Basu Chatterjee Essential Collection (Set of 9 DVDs- Khatta Meetha/Baton Baton Mein/Pasand Apni Apni/Ek Ruka Hua Faisla/Shaukeen/Lakhon Ki Baat/Chameli Ki Shadi/Do Ladke Dono Kadke/Apne Paraye)

Khatta Meetha Homi Mistry (Ashok Kumar) has been a widower for several years now and looks after his four sons, their small house and a job at the factory. Nargis Sethna has been widowed, is a housewife, has two sons and a daughter and a large house. Then Soli (David), Nargis' and Homi's friend, suggests that the two get married, then at least the children will have a mother and her, as well as a larger house. They do get married and hilarious chaos results, as the family and the children try to accommodate each other and fit in with their new family and surroundings. Baton Baton Mein Rosie Perreira is an overly anxious widow, living with her guitar-obsessed son, Sabhi and a lovely daughter, Nancy, who she would like to get married to a wealthy young man. Her helpful neighbour, Tom, introduces a young eligible Tony Braganza to Nancy in the 9:10 AM Western Railway local train from Bandra to Church gate. Tom also asks Nancy to introduce Tony to Rosie, which she does. Rosie is initially apprehensive about him as he only drawing a mere Rs.300 compared to Nancy's Rs.700, but soon changes her mind when she finds out that after his probationary period he will draw a monthly pay of Rs.1000. Nancy and Tom are permitted to meet and both eventually fall in love. While Nancy wants to follow her mother's directions and get married, Tony is hesitant and this is what costs him Nancy's love, as she starts to feel that he will not come through with the marriage and soon Rosie starts looking elsewhere for a son-in-law, while Tony is still reluctant to make any commitments. Pasand Apni Apni Sandeep Anand is a wealthy industrialist. He runs an organization and falls in love with one of his employees named Geeta, who comes from a lower middle class family and wants to marry a man in the same class. Sandeep convinces her that he works for Mr. Anand and both fall in love. When Geeta and her family find out that Sandeep has been lying to them, they have him arrested for impersonation. When Sandeep convinces the that he is indeed the real Sandeep Anand, he is released. When Sandeep attempts to woo Geeta back, she will have nothing to do with him, as he lied to her. Sandeep will now have to prove his love for Geeta all over again. Ek Ruka Hua Faisla Twelve male members of a jury gather together in an enclosed room to deliberate their decision on a charge of murder against a young man who has been accused of killing his elderly her. All of the jury, save for one, are convinced of this young man's guilt and they would like to convince their colleague also to come to the same unanimous decision. But will they be able to convince him to change his verdict? Shaukeen Choudhry, Jagdishbhai and Inder Sen are old friends in their early sixties, but believe they are in still in their forties. While Choudhry lives with his wife, Sita, Inder is widowed and Jagdish is divorced. Their weakness is smoking, alcohol and women. While they are able to satisfy they need for the first two vices, they are unable to openly indulge with women to their hearts' content while in Bombay. When Sita decides to take a religious pilgrimage, the three decide to travel out of town, and have fun with women. They hire a car driver named Sakharam, who takes them to Goa, and once there, he drives them to a night-club, which has a dancer and singer named Anita. All three friends find Anita gorgeous and would love to be with her. They plan to individually spend time with her, but Murphy's law prevails with hilarious results. Lakhon Ki Baat Freelance photographer, Alok Prakash, while photographing women hockey players in action, is hit by the puck, loses his senses and his hospitalized. His brother-in-law, a lawyer by the name of Prem Sagar, decides to capitalize on this accident and to sue Alok's employer for a large sum of money, so that they can live comfortably for the rest of their lives. He explains his plan to Alok and asks the rest of the family also to go on with this charadewith hilarious resultsthat will change their lives forever. Chameli Ki Shadi: Charandas lives a poor lifestyle in a small town in India along with his older brother, Bhajandas and Bhabhi. He is unemployed and commits himself to be a wrestler with Ustad Mastram Pahelwan, who gets him to promise to be celibate until he is 40 years of age. But when Charandas meets with a school student, Chameli, the daughter of a low-caste Coal merchant, both fall head-over-heels in love with each other, go on dates, exchange love letters, much to the chagrin of Chameli's dad, Kallumal, who has plans to be the next Municipal Chairman and mom, Champa, who decide to enlist the help of Champa's brother, Chaganlal, as well as arrange Chameli's marriage with Advocate Makhan, the son of Lachuram, who is of their caste. As events hilarious spiral out of control, Charandas must now decide whether he prefers to be known as the semi-senile lover, Majnu or as Prithviraj Chauhan, who dared to abduct his future wife, amidst stiff all-round sition. Do Ladke Dono Kadke Two petty thieves decide to rob a house that kippers had decided to kip a child from, what results is chaos, as the child ends up with the petty thieves, and both the thieves and the kippers cling the ransom and assorted characters showing up to cl the reward offered by the child's parents. Apne Paraye Sidheshwari is the wife of an advocate in Calcutta and lives in a joint family along with her three children her husband's lazy and wastrel cousin, Chander, his wife, Sheila and their two children. Sheila runs the financial affairs of this household without any question and keeps on urging her husband to find some work, after he squanders several thousand Rupees in one failed business after another. Things change dramatically when advocate Harish moves in along with his wife, Naintara and son, Atul. As a result, Sheila, Chander and her children are abused and must leave to move into their house in a village. Shortly after they re-locate, word gets to Harish that Chander has not given up his ways, is squandering money and even refuses to send any money derived from their farmland. As a result, Harish moves the courts to evict Chander and also accuse him and Sheila of stealing money and jewellery. Watch what impact this has on the already-strained relations and the impact this has on their respective children.

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