Khosla Ka Ghosla! (2006) on Netflix
Kamal Khosla sinks his savings into a Delhi plot for his family's new house. Squatters sit on the land, and the builder Kishan Khurana wants money before he clears them off.
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Plot summary
Kamal Kishore Khosla has put his provident fund savings into a plot in South Delhi, paying the plot's price and a commission to the broker Vijendar, and he means to build a two-story house there for his wife Sudha and their children. His younger son Cherry, a software engineer, keeps a move to New York to himself and talks it over with his girlfriend Meghna, a theatre actress, and with Asif Iqbal, the travel agent handling his papers. On the visit for the Bhoomipujan ritual the family finds squatters on the land. The squatters answer to the builder Kishan Khurana, whose assistant is Munjal. Khurana asks fifteen lakhs to clear out. Kamal takes the matter to the police, politicians, lawyers and social workers, and none of them will confront Khurana.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Khosla Ka Ghosla! (2006)
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- Khosla Ka Ghosla went two years without a buyer while editing continued and the team showed it to people who loved it but were unwilling to back it; in 2006 UTV Motion Pictures stepped in and distributed the film.
- Khosla Ka Ghosla won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi; in October 2015 Dibakar Banerjee returned it to the government with 12 other filmmakers to protest Gajendra Chauhan's appointment as chairman of the Film and Television Institute of India, though producer Savita Raj Hiremath said the award was the film's, not his.
- The role of Khurana was offered to Rishi Kapoor, who refused it; producer Savita Raj Hiremath believed this was because, commercially, the part was not working for him.
- Boman Irani initially turned down the role of builder Khurana, feeling that as a Mumbai-born Parsi he was unsuited to play a Delhi builder; he prepared by driving around listening to interviews with real property dealers and watching hidden-camera footage of how they behaved.
- During filming, investors demanded an item song, action sequences and cast changes; the team refused, first investor Padmalaya Telefilms backed out, and producer Savita Raj Hiremath had to "shell out cash" from her other company.
- The film's entire opening dream sequence was filmed in one take with a hand-held camera, to give it a look separate from the rest of the film.
- Dibakar Banerjee said a real-life experience in which writer Jaideep Sahni saw his father insulted by someone powerful helped them develop the character of the antagonist, builder Khurana.
- In 2013 the Delhi Police Crime Branch caught a gang that cheated people by selling them Delhi Development Authority plots with forged documents; officials said the gang's method appeared to have been inspired by the film.
