Kay Dyache Bola

''Kaydyacha Bola'' (transl. 'Speak About Law') is a 2005 Indian Marathi-language comedy-drama film directed by Chandrakant Kulkarni and produced by Uday Tamhankar. The film stars Makarand Anaspure, Sharvari Jamenis, Sachin Khedekar, and Mohan Agashe in lead roles with Nirmiti Sawant, Umesh Kamat, Akshay Pendse, and Pushkar Shrotri in supporting roles. It is the story of an inexperienced lawyer stepping in to defend his two nephews who are accused to murder. The film is a remake of Jonathan Lynn's ''My Cousin Vinny'' (1992).

Plot

Two close friends and engineering college students Abhijeet Vaidya (Umesh Kamat) and Harshavardhan Ghodke ( Akshay Pendse) lie to their respective parents and plan to travel to Mumbai from their relatives' red-coloured Scorpio car. After reaching their destination the next morning, the duo halts at a petrol pump in Chembur on the Mumbai-Pune Highway. Over there, they get the tyres of their car filled with air by a mechanic named Prabhudeva Srivastava alias Tambi (Samir Choughule), who remembers their car number - "3417" - due to his developed numerical memory. Abhijeet and Harshavardhan then jokingly converse with a dance artist named Saraswatibai Jalgaonkar (Nirmiti Sawant), whose dance troupe has also halted at the petrol pump for their bus repair work. While Harshavardhan is getting petrol filled in their car, Abhijeet goes to buy snacks at a store located in the vicinity. He wakes up the store owner named Prabhakar Sawant (Girish Joshi) from his sleep and persuades him to let him buy snacks from his store. While buying snacks, Abhijeet unintentionally steals a CD to teach him a lesson for his rude behaviour and departs the petrol pump with Harshavardhan.

Soon after, Abhijeet and Harshavardhan are apprehended by the police at the nearby checkpoint for unknown reasons. They initially believe they have been arrested for stealing the CD from the vicinity store and confess their crime before the police department. After being taken to the police station, the duo is shocked to learn that the petrol pump employee Pandurang Raoji Kute, who had filled petrol in their car, was robbed and stabbed to death with a swordstick inside the premises. Due to circumstantial evidence and the confession to the stealing of CD misconstrued as one to the stabbing, Abhijeet is charged with first-degree murder and Harshavardhan as an accessory.

Being lost in a strange city with no contacts, Abhijeet helplessly calls up his ingenuous mother Shaku Vaidya (Amita Khopkar) in his village and tries to explain their position, asking her to somehow free them from this matter. She informs him that his uncle Advocate Keshav Kunthalgirikar (Makarand Anaspure) is an inexperienced but talented lawyer of dubious credentials in their family. Communicated by Shaku, Keshav arrives in Mumbai and visits Abhijeet and Harshavardhan in prison, advising them to be truthful to the court about their involvement in the murder.

Being totally new to the practise of law, Keshav embarrasses himself before the prosecution counsel Advocate Raghav Phadnavis (Sachin Khedekar) and Judge Vishnu Prabhune (Mohan Agashe) on the first hearing of the murder trial. Due to his disrespectful behaviour and failure to follow court etiquette, Prabhune punishes him for contempt of court and sentences him to imprisonment for two days. However, Keshav's girlfriend Neha Deshpande ( Sharvari Jamenis) comes to visit him in Mumbai and bails him out. After a lot of deliberation, the two check into a hotel room where Neha is shown to be romantic and Keshav shy.

During the next hearing of the trial, Keshav argues that the only evidence against Abhijeet and Harshavardhan is circumstancial, which Phadnavis counters by saying that the available evidence is strong enough to convict them. Later, it is shown that Harshavardhan's father Suryakant Ghodke (Arun Nalawade), who is a well-known politician, learns about his and Abhijeet's arrest and decides to arrange for a more experienced lawyer to defend them instead of Keshav. He arranges for Advocate G.B. Godbole (Pushkar Shrotri) but he stutters and stammers constantly and has great difficulty in forming cohesive sentences, leading to a lot of amusement in the court. However, Suryakant is tremendously impressed by Keshav's cross-examination skills of Keshav and fires Godbole, deciding to retain Keshav.

In the following hearing, the prosecution examines Saraswatibai and Tambi who both were present at the petrol pump when the murder took place. Later, the prosecution examines Sawant who is still irritated about the fact that Abhijeet disturbed his sleep, and vociferously states that the murderer could have not been anyone else but he and Harshavardhan. However, Keshav's cross-examination and gap exploitation establishes that Sawant and Saraswatibai's attention was diverted from the petrol pump around the time of the murder, and thus the possibility of another red-coloured Scorpio car being present over there cannot be ruled out, thus creating reasonable doubt. Finally, the investigating officer of the case Inspector P.J. Ambildhake (Ganesh Yadav) is cross-examined where Keshav even discusses the probability of the police manipulating evidence to trap Abhijeet and Harshavardhan which further weakens the prosecution case.

