Chor Machaye Shor

For the 1996 Urdu film, see Chor Machaye Shor (1996 film). For the 2002 film, see Chor Machaaye Shor.

Chor Machaye Shor
Poster
Directed byAshok Roy
Written byS. M. Abbas
Dhruva Chatterjee
Tarun Ghosh
Produced byN.N. Sippy
StarringShashi Kapoor
Mumtaz
Asrani
Danny Denzongpa
CinematographyK.H. Kapadia
Edited byWaman B. Bhosle
Gurudutt Shirali
Music byRavindra Jain
Production
companies
Chandivali Studio
Filmalaya Studio
Filmistan Studio
K. Asif Studios
Distributed byN.N. Sippy Productions
Ultra Distributors
Release date
  • 18 March 1974 (1974-03-18)
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Box office₹3 crore[1] (Nett)

Chor Machaye Shor (transl. The thief makes noise) is a 1974 Indian Hindi-language film directed by Ashok Roy and produced by N. N. Sippy. The film stars Shashi Kapoor, Mumtaz, Danny Denzongpa, Madan Puri, Asrani and Asit Sen. The music is by Ravindra Jain. Asrani earned a Filmfare nomination for best performance in a comic role, the only nomination for the film.[2] The film became a "superhit" and earned the second spot at the box office in 1974.[3] It was filmed at the Pratapgad fort in Maharashtra.

Because of the film's success, the film's producer (N. N. Sippy), cast (Shashi Kapoor, Danny Denzongpa, Asrani, Madan Puri) and music composer (Ravindra Jain) teamed up again for Fakira (1976), which also became a box office hit.

"Le Jayenge, Le Jayenge Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge" is a very popular song from the film which Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995) later adopted it as its film title.[4] The film was remade in Telugu as Bhale Dongalu (1976 film).

  1. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20130115031359/http://boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=124&catName=MTk3MC0xOTc5 [bare URL]
  2. ^ "1st Filmfare Awards 1953" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 June 2009. Retrieved 12 December 2007.
  3. ^ BoxOffice India.com Archived 20 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Agarwal, Mihika (20 October 2020). "15 cool facts about Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge that only die-hard fans will know". Vogue India. Retrieved 14 September 2022.