28-446: Chhoti Si Baat (translation: A Small Matter ) is a 1976 Indian Hindi -language romantic comedy film directed by Basu Chatterjee . Considered one of the best Hindi comedy films of the 1970s, it is a nostalgic favourite for its quirky take on pre-hypercongestion Mumbai . The film became a box office hit and stars Amol Palekar , Vidya Sinha , Ashok Kumar and Asrani in lead roles. and also earned six Filmfare nominations and
56-462: A Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay for Basu Chatterjee . The film is a remake of the 1960 British film School for Scoundrels . It also established Amol Palekar as having an uncommon comic talent for playing mousy characters, a role he would go on to repeat several times in his career. As with other Basu Chatterjee films, movie stars have small cameos playing themselves: Dharmendra and Hema Malini (whose mother Jaya Chakravarthy helped produce
84-449: A motorbike of his own, is conned into buying a dud, further embarrassing him in front of Prabha. Arun seeks salvation in astrology , tarot cards , and dubious godmen only to land with egg on his face. In desperation, Arun finally turns to Colonel Julius Nagendranath Wilfred Singh ( Ashok Kumar ) of Khandala , who has made it his mission to assist those in love find their true destiny. Colonel Singh agrees to help Arun and thus begins
112-676: A court marriage with singer Sabita Banerjee , with whom he had two sons, Sukanta and Sanjoy, and two daughters, Antara and Sanchari. Sanjoy Chowdhury is a successful music composer and has scored music for over 100 feature films. Sabita Chowdhury was a legendary singer and their daughter Antara Chowdhury too a known singer. Smt. Sabita Chowdhury died on 29 June 2017. Hindi Bengali Malayalam Others 1989 Bangshadhar (Bankground Score) Odia List of some songs for which music or lyrics were composed by Salil Chowdhury (in alphabetical order) IPTA: Indian People's Theater Association A Hindi film directed by Bimal Roy based on
140-586: A few Marathi , Tamil , Telugu , Kannada , Gujarati , Odia and Assamese films. His musical ability was widely recognised and acknowledged in the Indian film industry. He was an accomplished composer and arranger who was proficient in several musical instruments, including flute , the piano , and the esraj . He was also widely acclaimed and admired for his inspirational and original poetry in Bengali . The first Bengali film for which Chowdhury composed music
168-805: A novel of the same name written by the renowned writer Thakazhy Shivshankar Pillai, where Music Direction was done by Salil Chowdhury. Recipient of president's gold medal in 1965. Received Filmfare Best Music Director Award along with eight other Filmfare awards Madhumati won the National Film Awards for Best Feature Film in Hindi The Uttar Pradesh Film Patrakar Sangh Puraskar in 1966 for his only Hindi directorial film 'Pinjre Ke Panchhi' The Bengal Films Journalist Award, Kolkata in 1973 The Allauddin Smriti Puraskar in 1985 from
196-413: A safe distance or so he believes. Prabha, completely aware of his affections, secretly relishes his discomfort, while waiting for him to make the first move. While Arun is hopelessly stuck, in comes the suave, brash Nagesh Shastri ( Asrani ), a colleague of Prabha, and emerges a serious rival for her attention. It does not help that Nagesh appears to be miles ahead of Arun in the "race" and is all that Arun
224-582: A story in Bengali "Rikshawalaa" written by Salil Chowdhury. 1st Filmfare Awards (1954) Winner – Best Film ; Winner – Best Director – Bimal Roy ; 1st National Film Awards (India) Winner – All India Certificate of Merit for Best Feature Film 7th Cannes Film Festival (1954) Winner – Prix International ( International Prize ) Nominated – Grand Prize (Best Film) Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Winner – Prize for Social Progress A Malayalam film directed by Ramu Kariat, based on
252-421: A teenager in school, Chowdhury already had an interest in music, and played the flute , harmonium and esraj . He learnt to play the piano from his elder brother at the age of 6. Once in college, he also began to compose tunes. His first popular song was " Becharpoti tomar bichaar " (lit. the days of new judgement have come because people are now awake), set to a kirtan tune. Chowdhury composed it in 1945 during
