Chhota Chetan

For 1984 film, later dubbed in Hindi by Chhota Chetan, see My Dear Kuttichathan.

Chhota Chetan is a 1998 Hindi movie directed by Jijo Punnoose. It was dubbed from the 1984 Malayalam movie, My Dear Kuttichathan — which was India's first 3-D film — and it went on to become a major box office hit ^[1]

It was the first feature film to introduce DTS for a stereoscopic 3D feature film.

Although it was the dubbed version of My Dear Kuttichathan, the scenes with Hindi actors Urmila Matondkar, Satish Kaushik, Shakti Kapoor, Harish) and Ravi Baswani were re-shot for the Hindi version.

Shakti Kapoor plays the part of a magician who tries to catch Chetan but gets trapped in a mirror. The part was originally played by Dominic Alumudan in the Malayalam version (Prakashraj did this role in its re-released Tamil version Chutti Chathan). Satish Kaushik plays the part of Jagathi Srikumar as a scientist who also tries to catch Chetan but gets destroyed (Santhanam played this role in Tamil version).

Cast

• Urmila Matondkar - Miss Hawa Hawai
• Dalip Tahil - Laxmi's father
• Satish Kaushik - Professor Chashmish
• Shakti Kapoor - Baba Khondol
• Ravi Baswani - Raja
• Dalip Tahil
• Harish

References

1. ^ Social and political study of modern Hindi cinema: past, present, and future perspectives, by Ram Awatar Agnihotri. Commonwealth Publishers, 1990. ISBN 8171690491. page 121.

External links

• Chhota Chetan (1998) at the Internet Movie Database
• Chhota Chetan at the Internet Movie Database (1984)

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