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<div class="itg-mosimage"><div class="itgimage"><amp-img  src="https://akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com/sites/media2/indiatoday/images/stories/1981May/naseeb_112113021653.jpg" alt = "" height="425" width="650" class="" layout="responsive"></amp-img></div>Sampat and Palekar in Naram Garam: Little is funny</div><b>Naram Garam</b><br><i>Directed by</i><b>Hrishikesh Mukherjee<br></b><i>Starring:</i><b> Shatrughan Sinha, Amol Palekar, Swaroop Sampat, Utpal Dutt</b><br><br>In<i>Naram Garam</i>, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, like a steady opening batsman, strikes the ball with his backfoot planted deep inside the crease. He takes no chances, and does not venture to experiment with tricks that are not time-tested and, hence, have not turned hoary. The yarn he weaves is patterned on some of the most enduring cliches of the Bombay film industry. But that makes Mukherjee no less eligible for his standing as the investors' blue-eyed boy.<br><br><i>Naram Garam</i>, conveniently slotted as a "family entertainer", is Mukherjee's third comedy in a row, after<i>Golmal</i>and<i> Khubsoorat</i>. Despite variation in faces and events, the three films do not add up to much beyond a tiresome trilogy of corny jokes and contrived situations. However, there is no apparent dearth of its takers, as long queues before the box-office testify, and comedy a la Mukherjee is evidently a genre where the law of diminishing returns will take a long time to set in.<br><br>Amol Palekar plays the ingenious lover in<i>Naram Garam</i>, whose reserve of guile and histrionics is tested every time he has to bale out of danger his pretty sweetheart, Swaroop Sampat, and her poor father, A.K. Hangal.<br><br>The father-and-daughter team seeks shelter in rich landlord Utpal Dutt's country mansion where Palekar serves as the ill-paid caretaker. To keep them there, he almost goads the lecherous property manager into proposing to Sampat.<br><br>But the "crisis" is resolved by Palekar himself who enlists the support of the muscular Shatrughan Sinha, Dutt's high-minded younger brother, whose passions are thick biceps, heady drinks of<i>bhang</i>, and adoration for legendary women, like Padmini and the Rani of Jhansi. To Sinha, Sampat's face comes dangerously close to those of the queens of the fables, and he is head-over-heels in love.<br><br>Palekar rides again, this time bringing in Dutt, a rich widower who is also an astrology buff. There is the inevitable phoney guru who tells him that he should marry a second time, to propitiate the stars, if nothing else. Emboldened by the oracle, Dutt bulldozes his way into the romantic quadrangle, and offers to marry Sampat.<br><br>How wily Palekar straightens out the tangle in the last of the film's 14 reels forms its otherwise predictable climax. He gets a raise in the bargain, not to speak of Sampat's hand. And nobody is left unhappy, in the best tradition of comedies made in Bombay.<br><br>Mukherjee's painstakingly-evolved success formula steers clear of three things - a plausible story, verbal wit and intelligent cinematic gags. R.D. Burman's score is just as heavy and stereotyped as the lyrics written by Gulzar. The only spark of sensitivity is shown by Utpal Dutt who steals a glance through the pages of<i>Kama Sutra</i>, hides his balding pate in a rakish wig, and coyly smiles as if his life is about to begin at 55.<br><div id="tab-link-wrapper-plugin"><div class="authors__container"><div class="authors__by"><div class="authlable">Published By: </div><div class="authdetaisl">AtMigration </div></div><div class="published__on"><div class="authlable">Published On: </div><div class="authdetaisl">Nov 21, 2013 14:24 IST</div></div></div><div class="sendros">--- ENDS ---</div></div>

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<i>Naram Garam</i>, conveniently slotted as a "family entertainer", is Mukherjee's third comedy in a row, after <i>Golmal</i> and<i> Khubsoorat</i>.

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Film review: Naram Garam, starring Shatrughan Sinha, Amol Palekar, Utpal Dutt

Naram Garam, conveniently slotted as a "family entertainer", is Mukherjee's third comedy in a row, after Golmal and Khubsoorat.

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