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'''''Malamaal Weekly''''' is a 2006 Indian [[Hindi]]-language [[comedy film]] written and directed by [[Priyadarshan]] and starring [[Paresh Rawal]], [[Om Puri]], [[Riteish Deshmukh]], [[Rajpal Yadav]] and [[Asrani]]. The film received mixed reviews from critics, but was successful at the box office, grossing ₹42.7 [[crore]] against a budget of ₹7 [[crore]]. The film was remade in Telugu as ''[[Bhagyalakshmi Bumper Draw]]'' and in Kannada as '' Dakota Picture''. Priyadarshan himself remade the film in [[Malayalam]] as ''[[Aamayum Muyalum]]''.
'''''Malamaal Weekly''''' is a 2006 Indian [[Hindi]]-language [[comedy film]] written and directed by [[Priyadarshan]] and starring [[Paresh Rawal]], [[Om Puri]], [[Riteish Deshmukh]], [[Rajpal Yadav]] and [[Asrani]]. The film received mixed reviews from critics, but was successful at the box office, grossing ₹42.7 [[crore]] against a budget of ₹7 [[crore]]. Based on ''[[Waking Ned]]'' (1998),<ref>{{cite web |title=Priyan’s remake Darshan - The Economic Times |url=https://m.economictimes.com/industry/media/entertainment/priyans-remake-darshan/articleshow/2036196.cms |access-date=2 February 2021 |archive-date=9 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211109203853/https://m.economictimes.com/industry/media/entertainment/priyans-remake-darshan/articleshow/2036196.cms |url-status=live }}</ref> the film was remade in Telugu as ''[[Bhagyalakshmi Bumper Draw]]'' and in Kannada as ''[[Dakota Picture]]''. Priyadarshan himself remade the film in [[Malayalam]] as ''[[Aamayum Muyalum]]''.


==Plot==
==Plot==
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 (''malamal'' is [[Hindi]] for 'rich').
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. One of the few entertainments the villagers can afford is the [[lottery]], Malaamal Weekly (''malamal'' is [[Hindi]] for 'rich').


Lilaram ([[Paresh Rawal]]) is the only educated man in the village. He has the job of intermediary between the lottery organization 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 realizes that one of the tickets has won the top prize of one [[crore]] (10 million Indian currency or about $160,000, 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 wife's beloved pet goat Gattu who is like a child to her, to the Thakurani 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 (actor)|Innocent]]), the town drunk, and reasons that he didn't turn up because he knew that he had won the top prize. Hoping to at least extract his commission, he goes to Anthony's house, and finds him dead, the winning ticket clutched in his hand and a happy expression on his face.
Lilaram is the only educated man in the village. He has the job of intermediary between the lottery organization 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 realizes that one of the tickets has won the top prize of one [[crore]] (10 million Indian currency or about $160,000, 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 wife's beloved pet goat Gattu, who is like a child to her, to the Thakurani 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, the town drunk, and reasons that he didn't turn up because he knew that he had won the top prize. Hoping to at least extract his commission, he goes to Anthony's house and finds him dead, the winning ticket clutched in his hand and a happy expression on his face.


Lilaram attempts to pry the ticket from Anthony's fingers but is thwarted by Anthony's body in [[rigor mortis]]. Lilaram eventually succeeds in freeing it with a knife; at this point Ballu ([[Om Puri]]), the local dairy farmer, enters the house and discovers him standing over Anthony's corpse with what appears to be the murder weapon in his hand. Ballu's unfortunate assistant Kanhaiya ([[Ritesh Deshmukh|Riteish]]) has a hard time of following Ballu's orders and makes a lot of mistakes. He has emotional involvement with Ballu's daughter Sukhmani ([[Reema Sen]]) also joined with them. Lilaram tells Ballu the truth and convinces him to remain silent in exchange for sharing the lottery winnings between them.
Lilaram attempts to pry the ticket from Anthony's fingers but is thwarted by Anthony's body in [[rigor mortis]]. Lilaram eventually succeeds in freeing it with a knife; at this point Ballu, the local dairy farmer, enters the house and discovers him standing over Anthony's corpse with what appears to be the murder weapon in his hand. Lilaram tells Ballu the truth and convinces him to remain silent in exchange for sharing the lottery winnings between them. Soon they are encountered by Ballu's unfortunate assistant, Kanhaiya, who has had a hard time following Ballu's orders. He has emotional involvement with Ballu's daughter, Sukhmani. On Ballu's promise that if he also joins them, he would marry Sukhmani to him, he agrees to join the two of them.


