Chupke Chupke (1975)

A newly wedded husband plays a practical joke on his wife's family with full support from his wife and friends.

Director:

Hrishikesh Mukherjee

Writers:

Upendranath Ganguly (story), D.N. Mukherjee (screenplay),

Stars:

Dharmendra, Sharmila Tagore, Amitabh Bachchan

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Dharmendra	...	Dr. Parimal Tripathi
Sharmila Tagore	...	Sulekha Chaturvedi
Amitabh Bachchan	...	Professor Sukumar Sinha
Jaya Bhaduri	...	Vasudha Kumar
David Abraham	...	Haripath Chaturvedi (as David)
Usha Kiran	...	Sumitra Sharma
Lily Chakravarty	...	Lata Kumar Srivastav (as Lily Chakraborty)
Keshto Mukherjee	...	James D'Costa (Driver) (as Kesto Mukherjee)
Dev Kishan
Om Prakash	...	Raghavendra Sharma (Raghav)
Lalita Kumari	...	(as Lalita Sinha)
Naina Apte
Chaitali
Aarti
Amol Sen

Storyline

Raghav brags that he can smell a rat or an impersonator automatically, and Dr. Parimal Tripathi decides to take him on - result: funny family slapstick comedy, with a dose of pure Hindi and Urdu thrown in, especially the dialogue delivery by Om Prakash, Dharmendra, and Amitabh Bachchan. Notable songs are :Sare ga ma, ma sa re ga ma...."; "Ab ke sajan sawan me, aag lagegi badan mein, ghata barshegi, magar tarsegi nazar, mil na sakenghe do mahn ek hi aagan mein..."; "Chupke chupke chal di purvaiya, basuri bajaike raas rachaye daiya re daiya, chupke...".

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Plot Keywords:

friend | song | fast motion scene | railway station | watchman | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama

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Details

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Box Office

Budget:

INR 991,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

127 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Hrishikesh Mukherjee wanted newcomers for the parts played by Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bhaduri.

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Quotes

Professor Sukumar Sinha: [Angrily] I'll tell everyone the truth.
[Pointing at Pyare Mohan]
Professor Sukumar Sinha: I'll tell them who you are. I'll tell them who I am.
[Pointing at Prashant]
Professor Sukumar Sinha: I'll even tell them who you are.
Prashant Kumar Srivastav: Why me? They know me as Prashant and I am Prashant.
Professor Sukumar Sinha: Ok; Then what's the problem in telling the truth?

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Connections

Referenced in Heyy Babyy (2007)

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Soundtracks

"Sa Re Ga Ma"
Sung by Kishore Kumar and Mohammad Rafi
Music composed by Sachin Dev Burman
Lyrics by Anand Bakshi

User Reviews

Hrishikesh Mukherjee shows his genius.

Chupke Chupke is masterpiece by Hrishikesh Mukherjee, I love his style of story telling be it Bawarchi, Rang Birangi, Naram Garam, Golmaal, Khubsoorat, Buddha Mil Gaya, all of which are great movies. All his stories have very simple storyline, powerful cast, lots of human emotion and patriotism towards Indian culture and languages.

Dharmendra is truly amazing, and so is Amitabh Bachchan and rest of the cast supports them well. Since most of the dialogs are in pure Hindi, some people may find it difficult to follow. Hrishikesh Mukherjee through his movies and characters always pointed to some aspect or the other of the lives of Indian people, and hence all his characters always feel very real and get deep inside your skin and you become a part of the act.

The practical joke played by a Botany professor on his brother-in-law is the focus of the movie, as pointed out by other commenter. Chupke Chupke is a film in which the dialogs combine with the situations to collectively impart the comic momentum to the movie which persist till the very last minute, very very entertaining film, highly recommended for the entire family. If you liked this movie, then do give the movies mentioned at the beginning a shot, you would thank me later. :) also highly recommended.