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Batti Gul Meter Chalu
Eros International- 2018
- Not Rated
- 2h 41m
- Drama
The life of three friends takes a tragic turn due to an inflated electricity bill, which leads to a courtroom drama and social awakening.
Release Date
Sep 21, 2018 | Limited (Original Release)
Box Office
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$153,847
$249,539
$386,330
$635,869
Director & Top Cast
Other Details
Country of Origin: India
Summaries
Plot Summary
- Sushil Kumar "SK" Pant (Shahid Kapoor), Lalita "Nauti" Nautiyal (Shraddha Kapoor), and Sundar Mohan Tripathi (Divyendu Sharma) are childhood friends. S.K is a hypocrite, mean lawyer making money from out of court settlements. Nauti is an over the top fashion designer who thinks highly of herself. Beena Nautiyal, Lalita's mother (Supriya Pilgaonkar) & Lalita's grandmother (Farida Jalal) love her greatly.Nauti's relative start looking for a groom for her. That makes SK and Tripathi realize that they both love Nauti and takes turns in dating her. SK sees Nauti and Tripathi kissing each other and that breaks SK's heart. Nauti went with Tripathi as in her mind Tripathi was a sincere guy, while SK was a borderline crook, who used his law degree to con people out of their money.Things were breezy until Tripathi opens a small town Printing Press. Within months, he is charged with an Inflated electricity bill of 1.5 Lakhs, which escalates to 54 Lakhs in the following months. He approaches Janak Khanduri (Rajendra Chawla), complaint officer of private electricity distributor SPTL, but to no avail. Tripathi and Nauti go to SK for help, but Sk refuses to help them as he is still very pissed at both. Tripathi's business comes to a standstill when electricity is cut for non payment of dues. He approaches the ombudsman, but with no relief. With no where to go and complain, Tripathi commits suicide. Tripathi's insurance policy is not paid as suicide cases are not covered in it. The bank demands its loan back from his parents, as it was guaranteed against his father's house.S.K is set aback by the events and has a change of heart. He decides to fight out against SPTL , a Privatised Electricity Company responsible for the Inflated Bills. when the ombudsman against rejects to hear Tripathi's case, SK posts a You Tube video inviting all complaints against SPTL. Thousands of people turn up to share their inflated bills with SK. Unknown to SK, Tripathi survived his suicide attempt and is alive in a local hospital. When he recovers, he finds SK fighting for people's rights & decides to stay low.He has Advocate Gulnaar Rizvi (Yami Gautam) representing SPTL Owner Sanjay Bhaduriya (Samir Soni) as his opponent. Whether or not he is able to sue the company forms the rest of the story. SK and Gulnaar present their opening arguments with recap the sequence of events that led to Tripathi's suicide. Gulnaar also proves in court that the reason Tripathi committed suicide was not because of the bill, but because of the tension due to the love triangle between Nauti, SK and Tripathi and SK's refusal to help Tripathi.SK calls Sanjay Bhaduria to the stand and alleges that SPTL violated rules by not having enough meters in stock and which is why a check meter was installed at Tripathi's SME company. Sanjay alleges that the company is running in losses due to electricity theft. SK shows a video exposing an attempt by Sanjay's trusted employee to buy off SK for Rs 25 Lakhs. He also exposes that SPTL is charging frivolous fees from its customers for profitability, but had issues in changing a Rs 1000 electricity meter due to which Tripathi lost his life.On the day of the judgment, Tripathi reveals himself to the court and tells the truth that he attempted suicide because of the mental harassment due to the Rs 54 Lakhs bill. SK goes on a rant against the lack of progress in Uttarakhand due to greedy corporate like SPTL. In judgment, the court orders Tripathi for 6 months imprisonment and Rs 40,000 fine for insurance fraud. It orders Rs 54 Lakhs bill as void and Rs 10 Lakhs as compensation for mental harassment. It suspends SPTL's license and Rs 50,000 as compensation for every complainant against SPTL.
Storyline
- S.K, Nauti, and Tripathi are childhood friends. S.K is a hypocrite, mean lawyer making money from out of court settlements. Nauti is an over the top fashion designer who thinks highly of herself. Things were breezy until Tripathi opens a small town Printing Press. Within months, he is charged with an Inflated electricity bill of 1.5 Lakhs, which escalates to 54 Lakhs in the following months. With no where to go and complain, Tripathi commits suicide. S.K is set aback by the events and has a change of heart. He decides to fight out against SPTL , a Privatised Electricity Company responsible for the Inflated Bills. He has Advocate Gulnaar representing SPTL as his opponent.. Whether or not he is able to sue the company forms the rest of the story. SK,Nauti and Tripathi are best friends. SK lawyer cons people Nauti a fashion designer and Tripathi runs a factory .Nauti tells SK and Tripathi that in coming days she will decide between them whom she wants to marry.SK sees Tripathi and Nauti getting closer to in jealously starts to avoid them and and also leaves the town for sometime.During the same time Tripathi's factory starts running into losses due to huge electricity bill send by power company.Tripathi is left helpless as nobody is helping him even SK backs out.Few days later while SK is returning to the town he finds that Tripathi's bike is been taken out from lake and he is assumed to be dead.SK feels guilty of not helping his friend during his bad phase and decides to put a case on the power company and give justice to his friend. — alex.mjacko@gmail.com