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Chupke Chupke (film)

2023-11-02T11:21:19Z

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{{short description|1975 film}}
{{EngvarB|date=February 2014}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2014}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Chupke Chupke
| image =
| caption = Release Poster
| director = [[Abhimaan (1973 film)|Hrishikesh Mukherjee]]
| producer = Hrishikesh Mukherjee N. C. Sippy
| writer = Shakeel Chandra Upendranath Ganguly [[Gulzar]] D. N. Mukherjee Biren Tripathy
| based_on = ''Chhadobeshi'' by Upendranath Ganguly
| narrator =
| starring = [[Dharmendra]] [[Sharmila Tagore]] [[Amitabh Bachchan]] [[Jaya Bachchan|Jaya Bhaduri]] [[Om Prakash]] [[Usha Kiran]] [[David Abraham Cheulkar]] [[Asrani]] [[Lily Chakravarty]]
| music = [[S. D. Burman]]
| cinematography = Jaywant Pathare
| editing = Subhash Gupta Pandit Shridhar Mishra
| studio = Rupam Chitra
| distributor = [[Shemaroo Entertainment]]
| released = 11 April 1975
| runtime = 127 minutes
| country = [[India]]
| language = [[Hindi]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/chupke-chupke-hindi/296250|title=Chupke Chupke (Hindi)|website=[[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook India]]}}</ref>
| budget = {{Estimation}} [[Indian rupee|₹]]9.91 [[lakh]] ({{Estimation}} ₹2.22 [[crore]] as of 2019)
}}

'''''Chupke Chupke''''' (translation: Quietly) is a [[List of Hindi films of 1975|1975]]<ref name="Dwyer">{{cite book|author=Rachel Dwyer|title=Filming the Gods: Religion and Indian Cinema|date=27 September 2006|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZsKR1RKoJKUC&pg=PA30|access-date=29 October 2012|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-38070-1|pages=30–}}</ref> [[Cinema of India|Indian]] [[Hindi]]-language [[comedy film]] directed and produced by [[Abhimaan (1973 film)|Hrishikesh Mukherjee]] alongside N. C. Sippy. Based on Upendranath Ganguly's [[Bengali literature|Bengali story]] ''Chhadobeshi'' {{Citation needed|date=July 2020}} and remake of the [[Bengali language|Bengali]] film ''[[Chhadmabeshi]]'',<ref name="GulzarNihalani2003">{{cite book|author1=Gulzar|author2=Govind Nihalani|author3=Saibal Chatterjee|title=Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8y8vN9A14nkC&pg=PT371|access-date=29 October 2012|year=2003|publisher=Popular Prakashan|isbn=978-81-7991-066-5|pages=371–}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Phukan|first=Vikram|date=7 December 2018|title=Lights, camera, remake: How Bollywood has thrived with take-offs from Bengali originals|url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/lights-camera-remake/article25690210.ece|website=The Hindu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movies/news/remakes-of-bengali-films-whats-new-in-this-trend/articleshow/72241437.cms|title=Remakes of Bengali films: What's new in this trend? - Times of India|website=The Times of India}}</ref>, the film stars an [[ensemble cast]] of [[Dharmendra]], [[Sharmila Tagore]], [[Amitabh Bachchan]], [[Jaya Bachchan|Jaya Bhaduri]], [[Om Prakash]], [[Usha Kiran]], [[David Abraham Cheulkar]], [[Asrani]] and [[Lily Chakravarty]]. 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]]'' was released.<ref>{{Cite news|title = Chupke Chupke (1975)|url = http://www.thehindu.com/arts/chupke-chupke-1975/article4009430.ece|newspaper = The Hindu|date = 2012-10-18|access-date = 2015-12-06|issn = 0971-751X|language = en-IN}}</ref>

== Plot ==
[[Professor]] Parimal Tripathi ([[Dharmendra]]), who teaches botany, falls in love with Sulekha Chaturvedi ([[Sharmila Tagore]]) during a women's college botany excursion uphill when he helps the old guesthouse caretaker to get to his village downhill to enable him to see 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 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. Raghavendra, meanwhile, has written a letter to Sulekha and Sumitra's 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 two pretend 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 get 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 Bachchan|Jaya Bhaduri]]), the sister of Prashant's wife, Lata ([[Lily Chakravarty]]), suspects fake "Parimal" (Sukumar) of infidelity to his wife, "Sulekha", when he tries to get close to her. Sukumar falls in love with Vasudha, who initially believed him to be Parimal, but Sukumar reveals to her the real drama behind all this mix-up of situations. Lata is also angered over the latest "extramarital" affair. However, towards the end, Sukumar and Vasudha run away 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==
* [[Dharmendra]] as Professor Parimal Tripathi / Pyare Mohan Ilahabadi (fake)
* [[Sharmila Tagore]] as Sulekha Chaturvedi Tripathi
* [[Amitabh Bachchan]] as Professor Sukumar Sinha / Professor Parimal Tripathi (fake)
* [[Jaya Bachchan|Jaya Bhaduri]] as Vasudha Kumar Sinha
* [[Om Prakash]] as Former Barrister Raghavendra Sharma (Sulekha's brother-in-law)
* [[Usha Kiran]] as Sumitra Chaturvedi Sharma (Raghavendra's wife and Sulekha's sister)
* [[David Abraham Cheulkar]] as Haripad Chaturvedi (Sulekha's brother)
* [[Asrani]] as Prashant Kumar Shrivastava (Parimal's long-time friend)
* [[Lily Chakravarty]] as Lata Kumar Shrivastava (Prashant's wife and Vasudha's sister)
* [[Keshto Mukherjee]] as James D'Costa (Raghavendra and Sumitra's senior driver)

==Crew==
* ''Director'' - [[Abhimaan (1973 film)|Hrishikesh Mukherjee]]
* ''Producer'' - Hrishikesh Mukherjee, N. C. Sippy, Romu N. Sippy
* ''Presenter'' - N. C. Sippy
* ''Story'' - Upendranath Gangopadhyay (Bengali story ''Chhadobeshi'')
* ''Screenplay'' - D. N. Mukherjee, [[Gulzar]]
* ''Dialogue'' - Biren Tripathi, Shakeel Chandra, [[Gulzar]]
* ''Cinematographer'' - Jaywant Pathare
* ''Editor'' - Subhash Gupta, Pandit Sridhar Mishra
* ''Art Director'' - Ajit Banerjee
* ''Costumes Designer'' - Meena R. Sippy

== Soundtrack ==
{{Track listing
| headline = Songs
| extra_column = Playback
| all_lyrics = [[Anand Bakshi]]
| all_music = [[S. D. Burman]]<ref name="Booth2008">{{cite book|author=Gregory D. Booth|title=Behind the Curtain: Making Music in Mumbai's Film Studios|url=https://archive.org/details/behindcurtainmak00boot|url-access=registration|access-date=29 October 2012|date=13 October 2008|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-532763-2|pages=[https://archive.org/details/behindcurtainmak00boot/page/300 300]–}}</ref>

| title1 = Ab Ke Sajan Saawan Mein
| extra1 = [[Lata Mangeshkar]]
| length1 = 04:41

| title2 = Baagon Mein Kaise Yeh Phool Khilte Hain
| extra2 = [[Mukesh (singer)|Mukesh]], Lata Mangeshkar
| length2 = 04:31

| title3 = Chupke Chupke Chal Re Purvaiya
| extra3 = Lata Mangeshkar
| length3 = 05:04

| title4 = Sa Re Ga Ma
| extra4 = Mohammad Rafi, [[Kishore Kumar]]
| length4 = 03:08
}}

== Home media ==
Numerous [[DVD]] editions entered the market by companies like "Digital Entertainment inc.", "[[Shemaroo Entertainment]]" and "Eagle Home Video". These were released as non-restored, non re-mastered editions and bare bones, void of supplementary features.

Eagle Home Video came out with a restored edition of this movie, preserving the original aspect ratio in 4:3 pillar box and a DTS Master Audio (HD) in 2.0. The restoration took place in Shemaroo studios.

== References ==
{{reflist|30em}}

== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|0072783}}
{{Hrishikesh Mukherjee}}

[[Category:1975 films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Hindi remakes of Bengali films]]
[[Category:1970s Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:Films scored by S. D. Burman]]
[[Category:Films directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee]]
[[Category:1975 comedy films]]
[[Category:Films with screenplays by Gulzar]]
[[Category:Indian comedy films]]
[[Category:Hindi-language comedy films]]

Chupke Chupke (film)

2023-11-02T11:20:45Z

2409:40C0:1075:69CA:8000:0:0:0: /* Soundtrack */

{{short description|1975 film}}
{{EngvarB|date=February 2014}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2014}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Chupke Chupke
| image =
| caption = Release Poster
| director = [[Abhimaan (1973 film)|Hrishikesh Mukherjee]]
| producer = Hrishikesh Mukherjee N. C. Sippy
| writer = Shakeel Chandra Upendranath Ganguly [[Gulzar]] D. N. Mukherjee Biren Tripathy
| based_on = ''Chhadobeshi'' by Upendranath Ganguly
| narrator =
| starring = [[Dharmendra]] [[Sharmila Tagore]] [[Amitabh Bachchan]] [[Jaya Bachchan|Jaya Bhaduri]] [[Om Prakash]] [[Usha Kiran]] [[David Abraham Cheulkar]] [[Asrani]] [[Lily Chakravarty]]
| music = [[S. D. Burman]]
| cinematography = Jaywant Pathare
| editing = Subhash Gupta Pandit Shridhar Mishra
| studio = Rupam Chitra
| distributor = [[Shemaroo Entertainment]]
| released = 11 April 1975
| runtime = 127 minutes
| country = [[India]]
| language = [[Hindi]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/chupke-chupke-hindi/296250|title=Chupke Chupke (Hindi)|website=[[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook India]]}}</ref>
| budget = {{Estimation}} [[Indian rupee|₹]]9.91 [[lakh]] ({{Estimation}} ₹2.22 [[crore]] as of 2019)
}}

