Saas bahu aur Sensex

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name = Saas bahu aur Sensex


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director = Shona Urvashi
producer = Jayshri Makhija
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starring = Tanushree Dutta,
Ankur Khanna,
Kiron Kher,
Farooq Sheikh
music = Bipin and Blaze (direction)
Raqueeb Alam
Blaze (lyrics)
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released = 19 September, 2008
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website = http://www.saasbahusensex.com
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imdb_id = 1241334

"Saas bahu aur Sensex" is a Bollywood film which released 19 September, 2008 directed by Shona Urvashi.

ynopsis

With her mother suddenly divorcing her father and leaving their comfortable home in Kolkata, Nitya finds herself in the new environs of Navi Mumbai.

Finding her bearings, in a new city, letting go of her ambition to study in the USA for her MBA, and to begin work at a call centre is tough. She finds it a little easier however to cope with the situation, courtesy her newfound friend, Ritesh Jetmalani.

Ritesh is the nicest guy on the planet, and maybe even in the universe. Nitya’s mother Binita Sen is troubled by her failed marriage. She hopes to find the new start she needs, in New Mumbai. She is befriended by the women in the colony and joins their kitty parties. She knows her daughter is angry with her and blames her for their situation, but believes that this was their best alternative to find their own place under the sun.

Kirti Wagaskar who is Ritesh girlfriend is no ordinary middle class girl; she plans to marry RICH. She hates her elder sister Parimal’s life who is a housewife to her grouchy traditional husband, Ganpatrao. Serving Coffee at Costa’s, she spends an entire month’s salary on a Gucci bag and dreams of landing Yash Modi, a billionaire by birth.

Binita’s father had left her some shares and she traces her father’s old stock broking house to figure out the maze of the stock market reality. Here she meets Firoz Sethna an ethical but cranky and eccentric stock broker who teaches her the ropes of correct investing.

In the meantime, the group of kitty party ladies, feel, that Binita is up to something dubious, they haven’t got the gossip on her... And why did she leave her husband. However later they come to know that she is trying to sell stocks. Nitya realizes that her mother getting together with these amateur investors who have switched from watching soaps to watching CNBC, to look for investing opportunities, even if they are “aunties” it is cool after all.

One day in Nitya's call center she is bored because she did not get a call for a very long time, forgetting to log off she goes to drink water When the CEO's of two companies are visiting the office. Hearing the CEO's coming into the room she accidentally drops the cup under the table and stays there. She heared their conservation and went to tell her mother that they are going to get their children married. Hearing this news Binita tells her friends to invest in their companies because the stock prices are likely to go up with the marriage.

With all kitty ladies invested emotionally and financially in the company, Ritesh marrying Kirti is best for everyone and Nitya, despite her feelings for Ritesh, watches the wedding morning arrive in silence. Binita sees her daughter’s dilemma and finally tells her the real reason for her coming to New Mumbai. Her husband had left her for a younger woman, and she didn’t want her daughter to deal with the pressure or gossip nor did she want to be dependent on him.

When the wedding day arrives Kirti is caught running away and when asked she tells that she wanted to marry Yash Modi. Hearing this news everyone is saddened because they all had invested in his company. After some time some foreign investors decided to invest in the company which shot the SENSEX from 8000 to 30000 in a few days. [cite web|title=Movie Preview: Saas Bahu Aur Sensex|url=http://www.desiroots.com/movies/17/saas-bahu-aur-sensex.aspx| accessdaymonth=23 September | accessyear=2008]

Cast

Masumi Makhija as Kirti
Mukta Barve as Parimal
Anoushka Anand as Sania
Karthik Ramachandran as Karthik
Seema Azmi as Lata
Tanushree Dutta
Ankur Khanna
Kiron Kher
Farooq Sheikh
Lillete Dubey
Piyush Jha

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