Bollywood's 'inspired' classic evergreen laughters
- IndiaGlitz, [Tuesday,May 12 2015]
Laughter is the best medicine and movies are the dose we use to escape relate to our daily life. Bollywood has churned some evergreen gems that can make the most stone hearted laugh out loud. Here are the cult laughter's with their inspiration...
Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro - Kundan Shah's 1983 cult classic inspired from 'Blow-Up', a 1966 English-language film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni on the rampant corruption in Indian politics, bureaucracy, news media and business, starring Naseeruddin Shah, Ravi Baswani, Om Puri, Pankaj Kapur, Satish Shah, Satish Kaushik, Bhakti Barve and Neena Gupta.
Angoor - Probably Gulzar's best work 'Angoor' is a 1982 Bollywood comedy starring Sanjeev Kumar and Deven Verma in dual roles. It is the remake of the 1963 Bengali comedy film 'Bhrantibilas' that is based on Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's Bengali play by the same name which itself is based on Shakespeare's play 'The Comedy of Errors'.
Padosan - Meri pyari bindu... this 1968 comedy helmed by Jyoti Swaroop, and produced by Mehmood, starring Sunil Dutt and Saira Banu in lead roles with Kishore Kumar, Mukri, Raj Kishore and Keshto Mukherjee playing the supporting roles is based on the Bengali story 'Pasher Bari' by Arun Chowdhury, which was first adapted in Bengali in 1952 as 'Pasher Bari' directed by Sudhir Mukherjee and starring Bhanu Bannerjee.
Chupke Chupke - Hrishikesh Mukherjee's 1975 evergreen cult that starred Dharmendra, Sharmila Tagore, Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan and Om Prakash is a remake of the Bengali movie 'Chhadmabeshi', based on Upendranath Ganguly's Bengali story Chhadobeshi.
Welcome - Inspired from Hugh Grant starrer Mickey Blue Eyes' directed by Anees Bazmee. The film features a large ensemble cast of Akshay Kumar, Anil Kapoor, Nana Patekar, Katrina Kaif, Paresh Rawal, Malika Sherawat and Feroz Khan in last film appearance.