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{{Infobox film
{{Infobox film
| name          = Chupke Chupke
| name          = Chupke Chupke
| image          =  
| image          = Chupke Chupke 1975.jpg
| caption        = Release Poster
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director      = [[Abhimaan (1973 film)|Hrishikesh Mukherjee]]
| director      = [[Hrishikesh Mukherjee]]
| producer      = Hrishikesh Mukherjee<br />N. C. Sippy
| producer      = Hrishikesh Mukherjee<br />[[N. C. Sippy]]
| writer        = Shakeel Chandra<br />Upendranath Ganguly<br />[[Gulzar]]<br />D. N. Mukherjee<br />Biren Tripathy
| screenplay    = [[Gulzar]]<br />D. N. Mukherjee {{Infobox|decat=yes|child=yes|label1= Dialogues by|data1 = Gulzar}}
| based_on      = ''Chhadobeshi'' by <br/> Upendranath Ganguly
| story          = Upendranath Ganguly
| based_on      = {{Based on|Chhadmabeshi (novel)|Upendranath Ganguly}}
| starring      = [[Dharmendra]]<br>[[Sharmila Tagore]]<br>[[Amitabh Bachchan]]<br>[[Jaya Bhaduri]]<br>[[Om Prakash]]<br>[[Asrani]]
| narrator      =  
| narrator      =  
| starring      = [[Dharmendra]]<br />[[Sharmila Tagore]]<br />[[Amitabh Bachchan]]<br />[[Jaya Bachchan|Jaya Bhaduri]]<br />[[Om Prakash]]<br />[[Usha Kiran]]<br />[[David Abraham Cheulkar]]<br />[[Asrani]]<br />[[Lily Chakravarty]]
| cinematography = Jaywant Pathare
| editing        = Pandit Shridhar Mishra<br />Subhash Gupta
| music          = [[S. D. Burman]]
| music          = [[S. D. Burman]]
| cinematography = Jaywant Pathare
| editing        = Subhash Gupta<br />Pandit Shridhar Mishra
| studio        = Rupam Chitra
| studio        = Rupam Chitra
| distributor    = [[Shemaroo Entertainment]]
| distributor    = [[Shemaroo Entertainment]]
| released      = 11 April 1975
| released      = {{Film date|df=y|1975|04|11}}
| runtime        = 127 minutes
| runtime        = 127 minutes
| country        = [[India]]
| 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>
| 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]] <br /> ({{Estimation}} ₹2.22 [[crore]] as of 2019)
| budget        =  
| gross          =
}}
}}


'''''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>
'''''Chupke Chupke''''' ({{translation|Quietly}}) is a 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> Indian [[Hindi]]-language [[romantic-comedy film]] directed by [[Hrishikesh Mukherjee]]. A 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 news|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|date=27 November 2019 }}</ref> acted by [[Uttam Kumar]]. It stars [[Dharmendra]], [[Sharmila Tagore]], [[Amitabh Bachchan]], [[Jaya Bhaduri]] and [[Om Prakash]] in lead roles, with [[Asrani]], [[David Abraham Cheulkar|David]], [[Usha Kiran]], [[Lily Chakravarty]] and [[Keshto Mukherjee]] in supporting roles. The music was composed by [[S.D. Burman]].<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><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/bollywood/hrishikesh-mukherjee-chupke-chupke-subtle-antidote-to-angry-young-man-era-7915586/|title=Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Chupke Chupke was the subtle antidote to the 'angry young man' era; a balance we have forgotten today|date=14 May 2022}}</ref>


== Plot ==
==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.  
[[Professor]] Parimal Tripathi, who teaches [[botany]], falls in love with Sulekha Chaturvedi during the botany [[excursion]] of a [[women's college]] uphill. He helps the old [[Property caretaker|caretaker]] of the [[guesthouse]] to travel to his village downhill in order to enable him to visit his grandson, who has fallen ill. Meanwhile, Parimal disguises himself as the guesthouse caretaker to protect the old man's job, but Sulekha happens to find out about the cover-up one day. She is charmed by 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, the so-called "highly-[[intellectual]]" husband of her older sister, Sumitra, and looks upon him as her idol. Thanks to Sulekha's excessive praise of Raghavendra, Parimal decides to prove that he is in no way a lesser mortal. An opportunity comes when Raghavendra writes a [[Letter (message)|letter]] to Sulekha and Sumitra's older brother, Haripad, instructing him to send a [[Chauffeur|driver]] for him who can speak pure [[Hindi]] language because his present driver, James D'Costa, uses improper dialect and mixes English words in Hindi. 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 criticize the [[English language]] and so speaks only pure and unmixed 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.
Firstly, the couple pretends that Sulekha is not happy with her new marriage with Parimal, and secondly, they put across the impression that Sulekha is having an [[Affair|extramarital affair]] with Pyare Mohan, and if that was not enough, they make Parimal's best friend, Sukumar Sinha, 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 other long-time friend, Prashant Kumar Shrivastava, is also party to the prank. Vasudha, the younger sister of Prashant's wife, Lata, suspects fake "Parimal" (Sukumar) of infidelity to his wife, "Sulekha", when he tries to grow close to her. Sukumar falls in love with Vasudha, who initially believes him to be Parimal, but Sukumar reveals to her the real drama behind all this mix-up of situations, while Lata is also furious over the latest "extramarital" affair. However, towards the end, Sukumar and Vasudha escape from home and get married in a [[temple]] with the blessings of Prashant, where Haripad coerces Pyare Mohan to "kill" himself so that Parimal could surface. Thus, Raghavendra, Sumitra, and Lata come to comprehend the whole enactment, with Raghavendra finally admitting that he was truly fooled. The film revolves around the resolution of these funny mishaps.


