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Jun 12, 2020 · ‘Gulabo Sitabo’ is both a melancholic lament for and a biting satire on Lucknow and its people. A film in which language reigns supreme.
- Plot Summary
- Mirza
- Baankey
- Begum’s Plan
- The Ending: What It Means For Baankey and Mirza?
A feud ensues between Mirza, the husband of the owner of Fatima Mahal Haveli, and a long term tenant Baankey, who refuses to pay the same rent as others. Then comes a day when Baankey unintentionally knocks down the wall of a public toilet in the haveli and really pisses off Mirza. When they take the matter to the police, an ASI Officer starts show...
Early on in the movie, it is established that Mirza only pretends to be the landlord of the haveli while his wife, Begum, is the one who actually owns it. Mirza, who is only driven by his greed to own the haveli one day, hopes that his wife would die soon and leave the Fatima Mahal under his possession. Unfortunately for him, none of this comes eas...
Baankey takes his resentment towards Mirza a bit too far and vows that if he won’t get to stay in the haveli, he’ll ensure that even Mirza meets the same fate. He joins forces with the ASI Officer who intends to establish a museum in the location. The officer also promises Baankey that he’ll provide a pretty good housing facility to him and the oth...
Mirza’s lawyer asks him to gets Begum’s fingerprints on some official documents of the haveli which would later allow him to acquire its ownership. But being the dimwit that he is, Mirza ends up taking fingerprints from her left hand instead of right and that’s when Begum realizes that he’s up to no good. After all the bickering between Baankey and...
There’s a scene in the early moments of the movie where Baankey peaches about greed and tells Mirza that it’s his greed that’ll eventually swallow him. The ending of the movie very well comes in tandem with this scene. While Begum celebrates her 95th birthday in the haveli, Baankey and Mirza watch her with awe from a distance and regret doing every...
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Language. Hindi. Gulabo Sitabo is a 2020 Indian Hindi -language comedy drama film [2] directed by Shoojit Sircar, produced by Ronnie Lahiri and Sheel Kumar, and written by Juhi Chaturvedi. [3] Set in Lucknow, it stars Amitabh Bachchan, Ayushmann Khurrana, Abhinav Pundir and Farrukh Jaffar. [4] [5] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the film was not ...
- Ronnie Lahiri, Sheel Kumar
Jun 22, 2020 · Ostensibly, it is a satire on a dispute over an old haveli, beginning with its residents, and getting increasingly complicated once external actors are drawn into the tussle. ... Gulabo Sitabo can ...
Jun 11, 2020 · Shoojit Sircar’s ‘Gulabo Sitabo’ is a social commentary, a satire on the psyche of mankind and how when greed serves as a guiding force in your life — it can take you to strange places ...
- Amitabh Bachchan
- Shoojit Sircar
Jun 12, 2020 · Mirza, the landlord of Fatima Mahal, the picturesquely crumbling mansion at the center of the Hindi film “Gulabo Sitabo” ( streaming on Amazon Prime ), is fighting a long, cranky war with the ...
Jul 30, 2022 · No, ‘Gulabo Sitabo’ is not based on a true story, but it draws its inspiration from a real-life puppet show of the same name. The traditional glove puppet show centers around two female characters, out of whom, one is Sitabo, an overworked and frustrated spouse, while the other one is Gulabo, the mistress of Sitabo’s husband.
