Quarantine Talkies #1: Paheli (2005)

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⭐️ing: Amitabh Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan, Rani Mukherjee, Juhi Chawla, Anupam Kher

Director: Amol Palekar

Producer: Gauri Khan

Synopsis: the film was set up on the rural area of Rajasthan where lachhi(Rani Mukherjee) tied her knot with kisanlal(Shahrukh Khan) son of business man Bhanwarlal(Anupam Kher). When the grooms family was returning to their home alongwith lachchi they hault in abandon palace for breakfast, where a ghost falls in love for lachchi as he never saw such a beautiful bride before, in the first night of their marriage Kisanlal was doing accounting as he was business oriented person he informed lachchi about his love and respect for his father and business that’s he have to leave the village and earn money from town within span of 5 years.

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Kisanlal left the village next morning he went to town for business and to do some earning for his father, he will stay their for five years as business is main religion to all the business men like wise elder son of bhanwarlal, sunderlal (Suniel shetty) left his wife Gajrobai(Juhi Chawla) next morning of their marriage and didn’t returned for long time.

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Ghost(Asif Sheikh) Met kisanlal when he and his manager Mangilal was heading towards the town for business, kisanlal said everything about his marriage and wife as he was very simple and soft hearted person, ghost took an advantage of this situation and turned himself into kisanlal he reached kisanlal’s house as no one has suspected him and met his wife lachchi the ghost revealed everything to her and didn’t hide anything from lachchi. Will lachchi accept his love?? Will she choose a ghost over her husband?? Watch the film it’s on Netflix.

Acting: Shahrukh Khan played double role in this film and in both the character he was awesome, Rani Mukherjee was a show stopper role of lachchi suited her need not to say but she’s one of the best actress of Bollywood. Cameo of Amitabh Bachchan was crucial in this film and other actors was good in their respective roles.

Music: in terms of Music as the film is set up on Rajasthan, it had a rajasthani tone in the film few rajasthani wards are used in song, dheere jalna is the best song of this film, people still listen to it.

Direction by Amol Palekar and Screenplay of Sandhya Gokhale was awesome.

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Paheli is a remake of 1973 film “Duvidha” the film is inspired from short story written in rajasthani language, paheli is one of those classics which failed at box office. The film was acclaimed by critics, In this quarantine do watch this film, it’s available on Netflix.

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