Why so much hype?

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

This movie is a remake of a Malayalam Movie Priyadarsan made several years ago. The Malayalam movie was genius. It had no trouble mixing comedy and drama. Proving that mixing these two genres is very much possible. Heck the Malayalam movie was so good any person who's watched it, would still stop whatever they're doing to get another glimpse of scenes from the movie if some scene from the movie happens to be played somewhere around them.So why was this movie so much worse than the Malayalam version? Well, let's see what changed, shall we? Pretty much the only thing that changed, was the cast. Actors in the Bollywood version was so horrible, it's incredible. In fact, the only person who acted well in the movie was Kareena Kapoor. Shahid simply did not do a good enough job adapting to the character. Not to an extend that is expected of him, who's otherwise a brilliant actor.Not even the comedians were able to pull of the brilliant Comic breaks that was scripted for them. Bollywood has evolved into an industry people seek to join for it's glamour, and nothing but the glam and money. These days, it only has a handful of good actors. While the rest are popular only due to glam and gossiping. Shameful!

I saw the movie at least 5-6 times in TV. But every time I missed some crucial portion so I could understand the movie. But then during holi of 2007 I got a chance to watch the movie when it was being shown in local cable channel in Patna. This is a typical original Priyadarshan movie.Shahid Kapoor takes a lot of loans from different peoples in order to settle in some business. He is unable to repay the loan. To escape from the lenders he jumps to the village river to commit suicide. But he is saved by Paresh Rawal and Rajpal Yadav who own a boat & are fisherman by profession. Paresh Rawan has taken a huge loan from Om Puri to procure the boat and he is also unable to repay it. Hence he leaves both Shahid & Rajpal in their home as a security. Shahid pretends to be deaf & mute and obviously won their sympathy. Kareena falls for Shahid thinking that he is actually deaf & mute. Confusion starts when Sushma Reddy comes into the picture. She is the ex-fiancée of Shahid and stays as his widow thinking him to be dead.Whom will Shahid marry finally. Will it be Kareena or Sushma ? Chup Chup Ke though is a comedy but it is in different class than that of certain Dhawan. Priyan's Garam Masala, Hulchul, Hungama, Yeh tera ghar yeh mera ghar, Hera Pheri, Phir Herapheri, Muskurahat were of different class. His comedy are of different league altogether than those of all other comedy movies.In all, Chup Chup ke makes a nice watch.

My goodness! This film would have received a poorer rating for me if not for the fact that Kareena Kapoor doesn't talk in the film as well as the fact that you can enjoy the first hour and a half without sight nor sound of her. God bless the director & writer for that alone.Okay, with that said here's the plot in a nutshell: Shahid Kapoor plays Jeetu, a happy go-lucky dude whom we meet down on his luck as all the people he is indebted to have now come to collect. His problem? He doesn't have the money to pay up. Nevertheless, he is witty. He devices a plan to gather all of his collectors into a meeting by the sea where he not only reveals to them that he cannot pay up but also that he is about to commit suicide. Unfazed, most of the collectors encourage him to jump into the sea and that in fact if he does so and drowns, they would forget about the money he owes them. So Jeetu jumps into the sea. The collectors go back to the village to report what has happened and a massive search goes into effect to recover his body, which is never found. Jeetu's family gather by the beach, watching the search efforts and they all take turns reflecting on the sad turn of events and what happened the last time they saw him. Jeetu's fiancée Pooja (played by Sushma Reddy) even decides after this to become a widow for life.Meanwhile, miles away in a remote village in Gujarat, Jeetu's body surfaces in a fisherman's net and in a hilarious skit is taken to hospital by Bandya(Rajpal Yadav) whom found him, and Gundya (Paresh Rawal) his boss. While Jeetu is unconscious, Bandya finds a letter amongst his things and mistakes it for money Jeetu owns, not knowing that it's actually money that Jeetu owes to people. Jeetu awakes to find both men plotting on how to squeeze him for cash and decides to play deaf and dumb to them. Note: Shahid Kapoor plays this in such a stereotypically bad way, it's painful.Bandya, a man in debt on his own now takes Jeetu under his wing but soon gets in trouble with one of his own debt collectors Prabhat Singh Chauhan (played by OM Puri). After another bout of very funny skits, somehow Bandya & Jeetu end up being servants in Chauhan's house to pay off Gundya's debt and there Jeetu meets a truly mute girl named Shruti(played by his real life love Kareena Kapoor) with whom sparks fly. I don't know whether it's because Miss Kapoor was mute in the role but Neha Dhupia who plays Meenakshi manages to outshine her on the acting front. Blink and you'll miss Anupam Kher & Amita Nangia every time they show them briefly as Jeetu's grieving parents. Manoj Joshi play's Pooja's father. Music by Himesh Reshamiya of which only two songs are stellar. 'Dil Vich Lagya' & the henna ceremony song, I can't remember the title of that song but it's really catchy and the video's beautiful. On the DVD, there's a video for one deleted song which features Shahid & Kareena Kapoor. It takes place after Jeetu's suicide scene, Jeetu jumps int the sea and emerges in a mermaid-like lair where Kareena's is Dancing Queen. It looks great but wouldn't have fit into the film's storyline, so they smartly deleted it from the film's final cut. Oh! before I forget, Suniel Shetty is in there too, though you wouldn't know from the promos (I didn't even notice him in the promo for 'Dil Vich Lagya' and he's a big part of the song). He plays Shruti's possessive older brother Mangal Singh Chauhan. Here's hoping Shahid Kapoor collected the fattest salary for this film for all the over-time tight slaps he received throughout the film. LOL!

