TY - ADVS AU - Benegal,Shyam AU - Screwvala,Ronnie AU - Mishra,Ashok AU - Moitra,Shantanu AU - Talpade,Shreyas AU - Rao,Amrita AU - Kishan,Ravi TI - Welcome to Sajjanpur AV - DVD 0432 (viewing copy) U1 - 791.4372 WE- PY - 2008/// CY - New Delhi PB - Moser Baer Entertainment KW - Manipulative behavior KW - Drama KW - Illiterate persons KW - India KW - Sajjanpara (India) KW - Musical films KW - Comedy films KW - Feature films KW - Fiction films N1 - Originally released as a motion picture in 2008; Not viewed; Sources used: videodisc container; cataloging record from OvOp field office; OCLC database, viewed June 12, 2012; Lyrics, Swanand Kirkire, Ashok Mishra ; film editor, Aseem Sinha ; music, Shantanu Moitra; Shreyas Talpade, Amrita Rao, Ravi Kishan, Ila Arun, Rajeshwari Sachdev Badola, Divya Dutta, Yashpal Sharma, Ravi Jhankal N2 - "Mahadev is one of the few educated young men from Sajjanpur. His ambition is to be a novelist but he finds it easier to make a living by writing letters sitting next to the post office. His ability to write persuasive letters makes him popular with the largely non-literate population of the town. Aware of this power, he soon uses his talent to manipulate people with amusing and sometimes not such amusing results. With this as the narrative frame, Welcome to Sajjanpur shows in an entertaining, musical and comic way, characters and events that are at once hilarious and poignant. A delightful satirical take on a contemporary Indian village"--videodisc container ER -