Chashme Buddoor (1981)

Directed by

Sai Paranjpye

Genre

buddy film, romantic comedy

Country

India

Runtime

2h 25m

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 18 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three college friends share a house. Two of them immediately fall for the woman who moves in next door but fail to win her over. When they learn she is dating their third friend they plot to break them apart.

lightheartedromanticplayfulcomicnostalgiccharminggentlewarm

What happens

Chashme Buddoor (lit. 'Far be the evil eye', also known as Chashme Baddoor) is a 1981 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film written and directed by Sai Paranjpye, adapted from Paranjpye's teleplay Dhuan Dhuan. The film stars Farooq Sheikh, Deepti Naval, Saeed Jaffrey, Rakesh Bedi, Leela Mishra and Ravi Baswani. The story revolves around three close friends, two of whom (Bedi and Baswani) fall in love at first sight with their neighbour (Naval), but after failing to woo her, and discovering that the third friend (Sheikh) is dating the girl, they vow to end their burgeoning relationship. After watching Sparsh at a film festival in early 1980, producer Gul Anand, asked its writer/director Paranjpye for an escapist film, who then came up with an idea, based on her Doordarshan teleplay Dhuan Dhuan, which after some input from Anand would form the screenplay. Principal photography took place in Delhi during October–November of 1980. The music was composed by Raj Kamal. Chashme Buddoor was released on 8 May 1981 to critical and commercial success. The film also received five Filmfare Award nominations. Retrospectively, the film has been analysed for its themes of nostalgia, bachelorhood, romance and parody of Hindi film clichés. The film is considered a classic now, and has since gained a cult following. Two remakes, Malayalam-language Odaruthammava Aalariyam directed by Priyadarshan and Hindi-language Chashme Baddoor directed by David Dhawan, were released in 1984 and 2013, respectively. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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