'''''Chupke Chupke''''' (translation: Quietly) is a [[List of Hindi films of 1975|1975]]<ref name="Dwyer">{{cite book|author=Rachel Dwyer|title=Filming the Gods: Religion and Indian Cinema|date=27 September 2006|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZsKR1RKoJKUC&pg=PA30|access-date=29 October 2012|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-38070-1|pages=30–}}</ref> [[Cinema of India|Indian]] [[Hindi]]-language [[comedy film]] directed and produced by [[Abhimaan (1973 film)|Hrishikesh Mukherjee]] alongside N. C. Sippy. Based on Upendranath Ganguly's [[Bengali literature|Bengali story]] ''Chhadobeshi'' {{Citation needed|date=July 2020}} and remake of the [[Bengali language|Bengali]] film ''[[Chhadmabeshi]]'',<ref name="GulzarNihalani2003">{{cite book|author1=Gulzar|author2=Govind Nihalani|author3=Saibal Chatterjee|title=Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8y8vN9A14nkC&pg=PT371|access-date=29 October 2012|year=2003|publisher=Popular Prakashan|isbn=978-81-7991-066-5|pages=371–}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Phukan|first=Vikram|date=7 December 2018|title=Lights, camera, remake: How Bollywood has thrived with take-offs from Bengali originals|url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/lights-camera-remake/article25690210.ece|website=The Hindu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movies/news/remakes-of-bengali-films-whats-new-in-this-trend/articleshow/72241437.cms|title=Remakes of Bengali films: What's new in this trend? - Times of India|website=The Times of India}}</ref>, the film stars an [[ensemble cast]] of [[Dharmendra]], [[Sharmila Tagore]], [[Amitabh Bachchan]], [[Jaya Bachchan|Jaya Bhaduri]], [[Om Prakash]], [[Usha Kiran]], [[David Abraham Cheulkar]], [[Asrani]] and [[Lily Chakravarty]]. 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]]'' was released.<ref>{{Cite news|title = Chupke Chupke (1975)|url = http://www.thehindu.com/arts/chupke-chupke-1975/article4009430.ece|newspaper = The Hindu|date = 2012-10-18|access-date = 2015-12-06|issn = 0971-751X|language = en-IN}}</ref>

== Plot ==
[[Professor]] Parimal Tripathi ([[Dharmendra]]), who teaches botany, falls in love with Sulekha Chaturvedi ([[Sharmila Tagore]]) during a women's college botany excursion uphill when he helps the old guesthouse caretaker to get to his village downhill to enable him to see 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 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. Raghavendra, meanwhile, has written a letter to Sulekha and Sumitra's 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 two pretend 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 get 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 Bachchan|Jaya Bhaduri]]), the sister of Prashant's wife, Lata ([[Lily Chakravarty]]), suspects fake "Parimal" (Sukumar) of infidelity to his wife, "Sulekha", when he tries to get close to her. Sukumar falls in love with Vasudha, who initially believed him to be Parimal, but Sukumar reveals to her the real drama behind all this mix-up of situations. Lata is also angered over the latest "extramarital" affair. However, towards the end, Sukumar and Vasudha run away 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==
* [[Dharmendra]] as Professor Parimal Tripathi / Pyare Mohan Ilahabadi (fake)
* [[Sharmila Tagore]] as Sulekha Chaturvedi Tripathi
* [[Amitabh Bachchan]] as Professor Sukumar Sinha / Professor Parimal Tripathi (fake)
* [[Jaya Bachchan|Jaya Bhaduri]] as Vasudha Kumar Sinha
* [[Om Prakash]] as Former Barrister Raghavendra Sharma (Sulekha's brother-in-law)
* [[Usha Kiran]] as Sumitra Chaturvedi Sharma (Raghavendra's wife and Sulekha's sister)
* [[David Abraham Cheulkar]] as Haripad Chaturvedi (Sulekha's brother)
* [[Asrani]] as Prashant Kumar Shrivastava (Parimal's long-time friend)
* [[Lily Chakravarty]] as Lata Kumar Shrivastava (Prashant's wife and Vasudha's sister)
* [[Keshto Mukherjee]] as James D'Costa (Raghavendra and Sumitra's senior driver)

==Crew==
* ''Director'' - [[Abhimaan (1973 film)|Hrishikesh Mukherjee]]
* ''Producer'' - Hrishikesh Mukherjee, N. C. Sippy, Romu N. Sippy
* ''Presenter'' - N. C. Sippy
* ''Story'' - Upendranath Gangopadhyay (Bengali story ''Chhadobeshi'')
* ''Screenplay'' - D. N. Mukherjee, [[Gulzar]]
* ''Dialogue'' - Biren Tripathi, Shakeel Chandra, [[Gulzar]]
* ''Cinematographer'' - Jaywant Pathare
* ''Editor'' - Subhash Gupta, Pandit Sridhar Mishra
* ''Art Director'' - Ajit Banerjee
* ''Costumes Designer'' - Meena R. Sippy

== Soundtrack ==
{{Track listing
| headline = Songs
| extra_column = Playback
| all_lyrics = [[Anand Bakshi]]
| all_music = [[S. D. Burman]]<ref name="Booth2008">{{cite book|author=Gregory D. Booth|title=Behind the Curtain: Making Music in Mumbai's Film Studios|url=https://archive.org/details/behindcurtainmak00boot|url-access=registration|access-date=29 October 2012|date=13 October 2008|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-532763-2|pages=[https://archive.org/details/behindcurtainmak00boot/page/300 300]–}}</ref>

| title1 = Ab Ke Sajan Saawan Mein
| extra1 = [[Lata Mangeshkar]]
| length1 = 04:41

| title2 = Baagon Mein Kaise Yeh Phool Khilte Hain
| extra2 = [[Mukesh (singer)|Mukesh]], [[Lata Mangeshkar]]
| length2 = 04:31

| title3 = Chupke Chupke Chal Re Purvaiya
| extra3 = Lata Mangeshkar
| length3 = 05:04

| title4 = Sa Re Ga Ma
| extra4 = Mohammad Rafi, [[Kishore Kumar]]
| length4 = 03:08
}}

== Home media ==
Numerous [[DVD]] editions entered the market by companies like "Digital Entertainment inc.", "[[Shemaroo Entertainment]]" and "Eagle Home Video". These were released as non-restored, non re-mastered editions and bare bones, void of supplementary features.

Eagle Home Video came out with a restored edition of this movie, preserving the original aspect ratio in 4:3 pillar box and a DTS Master Audio (HD) in 2.0. The restoration took place in Shemaroo studios.

== References ==
{{reflist|30em}}

== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|0072783}}
{{Hrishikesh Mukherjee}}

[[Category:1975 films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Hindi remakes of Bengali films]]
[[Category:1970s Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:Films scored by S. D. Burman]]
[[Category:Films directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee]]
[[Category:1975 comedy films]]
[[Category:Films with screenplays by Gulzar]]
[[Category:Indian comedy films]]
[[Category:Hindi-language comedy films]]

Chupke Chupke (film)

2023-11-02T11:19:34Z

2409:40C0:1075:69CA:8000:0:0:0: /* Plot */

{{short description|1975 film}}
{{EngvarB|date=February 2014}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2014}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Chupke Chupke
| image =
| caption = Release Poster
| director = [[Abhimaan (1973 film)|Hrishikesh Mukherjee]]
| producer = Hrishikesh Mukherjee N. C. Sippy
| writer = Shakeel Chandra Upendranath Ganguly [[Gulzar]] D. N. Mukherjee Biren Tripathy
| based_on = ''Chhadobeshi'' by Upendranath Ganguly
| narrator =
| starring = [[Dharmendra]] [[Sharmila Tagore]] [[Amitabh Bachchan]] [[Jaya Bachchan|Jaya Bhaduri]] [[Om Prakash]] [[Usha Kiran]] [[David Abraham Cheulkar]] [[Asrani]] [[Lily Chakravarty]]
| music = [[S. D. Burman]]
| cinematography = Jaywant Pathare
| editing = Subhash Gupta Pandit Shridhar Mishra
| studio = Rupam Chitra
| distributor = [[Shemaroo Entertainment]]
| released = 11 April 1975
| runtime = 127 minutes
| country = [[India]]
| language = [[Hindi]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/chupke-chupke-hindi/296250|title=Chupke Chupke (Hindi)|website=[[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook India]]}}</ref>
| budget = {{Estimation}} [[Indian rupee|₹]]9.91 [[lakh]] ({{Estimation}} ₹2.22 [[crore]] as of 2019)
}}

'''''Chupke Chupke''''' (translation: Quietly) is a [[List of Hindi films of 1975|1975]]<ref name="Dwyer">{{cite book|author=Rachel Dwyer|title=Filming the Gods: Religion and Indian Cinema|date=27 September 2006|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZsKR1RKoJKUC&pg=PA30|access-date=29 October 2012|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-38070-1|pages=30–}}</ref> [[Cinema of India|Indian]] [[Hindi]]-language [[comedy film]] directed and produced by [[Abhimaan (1973 film)|Hrishikesh Mukherjee]] alongside N. C. Sippy. Based on Upendranath Ganguly's [[Bengali literature|Bengali story]] ''Chhadobeshi'' {{Citation needed|date=July 2020}} and remake of the [[Bengali language|Bengali]] film ''[[Chhadmabeshi]]'',<ref name="GulzarNihalani2003">{{cite book|author1=Gulzar|author2=Govind Nihalani|author3=Saibal Chatterjee|title=Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8y8vN9A14nkC&pg=PT371|access-date=29 October 2012|year=2003|publisher=Popular Prakashan|isbn=978-81-7991-066-5|pages=371–}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Phukan|first=Vikram|date=7 December 2018|title=Lights, camera, remake: How Bollywood has thrived with take-offs from Bengali originals|url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/lights-camera-remake/article25690210.ece|website=The Hindu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movies/news/remakes-of-bengali-films-whats-new-in-this-trend/articleshow/72241437.cms|title=Remakes of Bengali films: What's new in this trend? - Times of India|website=The Times of India}}</ref>, the film stars an [[ensemble cast]] of [[Dharmendra]], [[Sharmila Tagore]], [[Amitabh Bachchan]], [[Jaya Bachchan|Jaya Bhaduri]], [[Om Prakash]], [[Usha Kiran]], [[David Abraham Cheulkar]], [[Asrani]] and [[Lily Chakravarty]]. 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]]'' was released.<ref>{{Cite news|title = Chupke Chupke (1975)|url = http://www.thehindu.com/arts/chupke-chupke-1975/article4009430.ece|newspaper = The Hindu|date = 2012-10-18|access-date = 2015-12-06|issn = 0971-751X|language = en-IN}}</ref>

