{"id":3366,"date":"2016-03-10T19:45:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T14:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=3366"},"modified":"2026-07-17T20:30:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:00:40","slug":"khosla-ka-ghosla-middle-class-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/?p=3366","title":{"rendered":"12 Years of Khosla Ka Ghosla: The Perfect Portrayal of Middle-Class India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"container page-content\"><p><span class=\"dropcap\">W<\/span><\/p><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hen two Delhi lads teamed up for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Khosla ka Ghosla<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, it was a match made in heaven. Jaideep Sahni wrote the characters as if they were people he had known his whole life and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/dibakar-banerjee-shanghai-politics\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dibakar Banerjee<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, having grown up in Karol Bagh, could visualise their world as well as he could his own. What they created remains one of the most realistic portrayals of a Dilliwala ever seen on screen. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twelve years ago, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Khosla ka Ghosla <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">set the template for what was to become a new direction in Hindi cinema. Marked by realism, these were films that went beyond the conventional formula of Bollywood \u2014 love stories. This little gem of a film focused on the family, and the modest hopes that most of middle-class India has\u2026 and how badly those hopes can get shafted. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you\u2019ve grown up in West Delhi, you might be hard-pressed to distinguish the family patriarch, Kamal Kishor Khosla from the many <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/dancing-uncle-indian-mentality-uncleisation\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cuncles\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in your neighbourhood. But KK Khosla is a minority in the world he occupies: He is well-educated; he opted for a salaried job over a small business of his own.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But this turns out to be the bane of his life. Being a salaried man who started his career well before <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/politics\/manmohan-singh-1991-indian-economy-congress\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Liberalisation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, he never quite makes the kind of money he needs for a financially secure retirement and has to depend on his children. Secondly, his education may have put him ahead of his peers, but it doesn\u2019t quite match up to his younger son. A yawning generation gap further turns them into strangers. <\/span>\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p>Twelve years after its release, when authenticity has become fairly commonplace in new-age Hindi cinema, Khosla ka Ghosla remains possibly the most revealing and accurate portrayal of middle-class India. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the older son, Bunty, turns out to be a disappointment, Khosla has all his hopes pinned on Chiraunji Lal aka Cherry. But their relationship with Cherry is fraught with tension: Khosla is upset that Cherry does not consider the family\u2019s ups and downs his own.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At every nook and cranny in West Delhi, you will find a Cherry Khosla \u2013 burdened by the expectations of a father or family that they just can\u2019t relate to. Cherry lives a paradox. His father invests in him instead of a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/indian-parents-children-education-retirement\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">retirement plan<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by giving him the best education he can afford. Like countless Indian parents, Kamal Kishor dreams that his son will become a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Vz9xdVSDNu4\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">software engineer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, land a job at an MNC, and that would take care of their future. But he hits a snag \u2013 that education that he spent all his money on created a distance between his son and him.<\/span>\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1537601311.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-39754\" \/><figcaption>\n<p>If you\u2019ve grown up in West Delhi, you might be hard-pressed to distinguish the family patriarch, Kamal Kishor Khosla from the many \u201cuncles\u201d in your neighbourhood.\nImage credit: UTV Motion Pictures<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cherry represents the upwardly mobile urban youth. He is born middle-class, but wants an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/series\/remnants-of-the-raj\/a-for-aspiration-b-for-british-raj-learning-english-independence-day-series\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">English-medium<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, upper-middle-class lifestyle. His aspirations are very different from that of his West Delhi, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/punjabi-swear-cuss-words-gaali-vegan-india-culture\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Punjabi<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> family. He wants little to do with them. He\u2019s even embarrassed of his name, a reminder of where he comes from. He fails to understand why his father insists on buying a plot of land because in his mind, his future doesn\u2019t lie in New Khosla Kunj, but in the United States.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To Cherry, his father is nothing more than an annoying old man who thinks he understands the world a lot better than he actually does. Much like young people today, Cherry can\u2019t wrap his head around the idea of spending your entire life\u2019s savings on a piece of land only to build an independent floor for your children.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perhaps the most heartwarming (and heartache-inducing) parts of the film are when KK Khosla does his damnedest to impress his son. Breaking away from the conservative middle-class mindset where fathers and sons <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/indian-parents-drinking-family-children-kids\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">do not drink together<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, KK plans a drinking session with his sons \u2014 for all his earnestness, though, he can\u2019t overcome his gaucherie. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cherry\u2019s coming-of-age moment is something most young men can relate to. He sees his father ageing, growing weak, and there\u2019s resignation in his demeanour. He sees what is a rarity in stoic West Delhi households: his father crying. And that\u2019s enough to galavanise him into action. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the other end of the divide is Bunty, the kind of son who tramples upon the dreams of his service-class West Delhi parents. In India, your firstborn <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/india-motherhood-pregnancy-baby-boy-girl-female-foeticide-adoption\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">son<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is celebrated as a \u201cretirement plan\u201d, but a few years of schooling are enough to give the Khoslas a reality check. Bunty does not top his class, pursue engineering, or land a decent white-collar job with bi-annual appraisals. In fact, he fails to \u201celevate\u201d himself above his Karol Bagh roots. He goes the way West Delhi boys who don\u2019t excel in academics often go: He tries to earn money the \u201ceasy\u201d way. He invests in shares and wants to become a real-estate agent. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even though Bunty fails to meet his father\u2019s expectations, he sees a role for himself in the family. He\u2019s emotionally invested in his father\u2019s plans for the family and tries to make up for his lack of \u00a0education with his street-smarts. He\u2019s stuck playing the mediator between his father and brother, a role he takes seriously.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sudha and Nikki Khosla, the women in the family, are not reduced to caricatures, as they might\u2019ve been in the hands of a lesser writer than Sahni or a director less capable than Banerjee.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sudha, like many <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/tumhari-sulu-movie-review-vidya-balan-manav-kaul-indian-housewives\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">homemakers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in West Delhi, occupies the place of a second-class citizen in her own home. She has no say in the matters of the household because her husband and later her sons take charge. But she holds her own when she\u2019s playing mediator between KK and Cherry. The daughter Nikki, meanwhile, has to play second fiddle to her brother. Being a girl born into a conservative Punjabi family, she does not feature in her father\u2019s grand plans for the future or even the present. \u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She\u2019s reminded of her position in the family when her father and brother Bunty are drinking. KK asks Nikki to open a bottle of Coke for her mother and her, but when she asks why she can\u2019t have the whiskey, her father dismisses it outright. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most middle-class Indian families are like the Khoslas dominated by Kamal Kishors, Cherrys, and Buntys, where the Sudhas and Nikkis are sidelined. Here patriarchy rules the house. Twelve years after its release, when authenticity has become fairly commonplace in new-age Hindi cinema, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Khosla ka Ghosla<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> remains possibly the most revealing and accurate portrayal of middle-class India. \u00a0<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve years ago, Khosla ka Ghosla set the template for what was to become a new direction in Hindi cinema. 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