Ashi Hi Banwa Banwi


Ashi Hi Banwa Banwi is a comedy Marathi film directed by Sachin Pilgaonkar and released in India in 1988. The movie is a remake of 1966 Hindi film Biwi Aur Makaan directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee which was later remade in Kannada as Olu Saar Bari Olu in 2003 and in Hindi as Paying Guests in 2009.

Many futile attempts of finding a new home for rent later, Dhananjay and Shantanu finally find a nice place in the huge house of a rich, old, kind and halfblind widow Lilabai Kalbhor Nayantara, who lives with her shrewd servant Tanu and is often harassed by Bali Viju Khote for money. Forced to show themselves as married couples, a condition set by the landlady, Dhananjay and Shantanu make Parshuram and Sudhir disguise as their wives as Parvati and Sudha, respectively. Shortly after arriving at their new rental home as couples, the landladys niece, Manisha Supriya, and her friend Sushma Nivedita Joshi, who is also Shantanus girlfriend, join them for a long stay at the house. Sudhir disguised as Shantanus wife Sudha is now a successful singer and courts Manisha while Shantanu makes up a fake story of his wifes cancer to appease Sushma, who is clearly upset at seeing him married. Meanwhile, Dhanajay and his employer Madhuri also fall in love with each other. Dhananjay and Co develop a bond of motherly love with their landlady.Eventually, Tanu and Bali come to know about the disguises and Dhananjay and Co are forced to leave. On their way out, they are exposed in front of their landlady who hands them over to police. But at the police station, she absolves them of their deceits and sets them free. ........

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