==Cast==
==Cast==
* [[Dharmendra]] as Professor Parimal Tripathi / Pyare Mohan Ilahabadi (fake)
* [[Dharmendra]] as Prof. Parimal Tripathi / Pyare Mohan Allahabadi
* [[Sharmila Tagore]] as Sulekha Chaturvedi Tripathi
* [[Sharmila Tagore]] as Sulekha Tripathi – Parimal’s girlfriend, later wife
* [[Amitabh Bachchan]] as Professor Sukumar Sinha / Professor Parimal Tripathi (fake)
* [[Amitabh Bachchan]] as Prof. Sukumar "Kumar" Sinha
* [[Jaya Bachchan|Jaya Bhaduri]] as Vasudha Kumar Sinha
* [[Jaya Bhaduri]] as Vasudha Sinha – Sukumar’s girlfriend, later wife
* [[Om Prakash]] as Former Barrister Raghavendra Sharma (Sulekha's brother-in-law)
* [[Om Prakash]] as Raghavendra "Raghav" Sharma – Sulekha’s brother-in-law (Jija ji)
* [[Usha Kiran]] as Sumitra Chaturvedi Sharma (Raghavendra's wife and Sulekha's sister)
* [[Asrani]] as Prashant Kumar Srivastav – Parimal’s friend
* [[David Abraham Cheulkar]] as Haripad Chaturvedi (Sulekha's brother)
* [[David Abraham Cheulkar|David]] as Haripad Chaturvedi – Sulekha and Sumitra’s elder brother
* [[Asrani]] as Prashant Kumar Shrivastava (Parimal's long-time friend)
* [[Usha Kiran]] as Sumitra Sharma – Sulekha’s elder sister, Raghav’s wife
* [[Lily Chakravarty]] as Lata Kumar Shrivastava (Prashant's wife and Vasudha's sister)
* [[Lily Chakravarty]] as Lata Kumar Srivastav – Prashant’s wife, Vasudha’s elder sister
* [[Keshto Mukherjee]] as James D'Costa (Raghavendra and Sumitra's senior driver)
* [[Keshto Mukherjee]] as James D'Costa – Raghav’s driver
* Master Vishal Desai (Bittoo) as Ratna
* [[Lalita Kumari]] as Lalita Sinha teacher
* Aarti
* Amol Sen as Om Prakash's gatekeeper
* Harish Magon as a thief
* Chaitali
* Dev Kishan as a chowkidar
* Lalita Sinha
* [[Nayana Apte]]


==Crew==
== Music and soundtrack ==
* ''Director'' - [[Abhimaan (1973 film)|Hrishikesh Mukherjee]]
The music of the film was composed by [[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> and the lyrics were penned by [[Anand Bakshi]].
* ''Producer'' - Hrishikesh Mukherjee, N. C. Sippy, Romu N. Sippy
{{Infobox album
* ''Presenter'' - N. C. Sippy
| name        = Chupke Chupke
* ''Story'' - Upendranath Gangopadhyay (Bengali story ''Chhadobeshi'')
| type        = Soundtrack
* ''Screenplay'' - D. N. Mukherjee, [[Gulzar]]
| artist      = [[S. D. Burman]]
* ''Dialogue'' - Biren Tripathi, Shakeel Chandra, [[Gulzar]]
| released    = {{Start date|1976|04|2}}<ref name="Spotify">{{Cite web |date=10 November 2023 |title=Chupke Chupke |url=https://open.spotify.com/album/0YbNCAiWnYtCoTX1uLv5t4|publisher=Spotify}}</ref>
* ''Cinematographer'' - Jaywant Pathare
| genre        = [[Film soundtrack|Feature film soundtrack]]
* ''Editor'' - Subhash Gupta, Pandit Sridhar Mishra
| length      = {{Duration|m=17|s=25}}
* ''Art Director'' - Ajit Banerjee
| language    = [[Hindi]]
* ''Costumes Designer'' - Meena R. Sippy
| label        = [[Saregama]]
 
