Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Mohan Joshi Haazir Ho!

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Jul 16, 2012, 5:59:13 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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Mohan Joshi Haazir Ho!

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+'''Mohan Joshi Haazir Ho!'''
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+aka A Summons for Mohan Joshi
+1984 123’(130’) col Hindi
+d/p/co-st/co-sc/co-dial Saeed Akhtar Mirza
+pc Saeed Akhtar Mirza Prod. co-st/co-sc Yusuf
+Mehta co-dial Ranjit Kapoor co-st/co-sc Sudhir
+Mishra lyr Madhosh Bilgrami c Virendra Saini
+m Vanraj Bhatia
+lp Naseeruddin Shah, Deepti Naval, Bhisham
+Sahni, Dina Pathak, Rohini Hattangadi, Amjad
+Khan, Mohan Gokhale, Satish Shah, Pankaj
+Kapoor, Arvind Deshpande
+
+
+Mirza’s parody on housing legislation tells of
+Mohan Joshi (Sahni, the well-known novelist
+and brother of Balraj Sahni in his screen
+debut), a retired clerk who lives with his wife
+(Pathak) in an old Bombay tenement. Joshi
+sues his landlord, the evil property developer
+Kundan Kapadia (Khan), which starts a
+complicated and expensive legal procedure
+conducted by the slick lawyer Malkani
+(N. Shah). Eventually Joshi realises that one
+cannot win against entrenched economic
+powers. In the end, when the judge comes to
+see the condition of the building for himself,
+Kapadia’s men quickly cover its rickety walls
+with a coat of paint and Joshi, unable to control
+his anger, goes berserk and demolishes the
+place, making it collapse on to his own head.
+Mirza’s allegorical approach, using a crudely
+Brechtian idea of surface realism, allows him to
+cast the noted screen villain Amjad Khan (cf.
+Sholay, 1975) as the property developer with
+lather dripping from his chin or eating a leg of
+mutton.
+
+[[Film]]