Chupke Chupke (film)

Chupke Chupke
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Directed byHrishikesh Mukherjee
Written byShakeel Chandra
Upendranath Ganguly
Gulzar
D.N. Mukherjee
Biren Tripathy
Based onChhadobeshi by
Upendranath Ganguly
Produced byHrishikesh Mukherjee
N. C. Sippy
StarringDharmendra
Amitabh Bachchan
Sharmila Tagore
Jaya Bachchan
Om Prakash
Asrani
Lily Chakravarty
Usha Kiran
David Abraham Cheulkar
CinematographyJaywant Pathare
Edited bySubhash Gupta
Pandit Shridhar Mishra
Music bySachin Dev Burman
Production
company
Rupam Chitra
Distributed byShemaroo Entertainment
Release date
  • 11 April 1975 (1975-04-11)
Running time
127 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi[1]

Chupke Chupke (transl. Quietly) is a 1975[2] Indian Hindi-language comedy film directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee. A remake of the Bengali film Chhadmabeshi,[3][4][5] it stars Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan, Sharmila Tagore, Jaya Bachchan, Om Prakash, Usha Kiran, David Abraham Cheulkar, Asrani and Keshto Mukherjee. The music was composed by S.D. Burman. This film is highly remembered for Dharmendra and Amitabh Bachchan's comic act which came in the same year when the all-time blockbuster Sholay and Deewaar were released.[6][7]

  1. ^ "Chupke Chupke (Hindi)". Outlook India.
  2. ^ Rachel Dwyer (27 September 2006). Filming the Gods: Religion and Indian Cinema. Routledge. pp. 30–. ISBN 978-1-134-38070-1. Retrieved 29 October 2012.
  3. ^ Gulzar; Govind Nihalani; Saibal Chatterjee (2003). Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema. Popular Prakashan. pp. 371–. ISBN 978-81-7991-066-5. Retrieved 29 October 2012.
  4. ^ Phukan, Vikram (7 December 2018). "Lights, camera, remake: How Bollywood has thrived with take-offs from Bengali originals". The Hindu.
  5. ^ "Remakes of Bengali films: What's new in this trend? - Times of India". The Times of India. 27 November 2019.
  6. ^ "Chupke Chupke (1975)". The Hindu. 18 October 2012. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
  7. ^ "Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Chupke Chupke was the subtle antidote to the 'angry young man' era; a balance we have forgotten today". 14 May 2022.