'' Toʻylar muborak '' (''Happy Wedding Day!'') ( uz, Тўйлар муборак, translit=Toʻylar muborak, italic=yes; russian: Подарю тебе город, italic=yes) is a 1978 Uzbek

comedy film A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...

directed by Eduard Khachaturov. The film stars Obid Yunusov, a People's Artist of Uzbekistan and tells the story of a bridegroom who ends up helping many people in trouble on his wedding day and as a result barely makes it to his own wedding.

Plot

After traffic police stop Yunus and his friends who are slightly drunk, he takes a

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and leaves his friends behind. The taxi driver gets dizzy and crashes the car. Yunus, despite being in a hurry to attend his own wedding, takes the taxi driver to hospital. When he gets out of the hospital, a couple begs him to take them in "his taxi" to some place. Everyone thinks Yunus is a taxi driver and he finds it increasingly difficult to refuse to take people to places. Towards the end of the film, Yunus meets an older woman arguing with a construction worker who is asking for an exorbitant amount of money to cover her wall with

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. Yunus decides to do the job instead of the worker. After mixing water with plaster of Paris, he sits to have a rest and starts to

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. The mixture quickly hardens and he gets stuck in it. Ultimately, a

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takes Yunus with his feet stuck in the tray to the wedding place.

References

External links

A BBC Interview with Obid Yunusov
1978 films 1978 comedy films Soviet comedy films Soviet-era Uzbek films Uzbek-language films Uzbekfilm films Uzbekistani comedy films {{1970s-comedy-film-stub