Chhadmabeshi

Chhadmabeshi
Directed byAgradoot[a]
Written byUpendranath Gamguly
Screenplay byMahendra Chakraborty
Subir Hajra
Story byUpendranath Ganguly
Produced byShib Narayan Dutta
Bibhuti Laha
StarringUttam Kumar
Madhabi Mukherjee
CinematographyBaidyanath Basak
Bibhuti Laha
Edited byBaidyanath Chatterjee
Music bySudhin Dasgupta
Production
company
Chalachitra Bharati
Distributed bySheema Films
Release date
  • 1971 (1971) (India)
Running time
122 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Chhadmabeshi (lit. 'Disguised') is a 1971 Bengali comedy film directed by Agradoot,[a] starring Uttam Kumar and Madhabi Mukherjee as leads,[2] based on the story Chhadobeshi by writer Upendranath Ganguly.[3] The story revolves around a newly married professor, who plays a practical joke upon his brother-in-law by posing as his family driver. Music of the film was composed by Sudhin Dasgupta. The film was remade in Hindi in 1975 as Chupke Chupke[4][5][6] and in Kannada in 2004 as Joke Falls.

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  5. ^ "The films and me: Chupke Chupke vs Chhadmabeshi". Archived from the original on 5 May 2019. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
  6. ^ Ganguly, Ruman (27 November 2019). "Remakes of Bengali films: What's new in this trend?". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 1 September 2020. Retrieved 8 March 2020.


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