Unfortunately for them, before dying Anthony managed to call the lottery commission and give his name and address, as well as his sister and several people to whom he owed money to tell them of his good fortune. The secret soon becomes impossible to keep, and Lilaram must figure out how to fool the lottery inspector ([[Arbaaz Khan]]), who is on high way to the village to interview Anthony. To cover up the whole incident as per the plan of Lilaram, Ballu acted as living Antony and the inspector became satisfied. After that Ballu, Kanhaiya and Lilaram are introduced to a solitary man named Joseph ([[Shakti Kapoor]]) as Kanhaiya also fails to hide Anthony's body but has a secret romance with Sukhmani. All of them successfully buried Antony but unfortunately, Bajbahadur aka Bajey ([[Rajpal Yadav]]), brother of Thakurani knew their secret plan and Antony's death case. He started threatening them. Some days later, Chokeylal ([[Asrani]]) Kanhaiya's father comes to the village and hears of Kanhaiya's insolence which prompts him to lock his own son in Ballu's barn because Kanhaiya obstructing the plan of getting money from the lottery. Later, Gattu is sold by Thakurani to the butchers and Leela and his wife come to know about this and are heartbroken. At night Lilaram, Ballu, Chokey and Joseph manage to catch Baje. But they fail to kidnap Bajey and accidentally kidnap Joseph by mistake. Bajey was kidnapped by another gang of nearby village due to their personal vendetta.
Unfortunately for them, before dying Anthony managed to call the lottery commission and give his name and address, as well as his sister and several people to whom he owed money, to tell them of his good fortune. The secret soon becomes impossible to keep, and Lilaram must figure out how to fool the lottery inspector, who is on his way to the village to interview Anthony. To cover up the whole incident as per the plan of Lilaram, Ballu acted as living Antony, and the inspector became satisfied. After that, Ballu, Kanhaiya, and Lilaram are introduced to a solitary man named Joseph, as Kanhaiya also fails to hide Anthony's body but has a secret romance with Sukhmani. All of them successfully buried Antony, but unfortunately, Bajbahadur, aka Bajey, brother of Thakurani, knew their secret plan and Antony's death case. He started threatening them. Some days later, Chokeylal Kanhaiya's father comes to the village and hears of Kanhaiya's insolence, which prompts him to lock his son in Ballu's barn because Kanhaiya is obstructing the plan of getting money from the lottery. Sukhmani attempts suicide the day after, which makes Ballu reconsider freeing Kanhaiya only to find out that he had already escaped. Later, Gattu is sold by Thakurani to the butchers, and Leela and his wife come to know about this and are heartbroken. At night, Lilaram, Ballu, Chokey, and Joseph manage to catch Baje. But they fail to kidnap Bajey and accidentally kidnap Joseph by mistake. Bajey was kidnapped by another gang from a nearby village due to their vendetta.


After few days the said Lottery inspector comes to the village and gives the demand draft to Ballu. When he is returning, Thakurani and Bajey's gang try to catch him up to inform the real fact of Antony's lottery ticket. Ballu, Lilaram, Kanhaiya and rest of the villagers try to stop Thakurani and Bajey, ensuing a chaotic chase. Just when Thakurani catches up with the lottery inspector's car, he hits her motorcycle and Thakurani plunges to death in the town river. The villagers let the inspector go in exchange of promise that he would not say a word to anyone. The movie ends with everyone getting rich except for Bajey, who becomes a beggar.
After a few days, the said lottery inspector comes to the village and gives the demand draft to Ballu. When he is returning, Thakurani and Bajey's gang try to catch him up to inform him of the real fact of Antony's lottery ticket. Ballu, Lilaram, Kanhaiya, and the rest of the villagers try to stop Thakurani and Bajey, ensuing a chaotic chase. Just when Thakurani catches up with the lottery inspector's car, he hits her motorcycle, and Thakurani plunges to death in the town river. The villagers let the inspector go in exchange for a promise that he would not say a word to anyone. The movie ends with everyone getting rich except for Bajey, who becomes a beggar.


