Prologue
The death of many love stories in the world happens due to lack of confidence. I am sure all of us in this forum would have gone through a phase in our life where we were not confident enough to express our feeling!
I love this girl a lot but the moment she is in front of me, I feel like running away (remember the beautiful lines from movei Sajan - Par same jab tum ate ho, kuch bhi kehne se darta hai -)
This is the theme of the beautiful simple movie - Chhoti Si Baat. Basu Chatterjee always thrilled us with such beautiful and simple stories. And this movie’s protoganist is not fire spitting, muscle man. He is simple, humble and naive. Hence audience could indentify themself with him. Because majority of the public are not heros.
Plot Summary
The plot is all about a young man who walks the rocky path of love because his heart is true but timid.
Arun (Amol Palekar) falls in love with Prabha (Vidya Sinha) whom he sees everyday on the bus-stop on his way to work.
Not having the courage or know how to express his love, all he can do is follow her to her office and her home and pine from afar. J
ust as he is wondering what to do next, along comes Nagesh (Asrani), Prabha’s brash young collegue who seems leagues ahead of Arun in his pursuit of Prabha.
Desperate Arun seeks the help of Colonel J.N.W. Singh (Ashok Kumar) who tackles the battle of love with the same meticulous planning and ruthless efficiency needed to win a military campaign. - He instills in Arun a new self confidence and teaches him the strategies of waging love. Arun returns to Bombay a new man ready to face anything.
What make the movie special
Brilliant perfomances by Amol Palekar as a painfully shy, fumbling lover whom we so desperately want to see win
Ashok Kumar as the brisk spit ’n’ polish colonel
Salilda’s enchanting melodies woven around some of Yogesh’s best https://lyrics. "Jaaneman Jaaneman" & "Na Jaane Kyon" remain two of the evergreen hits from this film.
We are missing movies based on such simple themes as of today. So, it is better to see such movies, once in a blue moon!