Main Meri Patni Aur Woh (मैं मेरी पत्नी और वो)(Hindi, 2005)

Every once in a while, a movie comes along which charms your way into your heart with just its simplicity. No big budget, foreign locations, exotic stories or stars with style. Just a bunch of good actors in an interesting story about people like you and me. There was this era of wonderful telefilms shown on doordarshan in '80s which somehow just ended.

Main Meri Patni Aur Woh is the story of Mithilesh Shukla (Rajpal Yadav), a short, average-looking, reserved sort of guy who gets married to a tall, beautiful, outgoing girl Veena (Rituparna Sengupta). The films traces Mithilesh's inferiority complexes and the doubts arising in his mind regarding his wife because he does not consider himself worthy of her. The arrival of her friend, the smart and charming Akash (Kay Kay Menon) intensifies his complexes.

The movie portrays the situation in a light mood, making us laugh at Mithilesh and sympathise with him at the same time. Absolutely brilliant acting by Rajpal Yadav, in a role which relies on his facial expressions a lot, ably supported by other actors as well. The movie is well-paced, the story very earthy, the language very normal and undramatic. It charms you with sheer simplicity of execution. And it charms with the simple love that Mithilesh and Veena share. No dying for each other stuff, simple living with each other.

Recommendation - Go get the DVD now!
Rating - ✔✔✔