==Cast==
==Cast==
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* [[Ritesh Deshmukh]] as Kanhaiya
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* [[Reema Sen]] as Sukhmani
* [[Paresh Rawal]] as Lilaram aka Leela
* [[Paresh Rawal]] as Lilaram aka Leela
* [[Om Puri]] as Balwant Singh Ballu / Fake Joseph Anthony Fernandes
* [[Om Puri]] as Balwant Singh Ballu / Fake Joseph Anthony Fernandes
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* [[Ritesh Deshmukh]] as Kanhaiya
* [[Rajpal Yadav]] as Bajey Singh Bajbahadur
* [[Rajpal Yadav]] as Bajey Singh Bajbahadur
* [[Asrani]] as Chokheylal, Kanhaiya's father
* [[Asrani]] as Chokheylal, Kanhaiya's father
* [[Shakti Kapoor]] as Joseph
* [[Shakti Kapoor]] as Joseph
* [[Sudha Chandran]] as Thakurain
* [[Sudha Chandran]] as Thakurain
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* [[Reema Sen]] as Sukhmani
* [[Arbaaz Khan]] as Jayesh Agarwal, the lottery inspector
* [[Arbaaz Khan]] as Jayesh Agarwal, the lottery inspector
* [[Rasika Joshi]] as Mary
* [[Rasika Joshi]] as Mary
* [[Sona Nair]] as Tara (Lilaram's wife)
* [[Sona Nair]] as Tara (Lilaram's wife)
* [[Geetha Vijayan]]
* [[Rakhi Sawant]] as an [[item number]] "Kismat Se Chalti Hai"
* [[Rakhi Sawant]] as an [[item number]] "Kismat Se Chalti Hai"
* [[Innocent (actor)|Innocent]] as Joseph Anthony Fernandes ([[Tiku Talsania]] as the Hindi dubbing voice)
* [[Innocent (actor)|Innocent]] as Joseph Anthony Fernandes ([[Tiku Talsania]] as the Hindi dubbing voice)
* [[Geetha Vijayan]] (uncredited)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nowrunning.com/news/malayalam/malayalam-serials-my-bread-and-butter-geetha-vijayan/6559/story.htm|title=Malayalam serials my bread and butter: Geetha Vijayan|date=10 May 2006|work=Nowrunning|agency=[[Indo-Asian News Service|IANS]]|access-date=29 February 2024|archive-date=29 February 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240229231520/https://www.nowrunning.com/news/malayalam/malayalam-serials-my-bread-and-butter-geetha-vijayan/6559/story.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Major Ravi]] as Census Officer{{div col end}}

==Production==
The film was initially titled ''Hai Yeh Paisa''. This movie was shot on a village set near [[Karaikudi]], [[Tamil Nadu]]. <ref>{{Cite web |last=Rao |first=Kshama |date=March 8, 2006 |title=Every film teaches something: Riteish |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/every-film-teaches-something-riteish/story-KWsXviIuhiCzZHPM7UND2K.html |access-date=August 13, 2024 |website=Hindustan Times}}</ref>


