Thursday 3 April 2014
Long before David Dhawan and Priyadarshan started making ordinarily funny films in the name of comedy, there was one man who used to make films that made you feel good about life and laughter, that man was Hrishikesh Mukherjee. His films had a natural humor with the value of family in the background, never ever he tried to make a family look bad together.
Botany professor Parimal Tripathi [Dharmendra] marries Sulekha [Sharmila Tagore] without the presence of the girl’s family members and then plans to introduce himself to them under false pretense. Her wife and few friends support him in this little endeavor and he reaches his in-laws place acting as a driver sent by the professor himself.
The couple thus enjoys the secrecy in their relationship and her family, only consisting of her sister and her brother-in-law [Om Prakash], often finds it offensive seeing Sulekha giggling with the driver, who is actually her husband. This development between Sulekha and the driver grew tension in her brother-in-law and sister’s life and they are worried how professor Parimal will react to this.
Professor Parimal/Driver Pyarelal calls upon his colleague Sukumar [Amitabh Bachchan], who is also like a younger brother to him, to come and act as Sulekha’s husband. The set of events become more laughable once the fake Parimal indulges in a relationship with Vasudha [Jaya Bachchan].
Dharmendra shines as Professor Parimal/Driver Pyarelal and proves that he can do comedy effortlessly and has more shades to his acting skills.
Om Prakash as Ragahvendra plays the 2nd best performance in Chupke Chupke after Dharmendra of course.
Amitabh Bachchan played an extended special appearance in this film, his inability to hold his nerves is brilliantly executed. 1975 was a great year for Amitabh Bachchan because of the back to back hits. Amitabh tasted success with Sholay, Deewaar, Mili and Chupke Chupke all in the same year.
Among others were Sharmila Tagore, Jaya Bachchan, Asrani and Keshto Mukherjee, all playing their roles to perfection. This film has great music by SD Burman and lyrics by Anand Bakshi. This is a proper comedy film a family wants to watch together. Although the film focuses on the urban Indian middle class, the narrative was able to communicate with viewers of all society.
Movie Geek's Rating: ★★★★½
Cast: Dharmendra, Om Prakash, Sharmila Tagore, Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bhaduri Bachchan
Directed by: Hrishikesh Mukherjee
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Author: Amritt Rukhaiyaar
[This post is a part of the A to Z Challenge in April 2014. Let's celebrate blogging.]
The title caught my attention and I couldn't agree more. I first saw this movie when I was a child but still have it in my collection. Hrishikesh Mukherjee was a great director of the olden times.
ReplyDeleteWonderful review Amritt :)
good to see you here Harshita... :) I am glad you liked my review, Hrishikesh Mukherjee was indeed a great director, one of the greatest we ever had.
DeleteOh that was an excellent movie.....
ReplyDeletePar excellence....
Well reviewed
Thaks Sitara... glad you like it :)
DeleteI have heard a lot about this movie, should watch it sometime :)
ReplyDelete~S(t)ri
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Smile, it makes (y)our day!
Please Watch it my friend :)
DeleteIt's one of my favorite movies :D Can still laugh at all the jokes :D
ReplyDeleteComedies should be like this only... Innocent and heartwarming :)
DeleteShould watch this one..
ReplyDeleteYou Betcha :P Please watch it Sheethal
DeleteI must have seen it a dozen times. It was total laugh riot. Remember the bit where Amitabh is pretending to be a botany professor?? Corolla - karela.. that was the standard botany joke of our class. Dharamendra was fantastic too.
ReplyDeleteCorolla... haha... yeah right... this film and year was a defining moment of Indian film industry... :)
DeleteI loveee this movie!! I must have seen it a million times :D
ReplyDeleteRicha
that's the charm of Hrishikesh Mukherjee :)
DeleteThis is all new information for me--but it sounds fascinating! Thanks for sharing, and happy A-to-Z-ing :)
ReplyDeleteGuilie @ Quiet Laughter
I will be glad if you like it Guilie... :)
DeleteI might be a film xenophobe because I don't watch foreign films. I suppose because I don't have the cultural context to fully appreciate what's going on in the films. This film does sound interesting though. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI have to disagree there Sir... I watch foreign films and if they are really good, you do connect with the characters and the whole cultural setups.. like the Japanese made Seven Samurai... that's one of its kind, everybody loves it...
DeleteI LOVE THIS MOVIE!! Love it! Can watch it N number of times! Great review and brilliant pick for C!
ReplyDeletethanks for your lovely comment Aditi.... this deserves N numbers of viewing though :)
DeleteOh my god, I havent watched this one. Let me get back to you after watching it :)
ReplyDeleteHow can you not.. !! Please Please Please watch it my friend :)
DeleteChupke Chupke is brilliant comedy and AB is adorable as the Botany professor, so is Dharam Sir..love the song Saregama..Intelligent comedy by Hrshida:)
ReplyDeleteIt is such an important film for Dharmendra, for it defines his versatility, he was the show stealer of Chupke Chupke :)
DeleteI have watched it so many times... and have laughed for so many days. This one is the masterpiece. Can watch right now!!!!! Good here you wrote about it, I am smiling thinking of the comic situations and dialogues. specially english lessons of dharmendra from his 'pujniyaa jijja ji... '
ReplyDeleteyou know what Shesha, I cant think of even one scene which I didn't like.... It was plain brilliant
DeleteI have watched it so many times... and have laughed for so many days. This one is the masterpiece. Can watch right now!!!!! Good here you wrote about it, I am smiling thinking of the comic situations and dialogues. specially english lessons of dharmendra from his 'pujniyaa jijja ji... '
ReplyDeleteHaha... that pujniya jijaji wala scene.. simply hilarious but at the end of the day, this was less comedy and more heart warming :)
DeleteI love this movie! lovely acting, comedy, screenplay...they rarely make movie like that..
ReplyDeletethey rarely make such movie anymore... truly said :)
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