Buddha mar gaya film
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Directors
- Rahul Rawail
Producers
- Rahul Rawail, Sunil Lulla
Cast
- Anupam Kher, Manoj Joshi, Mona Ambegaonkar, Mukesh Tiwari, Murli Sharma, Om Puri, Paresh Rawal, Pratima Kazmi, Rakhi Sawant, Ranvir Shorey, Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal, Mannat Kaur, Madhvi Singh, Heenaa Biswas, Jay Soni, Deepika Sharma, Jitender Bhargava, Bobby Parvez
Studio
- Eros International
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- Synopsis:
Laxmikant Kabadiya aka LK is one of India’s richest industrialists. His conglomerate is on the verge of a 5000 crore IPO. LK’s family can’t stop salivating at the reflection of all that money. Unfortunately for all of them on the night before the IPO opens, LK dies. The family is distraught and horrified. Not because a loved one has died but because now no one will buy their shares. So, on the advice of their family guru, the family decides to hide the death of LK for a period of two days till the shares are all sold out.
- Actors:
- Mona Ambegaonkar, Jitender Bhargava, Birbal, Heenaa Biswas, Prem Chopra, Jayant Gadekar, Manoj Joshi, Mannat Kaur, Pratima Kazmi, Anupam Kher, Khurshed Lawyer, Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal, Bobby Parvez, Vinay Pathak, Om Puri, Sunita Rajwar, Paresh Rawal, Rakhi Sawant, Murli Sharma, Ranvir Shorey
- Directors:
- Rahul Rawail
- Writers:
- Raju Saigal, Anand Sivakumaran
- Studio:
- Eros Entertainment
- Genres:
- Bollywood
- Countries:
- India
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 22/10/2007
- Run Time:
- 92 minutes
- Languages:
- Hindi Dolby Digital 2.0, Hindi Dolby Digital 5.1
- Subtitle
"You will die laughing" claims the tagline for Buddha Mar Gaya, and it is partially correct. If you won't die of shock, you are sure to be killed off by the crude toilet humour. Director Rahul Rawail is more at abode with hard-hitting social dramas, so comedy is completely uncharted territory for him, and it shows. His very noble intentions of using the garb of black comedy to deliver taboo subjects like homosexuality, extra-marital affairs and drug addiction out of the closet fail miserably, as the audience is left meandering through a shoddy screenplay and over the top performances.
LK (Anupam Kher) is a multi-millionaire who opens his company to a public issue to make even more cash from shareholders. The octogenarian's greedy family, complete with a randy twin sister, secretly gay son, his cocaine addict sibling, and wannabe it-girl daughter, start counting the cash even before the shares slap the market. But fate has a wicked twist in store for them, as LK breathes his last in the midst of a seedy romp with a struggling actress (Rakhi Sawant). As the news of the CEO's death would result in an inevitable crash of the company's shares, the only solution before his money-grabb