Novelist, short story writer, poet and dramatist Paigham Afaqui, wrote the Urdu novel Makaan and belongs to district Siwan though he lives in Delhi.
A comedy film revolving around four close friends who reside together in Pattaya, it is a remake of Marathi film Ashi Hi Banwa Banwi from the late 1980s film and borrows the basic plot from 1966 B&W comedy movie Biwi aur makaan, directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee.