Saas Bahu Aur Sensex
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| Directed by | Shona Urvashi |
| Written by | Shona Urvashi |
| Produced by | Jayshri Makhija |
| Starring | Tanushree Dutta Ankur Khanna Kiron Kher Farooq Sheikh |
| Cinematography | Diego Rodriguez |
| Edited by | Adesh Verma |
| Music by | Bipin and Blaze (direction) Raqueeb Alam Blaze (lyrics) |
| Distributed by | PLA Entertainment |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Box office | 2.38 Crores |
Saas bahu aur Sensex is a Bollywood film which was released 19 September 2008, directed by Shona Urvashi. It stars Kiron Kher, Tanushree Dutta, Ankur Khanna, Farooque Shaikh, Masumeh Makhija, Lillete Dubey, and Sharon Prabhakar. The film focuses on the complexities of discovering love in the New Mumbai world. This movie is set against the backdrop of stressful financial markets, embarrassing kitty parties, outrageous soap operas, and the ongoing angst and excitement of an ever-emerging India. It is considered part of the Masala film genre, which depicts a spicy mixture of action, comedy, romance, and drama/melodrama.[1]
Synopsis
With her mother suddenly divorcing her father and leaving their comfortable home in Kolkata, Nitya finds herself in the new environs of Navi Mumbai.
Finding her bearings in a new city, whilst letting go of her ambition to study in the USA for her MBA and starting work at a call center, is tough. She finds it a little easier however to cope with the situation, courtesy of her newfound friend, Ritesh Jetmalani, who, she feels, is the nicest guy on the planet, maybe even in the universe.
Kirti Wagaskar, Ritesh's girlfriend, is no ordinary middle-class girl; she plans to marry a rich guy. Serving coffee at Costa’s, she spends an entire month’s salary on a Gucci bag and dreams of marrying Yash Modi, a billionaire by birth. She hates her elder sister Parimal's life which is one of a housewife to her grouchy traditional husband, Ganpatrao.
Nitya’s mother Binita Sen is troubled by her failed marriage. She hopes to find the new start she needs, in New Mumbai. She is befriended by the women in the colony and joins their kitty party. She knows her daughter is angry with her and blames her for their situation, but believes that this was their best alternative to finding their own place under the sun.
Binita’s father had left her some shares and she traces her father’s old stock brokerage house to figure out the maze of the stock market reality. Here she meets Firoz Sethna an ethical but cranky and eccentric stock broker who teaches her the ropes of investing.
In the meantime, the group of kitty party ladies feels that Binita is up to something dubious, they haven’t got the gossip on her... And why did she leave her husband? However, later they come to know that she is trying to sell stocks. Nitya realizes that her mother getting together with these amateur investors who have switched from watching soaps to watching CNBC, to look for investing opportunities Even if they are "aunties" is cool after all.
One day at work, Nitya is bored and goes to get a drink of water when the CEOs of two companies are visiting the office. She accidentally drops the cup under the table and goes to pick it up. Hearing the CEOs coming into the room, she stays there and hears their conversation. She then tells her mother that they are going to get their children married, and hearing this news, Binita tells her friends to invest in their companies because the stock prices are likely to go up with the marriage.
With all kitty ladies invested emotionally and financially in the company, Binita determines that Ritesh marrying Kirti is best for everyone. Nitya, despite her feelings for Ritesh, watches the wedding day arrive in silence. Binita sees her daughter’s dilemma and finally tells her the real reason for her coming to New Mumbai. Her husband had left her for a younger woman, and she didn’t want her daughter to deal with the pressure or gossip nor did she want to be dependent on him.
Cast
- Tanushree Dutta - Nitya Sen
- Masumi Makhija - Kirti
- Mukta Barve - Parimal
- Anoushka Anand - Sania
- Karthik Ramachandran - Karthik
- Sudhanshu Pandey - Yash Modi
- Karishma Chandna - Sweetu
- Seema Azmi - Lata
- Divyatta Singh - Reena Jetmalani
- Ankur Khanna
- Kiron Kher - Vinita Sen
- Farooq Sheikh - Feroz Setna
- Lillete Dubey - Anita Jetmalani
- Yohan Jain - Little Boy in Onscreen T.V
- Shreya Sharma - Thea Pandol
Box office
Saas Bahu Aur Sensex earned 2.38 crores gross and 1.25 crores net in its theatrical run.