Shoojit Sircar’s new film Gulabo Sitabo follows a bickering duo comprising an elderly landlord Mirza (Amitabh Bachchan) and his young tena...
Shoojit Sircar’s new film Gulabo Sitabo follows a bickering duo comprising an elderly landlord Mirza (Amitabh Bachchan) and his young tenant Banke (Ayushmann Khurrana) in Lucknow. Their bone of contention includes Mirza’s derelict mansion, where Banke lives but does not pay rent. Joining the fray is a government officer (Vijay Raaz) and a lawyer (Brijendra Kala). The film will be out on June 12 on Amazon Prime Video.
Gulabo Sitabo is Sircar’s fourth movie to have been written by Juhi Chaturvedi after Vicky Donor (2012), Piku (2016) and October (2018). The idea for Gulabo Sitabo, Sircar told Scroll.in, came from discussions between him and Chaturvedi about how people who live a “hand-to-mouth existence” like Mirza and Banke, whom they have seen from close quarters, deal with life.
“Like I put a camera in the middle of Piku and I observed that world, we’ve done the same here,” Sircar said. “All I can say about the film at this point is that this is the first time I have tried satire.”
Gulabo Sitabo was initially set in Delhi, but eventually moved to Lucknow, where Chaturvedi was raised. “Old Delhi is not that different from old Lucknow,” Sircar observed. “The old-world charm of places like Chandni Chowk, Delhi Gate, and the Jama Masjid area is similar to, say, Hazratganj and Chowk in Lucknow, where the...
