Background:Minilaparoscopy has made strong inroad to the arena of laparoscopic surgery. Gustavo Carvalho has popularized the concept and has developed a line of instruments to make the work easy. We decided to analyse the two procedures, the conventional laparoscopic cholecystectomy and the mini clipless laparoscopic cholecystectomy with the regularly available instruments. This study is done with the aim to compare the advantages and disadvantages of conventional laparoscopic cholecystectomy and mini clipless laparoscopic cholecystectomy