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Chupke Chupke (film)
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| Chupke Chupke | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Hrishikesh Mukherjee |
| Produced by | Hrishikesh Mukherjee N. C. Sippy |
| Written by | Shakeel Chandra Upendranath Ganguly Gulzar D. N. Mukherjee Biren Tripathy |
| Based on | Chhadobeshi by Upendranath Ganguly |
| Starring | Dharmendra Sharmila Tagore Amitabh Bachchan Jaya Bhaduri Om Prakash Usha Kiran David Abraham Cheulkar Asrani Lily Chakravarty |
| Music by | S. D. Burman |
| Cinematography | Jaywant Pathare |
| Edited by | Subhash Gupta Pandit Shridhar Mishra |
Production company | Rupam Chitra |
| Distributed by | Shemaroo Entertainment |
Release date | 11 April 1975 |
Running time | 127 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi[1] |
| Budget | est. ₹9.91 lakh (est. ₹2.22 crore as of 2019) |
Chupke Chupke (translation: Quietly) is a 1975[2] Indian Hindi-language comedy film directed and produced by Hrishikesh Mukherjee alongside N. C. Sippy. Based on Upendranath Ganguly's Bengali story Chhadobeshi[citation needed] and remake of the Bengali film Chhadmabeshi,[3][4][5], the film stars an ensemble cast of Dharmendra, Sharmila Tagore, Amitabh 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.[6]
Plot[edit]
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 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[edit]
- 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 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[edit]
- Director - 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[edit]
All lyrics are written by Anand Bakshi; all music is composed by S. D. Burman[7].
| No. | Title | Playback | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Ab Ke Sajan Saawan Mein" | Lata Mangeshkar | 04:41 |
| 2. | "Baagon Mein Kaise Yeh Phool Khilte Hain" | Mukesh, Lata Mangeshkar | 04:31 |
| 3. | "Chupke Chupke Chal Re Purvaiya" | Lata Mangeshkar | 05:04 |
| 4. | "Sa Re Ga Ma" | Mohammad Rafi, Kishore Kumar | 03:08 |
Home media[edit]
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[edit]
- ↑ "Chupke Chupke (Hindi)". Outlook India.
- ↑ Rachel Dwyer (27 September 2006). Filming the Gods: Religion and Indian Cinema. Routledge. pp. 30–. ISBN 978-1-134-38070-1. Retrieved 29 October 2012.
- ↑ Gulzar; Govind Nihalani; Saibal Chatterjee (2003). Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema. Popular Prakashan. pp. 371–. ISBN 978-81-7991-066-5. Retrieved 29 October 2012.
- ↑ Phukan, Vikram (7 December 2018). "Lights, camera, remake: How Bollywood has thrived with take-offs from Bengali originals". The Hindu.
- ↑ "Remakes of Bengali films: What's new in this trend? - Times of India". The Times of India.
- ↑ "Chupke Chupke (1975)". The Hindu. 18 October 2012. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
- ↑ 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.