== Plot ==
[[Professor]] Parimal Tripathi ([[Dharmendra]]), who teaches botany, falls in love with Sulekha Chaturvedi ([[Sharmila Tagore]]) during a women's college botany excursion uphill when he helps the old guesthouse caretaker to get to his village downhill to enable him to see 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 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. Raghavendra, meanwhile, has written a letter to Sulekha and Sumitra's 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 two pretend 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 get 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 Bachchan|Jaya Bhaduri]]), the sister of Prashant's wife, Lata ([[Lily Chakravarty]]), suspects fake "Parimal" (Sukumar) of infidelity to his wife, "Sulekha", when he tries to get close to her. Sukumar falls in love with Vasudha, who initially believed him to be Parimal, but Sukumar reveals to her the real drama behind all this mix-up of situations. Lata is also angered over the latest "extramarital" affair. However, towards the end, Sukumar and Vasudha run away 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==
* [[Dharmendra]] as Professor Parimal Tripathi / Pyare Mohan Ilahabadi (fake)
* [[Sharmila Tagore]] as Sulekha Chaturvedi Tripathi
* [[Amitabh Bachchan]] as Professor Sukumar Sinha / Professor Parimal Tripathi (fake)
* [[Jaya Bachchan|Jaya Bhaduri]] as Vasudha Kumar Sinha
* [[Om Prakash]] as Former Barrister Raghavendra Sharma (Sulekha's brother-in-law)
* [[Usha Kiran]] as Sumitra Chaturvedi Sharma (Raghavendra's wife and Sulekha's sister)
* [[David Abraham Cheulkar]] as Haripad Chaturvedi (Sulekha's brother)
* [[Asrani]] as Prashant Kumar Shrivastava (Parimal's long-time friend)
* [[Lily Chakravarty]] as Lata Kumar Shrivastava (Prashant's wife and Vasudha's sister)
* [[Keshto Mukherjee]] as James D'Costa (Raghavendra and Sumitra's senior driver)

==Crew==
* ''Director'' - [[Abhimaan (1973 film)|Hrishikesh Mukherjee]]
* ''Producer'' - Hrishikesh Mukherjee, N. C. Sippy, Romu N. Sippy
* ''Presenter'' - N. C. Sippy
* ''Story'' - Upendranath Gangopadhyay (Bengali story ''Chhadobeshi'')
* ''Screenplay'' - D. N. Mukherjee, [[Gulzar]]
* ''Dialogue'' - Biren Tripathi, Shakeel Chandra, [[Gulzar]]
* ''Cinematographer'' - Jaywant Pathare
* ''Editor'' - Subhash Gupta, Pandit Sridhar Mishra
* ''Art Director'' - Ajit Banerjee
* ''Costumes Designer'' - Meena R. Sippy

== Soundtrack ==
{{Track listing
| headline = Songs
| extra_column = Playback
| all_lyrics = [[Anand Bakshi]]
| all_music = [[S. D. Burman]]<ref name="Booth2008">{{cite book|author=Gregory D. Booth|title=Behind the Curtain: Making Music in Mumbai's Film Studios|url=https://archive.org/details/behindcurtainmak00boot|url-access=registration|access-date=29 October 2012|date=13 October 2008|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-532763-2|pages=[https://archive.org/details/behindcurtainmak00boot/page/300 300]–}}</ref>

| title1 = Ab Ke Sajan Saawan Mein
| extra1 = [[Lata Mangeshkar]]
| length1 = 04:41

| title2 = Baagon mein Kaise Ye Phol Khilte Hai
| extra2 = [[Mukesh (singer)|Mukesh]], [[Lata Mangeshkar]]
| length2 = 04:31

| title3 = Chupke Chupke Chal Re Purvaiya
| extra3 = Lata Mangeshkar
| length3 = 05:04

| title4 = Sa Re Ga Ma
| extra4 = [[Mohammad Rafi]], [[Kishore Kumar]]
| length4 = 03:08
}}

== Home media ==
Numerous [[DVD]] editions entered the market by companies like "Digital Entertainment inc.", "[[Shemaroo Entertainment]]" and "Eagle Home Video". These were released as non-restored, non re-mastered editions and bare bones, void of supplementary features.

Eagle Home Video came out with a restored edition of this movie, preserving the original aspect ratio in 4:3 pillar box and a DTS Master Audio (HD) in 2.0. The restoration took place in Shemaroo studios.

== References ==
{{reflist|30em}}

== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|0072783}}
{{Hrishikesh Mukherjee}}

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[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Hindi remakes of Bengali films]]
[[Category:1970s Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:Films scored by S. D. Burman]]
[[Category:Films directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee]]
[[Category:1975 comedy films]]
[[Category:Films with screenplays by Gulzar]]
[[Category:Indian comedy films]]
[[Category:Hindi-language comedy films]]

Chupke Chupke (film)

2023-11-02T11:13:34Z

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{{short description|1975 film}}
{{EngvarB|date=February 2014}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2014}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Chupke Chupke
| image =
| caption = Release Poster
| director = [[Abhimaan (1973 film)|Hrishikesh Mukherjee]]
| producer = Hrishikesh Mukherjee N. C. Sippy
| writer = Shakeel Chandra Upendranath Ganguly [[Gulzar]] D. N. Mukherjee Biren Tripathy
| based_on = ''Chhadobeshi'' by Upendranath Ganguly
| narrator =
| starring = [[Dharmendra]] [[Sharmila Tagore]] [[Amitabh Bachchan]] [[Jaya Bachchan|Jaya Bhaduri]] [[Om Prakash]] [[Usha Kiran]] [[David Abraham Cheulkar]] [[Asrani]] [[Lily Chakravarty]]
| music = [[S. D. Burman]]
| cinematography = Jaywant Pathare
| editing = Subhash Gupta Pandit Shridhar Mishra
| studio = Rupam Chitra
| distributor = [[Shemaroo Entertainment]]
| released = 11 April 1975
| runtime = 127 minutes
| country = [[India]]
| language = [[Hindi]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/chupke-chupke-hindi/296250|title=Chupke Chupke (Hindi)|website=[[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook India]]}}</ref>
| budget = {{Estimation}} [[Indian rupee|₹]]9.91 [[lakh]] ({{Estimation}} ₹2.22 [[crore]] as of 2019)
}}

'''''Chupke Chupke''''' (translation: Quietly) is a [[List of Hindi films of 1975|1975]]<ref name="Dwyer">{{cite book|author=Rachel Dwyer|title=Filming the Gods: Religion and Indian Cinema|date=27 September 2006|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZsKR1RKoJKUC&pg=PA30|access-date=29 October 2012|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-38070-1|pages=30–}}</ref> [[Cinema of India|Indian]] [[Hindi]]-language [[comedy film]] directed and produced by [[Abhimaan (1973 film)|Hrishikesh Mukherjee]] alongside N. C. Sippy. Based on Upendranath Ganguly's [[Bengali literature|Bengali story]] ''Chhadobeshi'' {{Citation needed|date=July 2020}} and remake of the [[Bengali language|Bengali]] film ''[[Chhadmabeshi]]'',<ref name="GulzarNihalani2003">{{cite book|author1=Gulzar|author2=Govind Nihalani|author3=Saibal Chatterjee|title=Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8y8vN9A14nkC&pg=PT371|access-date=29 October 2012|year=2003|publisher=Popular Prakashan|isbn=978-81-7991-066-5|pages=371–}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Phukan|first=Vikram|date=7 December 2018|title=Lights, camera, remake: How Bollywood has thrived with take-offs from Bengali originals|url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/lights-camera-remake/article25690210.ece|website=The Hindu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movies/news/remakes-of-bengali-films-whats-new-in-this-trend/articleshow/72241437.cms|title=Remakes of Bengali films: What's new in this trend? - Times of India|website=The Times of India}}</ref>, the film stars an [[ensemble cast]] of [[Dharmendra]], [[Sharmila Tagore]], [[Amitabh Bachchan]], [[Jaya Bachchan|Jaya Bhaduri]], [[Om Prakash]], [[Usha Kiran]], [[David Abraham Cheulkar]], [[Asrani]] and [[Lily Chakravarty]]. 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]]'' was released.<ref>{{Cite news|title = Chupke Chupke (1975)|url = http://www.thehindu.com/arts/chupke-chupke-1975/article4009430.ece|newspaper = The Hindu|date = 2012-10-18|access-date = 2015-12-06|issn = 0971-751X|language = en-IN}}</ref>

== Plot ==
Dr. Parimal Tripathi ([[Dharmendra]]), a botany [[professor]], falls in love with Sulekha Chaturvedi ([[Sharmila Tagore]]) during a women's college botany excursion uphill, when he helps the old guesthouse caretaker to get to his village downhill to enable him to see 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. Sulekha, on the other hand, is in awe of her older sister Sumitra's ([[Usha Kiran]]) so-called "highly intellectual" husband, Raghavendra Sharma ([[Om Prakash]]), 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. Raghavendra, meanwhile, has written a letter to Sulekha's older brother, Haripad ([[David Abraham Cheulkar]]), instructing him to send a driver who can speak good [[Hindi]] 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 [[English]] 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, they pretend that Sulekha is not happy with her new marriage with Parimal, and secondly, they put across the impression that Sulekha is having an affair with Pyare Mohan, and if that was not enough, they get 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 Bachchan|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 get close to her. Sukumar falls in love with Vasudha, who initially believed him to be Parimal, but Sukumar reveals to her the real drama behind all this mix-up of situations. Lata is also angered over the latest "extramarital" affair. However, towards the end, Sukumar and Vasudha run away 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==
* [[Dharmendra]] as Professor Parimal Tripathi / Pyare Mohan Ilahabadi (fake)
* [[Sharmila Tagore]] as Sulekha Chaturvedi Tripathi
* [[Amitabh Bachchan]] as Professor Sukumar Sinha / Professor Parimal Tripathi (fake)
* [[Jaya Bachchan|Jaya Bhaduri]] as Vasudha Kumar Sinha
* [[Om Prakash]] as Former Barrister Raghavendra Sharma (Sulekha's brother-in-law)
* [[Usha Kiran]] as Sumitra Chaturvedi Sharma (Raghavendra's wife and Sulekha's sister)
* [[David Abraham Cheulkar]] as Haripad Chaturvedi (Sulekha's brother)
* [[Asrani]] as Prashant Kumar Shrivastava (Parimal's long-time friend)
* [[Lily Chakravarty]] as Lata Kumar Shrivastava (Prashant's wife and Vasudha's sister)
* [[Keshto Mukherjee]] as James D'Costa (Raghavendra and Sumitra's senior driver)

