A father who doesn’t feel appreciated. A son who wants to live his own life. Another son who is aimless. A daughter who is still growing up. A mother that has to balance all these members… and a dream to make a home… makes the movie ‘Khosla ka Ghosla’…
Exploring the plight of a regular middle class family - the Khosla’s (Anupam Kher and gang), who have their land usurped by a unscrupulous character – Boman Irani and an estate agent, the movie takes us through the ups and downs of the family and the people attached to it, the decisions that stare us them in the face and demand to be taken.
As an audience, the first hour was upsetting, almost bordering on dark humour, but the second half gives the family a glimpse of hope, hence giving the audience more entertainment as a group of theatre artists and the family friends take on the scheming Irani and the frustrating system which is in place.
With a total reality check approach to cinema, characterizations and relationships, this movie is a good break from the glamorous and musical approach of Bollywood.
All the performances were good, but it was Anupam Kher that stole the show… He looked, acted, blinked, breathed like the Senior Khosla, and struck a very good balance between a focused parent but not an unreasonable one. The supporting cast as the family were good too, special mention must go to Parvin Dabbas, who underplayed his emotions to be the perfect subtle guy. Boman Irani was his usual self, his roles seem to be getting typecast. Nonetheless his character was successful in evoking hatred towards his kind of people and the system they represent.
You leave the cinema happy, you connect to the situations as they are real, we read about them all the time, and feel satisfied with a fitting end to a scam.
3/5
