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"Katha (The Tale)"
1982
Directed by  Sai Paranjpye

This fairly successful musical satire was adapted from Paranjpye's play inspired by the tale of the tortoise and the hare. Rajaram (Naseeruddin Shah) is a slow but steady, upwardly mobile clerk who is in love with Sandhya (Deepti Naval), his neighbor, in a lower-middle-class tenement in Bombay. Rajaram's world is shaken up when the charming Basu (Farouque Shaikh) moves into the tenement and quickly wins three girlfriends, including Sandhya and Rajaram's boss' second wife and daughter. Hindi with English subtitles.