Chup Chup Ke (2006)

Simply Perfect

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Story line- The hero is in love with Girl A. He meets her 'chup-chup ke' – hidingly....because the money lenders are after his life.The hero is under heavy debts, he drowns and is picked up by a poor boat owner – who uses his boat for fishing. Anyway – the hero lands up in the house of a rich man. The rich family keeps the hero as their servant and since he was somewhat deaf and mute (but actually he was fine – just pretending to be deaf and mute so that he does not have to go back to his own locality where the money lenders will all jump on him!)they gave him small odd jobs to perform.In the same rich and affluent family, there is a girl (played by sex-siren Kareena – who was actually just mute not deaf). So her cousin finds that a new domestic male helper has joined who is also mute! The love story starts! Wow! What an idea sirji!! Whoever has written this utter crap story! OK there is a twist in the tale too – no rich and affluent male was ready to marry Kareena because of her handicap! So all the family members were looking for a suitable groom ...and were unable to find one! Like..... Are you kidding me!? Such a rich female ..plus beautiful and fair too - who will get a huge dowry with her – Indian families with sons will fall at her feet and lick it for the rest of their lives! There are many such educated but not very well off families in India who would do anything for getting a bride from a rich family...watch Saavdhan India episodes if you have doubts! Anyways, she falls in love with the guy who was hired as a domestic helper in the family. Later the beans got spilled and the Girl A – with whom the hero was actually in love comes to now that he was alive. When she confronts him, it was already too late – he had accepted rich and mute kareena – who was obviously much prettier than the Girl A..and was about to marry her! I mean why wouldn't he – he would be able to live happily ever after as a rich man and will even get rid of the money lenders! Girl A was dropped as a dead fly from the milk! End of story Conclusion- I have often heard that there are families –rich and affluent – having huge palatial houses...make the servants render sexual services too! Like fatso wives...whose equally ugly and fatso husbands pick-up (call) girls from the streets for a 'quicky' – or even visit brothels or – if a wee bit more rich – then they book a hotel room and sleep with the females engaged in escort services.Probably this is the reason why kareena's cousin introduces her to the newly acquired helper...at least she could taste...love..making?...since no one was marrying her? Btw. The fact that the females of the house sleep with the servants, drivers, gatekeepers..etc. is known to the males of the family – it is a 'you are OK, i am OK' relationship – the males eff around outside the famels eff around inside...since they are cultured and ethical and traditional – they eff indoors and not hire gigolos! Problem happens when dull headed males watch such films – if they reach some such house- as domestic helpers - where females are sleeping around and game...then things are under control...but if such dumb fools reach a decent, righteous household and try to act fresh (the film after all showed the possibility of the daughter marrying the helper...so such concepts raise expectations as well huh)- then hell breaks loose!...the helper gets beaten by the men of the family first and then by the cops –and ultimately he gets the criminal label for the rest of his life!

This movie is a remake of a Malayalam Movie Priyadarsan made several years ago. The Malayalam movie was genius. It had no trouble mixing comedy and drama. Proving that mixing these two genres is very much possible. Heck the Malayalam movie was so good any person who's watched it, would still stop whatever they're doing to get another glimpse of scenes from the movie if some scene from the movie happens to be played somewhere around them.So why was this movie so much worse than the Malayalam version? Well, let's see what changed, shall we? Pretty much the only thing that changed, was the cast. Actors in the Bollywood version was so horrible, it's incredible. In fact, the only person who acted well in the movie was Kareena Kapoor. Shahid simply did not do a good enough job adapting to the character. Not to an extend that is expected of him, who's otherwise a brilliant actor.Not even the comedians were able to pull of the brilliant Comic breaks that was scripted for them. Bollywood has evolved into an industry people seek to join for it's glamour, and nothing but the glam and money. These days, it only has a handful of good actors. While the rest are popular only due to glam and gossiping. Shameful!

