
Shanti is not the only daughter of Digamabarnath. Since Miya, Biwi and Baba all are raazi, the screenplay sails to other shores. This gives Ramesh a chance to look after him and impress him. Ramesh, meanwhile carries on with his wooing ( Mana janab ne pukara nahin) and his idea of it is to get beaten up by his alter ego Mirza sahib, which brings in oodles of sympathy from Shanti.Īnd while playing Holi Mirza sahib’s disguise falls, her father gets a fit. I would have liked to tell Chanchal not to be so open about it, but then remembered, that she can’t help it, Subodh Mukherjee (the director) asked her to be so. Shanti is all for love and her opponent her friend Chanchal (Shubha Khote) all for money.

Shanti is no dud, she is a student at the local college and is also a member of the debating club, where they discuss such high brow topics like ‘money or love, what is more essential for a successful marriage’. If I had to search for a disguise I wouldn’t know, which place to look). (Where in the hell do the hindi film heroes get the disguises so soon. Knowing that, after his silly behaviour Digambarnath won’t take him up as a tenant Ramesh dresses himself as Mirza sahib, an old muslim gentleman. Shanti and her father, Digambarnath also leave the house and move to another one.ĭigambarnath, who would like to line his wallet a bit more, is searching for a tenant, who would be paying guest. Not only a lawyer but uncouth in his behaviour leads him to being thrown out. Coming there, he gets promptly in a fight with the tenant upstairs, Shanti. On his search for a room he lands up at Mirza sahib’s house. Well, he is not unemployed but he is too much of an unsuccessful lawyer. So, off we go……………………….!Īs many of the 50s heroes, Ramesh (Dev Anand) is garib (poor). The only thing lacking is a good director.

It is in fact a three tier film, wonderfully knotted together. Is Film me kya nahin hai, is me drama hai, emotion hai, suspense hai, love story hai, sundar heroine hai, matwala hero hai, sunheri vamp hai. But this time when I saw it, it was less irritating and I think I even warmed up to it. Last summer I saw the beginning of it in Bombay, but the VCD player decided to strike on that day and seeing Dev Anand’s antics I was even relieved.

I looked at my pile and first my eyes went to Bandini, but then I remembered how dustedoff once recommended Paying Guest to me. Moreover Nutan celebrated her Jayanti on 4 th of June (and bollywood deewana celebrated his birthday as well), so I thought of jumping the bandwagon to celebrate it. Kaagaz ke Phool pulled me down so much, that I thought, even I need a break from Guru Dutt, thus joining the long string of people who “bhichde sabhi bari bari” from him.