==Crew==
* ''Director'' - [[Abhimaan (1973 film)|Hrishikesh Mukherjee]]
* ''Producer'' - Hrishikesh Mukherjee, N. C. Sippy, Romu N. Sippy
* ''Presenter'' - N. C. Sippy
* ''Story'' - Upendranath Gangopadhyay (Bengali story ''Chhadobeshi'')
* ''Screenplay'' - D. N. Mukherjee, [[Gulzar]]
* ''Dialogue'' - Biren Tripathi, Shakeel Chandra, [[Gulzar]]
* ''Cinematographer'' - Jaywant Pathare
* ''Editor'' - Subhash Gupta, Pandit Sridhar Mishra
* ''Art Director'' - Ajit Banerjee
* ''Costumes Designer'' - Meena R. Sippy

== Soundtrack ==
{{Track listing
| headline = Songs
| extra_column = Playback
| all_lyrics = [[Anand Bakshi]]
| all_music = [[S. D. Burman]]<ref name="Booth2008">{{cite book|author=Gregory D. Booth|title=Behind the Curtain: Making Music in Mumbai's Film Studios|url=https://archive.org/details/behindcurtainmak00boot|url-access=registration|access-date=29 October 2012|date=13 October 2008|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-532763-2|pages=[https://archive.org/details/behindcurtainmak00boot/page/300 300]–}}</ref>

| title1 = Ab Ke Sajan Saawan Mein
| extra1 = [[Lata Mangeshkar]]
| length1 = 04:41

| title2 = Baagon mein Kaise Ye Phol Khilte Hai
| extra2 = [[Mukesh (singer)|Mukesh]], [[Lata Mangeshkar]]
| length2 = 04:31

| title3 = Chupke Chupke Chal Re Purvaiya
| extra3 = Lata Mangeshkar
| length3 = 05:04

| title4 = Sa Re Ga Ma
| extra4 = [[Mohammad Rafi]], [[Kishore Kumar]]
| length4 = 03:08
}}

== Home media ==
Numerous [[DVD]] editions entered the market by companies like "Digital Entertainment inc.", "[[Shemaroo Entertainment]]" and "Eagle Home Video". These were released as non-restored, non re-mastered editions and bare bones, void of supplementary features.

Eagle Home Video came out with a restored edition of this movie, preserving the original aspect ratio in 4:3 pillar box and a DTS Master Audio (HD) in 2.0. The restoration took place in Shemaroo studios.

== References ==
{{reflist|30em}}

== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|0072783}}
{{Hrishikesh Mukherjee}}

[[Category:1975 films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Hindi remakes of Bengali films]]
[[Category:1970s Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:Films scored by S. D. Burman]]
[[Category:Films directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee]]
[[Category:1975 comedy films]]
[[Category:Films with screenplays by Gulzar]]
[[Category:Indian comedy films]]
[[Category:Hindi-language comedy films]]

Gumnaam

2023-11-02T11:07:34Z

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{{for|the 2008 film|Gumnaam – The Mystery}}
{{EngvarB|date=April 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2015}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Gumnaam
| image =
| caption =
| director = Raja Nawathe
| producer = N. N. Sippy
| writer = Charandas Shokh Dhruva Chatterjee
| starring = [[Manoj Kumar]] [[Nanda (actress)|Nanda]] [[Helen (actress)|Helen]] [[Pran (actor)|Pran]] [[Madan Puri]] [[Mehmood Ali|Mehmood]]
| music = Shankar-Jaikishan
| based_on = ''And Then There Were None'' by Agatha Christie
| cinematography = K. H. Kapadia
| editing = D. N. Pai
| studio = Prithvi Pictures
| distributor = [[Ultra Media & Entertainment|Ultra Films]]
| released = 24 December 1965
| runtime = 145 minutes
| country = [[India]]
| language = [[Hindi]]
| budget =
| gross = {{estimation}} [[#Box office|{{INR}}2.6 crore ($5.46 million)]]
}}

'''Gumnaam''' (translation: ''Anonymous'') is a [[List of Hindi films of 1965|1965]] [[Cinema of India|Indian]] [[Hindi]]-language [[mystery film]] directed by Raja Nawathe and produced by N. N. Sippy. Released in [[India]] on 24 December 1965, the film stars [[Manoj Kumar]], [[Nanda (actress)|Nanda]], [[Helen (actress)|Helen]], [[Pran (actor)|Pran]], [[Madan Puri]] and [[Mehmood Ali|Mehmood]]. The film is a loosely inspired adaptation of the 1939 mystery novel ''And Then There Were None'' by Agatha Christie.<ref>https://m.cinemaexpress.com/stories/trends/2017/nov/22/aboard-the-mystery-train-3207.amp</ref>

The film came to wider attention in the English-speaking world when its opening song "[[Jaan Pehechan Ho]]" (a Hindi-Urdu phrase roughly translated as "we should get to know each other") was included in the opening credits of ''Ghost World'' and used in the 2011 commercial ''The Date'' for Heineken. The song was sung by Bollywood music legend [[Mohammed Rafi]]. The lead dancer in the song as shot in the film was [[Laxmi Chhaya]]. The psychedelic choreography was done by [[Herman Benjamin]], who also sang the song as picturised in the film.

==Plot==
The film begins off in good, time-honoured crime-riddled way; on a dark night, wealthy Seth Sohanlal, stepping drunkenly out of a nightclub, is run down by a speeding car. Seth Sohanlal dies right there on the sidewalk and the scene moves to a seedy room overlooking the nightclub. This room is occupied by Khanna (Hiralal) who gives a hefty wad of currency notes to an unseen man being hired by him to murder Seth Sohanlal. Khanna then sets about making a series of telephone calls - to a doctor, whom he tells that a medical certificate will have to be made; to a mysterious young girl, whom he tells that the will needs to be sent to the "right place"; and to another man, whom he tells that the will will reach him the next morning - but in no case does the audience see whom Khanna is speaking to. Khanna then telephones Seth Sohanlal's niece, Asha ([[Nanda (actress)|Nanda]]), and breaks the news of her uncle's death. The loud sobs and shrieks of a devastated Asha get amplified when she hears some gunshots at the other end of the line as another faceless figure in a long coat and hat has entered Khanna's room and shot him point-blank. Khanna drops dead with his blood dripping strangely onto the receiver of the dangling telephone.

A few days later, it is announced at a nightclub that the seven winners of a "lucky draw" held earlier that evening have won a free fortnight-long trip to an unspecified destination abroad and will be going in a chartered airplane. These fortunate people are Barrister Rakesh ([[Pran (actor)|Pran]]), Dharamdas ([[Dhumal (actor)|Dhumal]]), Kishan (Manmohan), Kitty Kelly ([[Helen (actress)|Helen]]), Dr. Acharya ([[Madan Puri]]), Madhusudan Sharma ([[Tarun Bose]]), and finally, someone whom the audience has encountered earlier, Asha, though she now seems more composed. Soon, these seven people are in their chartered airplane, off for their vacation abroad, when the pilot announces that they are having to make an emergency landing at an anonymous remote island due to some technical issues. The pilot also tells the seven passengers and the only flight attendant who is on board, Anand ([[Manoj Kumar]]), that they are free to explore the area of the island while the repairs are going on. However, as soon as Anand and the seven passengers alight from the airplane, the pilot shockingly dumps their bags out and the airplane takes off without them, leaving them all stranded on the island. At the same time, a mysterious, unseen woman begins singing an eerie song on the island without the woman ever being visible. The eight people follow the direction of the woman's voice and finally arrive at a vast and spooky mansion. The mansion seems to be unoccupied except for a comical South Indian [[lungi]]-clad butler ([[Mehmood Ali|Mehmood]]), who is in charge of the mansion and has been weirdly expecting the arrival of the castaways. The butler also knows each of these people by name and has been given a letter listing all of these people except Anand.

Further, everyone discovers that the butler has a diary which, besides containing a daily expense account, also contains a message addressed to the entire group, accusing each of these people of having conspired to kill Seth Sohanlal and passing a death sentence on them. There is instant consternation, disbelief and fear for the people now having to pay up with their own lives and the mysterious woman begins singing the song again. That night, Anand goes on a recce of his fellow guests' rooms, peering in through the keyholes, when he witnesses Rakesh having fallen in love with Kitty and flirting with her; Dr. Acharya clinging his hands to a bottle of poison; and Dharamdas hiding a fearsome-looking dagger under his pillow. Anand is caught out in his night-time perambulations by Kishan but neither says anything to the other, while the butler's suspicious actions indicate the presence of an unknown person in the mansion. The next day passes uneventfully, but at dinnertime, everyone is worried as Kishan is nowhere to be found in the mansion. Following dinner, Anand and Asha together go searching for Kishan through the ruins scattered across the island with a torch as well as a gun that Anand has mysteriously brought with him when the two are shocked to stumble onto Kishan, stabbed to death. Anand discovers a bit of half-smoked cigar and a letter addressed to the group next to Kishan's dead body. The letter states that Kishan was the driver of the car and the man hired by Khanna that ran down Seth Sohanlal and that is why he is now been killed.

At the same time, Anand reveals that the dagger used to murder Kishan was none other than the one which Dharamdas had hidden under his pillow, causing everyone to immediately corner Dharamdas and try to get him to confess to Kishan's murder, but Dharamdas pleads his innocence. The very next evening, the innocence of Dharamdas is proved when Anand and Asha stumble onto his strangled dead body in the courtyard of a ruined church and the mysterious woman begins singing another verse of her creepy song. Anand concludes that the culprit is among them and it becomes clear that everyone was connected to Seth Sohanlal; Rakesh wrote Seth Sohanlal's will on Khanna's orders, while Kitty was Seth Sohanlal's private secretary who sent his will to Rakesh on Khanna's instructions, though neither knew about the other. The next day, Anand notices Rakesh hiding an [[axe]] and becomes suspicious of his intentions. Just then, Dr. Acharya appears exclaiming that Sharma has been apparently killed with an axe and another letter addressed to the group is discovered next to his apparent dead body. The letter states that Sharma was Khanna's co-conspirator in Seth Sohanlal's murder and that is why he is also now been killed. Now only three men - Anand, Rakesh and Dr. Acharya - and two women - Asha and Kitty - are left alive and terrified on the island along with the butler.

