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Chupke Chupke (film)

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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 Raghavendra Sharma
* [[Usha Kiran]] as Sumitra Sharma
* [[David Abraham Cheulkar]] as Haripad Chaturvedi
* [[Asrani]] as Prashant Kumar Shrivastava
* [[Lily Chakravarty]] as Lata Kumar Shrivastava
* [[Keshto Mukherjee]] as James D'Costa (Raghavendra and Sumitra's first driver)
* Vishal Desai as Ratna Sharma (Raghavendra and Sumitra's daughter)
* Amol Sen as Raghavendra and Sumitra's bungalow watchman (Cameo Appearance)
* Harish Magon as Thief (Cameo Appearance)

==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]]

Chupke Chupke (film)

2023-09-18T12:50:53Z

2409:40C0:107F:AC0F:8000:0:0:0: /* Cast */

{{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]], [[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 Raghavendra Sharma
* [[Usha Kiran]] as Sumitra Sharma
* [[David Abraham Cheulkar]] as Haripad Chaturvedi
* [[Asrani]] as Prashant Kumar Shrivastava
* [[Lily Chakravarty]] as Lata Kumar Shrivastava
* [[Keshto Mukherjee]] as James D'Costa (Raghavendra and Sumitra's first driver)
* Vishal Desai as Ratna Sharma (Raghavendra and Sumitra's daughter)
* Amol Sen as Raghavendra and Sumitra's bungalow watchman (Cameo Appearance)
* Harish Magon as Thief (Cameo Appearance)

==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]]

Chupke Chupke (film)

2023-09-18T12:49:41Z

2409:40C0:107F:AC0F: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]], [[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 Raghavendra Sharma
* [[Usha Kiran]] as Sumitra Sharma
* [[David Abraham Cheulkar]] as Haripad Bhaiyya Chaturvedi
* [[Asrani]] as Prashant Kumar Shrivastava
* [[Lily Chakravarty]] as Lata Kumar Shrivastava
* [[Keshto Mukherjee]] as James D'Costa (Raghavendra and Sumitra's first driver)
* Vishal Desai as Ratna (Raghavendra and Sumitra's daughter)
* Amol Sen as Raghavendra and Sumitra's bungalow watchman (Cameo Appearance)
* Harish Magon as Thief (Cameo Appearance)

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

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