| producer    = [[S. D. Burman]]
== Soundtrack ==
| prev_title  = [[Sagina (film)|Sagina]]
| prev_year    = 1974
| next_title  = [[Mili (1975 film)|Mili]]
| next_year    = 1975
| chronology  = [[S. D. Burman]]
}}
{{Track listing
{{Track listing
| headline     = Songs
| headline = Songs
| extra_column = Playback
| extra_column = Playback
| all_lyrics   = [[Anand Bakshi]]
| all_lyrics =
| 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>
| all_music =
 
| title1 = Bagon Mein Kaise Ye Phool
| title1 = Ab Ke Sajan Saawan Mein
| extra1 = [[Lata Mangeshkar]] & [[Mukesh (singer)|Mukesh]]
| extra1 = [[Lata Mangeshkar]]
| length1 = 4:30
| length1 = 04:41
| title2 = Chupke Chupke Chal Re Purbaiya
 
| extra2 = [[Lata Mangeshkar]]
| title2 = Baagon Mein Kaise Yeh Phool Khilte Hain
| length2 = 5:04
| extra2 = [[Mukesh (singer)|Mukesh]], Lata Mangeshkar
| title3 = Sa Re Ga Ma
| length2 = 04:31
| extra3 = [[Kishore Kumar]] & [[Mohammed Rafi]]
 
| length3 = 3:08
| title3 = Chupke Chupke Chal Re Purvaiya
| title4 = Ab Ke Sajan Sawan Mein
| extra3 = Lata Mangeshkar
| extra4 = [[Lata Mangeshkar]]
| length3 = 05:04
| total_length = 17:25
 
| length4 = 4:41
| 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 ==
== References ==
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[[Category:1975 films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Hindi remakes of Bengali films]]
[[Category:Hindi remakes of Bengali films]]
[[Category:1970s Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:1975 Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:1975 Indian films]]
[[Category:Films scored by S. D. Burman]]
[[Category:Films scored by S. D. Burman]]
[[Category:Films directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee]]
[[Category:Films directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee]]

Latest revision as of 00:14, 15 March 2026


Chupke Chupke
Theatrical release poster
Directed byHrishikesh Mukherjee
Produced byHrishikesh Mukherjee
N. C. Sippy
Screenplay byGulzar
D. N. Mukherjee
Dialogues byGulzar
Story byUpendranath Ganguly
Based onChhadmabeshi (novel)
by Upendranath Ganguly
StarringDharmendra
Sharmila Tagore
Amitabh Bachchan
Jaya Bhaduri
Om Prakash
Asrani
Music byS. D. Burman
CinematographyJaywant Pathare
Edited byPandit Shridhar Mishra
Subhash Gupta
Production
company
Rupam Chitra
Distributed byShemaroo Entertainment
Release date
  • 11 April 1975 (1975-04-11)
Running time
127 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi [1]

Chupke Chupke (transl. Quietly) is a 1975[2] Indian Hindi-language romantic-comedy film directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee. A remake of the Bengali film Chhadmabeshi,[3][4][5] acted by Uttam Kumar. It stars Dharmendra, Sharmila Tagore, Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bhaduri and Om Prakash in lead roles, with Asrani, David, Usha Kiran, Lily Chakravarty and Keshto Mukherjee in supporting roles. The music was composed by S.D. Burman.[6][7]

Plot[edit | edit source]

Professor Parimal Tripathi, who teaches botany, falls in love with Sulekha Chaturvedi during the botany excursion of a women's college uphill. He helps the old caretaker of the guesthouse to travel to his village downhill in order to enable him to visit his grandson, who has fallen ill. Meanwhile, Parimal disguises himself as the guesthouse caretaker to protect the old man's job, but Sulekha happens to find out about the cover-up one day. She is charmed by 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, the so-called "highly-intellectual" husband of her older sister, Sumitra, and looks upon him as her idol. Thanks to Sulekha's excessive praise of Raghavendra, Parimal decides to prove that he is in no way a lesser mortal. An opportunity comes when Raghavendra writes a letter to Sulekha and Sumitra's older brother, Haripad, instructing him to send a driver for him who can speak pure Hindi language because his present driver, James D'Costa, uses improper dialect and mixes English words in Hindi. 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 criticize the English language and so speaks only pure and unmixed Hindi. Thus begins the comedy of errors as Parimal and Sulekha play prank after prank on the unsuspecting Raghavendra and Sumitra.