That night, Dr. Acharya catches the butler acting suspiciously and learns his secret before a scuffle ensues between them both. In the presence of Asha and Kitty, a stabbed Dr. Acharya enters the dining room, utters Anand's name and breathes his last. Anand and Rakesh accuse each other of Dr. Acharya's murder while Asha begins questioning her faith in Anand. The next day, Kitty goes for a walk by herself and is strangled to death by a rope. Rakesh and Asha, who have been searching for Kitty, are shocked to discover her dead body and Anand's hat next to it. Rakesh witnesses Anand running away from the crime scene and begins pursuing him but loses his trail. In a fit of rage, Rakesh tries to rape Asha in the mansion in the middle of the night. Asha escapes from Rakesh but runs into him again as Rakesh collapses dead with two daggers in his back. The lights in the mansion are switched off, which indicates that the killer has arrived and that Asha is next. The killer approaches Asha and she falls unconscious in fear before the killer carries Asha to a secret room. After she regains consciousness, Asha discovers that the killer is none other than Sharma, who reveals that he had only employed the butler to make the necessary arrangements on the island, and posing as one of the castaways, he killed Kishan and Dharamdas. He then convinced Dr. Acharya to declare him dead on the pretext that it would help him investigate the killer, and later killed Dr. Acharya as well with Kitty and Rakesh.

Just then, Anand appears at the scene and reveals that he is actually an undercover police inspector on the mission to nab Sharma, an escaped convict whose real name is Madanlal. Madanlal reveals to Anand and Asha that Khanna and Seth Sohanlal were his partners in smuggling, but he was betrayed by them after being arrested by the police. Khanna also had Seth Sohanlal killed to usurp the share of his money, but Madanlal escaped from prison and murdered Khanna. He then ensured that his targets "won" the lucky draw held at the nightclub and decided to take the trip to murder Khanna's remaining five assistants too. Madanlal then ties up both Anand and Asha and plays the game of Russian Roulette with them. However, the butler secretly arrives and releases Anand, who attacks Madanlal as he is about to shoot Asha with the only bullet. In the ensuing scuffle, Madanlal escapes from the mansion and runs towards the seashore but an airplane full of police officers lands on the island and Madanlal is arrested for his crimes. The "ghost" woman who sings the ominous song turns out to be the butler's mentally-ill sister (Naina). The film ends with Anand, Asha, the butler and his sister leaving the ill-fated island on the airplane.

==Cast==
* [[Manoj Kumar]] as Undercover Inspector Anand
* [[Nanda (actress)|Nanda]] as Asha
* [[Pran (actor)|Pran]] as Barrister Rakesh
* [[Helen (actress)|Helen]] as Kitty Kelly
* [[Madan Puri]] as Dr. Acharya
* [[Mehmood Ali|Mehmood]] as the butler
* [[Tarun Bose]] as Madhusudan Sharma (fake) / Madanlal
* [[Dhumal (actor)|Dhumal]] as Dharamdas
* Manmohan as Kishan
=== Cameo Appearances ===
* [[Laxmi Chhaya]] as the masked dancer in "Jaane Pehchane Ho" song
* Hiralal as Khanna (Seth Sohanlal's murderer)
* Naina as the butler's mentally-ill sister

==Soundtrack==
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = Planet Bollywood
| rev1score = {{Rating|9|10}}<ref name="pb">{{cite web|url=http://www.planetbollywood.com/displayReview.php?id=042406025200 |title=Gumnaam Music Review by Shahid Khan |publisher=Planet Bollywood |access-date=7 February 2012}}</ref>
}}

Critic Shahid Khan rated the soundtrack 9 out of 10 stating, "Gumnaam is sometimes unfairly overlooked but I believe that it is one of [[Shankar-Jaikishan]]'s best albums."<ref name="pb"/>
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"
! Song !! Singer(s)!! Notes
|-
|"[[Jaan Pehechan Ho]]"
|[[Mohammed Rafi]]
|Picturised on [[Laxmi Chhaya]] and choreographer Herman Benjamin;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://memsaabstory.wordpress.com/2008/12/14/trivia-time-33/|title=Trivia time #33|date=14 December 2008|website=Memsaabstory.wordpress.com|access-date=30 January 2018}}</ref> features in the opening credits of [[Ghost World (film)|Ghost World]]. Also featured on the CD ''Bollywood Steel Guitar'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Bollywood-Steel-Guitar-Various-Artists/dp/B0014Z3OPS/|title=Bollywood Steel Guitar|date=1 April 2008|website=Amazon.com|access-date=30 January 2018}}</ref> a [[Compilation album|compilation]] by various released in 2008 by the [[Sublime Frequencies]] record label.
|-
|"Gumnaam Hai Koi"
|[[Lata Mangeshkar]]
|Cover version of the title song by [[Henry Mancini]] of the film ''[[Charade (1963 film)|Charade]]''.<ref>{{Cite book|last=TRIPATHI|first=ABHISHEK|url=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=8TX8DwAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA109&hl=en&redir_esc=y|title=Indian Film Music and The Aesthetics of Chords|date=2020-09-08|page=109|publisher=Zorba Books|isbn=978-93-90011-48-3|language=en}}</ref>
|-
|"Ek Ladki Hai Jisne Jeena Mushkil Kar Diya"
|Mohammed Rafi
|Picturised on [[Manoj Kumar]] and [[Nanda (actress)|Nanda]]
|-
|"Jaane Chaman Shola Badan"
|Mohammed Rafi and [[Sharda Rajan Iyengar|Sharda]]
|Picturised on Manoj Kumar and Nanda
|-
|"Peeke Hum Tum Jo"
|[[Asha Bhosle]] and [[Usha Mangeshkar]]
|This comical song was picturised on Nanda and [[Helen (actress)|Helen]]
|-
|"Gham Chhodke Manaao Rang"
|[[Lata Mangeshkar]]
|Picturised on Helen. Also known as "Iss Duniya Mein Jeena Ho Toh Sunlo Meri Baat".
|-
|"Aayega Kaun Yahaan"
|Sharda
|Unused in the movie, this song was included on the soundtrack album.
|-
|"Hum Kaale Hain To"
|Mohammed Rafi
|Picturised on Helen and [[Mehmood Ali|Mehmood]]
|}

According to film expert Rajesh Subramanian, a cold war prevailed between Mehmood and Manoj Kumar during the making of the film. Kumar tried to convince the director to discard the song "Hum kaale hain toh kya hua", which has picturised on Mehmood, from the film. However, it was kept and went on to become a hit and one of the highlights of the film. An English-language version of the song titled "The She I Love", sung by Mohammed Rafi, was also recorded.{{citation needed|date=July 2018}}

==Reception==
===Box office===
Gumnaam became a box office hit. It was the 8th [[List of highest-grossing Indian films|highest-grossing film in India]] in 1965, grossing [[Indian rupee|{{INR}}]]2.6 [[crore]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20131004235207/http://boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=171&catName=MTk2NQ]</ref> This was equivalent to [[US$|$]]5.46 million in 1965,{{#tag:ref|4.7619 [[Indian rupee]]s per [[US dollar]] in 1965<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/etc/USDpages.pdf#page=3|format=PDF|page=3|title=PACIFIC Exchange Rate Service : Foreign Currency Units per 1 U.S. Dollar, 1950-2016|website=Fx.sauber.ubc.ca|access-date=30 January 2018}}</ref>|group=n}} and is equivalent to US${{Inflation|US|5.46|1965}} million or {{INR}}275 crore<ref name="exchange16">{{cite web|url=https://www.ofx.com/en-gb/forex-news/historical-exchange-rates/yearly-average-rates/|title=Yearly Average Rates|website=Ofx.com|access-date=30 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170713183556/https://www.ofx.com/en-gb/forex-news/historical-exchange-rates/yearly-average-rates/|archive-date=13 July 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> in 2016.

===Awards and nominations===
* [[Filmfare]] Nomination for Best Supporting Actress – [[Helen (actress)|Helen]]
* [[Filmfare]] Nomination for Best Supporting Actor – [[Mehmood Ali|Mehmood]]
* [[Filmfare Best Art Direction Award]] – Colour Movie – S.S. Samel<ref>{{cite web|url=http://deep750.googlepages.com/FilmfareAwards.pdf|title=1st Filmfare Awards 1953|website=Deep750.googlepages.com|access-date=30 January 2018}}</ref>

==Notes==
{{Reflist|group=n}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0247394|Gumnaam}}

{{And Then There Were None}}

[[Category:1960s Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:1965 films]]
[[Category:Films based on And Then There Were None]]
[[Category:Films scored by Shankar Jaikishan]]
[[Category:Indian aviation films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Indian ghost films]]
[[Category:Films featuring an item number]]
[[Category:Films directed by Raja Nawathe]]

Gumnaam

2023-11-02T11:01:58Z

2409:40C0:1075:69CA:8000:0:0:0: /* Plot */

{{for|the 2008 film|Gumnaam – The Mystery}}
{{EngvarB|date=April 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2015}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Gumnaam
| image =
| caption =
| director = Raja Nawathe
| producer = N. N. Sippy
| writer = Charandas Shokh Dhruva Chatterjee
| starring = [[Manoj Kumar]] [[Nanda (actress)|Nanda]] [[Helen (actress)|Helen]] [[Pran (actor)|Pran]] [[Madan Puri]] [[Mehmood Ali|Mehmood]]
| music = Shankar-Jaikishan
| based_on = ''And Then There Were None'' by Agatha Christie
| cinematography = K. H. Kapadia
| editing = D. N. Pai
| studio = Prithvi Pictures
| distributor = [[Ultra Media & Entertainment|Ultra Films]]
| released = 24 December 1965
| runtime = 145 minutes
| country = [[India]]
| language = [[Hindi]]
| budget =
| gross = {{estimation}} [[#Box office|{{INR}}2.6 crore ($5.46 million)]]
}}

'''Gumnaam''' (translation: ''Anonymous'') is a [[List of Hindi films of 1965|1965]] [[Cinema of India|Indian]] [[Hindi]]-language [[mystery film]] directed by Raja Nawathe and produced by N. N. Sippy. Released in [[India]] on 24 December 1965, the film stars [[Manoj Kumar]], [[Nanda (actress)|Nanda]], [[Helen (actress)|Helen]], [[Pran (actor)|Pran]], [[Madan Puri]] and [[Mehmood Ali|Mehmood]]. The film is a loosely inspired adaptation of the 1939 mystery novel ''And Then There Were None'' by Agatha Christie.<ref>https://m.cinemaexpress.com/stories/trends/2017/nov/22/aboard-the-mystery-train-3207.amp</ref>

The film came to wider attention in the English-speaking world when its opening song "[[Jaan Pehechan Ho]]" (a Hindi-Urdu phrase roughly translated as "we should get to know each other") was included in the opening credits of ''Ghost World'' and used in the 2011 commercial ''The Date'' for Heineken. The song was sung by Bollywood music legend [[Mohammed Rafi]]. The lead dancer in the song as shot in the film was [[Laxmi Chhaya]]. The psychedelic choreography was done by [[Herman Benjamin]], who also sang the song as picturised in the film.