==Soundtrack==
==Soundtrack==
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| title2 = Kismat Se Chalti Hai
| title2 = Kismat Se Chalti Hai
| extra2 = [[Vaishali Samant]]
| extra2 = [[Vaishali Samant]], Nitin Raikwar
| length2 =
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| title3 = Sar Sar Sar Sarti Hava
| title3 = Sar Sar Sar Sarti Hava
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===Critical reception===
===Critical reception===
The ''[[Hindustan Times]]'' was broadly positive about ''Malaamal Weekly'', with two reviewers awarding it two and three stars but lauding "the sheer pleasure" of Rawal and Puri's comic performances.<ref>{{cite news| title='Malamaal Weekly' funny but not too stylish| date=13 March 2006| work = Hindustan Times}}</ref> Most reviewers, however, were more negative. The [[BBC]] gave the film two out of five stars, citing a "weak script" and saying that the humour of ''Waking Ned'' had been "lost in translation."<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2006/03/13/malamaal_weekly_2006_review.shtml
The ''[[Hindustan Times]]'' was broadly positive about ''Malaamal Weekly'', with two reviewers awarding it two and three stars but lauding "the sheer pleasure" of Rawal and Puri's comic performances.<ref>{{cite news| title='Malamaal Weekly' funny but not too stylish| date=13 March 2006| work = Hindustan Times}}</ref> Most reviewers, however, were more negative. The [[BBC]] gave the film two out of five stars, citing a "weak script" and saying that the humour of ''Waking Ned'' had been "lost in translation."<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2006/03/13/malamaal_weekly_2006_review.shtml| access-date=2006-05-11| title=Malaamal Weekly| first=Poonam| last=Joshi| date=3 March 2006| publisher=[[BBC]]| archive-date=16 October 2022| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221016011933/https://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2006/03/13/malamaal_weekly_2006_review.shtml| url-status=live}}</ref> Molodezhnaja.ch concurred, repeatedly complaining that the film was too long, had only one song and the rest consisting of "repetitive scenes, long, no, ''endless'' dialogue and a poor finale," giving it 2.5 stars on the basis of "a few laughs and solid casting."<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.molodezhnaja.ch/malamaalweekly.htm| access-date=2006-05-11| title=Malaamal Weekly| date=7 May 2006| publisher=Molodezhnaja| language=de| archive-date=22 June 2006| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060622170717/http://molodezhnaja.ch/malamaalweekly.htm| url-status=live}}</ref>
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It did at least give the single song credit for "breaking up the otherwise monotonous events"; rediff.com described it as "the worst Bollywood song ever" in addition to summing the film up as "simply pathetic."<ref>{{cite web| url=http://in.rediff.com/movies/2006/mar/10mal.htm| access-date=2006-05-11| title=Malaamal: Simply pathetic!| first=Patcy| last=N| date=10 March 2006| work=rediff.com| archive-date=30 April 2006| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060430213643/http://in.rediff.com/movies/2006/mar/10mal.htm| url-status=live}}</ref>
| access-date=2006-05-11| title=Malaamal Weekly| first=Poonam
| last=Joshi| date=3 March 2006
| publisher=[[BBC]]}}</ref> Molodezhnaja.ch concurred, repeatedly complaining that the film was too long, had only one song and the rest consisting of "repetitive scenes, long, no, ''endless'' dialogue and a poor finale," giving it 2.5 stars on the basis of "a few laughs and solid casting."<ref>{{cite web
| url=http://www.molodezhnaja.ch/malamaalweekly.htm| access-date=2006-05-11| title=Malaamal Weekly| date=7 May 2006| publisher=Molodezhnaja|language=de}}</ref>
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It did at least give the single song credit for "breaking up the otherwise monotonous events"; rediff.com described it as "the worst Bollywood song ever" in addition to summing the film up as "simply pathetic."<ref>{{cite web| url=http://in.rediff.com/movies/2006/mar/10mal.htm | access-date=2006-05-11| title=Malaamal: Simply pathetic!| first=Patcy| last=N| date=10 March 2006| work=rediff.com}}</ref> Priyadarshan shrugged off the poor reviews, claiming "My films have never been given good reviews in Mumbai. I'd get seriously worried about my films the day they're reviewed favourably."<ref>{{cite news| title=Priyadarshan, Sanjay Dutt shoot pro-chicken ad| date=17 March 2006| work=Hindustan Times}}</ref>


