Golmaal (2006 film)
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Theatrical release poster
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| Directed by | Rohit Shetty |
| Produced by | Dhillin Mehta |
| Written by | Neeraj Vora |
| Starring |
Ajay Devgan Arshad Warsi Sharman Joshi Tusshar Kapoor Paresh Rawal Rimi Sen |
| Music by |
Songs: Vishal-Shekhar Background Score: Sanjoy Chowdhury |
| Cinematography | Aseem Bajaj |
| Edited by | Steven H. Bernard |
| Distributed by |
Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Ltd K. Sera Sera |
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Running time
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148 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | ₹110 million (US$1.6 million) |
| Box office | ₹699 million (US$10 million) |
Golmaal is a 2006 Bollywood comedy drama film directed by Rohit Shetty and written by Neeraj Vora. The film stars Ajay Devgn, Arshad Warsi, Sharman Joshi, Tusshar Kapoor and Rimi Sen in lead roles. The opening credits of the movie revealed that the story was based on the Gujarati play Aflatoon by Mihir Bhuta and Neeraj Vora adapted from Harsh Shivsharan's original Marathi play Ghar-Ghar which was earlier used in the 2001 Malayalam comedy Kakkakuyil. The film released on 14 July 2006, and received generally positive reviews from the critics, and turned out to be a surprise hit at the box office. On 29 October 2008, the film spawned a sequel, Golmaal Returns which was even more successful than the original. Opening comedy sequences of this movie was used in the Kannada movie Mast Maja Maadi.
The storyline was inspired from the 2001 Malayalam film Kakkakuyil. The story revolves around the lives of Gopal (Ajay Devgn), Lucky (Tusshar Kapoor), Madhav (Arshad Warsi) and Laxman (Sharman Joshi) (hence the name GoLMaL).
Laxman is an intelligent student who is diverted from doing well in college by his mischievous band of friends Gopal, Madhav, and Lucky. Lucky is a mute in the movie. The three friends use Laxman's hostel room for their mischievous activities. Laxman is peer pressured into running a series of scams to earn himself and his friends some money and is punished by being thrown out of college. The naughty foursome then finds refuge in the bungalow of a blind couple, Somnath (Paresh Rawal) and Mangala (Sushmita Mukherjee), who are waiting for their grandson, Sameer, to inherit his paternal grandparents' treasure chest hidden in the old couple's house. Gopal pretends to be Sameer returning from America, and enters the house, while the other three friends sneak in hidden, even though the real Sameer, along with his parents, were killed in a car crash after his father and mother angrily left with him for India to meet his grandparents; Sameer's father's parents, after learning that Somnath and Mangala were permanently blinded in a lethal accident. Somnath goes to America and lights the pyres of his son, daughter-in-law and grandson, the ashes of whom he later kept in an urn, as per the Hindu tradition.
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