Mungerilal Ke Haseen Sapne was a popular Hindi TV comedy serial directed by Prakash Jha

Prakash Jha

Prakash Jha is an Indian film producer-director-screenwriter, who is most known for his political and socio-political films such as Damul , Mrityudand , Gangaajal , Apaharan and multistarrer hit movie Raajneeti...

 that revolved around the life of Mungerilal, played by Raghubir Yadav. The serial was written by Manohar Shyam Joshi

Manohar Shyam Joshi

Manohar Shyam Joshi was a Hindi writer, journalist and scriptwriter, most well known as the writer of Indian television's first soap opera,Hum Log and its early hits Buniyaad , Kakaji Kahin, a political satire and Kyap, novel which won him the Sahitya Akademi Award.-Biography:Manohar Shyam...

 and was loosely conceptualized on James Thurber

James Thurber

James Grover Thurber was an American author, cartoonist and celebrated wit. Thurber was best known for his cartoons and short stories published in The New Yorker magazine.-Life:...

's novel The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" is a short story by James Thurber. The most famous of Thurber's stories, it first appeared in The New Yorker on March 18, 1939, and was first collected in his book My World and Welcome to It...

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Plot

Mungerilal is a small time clerk who gets bossed around by his wife at home and by his boss at office. To top that, Mungerilal's father in law rubs salt on Mungerilal wounds by exaggerating his own achievements as a Police Inspector. Mungerilal overcomes all this by day dreaming, where he takes revenge on his boss, his father-in-law. Mungerilal also dates his beautiful colleague. As he basks in the glory of his accomplishments, his wife wakes him up to ruin dream.