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“I have seen it all, I did it all, I said it all, But I can’t remember it all…”

That’s how our Lifetime Achievement Winner, Moushumi Chatterjee defines her four-decade-old journey. “I don’t consider anyone bad. It’s the situation that makes people do things. You may hurt someone unintentionally. But you must never humiliate anyone,” says the actor who continues to throw up interesting performances. In 2014, she won the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress for the Bengali film Goynar Baksho and now the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award 2015. “I wish my father-in-law (the late musician/filmmaker Hemant Kumar) was present to see me receive this honour,” she says. In the recent hit Piku, she impressed with her brazen candour on sexuality. What’s more she was pitted against Amitabh Bachchan, her co-star in Basu Chatterjee’s quaint film Manzil (1979), remembered for its RD Burman number Rimjhim gire saawan. “Amitji possesses the same dedication. His sense of humour is intact,” she says. “Rimjhim gire was shot over two days in natural light and rain… from Colaba, VT to Marine Drive. I remember my eyeliner getting smudged! We kept having coffee to keep ourselves warm,” she reminisces.

Child bride The reluctant star of Tarun Mazumdar’s Ballika Badhu (1965) never imagined that fiction would turn into the truth of her life. “I did Ballika Badhu when I was in the fifth standard. I got married when I was in the tenth,” recalls she. Young Indira (her real name) got engaged to‘guardian and neighbour’ Hemant Kumar’s son, Jayant Mukherjee (Babu). “I fell in love with Babu. He was the first man I came in touch with outside my family. In my dowry, came a dog, a doll’s house and a friend, my girl Friday,” she laughs.

The teen bride had already seen in Bengali films like Parineeta, Anindita and Anand Ashram. She came to Mumbai with husband Babu only to have film offers lined-up for her. Raj Khosla’s Kachche Dhaage was her first film, though Shakti Samanta’s Anuraag, where she played a visually-challenged girl released first in 1973. The next year saw her team up with Amitabh Bachchan in the thriller Benaam and opposite Rajesh Khanna in Humshakal. Her most notable performance was that of a rape survivor in Manoj Kumar’s Roti Kapada Aur Makaan (1974). “I was pregnant with my first child but Manojji took great care of me. I threw up with all the atta (flour) in my mouth. A duplicate blouse was placed on me, which was later flung aside for the scene.” She claims, “The song Hai hai yeh majboori was to be filmed on me. But I got pregnant. The phrase‘do takiya’ in the song matches my character Tulsi’s language not that of the sophisticated Zeenat Aman’s in the film.”

Her other successful films were Swarg Narak and Angoor with Sanjeev Kumar. The hat-trick of hits Maang Baro Sajna, Ghar Ek Mandir and Pet Pyaar Aur Paap put her in the big league in 1984. Later, she graduated to doing character roles in Ghayal, Ghar Parivaar and Udhaar Ki Zindagi. Ask Moushumi to analyse her appeal and she says self-effacingly, “I’ve a crooked nose. I’m slightly cock-eyed. Perhaps my smile, my laughter charmed. Also, I had a voluptuous figure. I was never skinny. Actually, sex-appeal lies in your face, your eyes. Having a great figure doesn’t matter.” She recalls how the late director Raj Khosla summed her up. “He said, “Moushumi’s childlike, not childish. She can be fun-loving like an eight-year-old and wise like a woman of 80.”

Will break, not bend In an industry, which has not been entirely kind to married actresses, Moushumi finds herself grateful. “Mahesh Bhatt once chided me for being ‘unprofessional’. He joked, ‘Every time your career is doing well, you get pregnant’. I replied, ‘My babies have added to my life’.’You can be a top star, a celebrity or even a queen but ultimately you need a family, a home.” What she does admit to is her ‘will break but not bend’ dictum, which became the reason of her walking out of big projects. “I was not the ambitious kind, who wanted work by hook or crook. I did films on my own terms. I even shot for some big banner films but left them after a few days because my ethics didn’t allow me to continue. I didn’t compromise my sanskar. They thought I was stubborn and crazy.”

Rumours of being ‘uncooperative’ plagued her career. “Some top heroes could not take my behaviour. They’d say, ‘You prefer to talk to the spot boy rather than have a cup of coffee with me. Do you think you’re Vyjayanthimala? I’d say, ‘No, I believe I’m Cleopatra’. Some, noticing my stance, would turn respectful, some indifferent.” She recalls the time when a senior actress gave her some ‘advice’. “She said, ‘Why don’t you open up? You rub them the wrong way. What’s the harm in having dinner with them on outdoors?’” She holds her heroes Vinod Khanna, Rishi Kapoor, Shashi Kapoor, Sanjeev Kumar and Dharmendra in high regard. “Once Dharamji happened to see me at a particular party. He said, ‘Why have you come here? Go home right now!’ Rishi was helpful when I was pregnant and shooting for Zehreela Insaan. While Sanjeev Kumar loved to relax at my house, enjoying non-vegetarian food and watching films.”

