Golmaal was entirely shot in my Bandra bungalow in just 40 days - Hrishikesh Mukherjee : Bollywood News

Utpal Dutt, the master improviser

However, the best character of the film was Bhavani Shankar, essayed by the late Utpal Dutt. When we worked on his role we added certain traits to make it interesting and entertaining. Thus he was portrayed as a strict disciplinarian, a little idiosyncratic at times but basically a soft-hearted man. Utpal Dutt was a unique actor. I knew him from the time he was a theatre actor in Calcutta. In real life too, he was a serious man. But I knew that he had a great comic timing. In my previous film, Guddi, his role was limited so I couldnt exploit his talent much, but Golmaal made up amply for that! He listened patiently to my explanations and if he had suggestions, he promptly voiced them. Many times he performed a particular scene in his own style. He was a master improviser who acted spontaneously. It reminds me of the scene towards the end of the film, when he discovers that Ram Prasad and Lakshman Prasad are one and the same. On realising that he had been fooled, he becomes frantic and chases him with a pistol in hand. While doing so he looks inside a flower-pot as if looking for Amol. This was something he did in the

spur of the moment. But that scene had comic impact. It had the audiences rolling with laughter.

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"Golmaal was entirely shot in my Bandra bungalow in just 40 days" - Hrishikesh Mukherjee