Hotel is story of two friends and titans of commerce — Suraj and Vijay. (Vijay is played by Rakesh Roshan, who is the father of current Bollywood superstar Hrithik Roshan and the director of Krrish, which had its U.S. premiere at Subway Cinema’s 2006 New York Asian Film Festival.) Vijay has a ne’er-do-well brother named Sanjay, who has two character traits: playing the harmonica and sitting in a hammock.

Suraj hires a dodgy fellow named Chhangan Patel (Ranjeet) to build a hotel for him and Vijay. Unbeknownst to our heroes, Chhangan — along with his sultry secretary Shabbo (Prema Narayan) and a gaggle of flunkies — builds the hotel in (naturally) the dodgiest manner imaginable. Chhangan convinces a priest named Father Benevolent (yes, that’s his name) to sell him an old church graveyard, under the false pretense that the land will be used for the site of an orphanage and not a hotel. Once the deal is closed, Chhangan and his crew brazenly remove all of the bodies and tombstones from the cemetery, dumping all of the crosses and gravemarkers in a big, very cool-looking pile in a warehouse. Father Benevolent stumbles upon Chhangan’s cemetery uprooting party and dies of a heart attack on the spot. After the hotel is built, Sanjay comes across the pile of crosses, but is less impressed with it than I was. Thus, the bad guys are forced to dispose of Sanjay the hard way.