Chupke Chupke (1975)

Director:

Hrishikesh Mukherjee

Writers:

Shakeel Chandra (dialogue director)
Upendranath Ganguly (story)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Musical

Plot:

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

Plot Keywords:

Railway Station | False Identity | Train | Attraction | Car Driver

Cast

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

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Color:

Color

Trivia:

Md. Rafi has one stanza less in the the song 'Sa re ga ma', as he was not present during the dubbing session. Kishore Kumar, who was the other singer, sang the additional stanza.

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?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Heyy Babyy (2007)

Soundtrack:

Chupke Chupke Chal Re Purvaiya

A botanical farce!

The wikipedia defines FARCE thus: A farce is a comedy written for the stage or film which aims to entertain the audience by means of unlikely, extravagant and improbable situations, disguise and mistaken identity, verbal humor of varying degrees of sophistication, which may include sexual innuendo and word play, and a fast-paced plot whose speed usually increases, culminating in an ending which often involves an elaborate chase scene.

Was it Hrishi Da's intention to create a farce in Chupke Chupke? The situation was unlikely, the set-up improbable, there was mistaken identity, lots of verbal humor in many different languages, there was sexual innuendo and some quite explicit goings on for a Hrishikesh film. In fact except for the chase seen all other elements were in place.

A few things that I found particularly hilarious: 1. The fixation on the Jeeja Saali relationship.

2. The hilarious use of Botany - and particularly Corolla! LOL! Jaya wanted the Botany Prof to teach her about the corolla, and it took him all night to study that up! And everyone would walk about with a flower in their hand.

3. The students who were most fascinated by corollas and by the handsome professor were ALL women. Was this Hrishi Da's wink wink nudge nudge at Botany being a pursuit for women? In fact a classy British store has a women's cardigan line called BOTANY! 4. Dharm was simply awesome. "Main jab ghabra jaata hoon to haklaata hoon, aur haklaata hoon to Urdu bolne lagta hoon!' His comic timing was perfect.

5. Amitabh was excellent too - his over-hyped nervous impersonator who studies up corollas all night and then starts off in a booming Shakespearean mode "There are ten types of.." only to be cut off by Jaya as she tell him she studied that part already! The film ended on a slightly unsatisfactory note but I don't know how else it could have culminated. All in all I gave it a 8/10, a lot of laughs and fine acting by the lead due. The ladies did very well too.