==Plot==
The film begins off in good, time-honoured crime-riddled way; on a dark night, wealthy Seth Sohanlal, stepping drunkenly out of a nightclub, is run down by a speeding car. Seth Sohanlal dies right there on the sidewalk and the scene moves to a seedy room overlooking the nightclub. This room is occupied by Khanna (Hiralal) who gives a hefty wad of currency notes to an unseen man being hired by him to murder Seth Sohanlal. Khanna then sets about making a series of telephone calls - to a doctor, whom he tells that a medical certificate will have to be made; to a mysterious young girl, whom he tells that the will needs to be sent to the "right place"; and to another man, whom he tells that the will will reach him the next morning - but in no case does the audience see whom Khanna is speaking to. Khanna then telephones Seth Sohanlal's niece, Asha ([[Nanda (actress)|Nanda]]), and breaks the news of her uncle's death. The loud sobs and shrieks of a devastated Asha get amplified when she hears some gunshots at the other end of the line as another faceless figure in a long coat and hat has entered Khanna's room and shot him point-blank. Khanna drops dead with his blood dripping strangely onto the receiver of the dangling telephone.

A few days later, it is announced at a nightclub that the seven winners of a "lucky draw" held earlier that evening have won a free fortnight-long trip to an unspecified destination abroad and will be going in a chartered airplane. These fortunate people are Barrister Rakesh ([[Pran (actor)|Pran]]), Dharamdas ([[Dhumal (actor)|Dhumal]]), Kishan (Manmohan), Kitty Kelly ([[Helen (actress)|Helen]]), Dr. Acharya ([[Madan Puri]]), Madhusudan Sharma ([[Tarun Bose]]), and finally, someone whom the audience has encountered earlier, Asha, though she now seems more composed. Soon, these seven people are in their chartered airplane, off for their vacation abroad, when the pilot announces that they are having to make an emergency landing at an anonymous remote island due to some technical issues. The pilot also tells the seven passengers and the only flight attendant who is on board, Anand ([[Manoj Kumar]]), that they are free to explore the area of the island while the repairs are going on. However, as soon as Anand and the seven passengers alight from the airplane, the pilot shockingly dumps their bags out and the airplane takes off without them, leaving them all stranded on the island. At the same time, a mysterious, unseen woman begins singing an eerie song on the island without the woman ever being visible. The eight people follow the direction of the woman's voice and finally arrive at a vast and spooky mansion. The mansion seems to be unoccupied except for a comical South Indian [[lungi]]-clad butler ([[Mehmood Ali|Mehmood]]), who is in charge of the mansion and has been weirdly expecting the arrival of the castaways. The butler also knows each of these people by name and has been given a letter listing all of these people except Anand.

Further, everyone discovers that the butler has a diary which, besides containing a daily expense account, also contains a message addressed to the entire group, accusing each of these people of having conspired to kill Seth Sohanlal and passing a death sentence on them. There is instant consternation, disbelief and fear for the people now having to pay up with their own lives and the mysterious woman begins singing the song again. That night, Anand goes on a recce of his fellow guests' rooms, peering in through the keyholes, when he witnesses Rakesh having fallen in love with Kitty and flirting with her; Dr. Acharya clinging his hands to a bottle of poison; and Dharamdas hiding a fearsome-looking dagger under his pillow. Anand is caught out in his night-time perambulations by Kishan but neither says anything to the other, while the butler's suspicious actions indicate the presence of an unknown person in the mansion. The next day passes uneventfully, but at dinnertime, everyone is worried as Kishan is nowhere to be found in the mansion. Following dinner, Anand and Asha together go searching for Kishan through the ruins scattered across the island with a torch as well as a gun that Anand has mysteriously brought with him when the two are shocked to stumble onto Kishan, stabbed to death. Anand discovers a bit of half-smoked cigar and a letter addressed to the group next to Kishan's dead body. The letter states that Kishan was the driver of the car and the man hired by Khanna that ran down Seth Sohanlal and that is why he is now been killed.

At the same time, Anand reveals that the dagger used to murder Kishan was none other than the one which Dharamdas had hidden under his pillow, causing everyone to immediately corner Dharamdas and try to get him to confess to Kishan's murder, but Dharamdas pleads his innocence. The very next evening, the innocence of Dharamdas is proved when Anand and Asha stumble onto his strangled dead body in the courtyard of a ruined church and the mysterious woman begins singing another verse of her creepy song. Anand concludes that the culprit is among them and it becomes clear that everyone was connected to Seth Sohanlal; Rakesh wrote Seth Sohanlal's will on Khanna's orders, while Kitty was Seth Sohanlal's private secretary who sent his will to Rakesh on Khanna's instructions, though neither knew about the other. The next day, Anand notices Rakesh hiding an [[axe]] and becomes suspicious of his intentions. Just then, Dr. Acharya appears exclaiming that Sharma has been apparently killed with an axe and another letter addressed to the group is discovered next to his apparent dead body. The letter states that Sharma was Khanna's co-conspirator in Seth Sohanlal's murder and that is why he is also now been killed. Now only three men - Anand, Rakesh and Dr. Acharya - and two women - Asha and Kitty - are left alive and terrified on the island along with the butler.

That night, Dr. Acharya catches the butler acting suspiciously and learns his secret before a scuffle ensues between them both. In the presence of Asha and Kitty, a stabbed Dr. Acharya enters the dining room, utters Anand's name and breathes his last. Anand and Rakesh accuse each other of Dr. Acharya's murder while Asha begins questioning her faith in Anand. The next day, Kitty goes for a walk by herself and is strangled to death by a rope. Rakesh and Asha, who have been searching for Kitty, are shocked to discover her dead body and Anand's hat next to it. Rakesh witnesses Anand running away from the crime scene and begins pursuing him but loses his trail. In a fit of rage, Rakesh tries to rape Asha in the mansion in the middle of the night. Asha escapes from Rakesh but runs into him again as Rakesh collapses dead with two daggers in his back. The lights in the mansion are switched off, which indicates that the killer has arrived and that Asha is next. The killer approaches Asha and she falls unconscious in fear before the killer carries Asha to a secret room. After she regains consciousness, Asha discovers that the killer is none other than Sharma, who reveals that he had only employed the butler to make the necessary arrangements on the island, and posing as one of the castaways, he killed Kishan and Dharamdas. He then convinced Dr. Acharya to declare him dead on the pretext that it would help him investigate the killer, and later killed Dr. Acharya as well with Kitty and Rakesh.

Just then, Anand appears at the scene and reveals that he is actually an undercover police inspector on the mission to nab Sharma, an escaped convict whose real name is Madanlal. Madanlal reveals to Anand and Asha that Khanna and Seth Sohanlal were his partners in smuggling, but he was betrayed by them after being arrested by the police. Khanna also had Seth Sohanlal killed to usurp the share of his money, but Madanlal escaped from prison and murdered Khanna. He then ensured that his targets "won" the lucky draw held at the nightclub and decided to take the trip to murder Khanna's remaining five assistants too. Madanlal then ties up both Anand and Asha and plays the game of Russian Roulette with them. However, the butler secretly arrives and releases Anand, who attacks Madanlal as he is about to shoot Asha with the only bullet. In the ensuing scuffle, Madanlal escapes from the mansion and runs towards the seashore but an airplane full of police officers lands on the island and Madanlal is arrested for his crimes. The "ghost" woman who sings the ominous song turns out to be the butler's mentally-ill sister (Naina). The film ends with Anand, Asha, the butler and his sister leaving the ill-fated island on the airplane.

