Baton Baton Mein is a 1979 romantic comedy film produced and directed by Basu Chatterjee

Basu Chatterjee

Basu Chatterjee is an Indian film director. His films are very similar to those of Hrishikesh Mukherjee. Like Mukherjee, he built his plots on middle-class lives.He was born in Ajmer, Rajasthan, India....

. The film stars Amol Palekar

Amol Palekar

Amol Palekar is an Indian actor of the 1970s and a director of Hindi and Marathi cinema.-Theater career:Palekar began in Marathi experimental theatre with Satyadev Dubey, and later started his own group, Aniket, in 1972 [citation needed]...

 and Tina Munim

Tina Munim

Tina Munim is an Indian film actress who had a successful Bollywood career during the late seventies and early eighties. She is married to Anil Ambani. She is involved in a number of philanthropic and charity activities and is currently running an NGO and a hospital.-Early life and...

 in leading roles. Asrani

Asrani

Govardhan Asrani , popularly known simply as Asrani, is an actor in Indian films whose Bollywood career has spanned over 35 years. His wife Manju Bansal is an actress.-Early life:...

, David, Pearl Padamsee

Pearl Padamsee

Pearl Padamsee was an Indian theatre personality as a stage actress, director and producer of English language theatre in Mumbai active in 1950s - 1990s.She also acted a few Hindi and English language films...

, Mazhar Khan

Mazhar Khan (actor)

Mazhar Khan was an Indian film and television actor and producer and director.-Career:Mazhar made his debut in the 1979 film Baton Baton Mein. He came into recognition with the 1980 film Shaan which was directed by Ramesh Sippy...

 and Ranjit Choudhary

Ranjit Chowdhry

Ranjit Chowdhry is an actor of Indian descent, with around forty movies and television performances to his credit, besides acting in theatre as well. Varied spellings of his names have been used in credits...

 appear in supporting roles.

The film's music is by Rajesh Roshan

Rajesh Roshan

Rajesh Roshan is a Hindi cinema music composer.-Personal life:Rajesh Roshan is the son of Hindi film composer Roshan and younger brother of film director and actor Rakesh Roshan...

.

Plot

Rosie Perreira (Pearl Padaamsee) is an overly anxious widow, living with her violin-obsessed son, Sabhi (Ranjit Chaudhary) and a lovely daughter, Nancy (Tina Munim) who she would like to get married to a wealthy young man. Her brother and neighbour, Tom (David) introduces a young eligible Tony Braganza (Amol Palekar) to Nancy in the 9:10 AM Western Railway local train from Bandra to Churchgate. Tom also asks Nancy to introduce Tony to Rosie, which she does. Rosie is initially apprehensive about him as he only drawing a mere Rs.300/ compared to Nancy's Rs.700/-, but soon changes her mind when she finds out that after his probationary period he will draw a monthly pay of Rs.1000/-. Nancy and Tom are permitted to meet and both eventually fall in love. While Nancy has a past where she was betrayed by a boy whom she loved,she still likes Tony. Tony is hesitant, and this is what costs him Nancy's love, as Rosie feels that he will not come through with the marriage. And soon Rosie starts looking elsewhere for a son-in-law.Nancy does not like this but she at first accepts to whatever her mom wants.Nancy and Tony have a fight and stop meeting each other in the train as well.When Tom comes to know about this he speaks to Tony's dad.Tony's dad tells tony that if he is still reluctant to make any commitments, he should tell Nancy about the same.So Nancy and Tony meet each other and Nancy tells him that she will never meet him again.It is then when Tony feels that he actually loves Nancy and cannot live without her.Then Nancy also confesses her love for him and they get married happily.

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2. Na bole tum: Asha Bhosle
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   Kishore Kumar
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   Amit Kumar
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