Maya Memsaab

{{Infobox film

| name = Maya Memsaab

| image = Maya Memsaab.jpg

| caption = Poster

| producer = Ketan Mehta

| writer = Sitanshu Yashaschandra (screenplay)
Ketan Mehta (screenplay)
Hriday Lani (dialogue)
Gulan Kriplani (Maya's monologues)

| based_on = Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

| starring = Farooq Shaikh
Deepa Sahi
Paresh Rawal
Shah Rukh Khan
Raj Babbar

| music = Hridaynath Mangeshkar
Gulzar (lyrics)

| cinematography = Anoop Jotwani

| editing = Renu Saluja

| released = {{film date|df=y|1993|7|2}}

| runtime = 130 minutes

| country = India

| language = Hindi

| budget =

| gross = {{Estimation}} {{INRConvert|1.85|c|year=1993}} 1.85 crore{{cite web|url=http://www.indicine.com/movies/bollywood/shahrukh-khan-box-office-analysis-hits-flops-blockbusters/|title=Shahrukh Khan Box Office Analysis: Hits, Flops, Blockbusters|date=4 September 2013 |publisher=Indicine}}

}}

Maya Memsaab (also known as Maya and Maya: The Enchanting Illusion in English) is a 1993 Indian mystery drama film directed by Ketan Mehta starring Farooq Shaikh, Deepa Sahi, Paresh Rawal, Shah Rukh Khan and Raj Babbar.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iDEEAAAAMBAJ&dq=Maya+Memsaab&pg=PT83 |title=Outlook Traveller - Google Books |date= March 2008|publisher=Outlook |accessdate=2022-09-14}} The film is based on the famous Gustave Flaubert's 1857 novel Madame Bovary. Maya Memsaab won the National Film Award – Special Mention (Feature Film) in the year 1993.{{cite web |url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/40th_nff_1993.pdf |title=Archived copy |website=dff.nic.in |access-date=12 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019211416/http://dff.nic.in/2011/40th_nff_1993.pdf |archive-date=19 October 2017 |url-status=dead}} The rights of this film are now owned by Shah Rukh Khan's Red Chillies Entertainment.{{cite web|url=http://www.redchillies.com/movies/movie-rights.aspx|title=Red Chillies Entertainments|website=www.redchillies.com|access-date=2016-09-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161006020052/http://redchillies.com/movies/movie-rights.aspx|archive-date=6 October 2016|url-status=dead}}

Synopsis

Young, beautiful, and intelligent Maya lives with her father in a palatial mansion in rural India. When her father suffers a stroke, she calls for local Dr. Charu Das, who arrives on his bicycle and prescribes treatment for her father. He continues to come to her house often, more on the pretext of seeing her than her father. Eventually, they get married. Years pass by and Charu is engrossed in treating patients, leaving Maya alone to reflect on her own fate and life. It is not long before a young man named Rudra enters her life and an affair follows. This does not last long though, as a much younger man, Lalit, enters her life and they begin another passionate affair. But again, Maya is not satisfied as she longs for more than carnal needs. Time and time again, this bored housewife gets attracted to costly objects and spends recklessly on clothes and furniture, even if she has to borrow money. She eventually is forced to mortgage her house to a man Lalaji. Finally, reality catches up with her. Lalaji brings a court order to take possession of her house. Rudra and Lalit desert her and this leads her to drink a mystical drink that was earlier being advertised on the streets to give you one wish on the condition you had a pure heart. The drink causes her to flash brightly and disappear. This leaves two investigators to probe who or what really killed Maya.