280-468: A visit to Calcutta, liked it immensely and suggested that he narrate it to the director Bimal Roy . Roy heard it, and asked him to meet him again the next morning. However, when Chowdhury went to meet him the next day, he learnt that Roy had rushed to Bombay on an urgent call. A week later, he received a telegram from Roy that he wanted to turn his script into a movie. This resulted in Chowdhury's debut in
308-536: A young Salil came to Calcutta for his graduate studies. He joined the IPTA ( Indian Peoples Theater Association ) the cultural wing of the Communist Party of India . He started writing songs and setting tunes for them. The IPTA theatrical outfit travelled through the villages and the cities bringing these songs to the common man. Songs like Bicharpati , Runner and Abak prithibi became extremely popular with
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#1732790957368336-460: Is a romantic comedy about a painfully shy young man named Arun Pradeep ( Amol Palekar ), who lacks self-confidence and fails to stand up for his convictions, in the process letting all and sundry walk all over him. He falls in love at first sight with Prabha Narayan ( Vidya Sinha ), whom he sees daily at a bus stop en route to work. Lacking enough courage and unsure if his feelings are reciprocated, Arun pines for her from afar and follows her around at
364-765: Is composed by Salil Chowdhury . List of Hindi films of 1976 A list of films produced by the Bollywood film industry based in Mumbai in 1976: The top twenty grossing films at the Indian Box Office in 1976: Salil Chowdhury Salil Chowdhury (19 November 1925 – 5 September 1995) was an Indian music director , songwriter , lyricist , writer and poet who predominantly composed for Bengali , Hindi and Malayalam films. He composed music for films in 13 languages. This includes over 75 Hindi films, 41 Bengali films, 27 Malayalam films, and
392-424: Is not; Nagesh is gregarious while Arun is shy, Nagesh is confident and boastful while Arun is besieged with self-doubt, Nagesh is smooth while Arun is awkward, Nagesh is street-smart while Arun's naïve , and Nagesh is assertive while Arun is timid. Besides this, Nagesh owns a scooter and ensures that he has opportunities to offer Prabha a ride, while Arun can only look on. A gullible Arun, trying to match Nagesh with
420-687: The Hindi film industry in 1953 as the music director for Do Bigha Zamin (1953). The movie was based on Tagore's poem by the same name, but the story was different and was written by Salil Chowdhury himself. Directed by Bimal Roy , this film took his career to new heights when it became the first film to win the Filmfare Best Movie Award and won the international Prize at the Cannes Film Festival . After working for about 20 years in Bengali and Hindi films, he entered
448-510: The Indian National Army trials when the freedom fighters had returned from Andaman jail. Chowdhury shifted to a village in 24 parganas to live with his maternal uncles, when he was witness to a big peasant uprising there in 1943. He got involved with them and began writing songs for the peasant movement. In 1944, while studying for his MA, Chowdhury witnessed people dying on the streets of Calcutta, as 50 lakh Bengalis died during
476-477: The Malayalam film industry and, in 1964, composed music for the movie Chemmeen . He went on to compose music for films in 13 languages. This includes over 75 Hindi films, 41 Bengali films, around 27 Malayalam films, and a few Marathi , Tamil , Telugu , Kannada , Gujarati , Odia and Assamese films. Asked about his method, Chowdhury described it thus – He would usually ask the film maker to explain
504-593: The famine . The famine was human-made as local rice was instead directed to Britain's war effort overseas, leading to scarcity, aggravated by black marketeers and hoarders. This led Chowdhury to become fully involved in the peasant movement, and he became a full-time member of IPTA and the Communist Party . Subsequently, arrest warrants were issued in his name, and he went underground in the Sunderbans , hiding in paddy fields and supported by local peasants. During this time, he continued writing plays and songs. In 1944,
