Hrishikesh Mukherjee made many simple slice of the life films and this one is no different.

Due to circumstances, the father (Utpal Dutt) concocts theory that English speaking educated girls are bad and goes on a quest to find a simpleton instead. It is this that forms the crux, add to it a rotating cast of characters and you have a comic film. The director doesn't surprisingly dwell much on the question of whether westernization is affecting the Indian culture in negative ways and what he purports to be the answer (nary a statement here and there via Utpal Dutt's mouth on this complex dilemna).

But then, Hrishikesh Mukerjee was there to entertain the viewer and probably had that thing in mind first and foremost. What does let this film down is the sound score. Bappi Lahiri was no Salil Chaudhary(composer for his classic 'Anand' ) or equivalent to Shankar Jaikishan (composer for his film Anari).

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