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Masala entertainer 'Chori Mera Kaam' turns 50

Starcast: Ashok Kumar, Shashi Kapoor, Zeenat Aman, Deven Verma, Anwar Hussain & Pran Director: Brij Music: Kalyanji Anandji After th...


Starcast: Ashok Kumar, Shashi Kapoor, Zeenat Aman, Deven Verma, Anwar Hussain & Pran

Director: Brij

Music: Kalyanji Anandji

After the super successful Victoria No. 203 (1972), director Brij and the previous film hot duo of Ashok Kumar & Pran gave us another super hit 'Chori Mera Kaam'. Released 50 years back on May 2, the film is a full masala entertainer with dollops of comedy and excellent music thrown in and has a huge repeat value and is considered one of Shashi Kapoor's biggest solo hits. The film also follows the usual lost-and-found theme and gives you little time to think about the proceedings, thus making it a hugely popular entertainer.

A gangster, Amarchand (Anwar Hussain), is brought to book by Inspector Kumar (Pran) and is imprisoned for 20 long years. During his stint in jail, Amarchand plans to extract revenge by abducting Kumar's elder son, who is saved by Shankar (Ashok Kumar). He asks his friend John (David) to look after the boy while he goes to a local bar. John, who also holds a grudge against Kumar, comes to know that the boy is Kumar's and disappears with the boy. 20 years later, the boy, now Bhola (Shashi Kapoor) is a petty thief who works with a female accomplice, Sharmii (Zeenat Aman). One day, Bhola and Sharmii, out on a robbery, stumble upon a manuscript titled 'Chori Mera Kaam' which was hidden in a safe. They sell it to a book publisher, Pravin Bhai (Deven Verma), and it turns out to be a bestseller. What they did not know was that the book was written by Shankar. The book attracts the police department, especially Kumar, who is now the Commissioner, Amarchand, who is now out of jail, and of course, Shankar too. 

Shashi Kapoor gives a super performance, ably supported by the glamorous Zeenat Aman. Their chemistry and pairing is sizzling. Pran gives a power-packed performance, and Anwar Hussain was at his comic-villainy best. But the scene stealers were Ashok Kumar, who gives us a rollicking performance, and Deven Verma, who won the Filmfare Award for Best Actor in a Comic Role, brings the house down with his poker-faced expressions.

Kalyanji Anandji's music had memorable songs like “Chori mera kaam” (Kishore & Asha), “Kahe ko kahe ko mere peeche” (Kishore & Asha), “Meri nazar se bacha na koi” (Kishore), which were hugely popular. There was another fun song, “Main kachche angoor ki bel,” which had Kishore Kumar doing the playback for Ashok Kumar and Amit Kumar singing for Shashi Kapoor. All the songs put together, along with the title music, were lively affair.

Even after 50 years, there is never a dull moment in this film, which needs to be revisited time and again.

 

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