My home, my world While showbiz wanted more of her, all she wanted was to rush back home. “I could switch from being Moushumi to Indu very easily. The minute pack-up was announced I wanted to run home to my husband. Even after Payal was born, I’d want to see Babu first.” In fact, the foundation of their bond, she says, was formed in those early years. She was a minor when her first daughter Payal was born. “My gynaecologist told me ‘a kid is having a kid’. When Payal was born, I didn’t have patience. She’d break my toys; I’d want to break hers.” She had Megha at 24 and didn’t work for two years as she was a weak child. “But the moment I thought of returning, I got four offers including Watan Ke Rakhwale, Aag Hi Aag and Ghayal,” says she.

Her ingenuousness remained intact even after motherhood and that’s why perhaps Dharmendra signed her for his production Ghayal. “I wasn’t interested. I suggested other heroines. But he said, ‘Kudiye, none can match your inocence. You can make the audience ghayal with your pain’.” She owes the liberty she enjoyed to her husband. “Babu was well off. He wasn’t living off me. He trusted me. My life has been an open book. Yes, he was possessive about certain things. Like once when I wore a sleeveless blouse, he didn’t like it. He said, ‘Have you forgotten to wear a blouse?’” she laughs.

LINK-UPS & LIES Though she was a married actress, rumours of romantic liaisons didn’t spare her. She was linked to various heroes including the late Vinod Mehra and Farooque Sheikh and distributor Ramesh Sippy. With Vinod Mehra she did around 10 films including Anuraag, Us-Paar, Raftaar, Umar Qaid and Zindagi and that set the grapevine buzzing. “Vinod and Babu were close friends. We lived in the same building. So we often went out together. That gave rise to rumours.” She doesn’t deny her outgoing disposition. “I am a flirt. I can flirt even with a plant, with an animal. In fact, Shabana Azmi once said, ‘Shashi Kapoor and you can flirt with anyone from six to 60,” she titters. But she’s aware of the perils of a friendly disposition. “The way I show my warmth is misconstrued. Babu once told me, ‘You’re a heroine. People view you differently. Be careful’. But he also jokes that even on my death bed I will flirt with the doctor.”

On a serious note she explains, “I never reacted to rumours. Those close to me knew, where I was and with whom. My husband was with me. Yes, I committed mistakes.” She reflects, “I realised Moushumi Chatterjee had many admirers. There were people who said, ‘I love you’ and even those who said, ‘I want to marry you’. I couldn’t push them away or be rude. I gave them enough time and also to myself to understand that they were attracted to me and not in love with me. I respect them. I even respect their spouses who also went through a bad time.” She’s still a ‘romantic’ but her definition of love has changed. “Love is an illusion. It’s at best attraction and attachment. Gradually, you move on to other things, your emotions are channelised into your children, your work…”

Golden time Glamour is short-lived and what lasts is the halo of contentment. “I’ve seen actresses go haywire. I committed a lot of mistakes too. But once I realised them, I took a U turn and never looked back. Your lifestyle is important. If you abuse life, life will abuse you back. Actresses turn lonely because they don’t listen to the voice within.” She insists on being spiritual. “I’m a Hindu but I perform namaz. I visit the church. You can reach God by touching human beings. You come alone and go alone. I take pleasure in simple things, like cooking and being with my children. And of course getting into arguments with husband Jayant. “Babu merely listens, unless I provoke him. We share a great sense of humour. Like when I say, ‘Gala dukh raha hai (my throat is hurting)’, he shoots back, ‘Daba doon (shall I press it)?’”

Moushumi Chatterjee’s best works

Balika Badhu (1967)

An adolescent Moushumi was about endearing innocence as a child-bride in Tarun Majumdar’s Bengali drama. It was later remade in Hindi with Sachin Pilgaonkar and Rajni Sharma in the lead.

Parineeta (1969)

The many adaptations of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s Parineeta include Moushumi’s take as a young woman’s unflinching devotion to her childhood sweetheart. This was directed by Ajoy Kar. It featured Samit Bhanja, Bijon Bhattacharya and Khagesh Chakravarti

Anuraag (1972)

A blind girl befriends a terminally ill child. The tragedy turns into a tale of hope and love in the Shakti Samanta directorial.

Kuchhe Dhaage (1973)

Moushumi’s village belle act was the perfect foil to the machismo dripping portrayals of Vinod Khanna and Kabir Bedi. Mere bachpan tu jaa… had an uncanny real-life echo to Moushumi’s own evolution.

