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Ranked #31 of 100
Chupke Chupke
चुपके चुपके · 1975
A botany professor poses as an illiterate driver to prank his wife's insufferably clever brother-in-law. The gentlest farce ever built.
- Director
- Hrishikesh Mukherjee
- Year
- 1975
- Genre
- Comedy
- Cast
- Dharmendra, Sharmila Tagore, Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, Om Prakash
Why it's at number 31
Proof that Hindi comedy could run entirely on grammar, timing and affection.
A botany professor poses as an illiterate driver to prank his wife's insufferably clever brother-in-law. The gentlest farce ever built.
Chupke Chupke sits in the 1970s alongside Sholay and Deewaar — a decade this canon treats as foundational.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee — also responsible for Anand, Golmaal, Bawarchi.
- Released in 1975, in the 1970s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Comedy.
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