Chashme baddoor actress biography
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Chashme Baddoor (2013 film)
For other uses of Chashme Baddoor, see Chashme Baddoor.
2013 film by David Dhawan
Chashme Baddoor is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language slapstickcomedy film directed by David Dhawan and written by Sajid and Farhad Samji. An official remake of the 1981 film Chashme Buddoor, it was produced by Viacom 18 Motion Pictures[2] and stars Ali Zafar and Taapsee Pannu (in her Hindi film debut) with Divyenndu and Siddharth in lead roles.[3] The film was released on 5 April 2013.
Plot
[edit]Seema Ranjan (Taapsee Pannu) is a young girl who lives in Mumbai with her father Suryakant “Santru” Ranjan (Anupam Kher). He, being an active military officer, wants Seema to marry an armyman. He had arranged Seema's marriage to such people five times in a row, with Seema evading all five arrangements. Her father had now arranged her marriage for the sixth time, which Seema evades again and escapes to Goa to live with her uncle Chandrakant “Chiku” Ranj
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Eminent film journalist, Ratnottama Sengupta, in conversation with legendary actress Deepti Naval, on her penchant for words at the unveiling of her memoir, A Country Called Childhood, at an international literary festival in Shimla, India.
“Where’s the session?”
That was the question on every lip as I entered the beautifully restored Gaiety Theatre – the Gothic architecture that was designed 135 years ago by an English architect following examples of Victorian Britannia, to be the Opera in the Town Hall complex built for the British rajas who’d shift the capital from Delhi to Shimla to escape the oppressive Indian summer.
It was the second day of Unmesh[1], and inom was to conduct a conversation with Deepti Naval whose appearance on the Hindi screen with Shyam Benegal’s Junoon[2](1978) had given every young girl like me a new icon – one we could readily identify with, since the doe-eyed beauty was so Indian! Not overwhelmingly dolled up, not westernised, not running
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In Sai Paranjpye's Chashme Baddoor, a love letter to the Delhi of my memories
Movies and shows, old and new, have helped us to live vicariously through them. They have allowed us to travel far and bred at a time borders are shut and people are restricted to homes. In our new column What’s In A Setting, we explore the inseparable association of a story with its setting, how the location complements the narrative, and how these cultural windows to the world have helped broaden our imagination.
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Recently, a friend from school watched Sai Paranjpye’s 1981 romantic comedy Chashme Baddoor and suggested to me that the film should be renamed “Au Revoir, New Delhi.” Besides being a sweet film that first introduced us to the pairing of Farooq Shaikh and Deepti Naval, Chashme Baddoor is also an ode to Delhi long gone. It is a love letter to Delhi of my memories.
Here are my memories. Delhi of that era, despite being the capital city, was like a sömnig town, a quiet suburb, whe