Cast

• Dilip Prabhavalkar
  Dilip Prabhavalkar
  Dilip Prabhavalkar is an Indian Marathi film and television actor. Although he has established himself as a prominent Marathi stage and movie actor for a while now, he became particularly known on the national scene for his portrayal of Mahatma Gandhi in the 2006 film, Lage Raho Munna Bhai. He...
  
  
• Ashok Saraf
  Ashok Saraf
  Ashok Saraf is an Indian actor and comedian. He has appeared in many Hindi and Marathi movies for since the late 1960s.Ashok Saraf is known mainly for comedy movies, many of which he appeared in with Laxmikant Berde...
  
  
• Ranjana
  Ranjana Deshmukh
  Ranjana Deshmukh also famous on-screen as just Ranjana was a popular Marathi actress who dominated the Marathi silver screen in the '70s and '80s....
  
  
• Mohan Kothiwan
• Ram Nagarkar
• Sulochna
• Mohan Joshi
• Raghavendra Kadkol

Plot

The plot revolves around a school master, portrayed by Dilip Prabhavalkar

Dilip Prabhavalkar

Dilip Prabhavalkar is an Indian Marathi film and television actor. Although he has established himself as a prominent Marathi stage and movie actor for a while now, he became particularly known on the national scene for his portrayal of Mahatma Gandhi in the 2006 film, Lage Raho Munna Bhai. He...

. He is a simple and honest teacher who is posted to teach in a school in a small village of rural India. Within a short time he runs into trouble with the village sarpanch

Sarpanch

A sarpanch is a democratically elected head of a village level statutory institution of local self-government called the gram panchayat in India and Pakistan. He, together with other elected Panchas , constitute the Gram Panchayat. The Sarpanch is the focal point of contact between government...

(local chief) for having punished his son in class. More trouble soon follows when a dance troupe (or a tamasha

Tamasha

Tamasha is a traditional Marathi folk art form. often with singing and dancing, widely performed by local or travelling theatre groups within the state of Maharashtra, India. It has also been the subject of several Marathi films...

) comes into the village. In an effort to please the lead dancer, the sarpanch has the teacher's house emptied and gives it the dancing troupe to occupy.

Now homeless, the teacher is forced to seek shelter in the ruins of an old building on the outskirts of the village. Here he meets the ghost (or bhoot) of a Maratha

Maratha

The Maratha are an Indian caste, predominantly in the state of Maharashtra. The term Marāthā has three related usages: within the Marathi speaking region it describes the dominant Maratha caste; outside Maharashtra it can refer to the entire regional population of Marathi-speaking people;...

 soldier, portrayed by Ashok Saraf

Ashok Saraf

Ashok Saraf is an Indian actor and comedian. He has appeared in many Hindi and Marathi movies for since the late 1960s.Ashok Saraf is known mainly for comedy movies, many of which he appeared in with Laxmikant Berde...

. Scared at first, the teacher tries to run away. But the ghost soon assures him that he means no harm.

The ghost narrates his story to the teacher. He tells him that he was a soldier in the Maratha army who was cursed for having separated two lovers. Since then he has waited for a chance to seek redemption. He is convinced that by helping the teacher with his trouble, somehow he may be able to reverse his curse. Not entirely convinced, the teacher agrees all the same. This is the twist in the plot. hq call teacher as "Masturay" means sir in folk language

The ghost first scares the troupe staying in the teacher's house by playing their instruments. Since the teacher is the only one who can see the ghost, the troupe members are terrified and run away. Similar incidents follow that although embarrass the teacher, but end up solving the teachers problems. In the course, the teacher meets a village girl, portrayed by Ranjana

Ranjana Deshmukh

Ranjana Deshmukh also famous on-screen as just Ranjana was a popular Marathi actress who dominated the Marathi silver screen in the '70s and '80s....

. The ghost intervenes to make her fall in love with the teacher.

The village sarpanch

Sarpanch

A sarpanch is a democratically elected head of a village level statutory institution of local self-government called the gram panchayat in India and Pakistan. He, together with other elected Panchas , constitute the Gram Panchayat. The Sarpanch is the focal point of contact between government...

plays the villain several times, only to be thwarted by the ghost. Finally all ends well when the teacher decides to marry his beloved. Having succeeded in getting two people to fall in love, the ghost is released from his curse and finally gets redemption. The teacher is sorry to see his old friend go. However, the ghost assures him that he will be back - as their child.