Zehreela Insaan (1974)

Best remembered for the chartbuster O Hansini and Rishi Kapoor’s emotional confusion. Moushumi matched his intensity with her innocence and ease.

Roti Kapda Aur Makaan (1974)

Manoj Kumar’s war cry against corruption featured Moushumi in a ghastly rape sequence. She was apparently pregnant then but carried off the scene with elan.

Benaam (1974)

Both Moushumi and Amitabh Bachchan share great chemistry as a married couple. Their paradise is lost once their son goes missing.

Manzil (1979)

Basu Chatterjee’s Manzil not only gave us the rain-drenched panorama of Mumbai’s bay-line but also the monsoon ode Rimjhim gire sawan filmed on Amitabh Bachchan and Moushumi.

Swayamvar (1980)

Moushumi was all fire and sweet tantrums as Shashi Kapoor’s demanding ladylove in Swayamvar.

Pyaasa Saawan (1981)

Sexy and sentimental, Moushumi played the perfect wife in this melodrama. She won appreciation and sympathy as Jeetendra’s ailing wife here.

Angoor (1982)

Gulzar’s comedy of errors worked on a low-key sense of humour. Moushumi’s distrustful, daft, housewife act was perfect for the character.

Ghayal (1990)

As Sunny Deol’s grief-ridden sister-in-law in Ghayal, she provided a gravitas to her performance.

Moushumi’s most-loved melodies

· Sun ri pawan pawan puriya – Anuraag (1973)

· Tere nainon ke main deep jalaaonga – Anuraag (1973)

· hansini – Zehreela Insaan (1974)

· Mehngai maar gayee – Roti Kapda Aur Makaan (1974)

· Vado karo janam – Sabse Bada Rupaiya (1976)

· Rimjhim gire sawan – Manzil (1979)

· Wada nahin karte kisi se – Prem Bandhan (1979)

· Mausam pe jawani hai – Do Premee (1980)

· Yun na rootho – Itni Si Baat (1981)

· Megha re megha re – Pyaasa Sawan (1981)

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List of Bollywood comedy Films

Top 10 Hindi Comedy Movies Free Download (List of Bollywood comedy Films)Hello my dear Fun Loving Friends! Are you searching for funny Bollywood movies to watch? Do you want to delight and happy your mood by watching Hindi comedy full movies? Top 10 Hindi Comedy Movies Free Download (List of Bollywood comedy Films)Comedy movies are a great mood-lifter. Below, find a list of more than 10 awesome Hindi comedy movies ever made in the history of Indian cinema, Bollywood. The collection is sorted by the year in which they were released, accompanied by clips and links to the full-length version of the movie. Enjoy!

1. Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi (1958)

Directed by: Satyen Bose

Starring: Kishore Kumar, Madhubala, Ashok Kumar, Snoop Kumar

Runtime: 173 mins

The romantic comedy category may have officially made its way into Indian cinema through this film. Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi is the story of three brothers who keep trying to avoid women at all costs. Played by the real-life brother trio, Ashok, Anoop, and Kishore Kumar come together to bring one of the most classic Hindi comedy movies of all-time.The songs are also great, and the fun never stops throughout we are presenting Top 10 Hindi Comedy Movies Free Download List of Bollywood .Top 10 Hindi Comedy Movies Free Download (List of Bollywood comedy Films)

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Video: Even the songs are comical – Hum The Woh Thi

Video: Watch Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi the Full Movie

2. Half Ticket (1962)

Directed by: Kalidas

Starring: Kishore Kumar, Madhubala, Pran

Runtime: 168 mins

If you’re not easily swayed by just any comedy, think again with this one. You’ll be swept off your feet after watching Half Ticket. In fact, calling this one hell of a fantastic movie would be an understatement. Watch for the best, very notable scene from this movie featuring Kishore Kumar’s father being called to the board of director’s house for a dinner party. This movie is a must-watch right now. Top 10 Hindi Comedy Movies Free Download (List of Bollywood comedy Films)

Video: Watch a Scene from Half Ticket

3. Padosan (1968)

Directed by: Jyoti Swaroop

Starring: Sunil Dutt, Saira Banu, Kishore Kumar, Mehmood

Runtime: 157 mins

This light-hearted comedy movie is a must-watch. The story revolves around Bhola (Sunil Dutt) and his lady love Bindu (Saira Banu). It’s one of the best Bollywood movies, filled with great performances and songs—namely Vidyapathi (Kishore Kumar)’s performance and the famous song, Meri Pyaari Bindu. I particularly adore Mahmood’s role as a Tamilian. Many people have disregarded this movie because they believe it shows a Tamilian in bad taste. However I am Tamilian, and I didn’t find that this movie mocked the South Indian culture at all. The key is to take in the movie in the right spirit. Top 10 Hindi Comedy Movies Free Download (List of Bollywood comedy Films)

