A man falls for a woman and pretends to be rich in hopes of impressing her and her father. However, when the truth is revealed, her father attempts to separate them.
Acting
Bachchan's nervous energy as a broke boy pretending to own the world
Direction
Basu Chatterjee's gentle satire of middle-class pretensions
Writing
Dialogue that stings with economic truths wrapped in comedy
Director
Basu Chatterjee
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was one of Amitabh Bachchan's rare 'middle-class everyman' roles during his peak action-hero era, a deliberate pivot by Basu Chatterjee.
The film captures 1970s Bombay's class anxiety perfectly—Ajay's rented furniture to impress in-laws was a recognizable ritual for upwardly mobile families.
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