Chupke Chupke

Chupke Chupke (translation: Quietly) is a 1975[2] Indian Bollywood comedy film. A remake of the Bengali film Chhadmabeshi,[3][4][5] it was directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee, based on Upendranath Ganguly's Bengali story Chhadobeshi,. It stars Dharmendra, Sharmila Tagore, Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, Om Prakash, Usha Kiran, David Abraham Cheulkar, Asrani and Keshto Mukherjee. 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]

Chupke Chupke
Release Poster
Directed byHrishikesh Mukherjee
Produced byHrishikesh Mukherjee
N. C. Sippy
Written byShakeel Chandra
Upendranath Ganguly
Gulzar
D.N. Mukherjee
Biren Tripathy
StarringDharmendra
Sharmila Tagore
Amitabh Bachchan
Jaya Bachchan
Om Prakash
Asrani
Lily Chakravarty
Usha Kiran
David Abraham Cheulkar
Music bySachin Dev Burman
CinematographyJaywant Pathare
Edited bySubhash Gupta
Pandit Shridhar Mishra
Release date
April 11, 1975
Running time
127 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi[1]
Budgetest. ₹ 9.91 lakh
(est. ₹ 2.22 crore as of 2019)

Plot

Professor Parimal Tripathi (Dharmendra) is a botany professor who falls in love with Sulekha Chaturvedi (Sharmila Tagore) during a women's college botany excursion. Prof. Parimal Tripathi helps the bungalow watchman to get to his village downhill to enable him to see his grandson who's fallen ill. Meanwhile, he disguises himself as the bungalow watchman to protect the old man's job. Sulekha finds out one day about the cover-up and is charmed on seeing Parimal's real personality. They both get married. Parimal loves playing pranks and is the antithesis of regular professors. Sulekha, on the other hand, is in awe of her jijaji (brother-in-law) Raghavendra (Om Prakash). She considers her jijaji to be highly intellectual and looks upon him as her idol. Parimal develops an inferiority complex thanks to Sulekha's excessive praise of her jijaji and decides to prove that he is in no way a lesser mortal. Jijaji, meanwhile, has written a letter to Haripad bhaiyya (David Abraham Cheulkar) asking 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 jijaji. Parimal becomes Pyare Mohan Ilahabadi, a motor-mouth driver who pretends to hate the English language and so speaks only Hindi. So begins the comedy of errors, as Parimal and Sulekha play prank after prank on the unsuspecting jijaji.

First they pretend that Sulekha is not happy with her new marriage, then 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 Parimal's character. Pyare Mohan's excessively refined Hindi, his habit of correcting Jijaji's usage of the language and his persistence in getting jijaji to teach him English all serve to irk Jijaji to no end and provide for many laughs. Parimal's long-time friend P K Srivastava (Asrani) is also party to the prank. His sister-in-law Vasudha (Jaya Bachchan) suspects fake 'Parimal' - Sukumar Sinha - of infidelity to his wife 'Sulekha' when he tries to get close to her. Sukumar falls in love with Vasudha who at first believed he was Parimal, but Sukumar reveals to her the real drama behind all this mix-up of situations. Lata Srivastava (Lily Chakravarty), P.K. Srivastava's wife, is also angered over the latest 'extra-marital' love affair. But toward the end, Sukumar and Vasudha end up marrying in a temple where Haripat Bhaiyya coerces Pyare Mohan to 'kill' himself so that Parimal could surface. Thus jijaji comes to comprehend the whole enactment, finally admitting that he was truly fooled. The film revolves around the resolution of these funny mishaps.

Cast

Crew
  • 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

All lyrics are written by Anand Bakshi; all music is composed by S. D. Burman[7].

Songs
No.TitlePlaybackLength
1."Ab Ke Sajan Saawan Mein"Lata Mangeshkar04:41
2."Baagon mein Kaise Ye Phol Khilte Hai"Mukesh, Lata Mangeshkar04:31
3."Chupke Chupke Chal Re Purvaiya"Lata Mangeshkar05:04
4."Sa Re Ga Ma"Mohammad Rafi, Kishore Kumar03:08

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.

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References
  1. "Chupke Chupke (Hindi)". Outlook India.
  2. Rachel Dwyer. 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.
  6. "Chupke Chupke (1975)". The Hindu. 18 October 2012. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
  7. 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.
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