Cast:Anupam
Kher,
Boman
Irani,
Parveen
Dabas,
Tara
Sharma,
Ranveer
Shorey
Director:
Dibakar
Banerjee
The
plot
of
Khosla
Sometimes
you
need
to
lose
the
plot
to
gain
it.
When
Kamal
Kishore
Khurana
(Anupam
Kher)
loses
his
precious
plot
of
land
in
Delhi's
rapidly-degenerating
concrete
jungle,
he
gains
a
son
who
was
about
to
leave
for
greener
pastures(US).
Lucky
Khosla!
But
we
the
viewers
are
even
luckier.
In
Kamal
Kishore
Khurana's
loss
and
gain
there
lurks
a
hugely
rewarding
morality
tale
for
us.
If
Lage
Raho
Munnabhai
goes
Gandhian
with
a
vengeance
(no
pun
intended)
Khosla
Ka
Ghosla
tells
us
through
delicious
tongue-in-cheek
satire
that
it's
okay
to
use
unfair
means
to
get
what's
rightfully
yours.
Khosla
Ka
Ghosla
is
a
very
rare
precious
tender
and
life-giving
plant
that
needs
careful
nurturing
for
it
to
yield
its
optimum
fruits.
A
film
so
simple
and
straightforward
in
its
depiction
of
the
working-class
stress
(done
earlier
to
immense
advantage
in
works
as
varied
as
Mahesh
Bhatt's
Saaransh
and
Raj
Kumar
Santoshi's
Ghatak)
you
tend
to
miss
the
immeasurable
amounts
of
unassuming
talent
that
underline
almost
every
scene
of
this
remarkable
film.
Upsides
Jaideep
Sahni's
writing
talent
is
put
to
exceptional
use.
The
narrative
captures
the
muddle
and
poignancy,
irony
and
humour
of
Delhi's
middleclass
through
a
storytelling
device
where
less
is
always
more.
A
delectable
understatement
underlines
almost
every
character's
propulsion
in
this
film
about
how
to
lose
the
plot
to
gain
a
much
larger
plot.
The
real-estate
isn't
the
real
asset
of
this
robustly
populated
mellow-drama.
It's
the
human
values
that
one
discovers
in
Khosla's
journey
from
loss
to
redemption,
that
make
this
film
several
notches
above
your
run-of-the-mill
morality
tale.
Debutant
director
Dibakar
Banerjee
fills
the
narrative
with
sharply-cut
incidents
and
episodes
of
an
ordinary
family
caught
in
a
extra-ordinary
crisis.
Besides
bringing
father
Kher
and
beta
Dabas
together
this
heart-warming
film
also
brings
other
characters
together
in
unlikely
ways.
The
Muslim
travel
agent
(Vinay
Pathak)
and
the
Khosla
heir
who
prepares
to
fly
off
to
America,
come
together
to
plot
the
defeat
of
the
real-estate
shark
(Boman
Irani).
While
the
narrative
preserves
the
blithe
spirit
to
bring
out
the
quirks
and
crises
of
the
working-class
there
are
numerous
moments
that
bring
a
lump
to
your
throat.
Admirably
the
story
of
humanism
and
victory
of
the
human
spirit
gets
progressively
dramatic
without
losing
plausibility.
Scenes
where
a
drama
group
led
by
a
wonderfully
frazzled
Navin
Nishchol
help
Khosla
regain
his
plot,
are
done
in
an
endearingly
daredevilish
spirit.
After
Lage
Raho
Munnabhai
this
is
the
second
film
in
a
month
to
make
us
feel
so
positive
about
the
pitfalls
of
urban
existence.
The
credit
must
go
above
all
to
the
writer
and
the
actors
for
infusing
an
effortless
candour
into
the
working-class
satire.
Every
performer
from
Anupam
and
Boman
to
Parveen
and
Tara
Sharma
(watch
her
give
spunk
substance
and
sensitivity
to
the
potentially
-trite
girlfriend's
role)
blends
into
the
film's
mottled
fabric.
But
for
Anupam
this
film
is
a
special
triumph.
He
puts
an
extra
amount
of
heart
into
Khosla's
character
making
him
more
real
than
almost
anything
the
actor
has
done
lately.
On
the
journey
to
Khosla's
happy
ending
we
encounter
characters
who
seem
like
our
next-door
neighbours....Khosla's
Sardarji
friend,
the
cunning
tout
who
cheats
Khosla
,
the
actor
who
'plays'
Navin
Nishchol's
PA,
the
stage
actress
who
smokes
her
way
though
the
plot
to
hoodwink
Boman...every
character
seems
like
someone
you've
met
in
that
long
and
cumbersome
journey
of
life
which
we
all
have
to
go
through.
Thank
God
for
stopovers
like
Khosla
Ka
Ghosla.