532-474: The film) are in a movie-within-a-movie for the song Janneman Janneman , while Amitabh Bachchan plays himself in another scene, where he seeks advice from Ashok Kumar 's character. He is dressed in costume from Zameer , whose film poster is prominently displayed at the bus stop scenes in Chhoti Si Baat . B.R. Chopra is the producer for Zameer , just as he is for Chhoti Si Baat. Chhoti Si Baat
560-489: The general population at the time. Songs like Gnaayer bodhu (গাঁয়ের বধূ), which he composed at the age of 20, brought about a new wave of Bengali music. Almost every notable singer at the time from West Bengal had sung at least one of his songs. A few examples are Debabrata Biswas , Manna Dey , Hemanta Mukherjee , Shyamal Mitra , Sandhya Mukherjee , Manabendra Mukherjee , Subir Sen and Pratima Banerjee . The first Bengali film in which Salil Chowdhury composed music
588-568: The second world war Chowdhury got the opportunity to closely observe human sufferings, hunger and problem of the refugees. He studied in Harinavi D.V.A.S High School and there after graduating from Bangabasi College , affiliated to the University of Calcutta in Kolkata , and during this period his political ideas were formulated along with a considerable maturity in his musical ideas. As
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#1732790957368616-551: The situation to him, then Chowdhury would compose a tune to suit the mood, and the lyric writer would set in words. This remained his practice for most of his films including Madhumati, in which Shailendra wrote the lyrics subsequently. During the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War , Chowdhury contributed to the programmes of the Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra based in Kolkata. His 1971 album Bangla Amar Bangla
644-400: The turn-around as Colonel Singh begins to mould Arun into a mature, confident young man through meticulously designed lesson plans, peppered with philosophy and " hands-on " training. A " born-again " Arun returns to Mumbai with a distinguished swagger , brimming with newly-discovered self-esteem , ready to take on the world and win over Prabha. All lyrics are written by Yogesh ; all music
672-465: Was Paribortan , released in 1949. Mahabharati , released in 1994, was the last of the 41 Bengali films where he rendered his music. In an interview with All India Radio, Salil Chowdhury described his coming to Bombay in 1953 as a "stroke of luck". He was writing the script for a Bengali film about a peasant who was disowned of his land and had gone to Calcutta to earn money as a Rickshaw puller. Hrishikesh Mukherjee , who heard of it from Chowdhury during
700-458: Was Paribortan , released in 1949. Mahabharati , released in 1994, was the last of the 41 Bengali films where he rendered his music. He is affectionately called Salilda by his admirers. He mentored famous music directors like R. D. Burman and Hridaynath Mangeshkar . Salil Chowdhury was born on 19 November 1925, in a village called Ghazipur in South 24 Parganas , West Bengal . Salil's childhood
728-552: Was meant for the liberation struggle. Later, when Chowdhury visited Bangladesh in 1990, he was given the welcome of a mass leader in Dhaka . Chowdhury was posthumously awarded the Muktijoddha Maitreye Samman in 2012. Poet, Playwright, Short story writer, Salil also directed a film Pinjre Ke Panchhi starring Meena Kumari, Balraj Sahani and Mehmood based on his own story and screenplay in 1966. Salil Chowdhury
756-876: Was spent in the Tea Gardens Region of Assam . His father was reputed to stage plays with coolies and other low-paid workers of the tea-gardens. While his father, Dr Gyanendra Chowdhury, was the Medical Officer at Hathikuli Tea Estate near Kaziranga in Assam, between 1931 and 1951, the Chief Medical Officer was Dr Maloni, an Irish national. During his early years, he used to listen to western orchestral music on Dr Maloni's gramophone. To date, this information stands engraved in black granite in Hathikuli Tea Estate in his memory. During
784-596: Was the Founder of Bombay Youth Choir, the first ever Secular Choir in India in 1958 as its composer and conductor - he inspired scores of secular choir groups to be formed throughout India formulating a new genre of music using vocal polyphony for Indian Folk and Contemporary Music. Salil Chowdhury married the painter Jyoti Chowdhury in July 1952 in a temple. He had three daughters with her – Aloka, Tulika and Lipika. Later, he had
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