Khosla Ka Ghosla

2006. India. Directed by Dibakar Banerjee. Screenplay by Jaideep Sahni. A runaway hit comedy featuring many of Bollywood's most beloved stars, including Anupam Kher, Boman Irani, Ranvir Shorey, and Parvin Dabas. A middle-class family man from Delhi (Kher) sinks his entire life savings into a suburban plot on which to build his dream house, only to be swindled by a greedy land shark (Irani). How the neurotic patriarch and his dysfunctional family—shrewish wife, shallow daughter, disdainful older son, good-for-nothing younger son—manage to turn the tables on the crotch-scratching extortionist and his goons, and still find time for a song-and-dance routine, is a shaggy (under)dog story worthy of Frank Capra. In Hindi, English subtitles. 135 min.