Laughing with the Veterans

Even as the audience wonders about the similarities between Amol Palekar’s classic Golmaal and last Friday’s release,Bol Bachchan,the veteran actor-director says he has not watched the new film,and has no plans to do so. “The makers of Bol Bachchan are fine in their own place to make their movie. But I don’t think I would watch it,” he says. Instead,Palekar is busy with a comic film of his own. His new Marathi film,We are on-Houn Jau Dya,is on the lines of movies by Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Basu Chatterjee,with “clean healthy comedy and devoid of any silly clowning and double-meaning jokes”. The film has been penned by his wife,Sandhya Gokhale,and will be her production house Anaan Nirmitee’s maiden venture.