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 Title
Baton Baton Mein
Cast Amol Palekar, Tina Munim, Leela Mishra, Tun Tun
Director Basu Chatterjee
Genre Comedy
Year 1979
In Bombay the local trains carry millions to work and back home daily. Tony, a
young commercial artist, travels by the local train daily from Bandra to
Churchgate. Similarly Nancy Pereira a young office goer, and her maternal grand
father also travel daily from Bandra to Marine Lines by 9.10 a.m. local train.
Tony gets late one day and travels by 9.10 a.m. train and meets Nancy. Nancy had
a sad past. She was in love with one of her office colleagues who jilted her.
Nancy decides to do away with any boy in her life in future. Her mother and
grand father are, naturally worried about her. Mother is very keen to see her
daughter married, she asks all and sundry to look for a match for Nancy. Grand
father finds Tony an ideal boy for Nancy, Tony is invited to Nancy's home, Tony
falls in love with Nancy, Nancy's mother feels relieved. Tony has a dominating
mother who had her own ideas about Tony. Once Tony goes to a cinema with her
mother, by chance Nancy and her mother are also there Tony's mother confronts
Nancy's mother and starts hating her immediately. She scolds her son for such a
poor selection. The affair of Tony and Nancy gets prolonged. Three months have
passed and none has proposed for the marriage. Nancy's mother feels worried
again. Nancy's mother has an old relative, about seventy, who visits them off
and on. The old relative disapprove of Tony's continued visit. She demands that
the matter be sorted out immediately as she fears Nancy is in for another jolt,
the family panicks. The old relative offers to get a boy for Nancy soon.
   
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