Chashme Buddoor (1981 film)

Chashme Buddoor (transl. Far be the evil eye) is a 1981 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film written and directed by Sai Paranjpye, adapted from Paranjpye's teleplay Dhuan Dhuan. The film stars Farooq Sheikh, Deepti Naval, Saeed Jaffrey, Rakesh Bedi, Leela Mishra and Ravi Baswani. The story revolves around three close friends, two of whom (Bedi and Baswani) fall in love at first sight with a girl (Naval), but fail to woo her. After discovering that the third friend (Sheikh) is dating the girl, they plot to end their relationship.

After watching Sparsh at a film festival, producer Gul Anand, asked its writer/director Paranjpye for an escapist film, who then came up with an idea, based on her Doordarshan teleplay Dhuan Dhuan, which after some input from Anand would form the screenplay, and the casting followed. Principal photography took place in Delhi. The music was composed by Raj Kamal. The film's themes include Delhi itself, nostalgia, bachelorhood, romance and parody of Hindi film clichés.

Chashme Buddoor was released on 8 May 1981 and became a box-office hit. The film also received five Filmfare Awards nominations, and has been referred to as a classic. It has since gained a cult following. Two remakes, Malayalam-language Odaruthammava Aalariyam directed by Priyadarshan and Hindi-language Chashme Baddoor directed by David Dhawan, were released in 1984 and 2013, respectively.