At the end of the hearing, Prabhune is confused upon not receiving any information about any so-called lawyer by the name of "Keshav Kunthalgirikar" practising law in any courts. At this point, Keshav fools him that his real name is "Keshav Mande", and that he changed his surname to "Kunthalgirikar" as all the law college students teased him by the name of his village Kunthalgiri. After a couple of days, Prabhune grows suspicious after meeting another advocate by the name of Keshav Mande, and questions Keshav about his real name. However, Keshav manages to fool him once again by saying that he had misheard his surname, which is actually "Dhande", and not Mande. Later that day, Keshav and Neha learn that Keshav's family members (including Shaku) have come to visit him and Abhijeet in Mumbai. Keshav announces that he is going to marry Neha which leaves everyone surprised.

That night, Phadnavis, seemingly impressed with the novice Keshav's advocacy skills, invites him to his farmhouse for a drink. During their meeting, Phadnavis carefully teases around Keshav's law school days, his graduation, and his initial days as a lawyer, which Keshav hesitantly answers. He then gets into a debate with Phadnavis about how law and advocacy is more than just about earning money and manipulating the legal system to win cases. This irks Phadnavis who has a record of not losing a single case. He gets infuriated with Keshav and orders him to leave, swearing that he will destroy his case in the next hearing.

In the final hearing, Keshav concludes his arguments and has seemingly succeeded in convincing Prabhune of Abhijeet and Harshavardhan's innocence. However, Phadnavis twists the tale and asks for permission to cross-examine "Keshav" as a witness, much to everyone's puzzlement. Phadnavis asks Keshav under oath about his shaky professional history and eventually, it is revealed that Keshav never passed the bar or obtained a license to practise law. On this ground, Phadnavis applies to the court for a re-trial of the case with a qualified lawyer to represent Abhijeet and Harshavardhan. Keshav admits his mistake. He then goes on to make an emotional speech about how the law was meant to uphold justice and serve the needy and instead, laments that it has become a tool for people like Phadnavis to exploit technical loopholes in the procedure to strongarm cases in their favour, at the expense of the poor and needy who end up with nothing in their hands. As regards the case, Keshav creates more reasonable doubt by explaining that the angle of the wounds found on Pandurang Kute's dead body strongly indicates that the murderer should have been a left-hander and points out that both his clients are right-handers.

Prabhune then gets to know that some criminals with a red-coloured Scorpio car were arrested few days ago in Pune, and that they are presumably related to the petrol pump murder as well. He, on a basis of reasonable doubt, announces a verdict of not guilty for Abhijeet and Harshavardhan, much to the relief of them and Keshav. However, given that Keshav has committed a crime by practising law without a license, Prabhune orders a trial against Keshav for cheating and contempt of court. In the end, Abhijeet and Harshavardhan profusely thank Keshav and apologise to him for what everything cost him. Keshav even promises Neha that he will get married to her soon after being released from prison. The film ends with everyone celebrating Keshav's victory while he is being taken to prison from a decorated police truck.

Cast

* Makarand Anaspure as Advocate Keshav Kunthalgirikar alias Mande alias Dhande
* Sharvari Jamenis as Neha Deshpande (Keshav's girlfriend)
* Sachin Khedekar as Advocate Raghav Phadnavis (prosecution counsel)
* Mohan Agashe as Judge Vishnu Prabhune
* Umesh Kamat as Abhijeet Vaidya (Keshav's nephew)
* Akshay Pendse as Harshavardhan Ghodke (Abhijeet's friend)
* Nirmiti Sawant as Saraswatibai Jalgaonkar (dance artist)
* Girish Joshi as Prabhakar Sawant (store owner)
* Samir Choughule as Prabhudeva Srivastava alias Tambi (mechanic)
* Ganesh Yadav as Inspector P.J. Ambildhake (investigating officer)
* Pushkar Shrotri as Advocate G.B. Godbole (Harshavardhan's attorney)
* Arun Nalawade as Suryakant Ghodke (Harshavardhan's father)
* Amita Khopkar as Shaku Vaidya (Abhijeet's mother)
* Sanjay Mone as Bhai (serial gambler)

Soundtrack

The music is provided by Tyagraj Khadilkar.

References

External links

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Movie Review - mouthshut.com

Movie Review - tv.burrp.com

Dr Uday Tamhankar's Blog
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2005 films
2000s Marathi-language films
Films directed by Chandrakant Kulkarni
Indian comedy films
Indian remakes of American films
Indian courtroom films