चमेली की शादी (1986)

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Chameli Ki Shaadi is a 1986 Indian Hindi-language comedy film directed by Basu Chatterjee, who also co-wrote it with Prakash Mehra, which in turn was adapted from Dhadkanein by Om Prakash Sharma. The film starred Anil Kapoor, Amrita Singh, Om Prakash, Amjad Khan, Pankaj Kapoor, Annu Kapoor and Bharati Achrekar. The story follows Charan and Chameli (Singh), who love each other, fighting their families' opposition on account of belonging to different castes, with the help of Mastram (Prakash) and Harish (Khan).

Production

In the early 1980s, Om Prakash Sharma was invited to Mumbai by one of Prakash Mehra's financiers to discuss adapting Dhadkanein (lit. 'Heartbeats') to a film. Sharma granted them his permission, but refused to travel. After some time, Basu Chatterjee, who had planned to adapt it during the making of his previous film Ek Ruka Hua Faisla, paid Sharma a visit, revealing to him that he was the one who was going to direct the film adaptation.

In Dhadkanein, Khalifa Mastram was a practising celibate and a misogynist, who takes Charandas under his wing and inspires him to take a vow of celibacy. In the film, this character was renamed Ustad Mastram Pehelwan. In the novel, Kallumal was described as about four and a half feet tall, dark skinned, with a round-shaped body, who had failed the sixth grade.

According to Anil Kapoor, Mehra contacted him to star in the film. When Kapoor went to Mehra, he realised that Mehra wasn't going to direct the film, and that he won't be able to pay much. Kapoor agreed to Mehra's ₹1 lakh (equivalent to ₹15 lakh or US$15,000 in 2026) pay. When Amrita Singh, Kapoor's Saaheb (1985) co-star, was asked for the film, she grew excited based on the title alone.

Om Prakash, Amjad Khan, Ram Sethi and Kalyanji-Anandji were regular collaborators of Prakash Mehra, although none of them had worked with Chatterjee before. Noting the similarities between Uncle Tom in Chatterjee's Baton Baton Mein (1979) and Harish in Chameli Ki Shaadi, Anirudha Bhattacherjee speculated on the possibility that had not David, who played Uncle Tom, passed away in 1982, he would've been cast as Harish.

Those days, Hindi films didn't use scripts, and the writers used to write dialogues hastily on the set. But Chatterjee preferred a full script beforehand. Chatterjee reimagined the source material Delhi small town as a Bombay one entirely on studio set. Mehra didn't object spending on set construction. Although the fight scene between Anil Kapoor and Annu Kapoor was shot in a real bar, which doesn't exist now.

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