===Box office===
===Box office===
Despite the mixed reviews, the film was a surprise hit at the box office. As of April 2006, the film was the top grosser in Delhi.<ref>{{cite news| title=Top grossers of 2006, so far| date=11 April 2006|work = Hindustan Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| title=Mercury rises in Bollywood boulevard| date=30 April 2006 |work = Hindustan Times}}</ref> Made on a budget of ₹7 crore, the film grossed ₹42.7 crore worldwide.<ref name=BO>{{cite web |title=Malamaal Weekly – Movie |url=https://boxofficeindia.com/movie.php?movieid=366 |publisher=[[Box Office India]] |access-date=16 July 2019}}</ref>
Made on a budget of ₹7 crore, the film grossed ₹42.7 crore worldwide.<ref name=BO>{{cite web |title=Malamaal Weekly – Movie |url=https://boxofficeindia.com/movie.php?movieid=366 |publisher=[[Box Office India]] |access-date=16 July 2019 |archive-date=21 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240221114424/https://boxofficeindia.com/movie.php?movieid=366 |url-status=live }}</ref>


==Remakes==
==Remakes==
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| 2006
| 2006
| [[Bhagyalakshmi Bumper Draw]]
| ''[[Bhagyalakshmi Bumper Draw]]''
| [[Telugu language|Telugu]]
| [[Telugu language|Telugu]]
| Nidhi Prasad
| Nidhi Prasad
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|-
| 2012
| 2012
| [[Dakota Picture]]
| ''[[Dakota Picture]]''
| [[Kannada]]
| [[Kannada]]
| [[Om Prakash Rao]]
| [[Om Prakash Rao]]
|-
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| 2014
| 2014
| [[Aamayum Muyalum]]
| ''[[Aamayum Muyalum]]''
| [[Malayalam]]
| [[Malayalam]]
| [[Priyadarshan]]
| [[Priyadarshan]]
|}
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==Future==
==Sequel==
A sequel was planned later, which was directed by Priyadarshan, the title of [[Kamaal Dhamaal Malamaal]]. It starred [[Shreyas Talpade]], [[Nana Patekar]], [[Paresh Rawal]], [[Om Puri]], Dr.[[Rajeev Pillai]] and [[Rajpal Yadav]]; the rest of the cast. Though later director [[Priyadarshan]] claimed that movie was not a sequel but a reboot.
A sequel was planned later, which was directed by Priyadarshan, the title of [[Kamaal Dhamaal Malamaal]]. It starred [[Shreyas Talpade]], [[Nana Patekar]], [[Paresh Rawal]], [[Om Puri]], Dr.[[Rajeev Pillai]] and [[Rajpal Yadav]]; the rest of the cast.
== See also ==
* [[Waking Ned]]
* [[Priyadarshan filmography|Filmography of Priyadarshan]]


==References==
==References==
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[[Category:2006 comedy films]]
[[Category:2006 comedy films]]
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[[Category:2000s Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:Indian comedy films]]
[[Category:Indian comedy films]]
[[Category:Indian films about gambling]]
[[Category:Indian remakes of British films]]
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[[Category:Hindi films remade in other languages]]
[[Category:Hindi films remade in other languages]]
[[Category:Films directed by Priyadarshan]]
[[Category:Films directed by Priyadarshan]]
[[Category:Indian remakes of British films]]
[[Category:Films about identity theft]]
[[Category:Films about lotteries]]
[[Category:Films about lotteries]]
[[Category:Films about old age]]
[[Category:Lottery fraud in fiction]]
[[Category:Hindi remakes of English films]]

Latest revision as of 14:33, 15 October 2024

Malamaal Weekly
Theatrical release poster
Directed byPriyadarshan
Screenplay byPriyadarshan
Story byPriyadarshan
Based onWaking Ned by Krik Jones
Produced bySuresh Balaje
Starring
Narrated byNaseeruddin Shah
CinematographySameer Arya
Edited byN. Gopalakrishnan
Arun Kumar
Music bySongs:
Javed Ali
Score:
Uttankk V. Vorra
Kannan
Production
companies
Distributed byShanku Films
Release date
  • 10 March 2006 (2006-03-10)
Running time
160 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget₹7 crore[1]
Box office₹42.76 crore[1]

