Genre: Comedy Drama
Duration: 124 minutes
Mirza is married to Begum who owns a mansion worth a lot of money, he is waiting for her death to inherit the mansion, but when she finds out his plans she makes sure that this will never happen.
Mirza (Amitabh Bachchan) is a grumpy old man and he is married to Begum (Farrukh Jafar) who is 15 years older than him. Begum owns a mansion that has some tenants living in it who either pay little to no rent. One of these tenants is Baankey (Ayushmann Khurrana) who is paying no rent and is bugged by Mirza whenever they see each other about this subject.
Baankey gets so frustrated at one point that he kicks a wall and it collapses but again he refuses to pay for the damages. Baankey decides he needs to get his own back on Mirza and this comes in the form of a property archaeologist Gyanesh who realises the historic value of the mansion and makes plans to seize it for the government. Baankey agrees to help as Gyanesh lies to him and says all the tenants will be housed in a new complex.
At the same time Mirza hires a local lawyer to try and get ownership of the mansion over to him once Begum dies. He even tries to forge her thumb print when she is sleeping but gets the wrong hand. In the meantime Begum has found out about both Mirza and Baankey’s plans and decides to sell it to her age old lover Abdul instead for just one rupee.
After both their plans fail Mirza and Baankey are left to their own devices trying to scrounge for money. Begum leaves a chair for Mirza and he gloats to Baankey about how he sold it for 250 rupees. Much to the audience's joy at the end of the film we see the chair in an antique show priced at 135,000 rupees.
The characters are both clever yet sharp and Mirza’s character is driven by pure greed whilst there seems to be a funny back story behind his marriage to a woman much older than himself. Gulabo Sitabo is a humorous film that will keep your mind off the chaos currently going on with Covid-19. Due to the pandemic the film was not released as first proposed in theatres but instead released worldwide on Amazon Prime.
