The Extended Canon
Chashme Buddoor
चश्मे बद्दूर · 1981
Two loafer roommates sabotage the quiet third one's genuine romance out of pure competitive jealousy.
- Director
- Sai Paranjpye
- Year
- 1981
- Genre
- Comedy · Romance
- Cast
- Farooq Shaikh, Deepti Naval, Rakesh Bedi, Ravi Baswani
Why it's in the canon
The most charming small film of the 80s and the peak of the Farooq–Deepti pairing.
Two loafer roommates sabotage the quiet third one's genuine romance out of pure competitive jealousy.
Chashme Buddoor sits in the 1980s alongside Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro and Umrao Jaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Sai Paranjpye — also responsible for Sparsh, Katha.
- Released in 1981, in the 1980s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Comedy, Romance.
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Film record Wikipedia — Chashme Buddoor (1981) · data last revised 9 August 2026 · title, year, director and cast are read from that article; this site keeps no independent print record and does not claim one
Editorial Inclusion in the extended canon, unranked — not a measurement · last revised 9 August 2026 · signed by Amit Sharma · the scoring is published in full so the machinery can be argued with, not just the result
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