Ghanti Aur Khujli

It’s about loving your gaon and gaon ki gori.

CAST
Sarpanch : Amitabh Bachachan
Ghanti : Mohit Ahlawat
Beejli : Shilpa Shetty

Rest of the cast to be introduced as & when required.



In a hospital in New York an old man before dying has revealed a secret to his only son who goes by the name Ghanteshwar aka Ghanti. The old man had made a strange request before he died; he wanted Ghanti to visit India, the land of his origin.

Ghanti is back in his apartment, he wants to forget his father’s words, he doesn’t want to believe him, could it be possible that his father was mistaken or had been muttering in a delirious state. But now his father is no more and there is no way to verify what he had said just before his last breath, something inside him was telling him he believed his father and he was going to fulfil his last wish.

In his quest to know more about his birth country the Internet comes to his aide. He finds the information he has been looking for. His father was right, there was a village named khujli gaon in India, which was famous for Khujli epidemics. It was believed that once the gaon gets Bijli (electricity) the Khujli problem would disappear never to return. Also it mentioned a prodigal boy, believed to be the one who would be instrumental in getting Bijli to the gaon (village) once he grows up and he was named Ghanteshwar after the Ghanti in the gaon ka temple. He also finds out that India is a progressive country, people here travel in trains, buses and cars, he heaved a relieved sigh, he had thought he would have to travel on elephants attached with headlights and backlights for traffic regulations and had planned to make a trip to Africa for an Elephant Safari for practise. He learnt that English is a widely spoken and understood language in India, and these people don’t take crash course in English, they are taught English in school. Armed with his newfound knowledge and wisdom about the ancient country India he books a flight on Air India and crashes (oops I mean lands) in Delhi, India.

After being thugged by a few conmen in Delhi he somehow manages to reach Khujli gaon. There he bumps into a lissom lass named Beejli, ( A-haaaa in the background) they look into each other’s eyes and the first song of the movie starts playing in the back ground.

“hmmmmm hmmmmm
Tune mujhe pehchana nahi, jaana main koi anjana nahi
Ghanti hoon main tere gaon ka, Deewana hoon main Deewana nahi.
Hmmmmmmm hmmmmmmmm “

Song over Ghanti says, God they don’t make them like you in the big apple. Beejli giggles and runs away ……… stops …….. looks back, giggles some more and this time runs away for good. Ghanti sighs and heads in the same way that Beejli had taken to find the village sarpanch. He meets the village sarpanch and explains who he is and his reason to visit the gaon and if it will be possible to book him in a five star hotel. The sarpanch realizes that he is talking to the prodigal Ghanti who had left the village with his parents when he was just 3 years old. With tears in his eyes he hugs our hero and calls out to somebody to get mithai, here comes Beejli (A-haaaa) head bent demurely with a tray of mithai. Somehow the gaon ki goris are always decorous around their parents. Ghanti drops the idea of staying in a hotel and accepts the sarpanch’s invitation to live in his house. A function to celebrate the prodigy’s return is arranged. Another song here.

“Dhol bajne lagaaaa, gaon sajne lagaaaa
Apna kuvar aaya, ghanteshwar aaya
Sung apne woh dollars kitne laya hai”

After a few days of sight seeing and getting used to the smells in the gaon, ghanti gets to work about getting Bijli (electricity) to gaon. He has to eat dar dar ke thokare, he gets a first hand taste of our bureaucracy. In between fighting with the Babus for Bijli he gets time to romance our heroine Beejli and one fine day he proposes marriage. Beejli is ecstatic, she runs home (she’s got a thing for running I guess) finds her mom in the kitchen and raising her index finger a la Dharam Paji says, Ma ab hamare sapne poore honge ma, hum gaon mein Beauty Parlour khol sakenge Ma.

Time for a song - dream sequence.

Agar tum mil jao khujli gaon chod denge hum
Tumhe paakar beauty parlour se rishta jod lenge hum
Agar tum mil jao.........

But before Ghanti and Beejli can be tied in the pavitra bandhan of shaadi, there comes an epidemic of khujli. The entire village is affected including Ghanti, Beejli is the only one unaffected. Beejli takes good advantage of her luck and instead of Ghanti gets married to Rahul from California, who promises her she can have her own Beauty Parlour in the USA. Ghanti is heart broken, for the first time since his arrival to Khujli gaon he goes to the temple and talks to God, he says, khush to bahut hoge tum, maine maangi thi Beejli aur tumne dee mujhe khujli. Impressed by his dialogue God repents and heals everybody in the gaon. Ghanti now puts his heart in his cause but he can’t help but think of Beejli once in a while. He accepts his pain and sings this song.

“Dil ke tukde tukde karke muskurate chal diye
Jaane wale yeh toh bataa ja hum bajenge kiske liye”