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WHEN
it first began airing in 2001 on Sab TV it created a sensation. Office
Office ran for a decade. Much of the credit for its galloping
popularity went to Pankaj Kapoor, whose brilliant sense of comedy
infused a timeless quality to a serial that revolved around a common man’s
travails against a corrupt bureaucracy. The good news is that the
rib-tickling comedy is coming back on both the small and big screens.
Kapoor again plays Mussadi Lal, a common Indian who gets the wrong end
of the stick whenever he has to deal with public servants. Whether at a
police station, municipality, water or electricity departments, every
official is out to exploit the defenceless man. Though the television
version is still at the conceptual stage, the film Chala Mussaddi-Office
Office is being released on August 5 and retains most of its
original cast. Gulzaar has penned the lyrics and it has music by Sajid
Wajid. The story again revolves around retired schoolteacher Mussadi Lal
(Kapoor), who is taken to be dead by the government pension office and
has to prove that he is alive. So get set to watch the quintessential
"common man" tackle the system in his own inimitable way. —
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