Malamaal Weekly is a 2006 Indian Hindi-language comedy film written and directed by Priyadarshan and starring Paresh Rawal, Om Puri, Riteish Deshmukh, Rajpal Yadav and Asrani. The film received mixed reviews from critics, but was successful at the box office, grossing ₹42.7 crore against a budget of ₹7 crore. Based on Waking Ned (1998),[2] the film was remade in Telugu as Bhagyalakshmi Bumper Draw and in Kannada as Dakota Picture. Priyadarshan himself remade the film in Malayalam as Aamayum Muyalum.

Plot

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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. One of the few entertainments the villagers can afford is the lottery, Malaamal Weekly (malamal is Hindi for 'rich').

Lilaram is the only educated man in the village. He has the job of intermediary between the lottery organization 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 realizes that one of the tickets has won the top prize of one crore (10 million Indian currency or about $160,000, 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 wife's beloved pet goat Gattu, who is like a child to her, to the Thakurani 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, the town drunk, and reasons that he didn't turn up because he knew that he had won the top prize. Hoping to at least extract his commission, he goes to Anthony's house and finds him dead, the winning ticket clutched in his hand and a happy expression on his face.

Lilaram attempts to pry the ticket from Anthony's fingers but is thwarted by Anthony's body in rigor mortis. Lilaram eventually succeeds in freeing it with a knife; at this point Ballu, the local dairy farmer, enters the house and discovers him standing over Anthony's corpse with what appears to be the murder weapon in his hand. Lilaram tells Ballu the truth and convinces him to remain silent in exchange for sharing the lottery winnings between them. Soon they are encountered by Ballu's unfortunate assistant, Kanhaiya, who has had a hard time following Ballu's orders. He has emotional involvement with Ballu's daughter, Sukhmani. On Ballu's promise that if he also joins them, he would marry Sukhmani to him, he agrees to join the two of them.

Unfortunately for them, before dying Anthony managed to call the lottery commission and give his name and address, as well as his sister and several people to whom he owed money, to tell them of his good fortune. The secret soon becomes impossible to keep, and Lilaram must figure out how to fool the lottery inspector, who is on his way to the village to interview Anthony. To cover up the whole incident as per the plan of Lilaram, Ballu acted as living Antony, and the inspector became satisfied. After that, Ballu, Kanhaiya, and Lilaram are introduced to a solitary man named Joseph, as Kanhaiya also fails to hide Anthony's body but has a secret romance with Sukhmani. All of them successfully buried Antony, but unfortunately, Bajbahadur, aka Bajey, brother of Thakurani, knew their secret plan and Antony's death case. He started threatening them. Some days later, Chokeylal Kanhaiya's father comes to the village and hears of Kanhaiya's insolence, which prompts him to lock his son in Ballu's barn because Kanhaiya is obstructing the plan of getting money from the lottery. Sukhmani attempts suicide the day after, which makes Ballu reconsider freeing Kanhaiya only to find out that he had already escaped. Later, Gattu is sold by Thakurani to the butchers, and Leela and his wife come to know about this and are heartbroken. At night, Lilaram, Ballu, Chokey, and Joseph manage to catch Baje. But they fail to kidnap Bajey and accidentally kidnap Joseph by mistake. Bajey was kidnapped by another gang from a nearby village due to their vendetta.

After a few days, the said lottery inspector comes to the village and gives the demand draft to Ballu. When he is returning, Thakurani and Bajey's gang try to catch him up to inform him of the real fact of Antony's lottery ticket. Ballu, Lilaram, Kanhaiya, and the rest of the villagers try to stop Thakurani and Bajey, ensuing a chaotic chase. Just when Thakurani catches up with the lottery inspector's car, he hits her motorcycle, and Thakurani plunges to death in the town river. The villagers let the inspector go in exchange for a promise that he would not say a word to anyone. The movie ends with everyone getting rich except for Bajey, who becomes a beggar.

