Chashme Buddoor (1981) : Farooq Sheikh Film Festival

Perhaps the best product placement we have ever seen. 'Chamko' a detergent powder, a brand name which was just imagination. The way Deepti Naval says or say endorses it [luuuuv it], is so effective, no wonder she was called 'Miss Chamko' after this. 'Chashme Baddoor' (1981) had such interesting moments that makes it one of the most adorable comedy of bollywood. See below, how interestingly hillarious !!! [Leela Mishra]

[since pretty looong time I had made these screencaps, finally I am writing this. A 'Nicki''s trademark kinda review. Seriously Nicki, this is really tough]

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Chashme Baddoor directed by female director Sai Paranjape is a story abot three students, friends, roommates. Sidharth [Farooq Sheikh], Omi [Rakesh Bedi] and Jai [Ravi Baswani] Living in a single room apartment somewhere in Delhi. And as bachelors are facing this, they also were facing their student time poverty [low pocket money, high consumption] so everytime they end up sharing things, room, bike and even a cigarette...

And for the supply of those smoke stuff, they have Lallan Miyan [Saeed Jafry] a tough man but with golden heart. Who runs his small shop around. Everytime he asks for money from this trio, somehow he ends up lending them another pack of cigars.

And one fine day, as a regular passtime of Omi and Jai, they spot a beautiful lady walking on road nearby their house. Adrenalin rush follows :-P and they instantly are deciding who's going first to Patao the girl. Then both of them decide by flipping coin and then one by one goes to her home. That's Neha [Deepti Naval] [Lovely, I wish I would have born in that time when she was doing much more stuff.]

Here she is. Through perception of all three guys. She 'does' meet them all. But everytime its a different story. See for yourself. First one is Jai, then Omi and then Sidhdharth.

While both Omi and Jai fails miserably in their tries to befriends with Neha, they come one by one with their own 'interestingly hillarious' versions of their 'Mulaqat'. See below, Omi - The Poet meets Neha.

And then Jai, who meets and takes Neha to movie. [in imagination ofcourse] And totally hillarious scenes follows. A compilation of all erstwhile hit songs recreated. Fun Fun Fun.

See here, Jai as intense Dileep Kumar and Neha as Reena Roy.

Or how about Feroz Khan and Zeenat Aman..Qurbani.

Deepti Naval doing Asha Parekh [Oooo Aaja aa aa Aaja....]
And ending of the sequence with Milan's song 'Hum Tum Yug Yug se...' is a blast. I was in splits by now..........

Then its our hero's turn. He meets her suddenly. Cause she is working as a saleswoman for detergent brand 'Chamko'. And to complete her target, she comes to this rather avoidable Bachelor House. And Sid is flattered from the very first sight. See here......

Love is in the Bubbles....

And our cute bookwarmish hero turns into real HERO. Now..

The girl, gets flattered instantly too. And both wonders how do people end up singing songs when they are in love??!!!!

Truly..................Madly......................Deeply ..........in love.

Aha......our story doesn't stops there. Then the story starts. There is a typical bollywood Dad of Girl. Who has something different on his mind. And want his daughter to marry only him. By the time, our cute little lovers are so deep in love that they can't let it happen.

Enter evil in other two friends, who lost in this game, they play their own card and things go different. Followed by a surprising yet hillarious climax, and then, 'they lived happily ever after'.

Here is a screencap of a beautiful song........"Kahan se aaye Badraa...". which was the best from the soundtrack. [thats Vinod Nagpal]

This movie was from Eighties. when action movies ruled and small movies started to come around. This was a breath of fresh air then. Farooq became instant hit among this circuit. And Deepti too got her share of fans. This is one of a few movie, by a Woman director. Which is a rarity in Bollywood. Hardly we can see a movie which is directed by woman. Recently Zoya Akhtar got rave reviews and it feels so nice that Bollywood recognize it.

I can easily relate to this movie cause right now I am living as a Bachelor. Though not with other roommates. But a while ago, I used to live like that too. Also during studies, rather than staying at hostel, I was living like this only. So this was like my own story [no, Miss Chamko was not around....sigh.............] And the comedy director has used, is so clean. If it would have been made today, I bet there would be more cheap jokes around. cause this is story about three guys approaching their youth.

I can re-watch this one on and on. And laugh again and again. The screencap above - Leela Mishra reading Playboy - is itself so funny. The whole scene was like awesome, I fell down from my couch while laughing.

Way back in feb'08 Onir told that he is making an adaption [say remake] of this movie. And he has bought official rights too. So dear readers, WATCH THIS before the remake arrives. And I've heard that Kareena is set to play Deepti's role. What's your opinion??

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And finally, Three commandments for the bachelors.

1. Thou shalt hide your 'beautiful' collage walls from guests

2. Thou shalt open the doors - only after wearing pants :-P

3. Thou shalt always keep the 'ash tray' handy

[that's coconut :-D !!]

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And Lastly, perhaps this intersting title sequence, can be a reason to watch this movie :-)

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I was surprised, when most recently I read Memsaab's review of this movie, I found that I have made many similar screencaps to this. Just wondering....