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Question 1: *What* was this movie all about? Question 2: What or who prompted its selection as IMDb movie of the day?? (Which in turn has prompted this review.) This has got to be one of the most pretentious and pseudo-high brow movies I've ever seen. Soderbergh has made a movie that so labors on being arty, that you end up witnessing a massive exercise in an aimless and fruitless(one follows the other, I guess)story(?) telling.

When I began watching this movie, I was all excited about it - what with such a massive star cast and Soderbergh's reputation. At the end of the movie, I felt cheated of my time and effort that this movie demanded.

You're better off watching a re-run of "Traffic".

For me, as for most of Rahul Dev Burman's fans, "Chote Nawab" is notable for the fact that it marked the arrival of RD into the Indian film industry as an independent composer. Prior to this, Pancham (as he is known to fans and friends alike) was an assistant to his illustrious father, S.D. Burman and was responsible for a lot of the sparkling orchestration and tuning that we saw in Dada Burman's movies.

If the brilliant but whimsical Guru Dutt had stuck to his promise, a movie called "Raaz" would have been RD's first movie. Pancham even composed a few songs for this movie, but Dutt shelved the movie. Hearing this, Pancham's good friend, Mehmood approached him with "Chote Nawab".

The movie maybe nothing much to write about – a man falling in love with a courtesan – but what a brilliant debut by R.D. Burman! Each song is a sparkler, right from the first song he recorded for this movie – the haunting and soulful, "Ghar aaja ghir aaye", to the peppy "Matwali aankhon waale", or the full of life "Aaj hua mera dil matwala", it is RD's movie all the way, and my vote for the movie is only for his super music.

Heeralal Pannalal is an out-and-out entertainer. And when you have the charming Shashi Kapoor and the goofy Randhir Kapoor for company, you can be assured that it'll be pure fun.

The story's nothing much to talk about, but the movie is racy and an unabashed entertainer. The heroes have the charming Neetu Singh and Zeenat Aman for company. And then, there are the usual suspects of villains for the screwball pair to bash up.

Rahul Dev Burman comes up with a snappy, foot tapping score. Just for songs like "O padosan ki ladki", "Aaja mere pyaar aaja", "Kahiye kahan se aana hua", this movie is worth a dekko.