Video: Watch a Scene from Padosan

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4. Bombay to Goa (1972)

Directed by: S. Ramanathan

Starring: Mehmood, Aruna Irani, Amitabh Bachchan

Runtime: 132 mins

This is a remake of the Tamil movie, Madras to Pondicherry. Excellent music and funny scenes are strewn across the movie. The funny Tamil boy Amma Pakoda’s act is an over-the-top comedy scene. I had such a great time watching this. Hop on to the exciting journey from Bombay to Goa!

Video: Watch a Scene from Bombay to Goa

Video: Watch Bombay to Goa the Full Movie

5. Chupke Chupke (1975)

Directed by: Hrishikesh Mukherjee

Starring: Dharmendra, Sharmila Tagore, Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, Om Prakash, Asrani, Lily Chakraborty, Usha Kiran, David Abraham Cheulkar

Runtime: 127 mins

This movie is Dharmendra at its best. Chupke Chupke, directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee is a classic comedy movie. Each and every character is written excellently—watching it just once won’t satisfy you. If you haven’t watched this yet, then you’re missing out on something very special. I have stopped counting how much times I have seen this one.

Video: Watch Chupke Chupke the Full Movie

6. Chhoti Si Baat (1975)

Directed by: Basu Chatterjee

Starring: Amol Palekar, Vidya Sinha, Ashok Kumar, Asrani

Runtime: 123 mins

A romantic comedy movie that showcases Amol Palekar in a unique role. Chhoti Si Baat is the story of a young, shy person (who’s not suave at all) wanting to impress a girl with his simple methods. Despite his best efforts, he goes unnoticed. So he then seeks out the help of a retired general who has his own techniques and understands the psychology of girls. Whether he’ll (Arun, played by Amol) get his love or not forms the rest of the film.

Video: Watch a Scene from Chhoti Si Baat

7. Gol Maal (1979)

Directed by: Hrishikesh Mukherjee

Starring: Amol Palekar, Utpal Dutt, Bindiya Goswami

Runtime: 144 mins

Ram Prasad (Amol Palekar) is a recent college graduate desperately looking for a high-paying job. In turn, he pays a visit to Bhavani Shankar (Utpal Dutt), the man of traditional values and believes that men who are mustache-less and who play sports lack maturity and character. Ram makes sure that he follows these requirements. The movie revolves around the confusion that happens when Bhavani Shankar sees him Ram Prasad moustache-less in a hockey match. This is an all-time great for Utpal Dutt’s work—a real masterpiece.

Video: Watch a Scene from Gol Maal

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8. Chashme Buddoor (1981)

Directed by: Sai Paranjape

Starring: Farooq Shaikh, Deepti Naval, Saeed Jaffrey

Runtime: 145 mins

This is a romantic comedy movie with effortless comedic performances by Farooq Shaikh and company. The first part of the story is about Siddharth (Farooq Shaikh), who is extremely studious, falling in love with Neha (Deepti Naval), while Omi (Rakesh Bedi) and Jomo (Ravi Baswani) are just interested in chasing girls. The second part is the attempt to stage the fake kidnapping of Neha, which turns into a real kidnapping by a dreaded gang.

Video: Watch Chashme Buddoor Full Movie

9. Satte Pe Satta (1982)

Directed by: Raj N. Sippy

Starring: Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Ranjeeta Kaur

Runtime: 160 mins

Satte Pe Satta is the story of seven brothers living in a farmhouse. This movie contains many hilarious scenes, unforgettable music, and a great script. The video below here shows the funniest scene of the movie where Amitabh Bachchan is down few pegs and then the trademark dialogue “Daru Peene Se Liver Kharab Hota hai” occurs.

Video: Watch a Scene from Satte Pe Satta

Video: Watch Satte Pe Satta the Full Movie

10. Angoor (1982)

Directed by: Gulzar

Starring: Sanjeev Kumar, Moushumi Chatterjee, Deven Verma

Runtime: 141 mins

This is based on Shakespeare’s play “The Comedy of Errors” and, oh, you won’tstop laughing. Angoor is the story of two pairs of identical twins and the confusion all around. One pair is played by Sanjeev Kumar (both characters named Ashok) and the other pair by Deven Verma (both characters named Bahadur). Funny down to the last minute. With more than enough reasons to do a remake; Shahrukh Khan, Tusshar Kapoor, and Kareena will feature in the remake for Sanjeev Kapoor, Deven Verma, and Moushumi Chatterjee, respectively.

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