Why Pankaj Tripathi's Kaagaz reminds us of Pankaj Kapur's Chala Mussaddi Office Office
Why Pankaj Tripathi's Kaagaz reminds us of Pankaj Kapur's Chala Mussaddi Office Office
Pankaj Tripathi's Kaagaz and Pankaj Kapur's Chala Mussaddi Office Office are about men who are fighting a battle against a corrupt government system that has declared them dead.
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UPDATED: January 8, 2021 19:40 IST
Pankaj Tripathi is seen playing Bharat Lal in Kaagaz. Pankaj Kapur played Mussaddi Lal in Chala Mussaddi Office Office (2011).
Apart from being namesakes and having exceptional acting talents, another thing that is common between Pankaj Tripathi and Pankaj Kapur is that both of them played the role of a living dead. Well, both the legendary actors played a character who was declared dead on papers and fought corrupt government officials in their respective films. Pankaj Tripathi as Bharat Lal in Satish Kaushik's latest Zee5 film Kaagaz is the victim of his conniving aunt and her family who got him declared dead to usurp the property that was legally his. On the other hand, Pankaj Kapur in Rajiv Mehra's Chala Mussaddi Office Office is a retired government teacher who stops getting his pension when he returns from a three-month-long pilgrimage undertaken to immerse his wife's ashes in the Ganges. The government officials tell him that he is dead.