Chupke Chupke (film)
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| Directed by | Hrishikesh Mukherjee |
| Written by | Shakeel Chandra Upendranath Ganguly Gulzar D.N. Mukherjee Biren Tripathy |
| Based on | Chhadobeshi by Upendranath Ganguly |
| Produced by | Hrishikesh Mukherjee N. C. Sippy |
| Starring | Dharmendra Amitabh Bachchan Sharmila Tagore Jaya Bachchan Om Prakash Asrani Lily Chakravarty Usha Kiran David Abraham Cheulkar |
| Cinematography | Jaywant Pathare |
| Edited by | Subhash Gupta Pandit Shridhar Mishra |
| Music by | Sachin Dev Burman |
Production company | Rupam Chitra |
| Distributed by | Shemaroo Entertainment |
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Running time | 127 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi[1] |
Chupke Chupke (transl. Quietly) is a 1975[2] Indian Hindi-language comedy film directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee. A remake of the Bengali film Chhadmabeshi,[3][4][5] it stars Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan, Sharmila Tagore, Jaya Bachchan, Om Prakash, Usha Kiran, David Abraham Cheulkar, Asrani and Keshto Mukherjee. The music was composed by S.D. Burman. This film is highly remembered for Dharmendra and Amitabh Bachchan's comic act which came in the same year when the all-time blockbuster Sholay and Deewaar were released.[6][7]
Plot
[edit]Professor Parimal Tripathi (Dharmendra), who teaches botany, falls in love with Sulekha Chaturvedi (Sharmila Tagore) during the botany excursion of a women's college uphill. He helps the old caretaker of the guesthouse to travel to his village downhill in order to enable him to visit his grandson who has fallen ill. Meanwhile, Parimal disguises himself as the guesthouse caretaker in order to protect the old man's job, but Sulekha happens to find out about the cover-up one day. She is charmed on seeing Parimal's real personality and the two get married. Parimal loves playing pranks and is the antithesis of regular professors while Sulekha is in awe of Raghavendra Sharma (Om Prakash), the so-called "highly-intellectual" husband of her older sister, Sumitra (Usha Kiran), and looks upon him as her idol. Thanks to Sulekha's excessive praise of Raghavendra, Parimal develops an inferiority complex and decides to prove that he is in no way a lesser mortal. Meanwhile, Raghavendra has written a letter to Sulekha and Sumitra's older brother, Haripad (David Abraham Cheulkar), instructing him to send a driver for him who can speak good Hindi language because his present driver, James D'Costa (Keshto Mukherjee), uses improper dialect. This provides the perfect opportunity for Parimal to get to see and interact with Raghavendra. Parimal disguises himself as "Pyare Mohan Ilahabadi", a motor-mouth driver, who pretends to hate the English language and so speaks only Hindi. Thus begins the comedy of errors as Parimal and Sulekha play prank after prank on the unsuspecting Raghavendra and Sumitra.
Firstly, the couple pretends that Sulekha is not happy with her new marriage with Parimal, and secondly, they put across the impression that Sulekha is having an extramarital affair with Pyare Mohan, and if that was not enough, they make Parimal's long-time friend, Sukumar Sinha (Amitabh Bachchan), a professor of English literature, to temporarily act as Parimal and portray him as a serious and boring lecturer, the complete opposite of the real Parimal's character. Parimal's another long-time friend, Prashant Kumar Shrivastava (Asrani), is also party to the prank. Vasudha (Jaya Bhaduri), the younger sister of Prashant's wife, Lata (Lily Chakravarty), suspects fake "Parimal" (Sukumar) of infidelity to his wife, "Sulekha", when he tries to grow close to her. Sukumar falls in love with Vasudha, who initially believes him to be Parimal, but Sukumar reveals her the real drama behind all this mix-up of situations, while Lata is also furious over the latest "extramarital" affair. However, towards the end, Sukumar and Vasudha escape from home and get married in a temple with the blessings of Prashant, where Haripad coerces Pyare Mohan to "kill" himself so that Parimal could surface. Thus, Raghavendra, Sumitra and Lata come to comprehend the whole enactment with Raghavendra finally admitting that he was truly fooled. The film revolves around the resolution of these funny mishaps.
Cast
[edit]- Dharmendra as Professor Parimal Tripathi / Pyare Mohan Allahbadi and Sulekha’s husband
- Amitabh Bachchan as Professor Sukumar Sinha (Kumar)
- Sharmila Tagore as Sulekha Chaturvedi Tripathi, Parimal’s wife
- Jaya Bachchan as Vasudha Kumar
- Om Prakash as Former Barrister Raghavendra Kumar Sharma (Raghav)
- Lily Chakravarty as Lata Kumar Srivastav
- Asrani as Prashant Kumar Srivastav
- David Abraham Cheulkar as Haripad Chaturvedi
- Keshto Mukherjee as James D'Costa, Driver
- Usha Kiran as Sumitra Sharma
- Vishal Desai (Mst. Bittoo) as Ratna
- Aarti
- Amol Sen as Om Prakash's gatekeeper
- Harish Magon as Thief
- Chaitali
- Dev Kishan as Chowkidar
- Lalita Sinha
- Nayana Apte
- Masterjee
Soundtrack
[edit]| Chupke Chupke | ||||
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| Released | April 2, 1976[8] | |||
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
| Length | 17:25 | |||
| Language | Hindi | |||
| Label | Saregama | |||
| Producer | S. D. Burman | |||
| S. D. Burman chronology | ||||
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All lyrics are written by Anand Bakshi; all music is composed by S. D. Burman[9]
| No. | Title | Playback | Length |
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| 1. | "Bagon Mein Kaise Ye Phool" | Lata Mangeshkar & Mukesh | 4:30 |
| 2. | "Chupke Chupke Chal Re Purbaiya" | Lata Mangeshkar | 5:04 |
| 3. | "Sa Re Ga Ma" | Kishore Kumar & Mohammed Rafi | 3:08 |
| 4. | "Ab Ke Sajan Sawan Mein" | Lata Mangeshkar | 4:41 |
| Total length: | 17:25 | ||
References
[edit]- ^ "Chupke Chupke (Hindi)". Outlook India.
- ^ Rachel Dwyer (27 September 2006). Filming the Gods: Religion and Indian Cinema. Routledge. pp. 30–. ISBN 978-1-134-38070-1. Retrieved 29 October 2012.
- ^ Gulzar; Govind Nihalani; Saibal Chatterjee (2003). Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema. Popular Prakashan. pp. 371–. ISBN 978-81-7991-066-5. Retrieved 29 October 2012.
- ^ Phukan, Vikram (7 December 2018). "Lights, camera, remake: How Bollywood has thrived with take-offs from Bengali originals". The Hindu.
- ^ "Remakes of Bengali films: What's new in this trend? - Times of India". The Times of India. 27 November 2019.
- ^ "Chupke Chupke (1975)". The Hindu. 18 October 2012. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
- ^ "Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Chupke Chupke was the subtle antidote to the 'angry young man' era; a balance we have forgotten today". 14 May 2022.
- ^ "Chupke Chupke". Spotify. 10 November 2023.
- ^ Gregory D. Booth (13 October 2008). Behind the Curtain: Making Music in Mumbai's Film Studios. Oxford University Press. pp. 300–. ISBN 978-0-19-532763-2. Retrieved 29 October 2012.