Hrishida’s Magic Continues
posted in This Week That Year |Continuing with film releases, the combination of Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Amol Palekar and Utpal Dutt spelt magic at the box-office when GolMaal released in 1979. The same combination continued when they again teamed up to give Naram Garam. Naram Garam was released on 28 February 1981, produced by Subhash Gupta and Uday Narayan Singh.
It was a typical Hrishida film from start to finish with memorable performances by Amol Palekar and Utpal Dutt. Hrishida almost came up with the same starcast of GolMaal except for a rural backdrop. Naram Garam was a hilarious situational comedy for which Hrishida was known for. The story revolved around the boss played by Utpal Dutt who falls in love with his employee Amol Palekar’s love interest. How Amol gets back his girl and how he ends up getting married makes the film very funny, also earmarking the debut of Swaroop Sampat.
Music was by RD Burman and lyrics by Gulzar. Naram Garam was clean comedy that went down well with the masses and the classes. Going down memory lane it’s remembered as an extension of GolMaal. Worth again a dekho even today.