrote both.
Same director and lyricist: Aashirwad (1968)
Hrishikesh Mukherjee directed and produced both; Gulzar wrote the lyrics of them - 11 years apart.
Same director and script writer: Achha Bura (1983)
Hrishikesh Mukherjee directed both; Sachin Bhowmick wrote them.
Same director and script writer: Alaap (1977)
Hrishikesh Mukherjee directed and produced both; Rahi Masoom Raza wrote them; Jaywant Pathare photographed them.
Same director and lyricist: Anand (1971)
Hrishikesh Mukherjee directing and N. C. Sippy producing again. Sippy paid for very nearly the whole of Mukherjee's career.
Same music director and lyricist: Angoor (1982)
Utpal Dutt and Deven Verma are in both, and Gulzar - who won the Filmfare for Gol Maal's lyrics - directed Angoor, which is also a comedy built on two men being taken for each other.
Same director and photographer: Bawarchi (1972)
Hrishikesh Mukherjee directed and produced both; Jaywant Pathare photographed them.
Same director and script writer: Bemisal (1982)
Hrishikesh Mukherjee directed both; R. D. Burman wrote the music of them; Sachin Bhowmick wrote them.
Same director and script writer: Chhaya (1961)
Hrishikesh Mukherjee directed both; Sachin Bhowmick wrote them; Jaywant Pathare photographed them - 18 years apart.
Same director and photographer: Chupke Chupke (1975)
Hrishikesh Mukherjee directed and produced both; Jaywant Pathare photographed them; Subhash Gupta cut them.
Same music director and lyricist: Ghar (1978)
Rahul Dev Burman wrote the music of both; Gulzar wrote the lyrics of them.
Same lyricist and singer: Ghulami (1985)
Gulzar wrote the lyrics of both.
Same director and lyricist: Guddi (1971)
Hrishikesh Mukherjee directed and produced both; Gulzar wrote the lyrics of them; Jaywant Pathare photographed them.
Same director and script writer: Jurmana (1979)
Hrishikesh Mukherjee directed both; R. D. Burman wrote the music of them; Rahi Masoom Raza wrote them.
Same script writer and singer: Karz (1980)
The same writing pair the year after: Sachin Bhowmick on screenplay and Rahi Masoom Raza on dialogue.
Same director and music director: Khubsoorat (1980)
Hrishikesh Mukherjee directing and N. C. Sippy producing, a year apart - and Rekha, whom Mukherjee cast as Gol Maal's heroine and then replaced because the film belonged to its hero. She appears in Gol Maal as herself; the next year he gave her Khubsoorat and she won the Filmfare for Best Actress.
Same script writer and singer: Love in Tokyo (1966)
Sachin Bhowmick wrote the screenplay of both, thirteen years apart; he was writing steadily from the early sixties to the late nineties.
Same director and script writer: Mili (1975)
Hrishikesh Mukherjee directed and produced both; Rahi Masoom Raza wrote the dialogue of them; Jaywant Pathare photographed them.
Same director and script writer: Naram Garam (1981)
Hrishikesh Mukherjee directed both; Rahul Dev Burman wrote the music of them.
Same script writer: Trinetra (1991)
Rahi Masoom Raza wrote both - 12 years apart.

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