Buddha Mar Gaya
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Anand Sivakumaran
Sunil Lulla
Rahul Rawail
Paresh Rawal
Anupam Kher
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| Directed by | Rahul Rawail |
| Written by | Raju Saigal Anand Sivakumaran |
| Produced by | Rohit Kumar Sunil Lulla Rahul Rawail |
| Starring | Om Puri Paresh Rawal Anupam Kher |
| Cinematography | Suhass Gujarathi |
| Edited by | Rahul Rawail |
| Music by | Bappi Lahiri |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Buddha Mar Gaya (transl. The old man died) is a 2007 Indian Hindi-language black comedy film by Rahul Rawail. It stars Om Puri, Paresh Rawal and Anupam Kher. Buddha Mar Gaya was released on 17 August 2007.[1]
Laxmikant Kabadiya is one of India's richest industrialists, a self-made man who's risen from selling scrap to become a construction magnate. His conglomerate is on the verge of a 5000 crore ($1 billion) IPO that should make them one of the largest companies in the country. LK's family - his spinster twin sister Prernahumor, his two sons Ranjeet and Sameer, their wives Shruti and Anju (Mona Ambegaonkar) respectively and Ranjeet's daughters Sanjana and Namrata, and Sameer's son, Pawan, can't stop salivating at the thought of all that money.
Unfortunately for all of them fate displays a wicked sense of humour. On the night before the IPO opens, LK dies while copulating with a starlet Kim, who's aspiring to become the heroine of a film that LK plans to produce. The family is distraught and horrified. Not because a loved one has died but because now no one will buy their shares. So, on the advice of their family guru - Vidyut Baba, the family decides to hide the death of LK for a period of two days till the shares are all sold out. Little do they realize the crazy series of events that will follow on account of this duplicity.
After all, hiding the death of a man as famous as LK is a Herculean task. To make matters worse, every time they're ready to announce LK's death, fate intervenes forcing them to keep his death hidden for another couple of days. This results in them having to announce the death of a fictitious friend or relative of LK and stage fake funerals. Which of course means generating dead bodies and, worse, getting the dead LK to make appearances at these funerals.
Cast
- Om Puri as Vidyut 'Vidya' Baba
- Paresh Rawal as Ramu
- Anupam Kher as Laxmikant 'LK' Kabadiya
- Ranvir Shorey as Munna
- Mukesh Tiwari as Sameer L. Kabadiya
- Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal as Prerna 'Bua' Kabadiya
- Mona Ambegaonkar as Anju Kabadiya
- Murli Sharma as Rohan Alexander
- Mannat Kaur as Shruti
- Madhavi Singh as Namrata
- Heenaa Biswas as Sanjana
- Jay Soni as Pawan
- Jitender Bhargava
- Bobby Parvez as Ranjeet L. Kabadiya
- Manoj Joshi as ACP Ashwini Khandekar
- Birbal as Havaldar Karan Pratap
- Prem Chopra as Prem Chopra
- Pratima Kazmi as Police Inspector Aruna
- Vinay Pathak as Ishwar Singh
- Rakhi Sawant as Kim / Vishkanya
- Raj Tilak as Malwankar
Soundtrack
Music is composed by Bappi Lahiri and lyrics penned by Manoj Muntashir. The soundtrack of the film contains one Title Track called "Buddha Mar Gaya" sung by Sunidhi Chauhan, Kunal Ganjawala and Shaan.