'Chashme Baddoor' off to super start, collects Rs.11.45 millio...

While the old Chashme Buddoor has lost none of its delicate charm, the new one is a rambunctious and rather enjoyable ride.Sai Paranjpye’s Chashme Buddoor, a light-hearted and mild-mannered comedy which also gave us an unforgettably sweet romance between a bespectacled, padhaaku Farooq Shaikh and Deepti Naval as the irresistible but real girl next door, was recently restored and re-released in theatres alongside a new David Dhawan remake.A distressed Paranjpye has charged Dhawan with ...

Sai Paranjpye's Chashme Buddoor is the best Hindi film you'll see this year, writes Raja Sen.There is a scene in Sai Paranjpye’s Chashme Buddoor where Farooq Shaikh and Deepti Naval are on their first date. Despite coffee and tutti-frutti ice-cream, and her cooing enthusiasm for him studying Economics, there isn’t much to really talk about. And the shy Shaikh sheepishly confesses to have stalked her, to lurking outside her music school based on timings she’d let slip when they ...