I remember, talking my father with his friend about this movie when I was a teen. Who likes Naseer and Farooq at that age, so I never watched it. I watched it first time when I was around 27, during my post-grad yrs and simply fell in love with this movie. Dir Sai Paranjape's details to the atmosphere in chawl, people's attitude, and mostly the facial expression of each characters in the movie is mesmerizing. A brilliant piece of work. It's very difficult to say who was the best in this movie besides Paranjape, but I think it was Naseer who steals the show. Movie starts with Naseer and his "main permanent ho gaya hu" which is very well directed. After that Farooq enters with his magical personality. The treatment given by director for a cup of tea reveals the diff between both characters. Basu gets tea without even moving from his chair, while Rajaram kills himself to get a cup of tea. Then comes the restaurant scene which shows brilliant command of Ms Paranjape. The way Rajaram acts by looking at the waiter, his expressions of his visit to such a restaurant first time are beyond any words. The way he tells Basu to order for him and finally the way Rajaram orders egg curry under the loads of his shyness is brilliant. I can not forget the scene where Rajaram is standing at a bus stop, he hears on radio someone need's blood in hosp, and he goes to hosp right away in a TAXI. After giving blood to a totally unknown person he gets tea and biscuits from hosp and he replies happily "is ki kya jaroorat thi?". That happiness was not from tea/biscuits, it was the satisfaction he gets after giving blood. The whole presentation of his character suffering for himself(standing at a bus stop for himself but going in a taxi for unknown person) was very satisfying for someone like me who loves to watch this kind of very human nature in a movie. Bashu's character also got the director's genius touch. His correction to pronounce GOLF with Naseer, his trying to impress his boss's wife, daughter and boss himself by talking abt his recent love for golf, and his affair with his boss's wife, it was just beautiful! Overall this movie portraits beautifully two totally opposite sides of human nature. Those who love real art must not miss this perfect movie.
