Malamaal Weekly

Malamaal Weekly is a 2006 Bollywood comedy film written and directed by Priyadarshan and starring Paresh Rawal and Om Puri. The storyline has similarities with Waking Ned Devine.

The film takes place in the impoverished village of Laholi where, following droughts, most of the villagers possessions are mortgaged to the local Thakurani Karamkali Sudha Chandran. One of the few entertainments the villagers can afford is the lottery, Malaamal Weekly malaamal is Hindi for rich.Lilaram Paresh Rawal is the only educated man in the village. He has the job of intermediary between the lottery organisation and the village, for which he receives a commission whenever a villager wins thus, he has a relatively good but volatile income. One day he reads the winning lottery numbers and realises that one of the tickets has won the top prize of one crore about 220,000, a relative fortune in rural India. He devises a plan to obtain the winning ticket and present it to the commission as his own. He hosts a dinner mortgaging his wifes beloved pet goat to the Thakurs wife to pay for it and invites all the villagers who play the lottery, but the man he is looking for does not turn up. By elimination he deduces that the winner is Anthony Innocent Vincent, the town drunk, and reasons that he didnt turn up because he knew that he had won the top prize. Hoping to at least extract his commission, he goes to Anthonys house, and finds him dead, the winning ticket clutched in his hand and a happy expression on his face. ........

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