Saas Bahu Aur Sensex

Saas Bahu Aur Sensex
Directed by Shona Urvashi
Produced by Jayshri Makhija
Written by Shona Urvashi
Starring Tanushree Dutta
Ankur Khanna
Kiron Kher
Farooq Sheikh
Music by Bipin and Blaze (direction)
Raqueeb Alam
Blaze (lyrics)
Cinematography Diego Rodriguez
Edited by Adesh Verma
Distributed by PLA Entertainment
Release dates
  • 19 September 2008 (2008-09-19)
Country India
Language Hindi
Box office 2.38 Crores

Saas bahu aur Sensex is a Bollywood film which was released 19 September 2008, directed by Shona Urvashi. It stars Kiron Kher, Tanushree Dutta, Ankur Khanna, Farooque Shaikh, Masumeh Makhija, Lillete Dubey, and Sharon Prabhakar. The film focuses on the complexities of discovering love in the New Mumbai world, set against the backdrop of stressful financial markets, embarrassing kitty parties, outrageous soap operas, and the ongoing angst and excitement of an ever-emerging India. It is considered part of the Masala film genre, which depicts a spicy mixture of action, comedy, romance, and drama/melodrama.[1]

Synopsis

With her mother suddenly divorcing her father and leaving their comfortable home in Kolkata, Nitya finds herself in the new environs of Navi Mumbai.

Finding her bearings in a new city, whilst letting go of her ambition to study in the USA for her MBA and starting work at a call centre is tough. She finds it a little easier however to cope with the situation, courtesy of her newfound friend, Ritesh Jetmalani.

Ritesh is the nicest guy on the planet, and maybe even in the universe. Nitya’s mother Binita Sen is troubled by her failed marriage. She hopes to find the new start she needs, in New Mumbai. She is befriended by the women in the colony and joins their kitty parties. She knows her daughter is angry with her and blames her for their situation, but believes that this was their best alternative to find their own place under the sun.

Kirti Wagaskar, Ritesh's girlfriend, is no ordinary middle class girl; she plans to marry a rich guy. She hates her elder sister Parimal’s life who is a housewife to her grouchy traditional husband, Ganpatrao. Serving coffee at Costa’s, she spends an entire month’s salary on a Gucci bag and dreams of marrying Yash Modi, a billionaire by birth.

Binita’s father had left her some shares and she traces her father’s old stock broking house to figure out the maze of the stock market reality. Here she meets Firoz Sethna an ethical but cranky and eccentric stock broker who teaches her the ropes of investing.

In the meantime, the group of kitty party ladies feel that Binita is up to something dubious, they haven’t got the gossip on her... And why did she leave her husband. However, later they come to know that she is trying to sell stocks. Nitya realizes that her mother getting together with these amateur investors who have switched from watching soaps to watching CNBC, to look for investing opportunities, even if they are "aunties" is cool after all.

One day at work, Nitya is bored and forgetting to log off her computer, she goes to drink water when the CEOs of two companies are visiting the office. Hearing the CEO' coming into the room she accidentally drops the cup under the table and stays there. She hears their conversation and tells her mother that they are going to get their children married. Hearing this news Binita tells her friends to invest in their companies because the stock prices are likely to go up with the marriage.

With all kitty ladies invested emotionally and financially in the company, Ritesh marrying Kirti is best for everyone and Nitya, despite her feelings for Ritesh, watches the wedding day arrive in silence. Binita sees her daughter’s dilemma and finally tells her the real reason for her coming to New Mumbai. Her husband had left her for a younger woman, and she didn’t want her daughter to deal with the pressure or gossip nor did she want to be dependent on him.

Cast

Box office

Saas Bahu Aur Sensex earned 2.38 crores gross and 1.25 crores net in its theatrical run.

References

  1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmeFWodvB7I
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