Cast

[edit]

Production

[edit]

The film was initially titled Hai Yeh Paisa. This movie was shot on a village set near Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu. [4]

Soundtrack

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Malamaal Weekly
Soundtrack album by
Javed Ali
Released10 March 2006 (2006-03-10) (Film)
Recorded2006
GenreFeature Film soundtrack
Length28:11
LanguageHindi
LabelSangeet Music
ProducerJaved Ali
Javed Ali chronology
Dhoom 2
(2006) 		Malamaal Weekly
(2006) 		Golmaal Fun Unlimited
(2006)
Official audio
Malamaal Weekly - Full Album on YouTube

All tracks are written by Javed Ali

Track-List
No.TitleSinger(s)Length
1."Hansani O Meri Hansani"Shreya Ghoshal, chorus 
2."Kismat Se Chalti Hai"Vaishali Samant, Nitin Raikwar 
3."Sar Sar Sar Sarti Hava"Mahalakshmi Iyer 
4."Sun Mere Mitwa"Karsan Sagathia 
5."Yeh Ajooba"Javed Ali Mahalakshmi Iyer 
6."Hansani O Meri Hansani – Remix"Vaishali Samant 
7."Yeh Ajooba – Remix"Mahalakshmi Iyer Javed Ali 
Total length:28:11

Release

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The film was released on 10 March 2006.

Critical reception

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The Hindustan Times was broadly positive about Malaamal Weekly, with two reviewers awarding it two and three stars but lauding "the sheer pleasure" of Rawal and Puri's comic performances.[5] Most reviewers, however, were more negative. The BBC gave the film two out of five stars, citing a "weak script" and saying that the humour of Waking Ned had been "lost in translation."[6] Molodezhnaja.ch concurred, repeatedly complaining that the film was too long, had only one song and the rest consisting of "repetitive scenes, long, no, endless dialogue and a poor finale," giving it 2.5 stars on the basis of "a few laughs and solid casting."[7] It did at least give the single song credit for "breaking up the otherwise monotonous events"; rediff.com described it as "the worst Bollywood song ever" in addition to summing the film up as "simply pathetic."[8]

Box office

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Made on a budget of ₹7 crore, the film grossed ₹42.7 crore worldwide.[1]

Remakes

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Year Title Language Director
2006 Bhagyalakshmi Bumper Draw Telugu Nidhi Prasad
2012 Dakota Picture Kannada Om Prakash Rao
2014 Aamayum Muyalum Malayalam Priyadarshan

Sequel

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A sequel was planned later, which was directed by Priyadarshan, the title of Kamaal Dhamaal Malamaal. It starred Shreyas Talpade, Nana Patekar, Paresh Rawal, Om Puri, Dr.Rajeev Pillai and Rajpal Yadav; the rest of the cast.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Malamaal Weekly – Movie". Box Office India. Archived from the original on 21 February 2024. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  2. ^ "Priyan's remake Darshan - The Economic Times". Archived from the original on 9 November 2021. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  3. ^ "Malayalam serials my bread and butter: Geetha Vijayan". Nowrunning. IANS. 10 May 2006. Archived from the original on 29 February 2024. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
  4. ^ Rao, Kshama (8 March 2006). "Every film teaches something: Riteish". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
  5. ^ "'Malamaal Weekly' funny but not too stylish". Hindustan Times. 13 March 2006.
  6. ^ Joshi, Poonam (3 March 2006). "Malaamal Weekly". BBC. Archived from the original on 16 October 2022. Retrieved 11 May 2006.
  7. ^ "Malaamal Weekly" (in German). Molodezhnaja. 7 May 2006. Archived from the original on 22 June 2006. Retrieved 11 May 2006.
  8. ^ N, Patcy (10 March 2006). "Malaamal: Simply pathetic!". rediff.com. Archived from the original on 30 April 2006. Retrieved 11 May 2006.
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