Bundal Baaz


Bundal Baaz is a 1976 Bollywood fantasy and romantic comedy film directed by Shammi Kapoor. The film stars Rajesh Khanna in the lead role and Shammi Kapoor in the supporting role.

Story opens at college, where an impoverished student named Raja Rajesh Khanna dreams of making it big and winning his true love Nisha Sulakshana Pandit.His rival for her affections, Ranjit Ranjeet is the class bully and a cheat but Ranjits father and Nishas father are close friends and want their children to get married when they graduate. Rajas roommate and best friend Gopal Asranialso poorknows the truth of his circumstances, but Raja has fooled everyone else into believing he has a rich father. After Rajaram gets a degree in Arts he returns home and finds out about the debt, he attempts to find work, ends up working as a laborer with Sukhi, but is beatenup when he is found slacking. Rajaram returns to Bombay, meets with Suleiman, and takes up collecting waste material Dabha Batli from households for a fee. When he returns to his village, he discovers that his sister Malti Farida Jalal and his aunt Lalita Pawar are being harassed by the local moneylender to repay the money lent to them for Rajas education, or he will force Malti to marry him. Raja is overwhelmed at their sacrifices.He returns to Bombay to find work so he can send money home, and is befriended by Sulaiman Johnny Walker, who buys bottles and boxes for recycling, and teaches Raja the trade. Raja begins earning money and sends some home to his village. He also meets Gopal again, but doesnt contact Nisha since he is too poor to court her. When he does run into her, she is going into a New Years Eve masquerade party, and thinks that his bottle vendor outfit is his costume. She drags him in with her, where he is tormented again by Ranjit, and further realizes the gulf between himself and Nisha. He slips out and returns home, sad and heartbroken. One day he comes across a sack of bottles, throws it against the door one broken bottle rolls outside where a big puff of pink smoke materializes from it. Out pops a 20000 year old Genie with magical powers. He takes his sack of bottles and As the smoke clears

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