| Chupke Chupke | |
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| Directed by | Hrishikesh Mukherjee |
| Screenplay by | Gulzar D. N. Mukherjee |
| Story by | Upendranath Ganguly |
| Dialogues by | Gulzar |
| Based on | Chhadobeshi by Upendranath Ganguly |
| Produced by | Hrishikesh Mukherjee N. C. Sippy |
| Starring | Dharmendra Sharmila Tagore Amitabh Bachchan Jaya Bhaduri Om Prakash |
| Cinematography | Jaywant Pathare |
| Edited by | Pandit Shridhar Mishra Subhash Gupta |
| Music by | S. D. Burman |
Production company | Rupam Chitra |
| Distributed by | Shemaroo Entertainment |
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Running time | 127 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi[1] |
Chupke Chupke (transl. Quietly) is a 1975[2] IndianHindi-languageromantic-comedy film directed byHrishikesh Mukherjee. A remake of theBengali filmChhadmabeshi,[3][4][5]acted byUttam Kumar. It starsDharmendra,Sharmila Tagore,Amitabh Bachchan,Jaya Bhaduri andOm Prakash in lead roles, withAsrani,David,Usha Kiran,Lily Chakravarty andKeshto Mukherjee in supporting roles. The music was composed byS.D. Burman.[6][7]
Professor Parimal Tripathi, who teachesbotany, falls in love with Sulekha Chaturvedi during the botanyexcursion of awomen's college uphill. He helps the oldcaretaker of theguesthouse to travel to his village downhill in order to enable him to visit his grandson who has fallen ill. Meanwhile, Parimal disguises himself as the guesthouse caretaker in order to protect the old man's job, but Sulekha happens to find out about the cover-up one day. She is charmed on seeing Parimal's real personality and the two get married. Parimal loves playing pranks and is theantithesis of regular professors while Sulekha is in awe of Raghavendra Sharma, the so-called "highly-intellectual" husband of her older sister, Sumitra, and looks upon him as her idol. Thanks to Sulekha's excessive praise of Raghavendra, Parimal develops an inferiority complex and decides to prove that he is in no way a lesser mortal. Meanwhile, Raghavendra has written aletter to Sulekha and Sumitra's older brother, Haripad, instructing him to send adriver for him who can speak goodHindi language because his present driver, James D'Costa, uses improper dialect. This provides the perfect opportunity for Parimal to get to see and interact with Raghavendra. Parimal disguises himself as "Pyare Mohan Ilahabadi", a motor-mouth driver, who pretends to hate theEnglish language and so speaks only Hindi. Thus begins the comedy of errors as Parimal and Sulekha play prank after prank on the unsuspecting Raghavendra and Sumitra.
Firstly, the couple pretends that Sulekha is not happy with her new marriage with Parimal, and secondly, they put across the impression that Sulekha is having anextramarital affair with Pyare Mohan, and if that was not enough, they make Parimal's long-time friend, Sukumar Sinha, a professor ofEnglish literature, to temporarily act as Parimal and portray him as a serious and boringlecturer, the complete opposite of the real Parimal's character. Parimal's another long-time friend, Prashant Kumar Shrivastava, is also party to the prank. Vasudha, the younger sister of Prashant's wife, Lata, suspects fake "Parimal" (Sukumar) of infidelity to his wife, "Sulekha", when he tries to grow close to her. Sukumar falls in love with Vasudha, who initially believes him to be Parimal, but Sukumar reveals her the real drama behind all this mix-up of situations, while Lata is also furious over the latest "extramarital" affair. However, towards the end, Sukumar and Vasudha escape from home and get married in atemple with the blessings of Prashant, where Haripad coerces Pyare Mohan to "kill" himself so that Parimal could surface. Thus, Raghavendra, Sumitra and Lata come to comprehend the whole enactment with Raghavendra finally admitting that he was truly fooled. The film revolves around the resolution of these funny mishaps.
The music of the film was composed byS. D. Burman[8] and the lyrics were penned byAnand Bakshi.
| Chupke Chupke | ||||
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| Released | April 2, 1976 (1976-04-02)[9] | |||
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
| Length | 17:25 | |||
| Language | Hindi | |||
| Label | Saregama | |||
| Producer | S. D. Burman | |||
| S. D. Burman chronology | ||||
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| No. | Title | Playback | Length |
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| 1. | "Bagon Mein Kaise Ye Phool" | Lata Mangeshkar &Mukesh | 4:30 |
| 2. | "Chupke Chupke Chal Re Purbaiya" | Lata Mangeshkar | 5:04 |
| 3. | "Sa Re Ga Ma" | Kishore Kumar &Mohammed Rafi | 3:08 |
| 4. | "Ab Ke Sajan Sawan Mein" | Lata Mangeshkar | 4:41 |
| Total length: | 17:25 | ||