I saw the movie at least 5-6 times in TV. But every time I missed some crucial portion so I could understand the movie. But then during holi of 2007 I got a chance to watch the movie when it was being shown in local cable channel in Patna. This is a typical original Priyadarshan movie.Shahid Kapoor takes a lot of loans from different peoples in order to settle in some business. He is unable to repay the loan. To escape from the lenders he jumps to the village river to commit suicide. But he is saved by Paresh Rawal and Rajpal Yadav who own a boat & are fisherman by profession. Paresh Rawan has taken a huge loan from Om Puri to procure the boat and he is also unable to repay it. Hence he leaves both Shahid & Rajpal in their home as a security. Shahid pretends to be deaf & mute and obviously won their sympathy. Kareena falls for Shahid thinking that he is actually deaf & mute. Confusion starts when Sushma Reddy comes into the picture. She is the ex-fiancée of Shahid and stays as his widow thinking him to be dead.Whom will Shahid marry finally. Will it be Kareena or Sushma ? Chup Chup Ke though is a comedy but it is in different class than that of certain Dhawan. Priyan's Garam Masala, Hulchul, Hungama, Yeh tera ghar yeh mera ghar, Hera Pheri, Phir Herapheri, Muskurahat were of different class. His comedy are of different league altogether than those of all other comedy movies.In all, Chup Chup ke makes a nice watch.

My goodness! This film would have received a poorer rating for me if not for the fact that Kareena Kapoor doesn't talk in the film as well as the fact that you can enjoy the first hour and a half without sight nor sound of her. God bless the director & writer for that alone.Okay, with that said here's the plot in a nutshell: Shahid Kapoor plays Jeetu, a happy go-lucky dude whom we meet down on his luck as all the people he is indebted to have now come to collect. His problem? He doesn't have the money to pay up. Nevertheless, he is witty. He devices a plan to gather all of his collectors into a meeting by the sea where he not only reveals to them that he cannot pay up but also that he is about to commit suicide. Unfazed, most of the collectors encourage him to jump into the sea and that in fact if he does so and drowns, they would forget about the money he owes them. So Jeetu jumps into the sea. The collectors go back to the village to report what has happened and a massive search goes into effect to recover his body, which is never found. Jeetu's family gather by the beach, watching the search efforts and they all take turns reflecting on the sad turn of events and what happened the last time they saw him. Jeetu's fiancée Pooja (played by Sushma Reddy) even decides after this to become a widow for life.Meanwhile, miles away in a remote village in Gujarat, Jeetu's body surfaces in a fisherman's net and in a hilarious skit is taken to hospital by Bandya(Rajpal Yadav) whom found him, and Gundya (Paresh Rawal) his boss. While Jeetu is unconscious, Bandya finds a letter amongst his things and mistakes it for money Jeetu owns, not knowing that it's actually money that Jeetu owes to people. Jeetu awakes to find both men plotting on how to squeeze him for cash and decides to play deaf and dumb to them. Note: Shahid Kapoor plays this in such a stereotypically bad way, it's painful.Bandya, a man in debt on his own now takes Jeetu under his wing but soon gets in trouble with one of his own debt collectors Prabhat Singh Chauhan (played by OM Puri). After another bout of very funny skits, somehow Bandya & Jeetu end up being servants in Chauhan's house to pay off Gundya's debt and there Jeetu meets a truly mute girl named Shruti(played by his real life love Kareena Kapoor) with whom sparks fly. I don't know whether it's because Miss Kapoor was mute in the role but Neha Dhupia who plays Meenakshi manages to outshine her on the acting front. Blink and you'll miss Anupam Kher & Amita Nangia every time they show them briefly as Jeetu's grieving parents. Manoj Joshi play's Pooja's father. Music by Himesh Reshamiya of which only two songs are stellar. 'Dil Vich Lagya' & the henna ceremony song, I can't remember the title of that song but it's really catchy and the video's beautiful. On the DVD, there's a video for one deleted song which features Shahid & Kareena Kapoor. It takes place after Jeetu's suicide scene, Jeetu jumps int the sea and emerges in a mermaid-like lair where Kareena's is Dancing Queen. It looks great but wouldn't have fit into the film's storyline, so they smartly deleted it from the film's final cut. Oh! before I forget, Suniel Shetty is in there too, though you wouldn't know from the promos (I didn't even notice him in the promo for 'Dil Vich Lagya' and he's a big part of the song). He plays Shruti's possessive older brother Mangal Singh Chauhan. Here's hoping Shahid Kapoor collected the fattest salary for this film for all the over-time tight slaps he received throughout the film. LOL!