28 years of Basu Chatterjee's Gudgudee: Pratibha Sinha recalls, "Basu da's cute habit of chewing on his handkerchief when the camera was rolling is the stuff of movie lore"

Filmmaker Basu Chatterjee’s Gudgudee completed 28 years on April 4. The film was a light-hearted drama starring Pratibha Sinha, Anupam Kher and Jugal Hansraj in pivotal roles. On the film’s anniversary, Pratibha Sinha went down memory lane on her only film with Chatterjee.

Gudgudee , 28 years of your only film with Basu Chatterjee. Your thoughts? I only have fond memories of Gudgudee and Basu uncle (Chatterjee). However, I wish the day had not coincided with the passing away of the great film-maker Manoj Kumarji.



.. I hope you pardon me for digressing from the matter at hand by mentioning Manoj Kumar.

He was one of our icons. He did many films with my mother (the legendary Mala Sinha), and I feel his going has created a vacuum Hindi cinema would find it difficult to fill. True, we are losing all the stalwarts You know Gudgudee was one of the last films that Basu uncle worked on in his capacity as a director.

I had the precious privilege of being cast in the central role with Anupam Kherji. It was naughty comedy about a midlife crisis and my character Chandni was a chirpy, bubbly dreamer. I have very warm memories of working with Basu uncle, Anupam ji and the team of the film.

I must share something very heartwarming during Gudgudee . Tell me I carry the distinct memory of Basu uncle addressing me by my mother’s name (Mala) and her by my name. He was so endearingly absent-minded.

.. and yes, his cute habit of chewing on his handkerchief when the camera was rolling, is, I guess the stuff of movie lore.

Yes, that rumal-chewing I’ve heard about He always treated me with a lot of affection and patience, especially when I could not nail the verbose lines, the majority of which were ghost-written by him. He would rib mum and me on the rapid-fire ‘Spanish-Russian’ that he considered our spoken dialect of Nepali to be. Basu Chatterjee was quite funny even in person? He was like a child, raw, self-effacing and absolutely honest.

I remember he was non-plussed when the late Satishji (Kaushik) and one of his ADs poker-facedly suggested that he should film the romantic song ‘Har pal chahe mera dil’ in Shakaari Bhandaar...

that’s how unaffected he was by his peers’ opinions of his cinematic sensibilities and his artistic proclivities. How was Anupam Kher as your co-star? I had the privilege and joy of interacting with the multi-faceted and brilliant Anupamji, both at a professional as well as at a personal level. He has the great capacity of interpreting, envisioning and executing a situation in a myriad different ways.

.. A very rare talent.

He was extremely generous to me as an artist and loving as a person. He is extremely well read and is a brilliant raconteur. That singular quality of his which made me always look forward to meeting him.

Is it true Anupam helped you with the scenes? It was so humble and kind of him to actually demonstrate the art & the ‘craft’, that is the technicality of crying on screen to me. They don’t make artists and human brings like Anupamji anymore. I really miss those days.

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