The good news is that Kareena Kapoor doesn't talk in this film The bad news is that everyone else does… the problem is that they don't just talk but shout, scream, shriek, screech and yell. Chup Chup Ke continues Priyadarshan's stint with loud comedies. The good news is that this Priyadarshani film has a story to narrate (unlike Garam Masala). The bad news is that this time again the story is a Hindi adaptation of a Malayalam film named Punjabi House (unlike Malamaal Weekly that was his only original Hindi attempt) However the story is interesting enough. Jeetu (Shahid Kapoor) is drenched in debts that he is unable to payback. So he attempts suicide by jumping in the sea only to be caught in the net of fisherman Bandya (Rajpal Yadav). Bandya's master Gundya (Paresh Rawal) in turn has taken heavy loans from Prabhat Singh Chauhan (Om Puri). As a loan security, Gundya keeps Jeetu as a deposit at Chauhan's house, who fakes to be a mute and deaf guy. Chauhan's niece Shruti (Kareena Kapoor) who is actually mute falls for Jeetu. Confusion seeps in the story when Jeetu's ex-fiancé Pooja (Sushma Reddy) comes into picture. The good news is that Priyadarshan's brand of humor is not as bland or slapstick as David Dhawan's recent films. The bad news is that it's not as credible or tongue-in-cheek as a Hrishikesh Mukherjee or a Basu Chatterjee film, either. The movie starts with a bang getting straight to the point. The director doesn't waste time in establishment of the characters. Right from the first scene, the story of the film keeps moving ahead, thereby keeping your interest alive. Priyadarshan doesn't experiment with the treatment of humor though, going on with his trademark style of comedy. The characters play out loud and to the gallery. Another problem with the Priyadarshan brand of comedy is that he stretches the humor in a scene a bit too much and doesn't know where to stop, thereby making it repetitive and monotonous at times. However thanks to some well-written scenes and Neeraj Vora's dependable funny one-liners that range from the witty to the corny ones, the film does succeed in making you laugh. One more bone of contention is that the genre of the film is not just focused at being a comedy. That lasts for the first two hours after which the genre shifts towards drama. After a good dose of laughter in the first half, you don't feel like changing moods with the subsequent on screen emotional outbursts. And while Priyadarshan handles the comic portions of the film in a larger-than-life manner, his treatment of emotions is very much natural. (Not many might remember Priyadarshan as the director of touching emotional films like Gardish, Virasat and Sazae Kala Paani much before he molded himself as a comedy specialist). Conversely, how one wishes it were just the opposite in this film i.e. the comedy to be more natural while one could overlook the heavier side with some passable artificial emotions. The fluctuating genres very much remind of Priyadarshan's Hulchul that too turned intense in the last one hour. Moreover the family setting and characterizations of Suniel Shetty and Kareena Kapoor seems to be directly derived from Hulchul. Priyadarshan has a standard team of actors like Paresh Rawal, Rajpal Yadav, Om Puri, Asrani, Manoj Joshi and Suniel Shetty with whom he extracts fine work. Paresh Rawal is getting repetitive though you love to see him repeat the act. From being a serious actor, Om Puri has already made a transition into the comedy arena with élan. Rajpal Yadav yet again goes over the top, but somehow in this film, this actor steals the show amongst others thanks to the best scenes and lines that he gets. His timing and expressions add to the effect.Like his team of actors, Priyadarshan also has a standard team of technicians in his film like cinematographer Tirru and art director Sabu Cyril. Sabu repeats the typical pillars-in-the-garden set design for the song sequences. The white color in costume designs is consistently maintained throughout the film to impart a pure look to the frames. The good news is that Himesh Reshammiya composes the music of this film. The bad news (for some) is that he even sings some of the tracks here. Amongst other actors, Shahid is quite efficient. Kareena looks gorgeous and since she doesn't have to mouth a single line in the entire film (not even in a dream sequence), you are saved by her otherwise over-expressive dialogue delivery skills. In fact Neha Dhupia gets more scope and she makes the best use of it. Sushma Reddy is restricted only to some 4-5 scenes. Suniel Shetty is getting typecast in these kinds of roles playing the aggressive and protective brother. Soon he might become a substitute for Jackie Shroff. Overall, Chup Chup Ke isn't as silent as the title suggests. However despite it's loose (or loud) ends, it still manages to be a good family entertainer.