Firstly, the couple pretends that Sulekha is not happy with her new marriage with Parimal, and secondly, they put across the impression that Sulekha is having an extramarital affair with Pyare Mohan, and if that was not enough, they make Parimal's best friend, Sukumar Sinha, 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 other long-time friend, Prashant Kumar Shrivastava, is also party to the prank. Vasudha, the younger sister of Prashant's wife, Lata, suspects fake "Parimal" (Sukumar) of infidelity to his wife, "Sulekha", when he tries to grow close to her. Sukumar falls in love with Vasudha, who initially believes him to be Parimal, but Sukumar reveals to her the real drama behind all this mix-up of situations, while Lata is also furious over the latest "extramarital" affair. However, towards the end, Sukumar and Vasudha escape from home and get married in a temple with the blessings of Prashant, where Haripad coerces Pyare Mohan to "kill" himself so that Parimal could surface. Thus, Raghavendra, Sumitra, and Lata come to comprehend the whole enactment, with Raghavendra finally admitting that he was truly fooled. The film revolves around the resolution of these funny mishaps.

Cast[edit | edit source]

  • Dharmendra as Prof. Parimal Tripathi / Pyare Mohan Allahabadi
  • Sharmila Tagore as Sulekha Tripathi – Parimal’s girlfriend, later wife
  • Amitabh Bachchan as Prof. Sukumar "Kumar" Sinha
  • Jaya Bhaduri as Vasudha Sinha – Sukumar’s girlfriend, later wife
  • Om Prakash as Raghavendra "Raghav" Sharma – Sulekha’s brother-in-law (Jija ji)
  • Asrani as Prashant Kumar Srivastav – Parimal’s friend
  • David as Haripad Chaturvedi – Sulekha and Sumitra’s elder brother
  • Usha Kiran as Sumitra Sharma – Sulekha’s elder sister, Raghav’s wife
  • Lily Chakravarty as Lata Kumar Srivastav – Prashant’s wife, Vasudha’s elder sister
  • Keshto Mukherjee as James D'Costa – Raghav’s driver
  • Master Vishal Desai (Bittoo) as Ratna
  • Lalita Kumari as Lalita Sinha teacher
  • Aarti
  • Amol Sen as Om Prakash's gatekeeper
  • Harish Magon as a thief
  • Chaitali
  • Dev Kishan as a chowkidar
  • Lalita Sinha
  • Nayana Apte

Music and soundtrack[edit | edit source]

The music of the film was composed by S. D. Burman[8] and the lyrics were penned by Anand Bakshi.

Chupke Chupke
Soundtrack album by
S. D. Burman
ReleasedApril 2, 1976 (1976-04-02)[9]
GenreFeature film soundtrack
Length17:25
LanguageHindi
LabelSaregama
ProducerS. D. Burman
S. D. Burman chronology
Sagina
(1974) 		Chupke Chupke
(1976) 		Mili
(1975)
Songs
No.TitlePlaybackLength
1."Bagon Mein Kaise Ye Phool"Lata Mangeshkar & Mukesh4:30
2."Chupke Chupke Chal Re Purbaiya"Lata Mangeshkar5:04
3."Sa Re Ga Ma"Kishore Kumar & Mohammed Rafi3:08
4."Ab Ke Sajan Sawan Mein"Lata Mangeshkar4:41
Total length:17:25

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ "Chupke Chupke (Hindi)". Outlook India.
  2. ↑ Rachel Dwyer (27 September 2006). Filming the Gods: Religion and Indian Cinema. Routledge. pp. 30–. ISBN 978-1-134-38070-1. Retrieved 29 October 2012.
  3. ↑ Gulzar; Govind Nihalani; Saibal Chatterjee (2003). Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema. Popular Prakashan. pp. 371–. ISBN 978-81-7991-066-5. Retrieved 29 October 2012.
  4. ↑ Phukan, Vikram (7 December 2018). "Lights, camera, remake: How Bollywood has thrived with take-offs from Bengali originals". The Hindu.
  5. ↑ "Remakes of Bengali films: What's new in this trend? - Times of India". The Times of India. 27 November 2019.
  6. ↑ "Chupke Chupke (1975)". The Hindu. 18 October 2012. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
  7. ↑ "Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Chupke Chupke was the subtle antidote to the 'angry young man' era; a balance we have forgotten today". 14 May 2022.
  8. ↑ Gregory D. Booth (13 October 2008). Behind the Curtain: Making Music in Mumbai's Film Studios. Oxford University Press. pp. 300–. ISBN 978-0-19-532763-2. Retrieved 29 October 2012.
  9. ↑ "Chupke Chupke". Spotify. 10 November 2023.

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