==Cast==
* [[Manoj Kumar]] as Inspector Anand
* [[Nanda (actress)|Nanda]] as Asha
* [[Pran (actor)|Pran]] as Barrister Rakesh
* [[Helen (actress)|Helen]] as Kitty Kelly
* [[Madan Puri]] as Dr. Acharya
* [[Mehmood Ali|Mehmood]] as the butler
* [[Tarun Bose]] as Madhusudan Sharma (fake) / Madanlal
* [[Dhumal (actor)|Dhumal]] as Dharamdas
* Manmohan as Kishan
* [[Laxmi Chhaya]] as the masked dancer in "Jaane Pehchane Ho" song (Cameo Appearance)
* Hiralal as Khanna (Cameo Appearance)

==Soundtrack==
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = Planet Bollywood
| rev1score = {{Rating|9|10}}<ref name="pb">{{cite web|url=http://www.planetbollywood.com/displayReview.php?id=042406025200 |title=Gumnaam Music Review by Shahid Khan |publisher=Planet Bollywood |access-date=7 February 2012}}</ref>
}}

Critic Shahid Khan rated the soundtrack 9 out of 10 stating, "Gumnaam is sometimes unfairly overlooked but I believe that it is one of [[Shankar-Jaikishan]]'s best albums."<ref name="pb"/>
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"
! Song !! Singer(s)!! Notes
|-
|"[[Jaan Pehechan Ho]]"
|[[Mohammed Rafi]]
|Picturised on [[Laxmi Chhaya]] and choreographer Herman Benjamin;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://memsaabstory.wordpress.com/2008/12/14/trivia-time-33/|title=Trivia time #33|date=14 December 2008|website=Memsaabstory.wordpress.com|access-date=30 January 2018}}</ref> features in the opening credits of [[Ghost World (film)|Ghost World]]. Also featured on the CD ''Bollywood Steel Guitar'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Bollywood-Steel-Guitar-Various-Artists/dp/B0014Z3OPS/|title=Bollywood Steel Guitar|date=1 April 2008|website=Amazon.com|access-date=30 January 2018}}</ref> a [[Compilation album|compilation]] by various released in 2008 by the [[Sublime Frequencies]] record label.
|-
|"Gumnaam Hai Koi"
|[[Lata Mangeshkar]]
|Cover version of the title song by [[Henry Mancini]] of the film ''[[Charade (1963 film)|Charade]]''.<ref>{{Cite book|last=TRIPATHI|first=ABHISHEK|url=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=8TX8DwAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA109&hl=en&redir_esc=y|title=Indian Film Music and The Aesthetics of Chords|date=2020-09-08|page=109|publisher=Zorba Books|isbn=978-93-90011-48-3|language=en}}</ref>
|-
|"Ek Ladki Hai Jisne Jeena Mushkil Kar Diya"
|Mohammed Rafi
|Picturised on [[Manoj Kumar]] and [[Nanda (actress)|Nanda]]
|-
|"Jaane Chaman Shola Badan"
|Mohammed Rafi and [[Sharda Rajan Iyengar|Sharda]]
|Picturised on Manoj Kumar and Nanda
|-
|"Peeke Hum Tum Jo"
|[[Asha Bhosle]] and [[Usha Mangeshkar]]
|This comical song was picturised on Nanda and [[Helen (actress)|Helen]]
|-
|"Gham Chhodke Manaao Rang"
|[[Lata Mangeshkar]]
|Picturised on Helen. Also known as "Iss Duniya Mein Jeena Ho Toh Sunlo Meri Baat".
|-
|"Aayega Kaun Yahaan"
|Sharda
|Unused in the movie, this song was included on the soundtrack album.
|-
|"Hum Kaale Hain To"
|Mohammed Rafi
|Picturised on Helen and [[Mehmood Ali|Mehmood]]
|}

According to film expert Rajesh Subramanian, a cold war prevailed between Mehmood and Manoj Kumar during the making of the film. Kumar tried to convince the director to discard the song "Hum kaale hain toh kya hua", which has picturised on Mehmood, from the film. However, it was kept and went on to become a hit and one of the highlights of the film. An English-language version of the song titled "The She I Love", sung by Mohammed Rafi, was also recorded.{{citation needed|date=July 2018}}

==Reception==
===Box office===
Gumnaam became a box office hit. It was the 8th [[List of highest-grossing Indian films|highest-grossing film in India]] in 1965, grossing [[Indian rupee|{{INR}}]]2.6 [[crore]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20131004235207/http://boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=171&catName=MTk2NQ]</ref> This was equivalent to [[US$|$]]5.46 million in 1965,{{#tag:ref|4.7619 [[Indian rupee]]s per [[US dollar]] in 1965<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/etc/USDpages.pdf#page=3|format=PDF|page=3|title=PACIFIC Exchange Rate Service : Foreign Currency Units per 1 U.S. Dollar, 1950-2016|website=Fx.sauber.ubc.ca|access-date=30 January 2018}}</ref>|group=n}} and is equivalent to US${{Inflation|US|5.46|1965}} million or {{INR}}275 crore<ref name="exchange16">{{cite web|url=https://www.ofx.com/en-gb/forex-news/historical-exchange-rates/yearly-average-rates/|title=Yearly Average Rates|website=Ofx.com|access-date=30 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170713183556/https://www.ofx.com/en-gb/forex-news/historical-exchange-rates/yearly-average-rates/|archive-date=13 July 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> in 2016.

===Awards and nominations===
* [[Filmfare]] Nomination for Best Supporting Actress – [[Helen (actress)|Helen]]
* [[Filmfare]] Nomination for Best Supporting Actor – [[Mehmood Ali|Mehmood]]
* [[Filmfare Best Art Direction Award]] – Colour Movie – S.S. Samel<ref>{{cite web|url=http://deep750.googlepages.com/FilmfareAwards.pdf|title=1st Filmfare Awards 1953|website=Deep750.googlepages.com|access-date=30 January 2018}}</ref>

==Notes==
{{Reflist|group=n}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0247394|Gumnaam}}

{{And Then There Were None}}

[[Category:1960s Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:1965 films]]
[[Category:Films based on And Then There Were None]]
[[Category:Films scored by Shankar Jaikishan]]
[[Category:Indian aviation films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Indian ghost films]]
[[Category:Films featuring an item number]]
[[Category:Films directed by Raja Nawathe]]

Gumnaam

2023-11-02T10:57:01Z

2409:40C0:1075:69CA:8000:0:0:0: /* Plot */

{{for|the 2008 film|Gumnaam – The Mystery}}
{{EngvarB|date=April 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2015}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Gumnaam
| image =
| caption =
| director = Raja Nawathe
| producer = N. N. Sippy
| writer = Charandas Shokh Dhruva Chatterjee
| starring = [[Manoj Kumar]] [[Nanda (actress)|Nanda]] [[Helen (actress)|Helen]] [[Pran (actor)|Pran]] [[Madan Puri]] [[Mehmood Ali|Mehmood]]
| music = Shankar-Jaikishan
| based_on = ''And Then There Were None'' by Agatha Christie
| cinematography = K. H. Kapadia
| editing = D. N. Pai
| studio = Prithvi Pictures
| distributor = [[Ultra Media & Entertainment|Ultra Films]]
| released = 24 December 1965
| runtime = 145 minutes
| country = [[India]]
| language = [[Hindi]]
| budget =
| gross = {{estimation}} [[#Box office|{{INR}}2.6 crore ($5.46 million)]]
}}

'''Gumnaam''' (translation: ''Anonymous'') is a [[List of Hindi films of 1965|1965]] [[Cinema of India|Indian]] [[Hindi]]-language [[mystery film]] directed by Raja Nawathe and produced by N. N. Sippy. Released in [[India]] on 24 December 1965, the film stars [[Manoj Kumar]], [[Nanda (actress)|Nanda]], [[Helen (actress)|Helen]], [[Pran (actor)|Pran]], [[Madan Puri]] and [[Mehmood Ali|Mehmood]]. The film is a loosely inspired adaptation of the 1939 mystery novel ''And Then There Were None'' by Agatha Christie.<ref>https://m.cinemaexpress.com/stories/trends/2017/nov/22/aboard-the-mystery-train-3207.amp</ref>

The film came to wider attention in the English-speaking world when its opening song "[[Jaan Pehechan Ho]]" (a Hindi-Urdu phrase roughly translated as "we should get to know each other") was included in the opening credits of ''Ghost World'' and used in the 2011 commercial ''The Date'' for Heineken. The song was sung by Bollywood music legend [[Mohammed Rafi]]. The lead dancer in the song as shot in the film was [[Laxmi Chhaya]]. The psychedelic choreography was done by [[Herman Benjamin]], who also sang the song as picturised in the film.

==Plot==
The film begins off in good, time-honoured crime-riddled way; on a dark night, wealthy Seth Sohanlal, stepping drunkenly out of a nightclub, is run down by a speeding car. Seth Sohanlal dies right there on the sidewalk and the scene moves to a seedy room overlooking the nightclub. This room is occupied by Khanna (Hiralal) who gives a hefty wad of currency notes to an unseen man hired by him to murder Seth Sohanlal. Khanna then sets about making a series of telephone calls - to a doctor, whom he tells that a medical certificate will have to be made; to a mysterious young girl, whom he tells that the will needs to be sent to the "right place"; and to another man, whom he tells that the will will reach him the next morning - but in no case does the audience see whom Khanna is speaking to. Khanna then telephones Seth Sohanlal's niece, Asha ([[Nanda (actress)|Nanda]]), and breaks the news of her uncle's death. The loud sobs and shrieks of a devastated Asha get amplified when she hears some gunshots at the other end of the line as another faceless figure in a long coat and hat has entered Khanna's room and shot him point-blank. Khanna drops dead with his blood dripping strangely onto the receiver of the dangling telephone.

A few days later, it is announced at a nightclub that the seven winners of a "lucky draw" held earlier that evening have won a free fortnight-long trip to an unspecified destination abroad and will be going in a chartered airplane. These fortunate people are Barrister Rakesh ([[Pran (actor)|Pran]]), Dharamdas ([[Dhumal (actor)|Dhumal]]), Kishan (Manmohan), Kitty Kelly ([[Helen (actress)|Helen]]), Dr. Acharya ([[Madan Puri]]), Madhusudan Sharma ([[Tarun Bose]]), and finally, someone whom the audience has encountered earlier, Asha, though she now seems more composed. Soon, these seven people are in their chartered airplane, off for their vacation abroad, when the pilot announces that they are having to make an emergency landing at an anonymous remote island due to some technical issues. The pilot also tells the seven passengers and the only flight attendant who is on board, Anand ([[Manoj Kumar]]), that they are free to explore the area of the island while the repairs are going on. However, as soon as Anand and the seven passengers alight from the airplane, the pilot shockingly dumps their bags out and the airplane takes off without them, leaving them all stranded on the island. At the same time, a mysterious, unseen woman begins singing an eerie song on the island without the woman ever being visible. The eight people follow the direction of the woman's voice and finally arrive at a vast and spooky mansion. The mansion seems to be unoccupied except for a comical South Indian [[lungi]]-clad butler ([[Mehmood Ali|Mehmood]]), who is in charge of the mansion and has been weirdly expecting the arrival of the castaways. The butler also knows each of these people by name and has been given a letter listing all of these people except Anand.

