Cast: Dharmendra, Sharmila Tagore, Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, Asrani, Om Prakash.
Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee.
Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee.
Release Year: 1975.
If I were to list my Top 5 Hrishikesh Mukherjee movies, Chupke Chupke would be ranked at #1. The 1975 subtle comedy comprises of an impressive cast and manages to keep you entertained till the last shot.
Parimal Tripathi (Dharmendra), a Botany professor falls in love with Sulekha Chaturvedi (Sharmila Tagore) and they get married. Sulekha considers her jijaji, Raghvendra (Om Prakash) to be very clever and keeps on talking about how nobody can ever play a trick on him. Unable to take it anymore, Parimal decides to take him for a spin. So he goes to Raghvendra’s house as a driver, Pyaaremohan Allahbadi (who speaks chaste Hindi and prefers to call himself ‘vahanchalak’). There, he pretends to have an affair with Sulekha, and runs away with her. He also calls upon one of his friend to act as Parimal. Enter Sukumar Sinha (Amitabh Bachchan), an English Professor as a boring, but enraged Parimal Tripathi who is unable to bear the insult caused because of his wife running away. He decides to stay at Parimal’s friends’ P.K.Shrivastav (Asrani) house. Shrivastava’s sister-in-law Vasudha (Jaya Bachchan) is insistent on learning Botany from Sukumar, whom she assumes to be Parimal. Watch the confusion that follows when Sukumar falls in love with Vasudha, and elopes with her.
The soundtrack is melodious, with songs like Chupke Chupke Chal Re Purvaiya, Ab Ke Sajan Saawan Mein, Sa Re Ga Ma. The film’s music was composed by S.D. Burman, and lyrics by Anand Bakshi.
Scenes to watch out for:
#1: When Vasudha asks Sukumar about Corolla, and he is telling her about Karela!
#2: Dharmendra’s entry scene as the vaahanchalak. The shudh Hindi is a delight to hear!
Why not to miss this movie:
Amitabh Bachchan at his funniest. A refreshing change from the ‘angry young man’ image that he had during the 70’s.
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