Post Description

Status
Released 

Color
C

Release Date
1975

Genre
Comedy  /  Drama  /  Family Drama 

Producer
Hrishikesh Mukherjee
N C Sippy
Raghu

Executive Producer / Co-Producer
Babu
Romu Sippy
Chander

Director
Hrishikesh Mukherjee

Star Cast
Amitabh Bachchan...... Sukumar Sinha/Parimal Tripathi 
Dharmendra...... Dr. Parimal Tripathi/Pyare Mohan Illahabadi/Driver 
Jaya Bachchan...... Vasudha Kumar
Usha Kiran...... Sumitra Sharma
Sharmila Tagore...... Sulekha Chaturvedi
Asrani...... Prashant Kumar Srivastav 
David...... Haripath Bhaiya 
Keshto Mukherjee...... James D'Costa (driver) 
Dev Kishan
Lily Chakraborty...... Mrs. Prashant Kumar Srivastav 
Om Prakash...... Raghavendra Sharma 
Aarti
Harish...... Chor (The Thief)
Master Bittu...... Ratna
Lalita

Cassettes and CD's on
Saregama-HMV

Singers
Lata Mangeshkar
Kishore Kumar
Mohammed Rafi
Mukesh

Lyricist
Anand Bakshi

Music Director
S D Burman

Cinematography
Jaywant Pathare

Choreography
Habiba Rehman

Art
Ram Gopal

Editor
Subhash Gupta

Screenplay
Gulzar

Sound
Kaushik

Dialogue
Gulzar

Raghav brags that he can smell a rat or an impersonator automatically, and Dr. Parimal Tripathi decides to take him on - result: funny family slapstick comedy, with a dose of pure Hindi and Urdu thrown in, especially the dialogue delivery by Om Prakash, Dharmendra, and Amitabh Bachchan. Notable songs are :Sare ga ma, ma sa re ga ma...."; "Ab ke sajan sawan me, aag lagegi badan mein, ghata barshegi, magar tarsegi nazar, mil na sakenghe do mahn ek hi aagan mein..."; "Chupke chupke chal di purvaiya, basuri bajaike raas rachaye daiya re daiya, chupke...".