Chhoti Si Baat
1975, I think.
An ingenuous love story. Period.
No item numbers. (No thank you Rakhi.)
And there is no muscleman either. (Sorry girls!)
That’s in a clean nutshell Basu Chatterjee’s Chhoti si baat, reflecting in every way its apt subtle name. Perhaps, the Sunday morning utopia is perfectly synonymous to the feel of this movie.
The coming of age of a young man, Arun (Amol Palekar, oh he is just adorable) steering through the rock laden path of love is quite a riotous tale. So when our young bashful hero faces near mortification in this process of winning over his lady love he turns to the gyaan guru, colonel (retd) JNW Singh (the brilliant Ashok Kumar) to dig him out of the hole. Somehow there seemed to be more chemistry here, as Mr.Hero gets harassed, manipulated and finally blossoms into the real hero! (Not the Himesh type though.)
Meanwhile his competitor, a certain Nagesh(the kabab mein haddi) seems to be running at breakneck speed in his pursuit of Prabha(the same one hero is in love with)
So our new hero comes back, lessons learnt, ready to apply principles, and with aplomb pulls off the “hero”! What follows is the typical hindi movie cliché, blah, blah, blah…..!But yeah, with a difference.
The path of life dear, is hard work even if it happens to be just the famous four letter word- love. And if you didn’t trust your parents with that watching this would do a lot of good to you!
Picture abhi baaki hai mere dost! So what happens to the kabaab mein haddi….?
Haddi pasli ek karna tha na!
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oh i just love movies of that period which portrayed the realities of the middle class on a lighter note.choti si baat,golmaal,angoor etc are such wonderful movies.i must have seen golmaal at least a 100 times and it still makes me roll on the floor and laugh.
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