“Is it a Hrishikesh Mukherjee film? Then we can all go and watch it together,” the head of the family would breathe easy. The name ‘Hrishikesh Mukherjee’ on the poster was a ‘green channel’ for comfortable family viewing served with innocent humor, great music, calmer melodrama, non-toxic family squabbles and elegant romance. He made quiet films about issues confronting the modest aspirations of the ordinary Indian middle-class. As Film expert Kaushik Bhaumik clarifies, “Their aspirations were not consumerist unlike a Vijay of Deewar.”