Further, everyone discovers that the butler has a diary which, besides containing a daily expense account, also contains a message addressed to the entire group, accusing each of these people of having conspired to kill Seth Sohanlal and passing a death sentence on them. There is instant consternation, disbelief and fear for the people now having to pay up with their own lives and the mysterious woman begins singing the song again. That night, Anand goes on a recce of his fellow guests' rooms, peering in through the keyholes, when he witnesses Rakesh having fallen in love with Kitty and flirting with her; Dr. Acharya clinging his hands to a bottle of poison; and Dharamdas hiding a fearsome-looking dagger under his pillow. Anand is caught out in his night-time perambulations by Kishan but neither says anything to the other, while the butler's suspicious actions indicate the presence of an unknown person in the mansion. The next day passes uneventfully, but at dinnertime, everyone is worried as Kishan is nowhere to be found in the mansion. Following dinner, Anand and Asha together go searching for Kishan through the ruins scattered across the island with a torch as well as a gun that Anand has mysteriously brought with him when the two are shocked to stumble onto Kishan, stabbed to death. Anand discovers a bit of half-smoked cigar and a letter addressed to the group next to Kishan's dead body. The letter states that Kishan was the driver of the car that ran down Seth Sohanlal and that is why he is now been killed.

At the same time, Anand reveals that the dagger used to murder Kishan was none other than the one which Dharamdas had hidden under his pillow, causing everyone to immediately corner Dharamdas and try to get him to confess to Kishan's murder but Dharamdas pleads his innocence. The very next evening, the innocence of Dharamdas is proved when Anand and Asha stumble onto his strangled dead body in the courtyard of a ruined church and the mysterious woman begins singing another verse of her creepy song. Anand concludes that the culprit is among them and it becomes clear that everyone was connected to Seth Sohanlal; Rakesh wrote Seth Sohanlal's will on Khanna's orders, while Kitty was Seth Sohanlal's private secretary who sent his will to Rakesh on Khanna's instructions, though neither knew about the other. The next day, Anand notices Rakesh hiding an [[axe]] and becomes suspicious of his intentions. Just then, Dr. Acharya appears exclaiming that Sharma has been apparently killed with an axe and another letter addressed to the group is discovered next to his apparent dead body. The letter states that Sharma was Khanna's co-conspirator in Seth Sohanlal's murder and that is why he is also now been killed. Now only three men - Anand, Rakesh and Dr. Acharya - and two women - Asha and Kitty - are left alive and terrified on the island along with the butler.

That night, Dr. Acharya catches the butler acting suspiciously and learns his secret before a scuffle ensues between them both. In the presence of Asha and Kitty, a stabbed Dr. Acharya enters the dining room, utters Anand's name and breathes his last. Anand and Rakesh accuse each other of Dr. Acharya's murder while Asha begins questioning her faith in Anand. The next day, Kitty goes for a walk by herself and is strangled to death by a rope. Rakesh and Asha, who have been searching for Kitty, are shocked to discover her dead body and Anand's hat next to it. Rakesh witnesses Anand running away from the crime scene and begins pursuing him but loses his trail. In a fit of rage, Rakesh tries to rape Asha in the mansion in the middle of the night. Asha escapes from Rakesh but runs into him again as Rakesh collapses dead with two daggers in his back. The lights in the mansion are switched off, which indicates that the killer has arrived and that Asha is next. The killer approaches Asha and she falls unconscious in fear before the killer carries Asha to a secret room. After she regains consciousness, Asha discovers that the killer is none other than Sharma, who reveals that he had only employed the butler to make the necessary arrangements on the island, and posing as one of the castaways, he killed Kishan and Dharamdas. He then convinced Dr. Acharya to declare him dead on the pretext that it would help him investigate the killer, and later killed Dr. Acharya as well with Kitty and Rakesh.

Just then, Anand appears at the scene and reveals that he is actually an undercover police inspector on the mission to nab Sharma, an escaped convict whose real name is Madanlal. Madanlal reveals to Anand and Asha that Khanna and Seth Sohanlal were his partners in smuggling, but he was betrayed by them after being arrested by the police. Khanna also had Seth Sohanlal killed to usurp the share of his money, but Madanlal escaped from prison and murdered Khanna. He then ensured that his targets "won" the lucky draw held at the nightclub and decided to take the trip to murder Khanna's remaining five assistants too. Madanlal then ties up both Anand and Asha and plays the game of Russian Roulette with them. However, the butler secretly arrives and releases Anand, who attacks Madanlal as he is about to shoot Asha with the only bullet. In the ensuing scuffle, Madanlal escapes from the mansion and runs towards the seashore but an airplane full of police officers lands on the island and Madanlal is arrested for his crimes. The "ghost" woman who sings the ominous song turns out to be the butler's mentally-ill sister (Naina). The film ends with Anand, Asha, the butler and his sister leaving the ill-fated island on the airplane.

==Cast==
* [[Manoj Kumar]] as Inspector Anand
* [[Nanda (actress)|Nanda]] as Asha
* [[Pran (actor)|Pran]] as Barrister Rakesh
* [[Helen (actress)|Helen]] as Kitty Kelly
* [[Madan Puri]] as Dr. Acharya
* [[Mehmood Ali|Mehmood]] as the butler
* [[Tarun Bose]] as Madhusudan Sharma (fake) / Madanlal
* [[Dhumal (actor)|Dhumal]] as Dharamdas
* Manmohan as Kishan
* [[Laxmi Chhaya]] as the masked dancer in "Jaane Pehchane Ho" song (Cameo Appearance)
* Hiralal as Khanna (Cameo Appearance)

==Soundtrack==
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = Planet Bollywood
| rev1score = {{Rating|9|10}}<ref name="pb">{{cite web|url=http://www.planetbollywood.com/displayReview.php?id=042406025200 |title=Gumnaam Music Review by Shahid Khan |publisher=Planet Bollywood |access-date=7 February 2012}}</ref>
}}

Critic Shahid Khan rated the soundtrack 9 out of 10 stating, "Gumnaam is sometimes unfairly overlooked but I believe that it is one of [[Shankar-Jaikishan]]'s best albums."<ref name="pb"/>
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"
! Song !! Singer(s)!! Notes
|-
|"[[Jaan Pehechan Ho]]"
|[[Mohammed Rafi]]
|Picturised on [[Laxmi Chhaya]] and choreographer Herman Benjamin;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://memsaabstory.wordpress.com/2008/12/14/trivia-time-33/|title=Trivia time #33|date=14 December 2008|website=Memsaabstory.wordpress.com|access-date=30 January 2018}}</ref> features in the opening credits of [[Ghost World (film)|Ghost World]]. Also featured on the CD ''Bollywood Steel Guitar'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Bollywood-Steel-Guitar-Various-Artists/dp/B0014Z3OPS/|title=Bollywood Steel Guitar|date=1 April 2008|website=Amazon.com|access-date=30 January 2018}}</ref> a [[Compilation album|compilation]] by various released in 2008 by the [[Sublime Frequencies]] record label.
|-
|"Gumnaam Hai Koi"
|[[Lata Mangeshkar]]
|Cover version of the title song by [[Henry Mancini]] of the film ''[[Charade (1963 film)|Charade]]''.<ref>{{Cite book|last=TRIPATHI|first=ABHISHEK|url=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=8TX8DwAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA109&hl=en&redir_esc=y|title=Indian Film Music and The Aesthetics of Chords|date=2020-09-08|page=109|publisher=Zorba Books|isbn=978-93-90011-48-3|language=en}}</ref>
|-
|"Ek Ladki Hai Jisne Jeena Mushkil Kar Diya"
|Mohammed Rafi
|Picturised on [[Manoj Kumar]] and [[Nanda (actress)|Nanda]]
|-
|"Jaane Chaman Shola Badan"
|Mohammed Rafi and [[Sharda Rajan Iyengar|Sharda]]
|Picturised on Manoj Kumar and Nanda
|-
|"Peeke Hum Tum Jo"
|[[Asha Bhosle]] and [[Usha Mangeshkar]]
|This comical song was picturised on Nanda and [[Helen (actress)|Helen]]
|-
|"Gham Chhodke Manaao Rang"
|[[Lata Mangeshkar]]
|Picturised on Helen. Also known as "Iss Duniya Mein Jeena Ho Toh Sunlo Meri Baat".
|-
|"Aayega Kaun Yahaan"
|Sharda
|Unused in the movie, this song was included on the soundtrack album.
|-
|"Hum Kaale Hain To"
|Mohammed Rafi
|Picturised on Helen and [[Mehmood Ali|Mehmood]]
|}

According to film expert Rajesh Subramanian, a cold war prevailed between Mehmood and Manoj Kumar during the making of the film. Kumar tried to convince the director to discard the song "Hum kaale hain toh kya hua", which has picturised on Mehmood, from the film. However, it was kept and went on to become a hit and one of the highlights of the film. An English-language version of the song titled "The She I Love", sung by Mohammed Rafi, was also recorded.{{citation needed|date=July 2018}}

==Reception==
===Box office===
Gumnaam became a box office hit. It was the 8th [[List of highest-grossing Indian films|highest-grossing film in India]] in 1965, grossing [[Indian rupee|{{INR}}]]2.6 [[crore]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20131004235207/http://boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=171&catName=MTk2NQ]</ref> This was equivalent to [[US$|$]]5.46 million in 1965,{{#tag:ref|4.7619 [[Indian rupee]]s per [[US dollar]] in 1965<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/etc/USDpages.pdf#page=3|format=PDF|page=3|title=PACIFIC Exchange Rate Service : Foreign Currency Units per 1 U.S. Dollar, 1950-2016|website=Fx.sauber.ubc.ca|access-date=30 January 2018}}</ref>|group=n}} and is equivalent to US${{Inflation|US|5.46|1965}} million or {{INR}}275 crore<ref name="exchange16">{{cite web|url=https://www.ofx.com/en-gb/forex-news/historical-exchange-rates/yearly-average-rates/|title=Yearly Average Rates|website=Ofx.com|access-date=30 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170713183556/https://www.ofx.com/en-gb/forex-news/historical-exchange-rates/yearly-average-rates/|archive-date=13 July 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> in 2016.

===Awards and nominations===
* [[Filmfare]] Nomination for Best Supporting Actress – [[Helen (actress)|Helen]]
* [[Filmfare]] Nomination for Best Supporting Actor – [[Mehmood Ali|Mehmood]]
* [[Filmfare Best Art Direction Award]] – Colour Movie – S.S. Samel<ref>{{cite web|url=http://deep750.googlepages.com/FilmfareAwards.pdf|title=1st Filmfare Awards 1953|website=Deep750.googlepages.com|access-date=30 January 2018}}</ref>

==Notes==
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==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0247394|Gumnaam}}

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