All time great hindi comedy movies

Here is a list of greatest comedy movies in bollywood. This is the first list. For second list click here.

Gol Maal (1979)

Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Cast:

1. Amol Palekar ► Ram Prasad Dasharath Prasad Sharma / Laxman Prasad Dasharath Prasad Sharma
2. Utpal Dutt ► Bhavani Shankar
3. Bindiya Goswami ► Urmila
4. Deven Verma ► Himself
5. Dina Pathak ► Mrs. Kamala Srivastav
6. Shubha Khote ► Buaji Kalindi
7. Manju Singh ► Ratna Sharma
8. David Abraham ► Doctor Kedar Mama (as David)
9. Yunus Parvez ► Bade Babu
10. Anjan Srivastav ► Inspector Sharma (as Anjan)
11. Ashwani
12. Keshto Mukherjee ► Drunk
13. Om Prakash ► Senior Police Officer
14. Harish Magon ► Badri Narayan Shrivastav (as Harish)
15. Bhola

Story: Ramprasad is a recent college graduate who finds a job with a finicky man, Bhavani Shankar, who believes that a man without a mustache is a man without a character. Bhavani Shankar is also against any of his employees indulging in recreation of any kind. When Ramprasad is caught by his boss at a soccer match, he has to invent a twin brother, the clean-shaven Laxman Prasad, to save his job. When Bhavani's daughter falls in love with the clean-shaven Laxman Prasad, and insists on marrying him, and Bhavani insists she should marry Ramprasad, things take a whacky turn. A fake mother and a hilarious chase are other enjoyable features involved in this comedy

Andaz Apna Apna (1994)

Director: Rajkumar Santoshi
Cast:

1. Aamir Khan ► Amar Manohar (as Aamir Khhhan)
2. Salman Khan ► Prem Bhopali (as Salllman Khan)
3. Raveena Tandon ► Raveena (as Raveeena Tandon)
4. Karisma Kapoor ► Karisma (as Karisma Kapooor)
5. Paresh Rawal ► Ram Gopal Bajaj / Shyam Gopal Bajaj aka Teja (as Paresssh Rawwwal)
6. Mehmood ► Johnny (Photographer) (as Mehmoood)
7. Deven Verma ► Murli Manohar (as Devvven Verma)
8. Jagdeep ► Bankeylal Bhopali (as Jagdeeep)
9. Viju Khote ► Robert (as Vijoo Khhhote)
10. Shehzad Khan ► Bhalla (as Shehhhzad Khan)
11. Harish Patel ► Inn manager (as Harish Patttel)
12. Javed Khan ► Anand Akela (as Javvved Khan)
13. Tiku Talsania ► Inspector (as Tikkku Talsania)
14. Suresh Bhagwat ► Man went to collect money from Bankeylal (as Suresh Bhagggwat)
15. Anand Mishra (as Anannnd Mishra)

Story: Amar and Prem are two rivals who belonging to middle-class families with no scope of future advancement. Both individually, without the knowledge of the other decide to take matters into their hands and find ways to get rich quickly. Chaos and acrimony result when both find each other at loggerheads when both arrive to win the hand of the daughter of multi-millionaire Ram Gopal Bajaj amidst considerable upheavals when Shyam, the twin brother of Ram, decides to do away with Ram and assume his identity and thus take over the estate of the Bajaj family.

Angoor (1982} Director: Gulzar
Cast:

1. Sanjeev Kumar ► Ashok / Ashok
2. Moushumi Chatterjee ► Sudha (as Moushmi)
3. Deven Verma ► Bahadur / Bahadur
4. Aruna Irani ► Prema
5. Deepti Naval ► Tanu
6. Padma Chavan ► Alka (as Padma Chauhan)
7. Shammi ► Mrs. Raj Tilak
8. C.S. Dubey ► Chhedilal
9. Yunus Parvez ► Mansoor
10. T.P. Jain ► Ganeshilal
11. Raj Bharti
12. Ram Mohan ► Taxi driver (as Rammohan Ji)
13. Kamaldeep (as Kamal Deep)
14. Utpal Dutt ► Raj Tilak
15. Vasant (as Basant)

Story: Ashok R. Tilak lives in Dinkapur with his widowed mother, and a servant named Bahadur. He travels to another town on a business trip to buy several acres of grape-bearing trees, with Bahadur accompanying him. Although this is his first trip to this town, however, everyone appears to know him and Bahadur, including the Ticket Checker at the Railway Station, the taxi-driver, the Hotel Manager, local Police Inspector Sinha, a Jeweler named Chhedilal and his assistant Mansoor, and to top it all a woman named Sudha claims that she is his wife, and another woman named Tanu claims that she is his sister-in-law, while a third one named Alka claims that she is his mistress. All's not well for Bahadur either for he bears the brunt of this confusion when he finds out that he has a wife named Prema; a normally sane boss, who keeps on sniffing snuff and smoking alternatively, and who yells and slaps him frequently. After a nightmarish night, the hapless duo decide they have had enough and decide to return home, only to have the police arrest them for theft of a diamond necklace. Watch what happens when the truth is hilariously revealed at the Police Station of this town that has never these comedy of errors - ever.

Hera Pheri (2000)

Director: Priyadarshan
Cast:

1. Paresh Rawal ► Baburao Ganpatrao Apte
   
2. Akshay Kumar ► Raju
3. Sunil Shetty ► Ghanshyam (Shyam)
4. Tabu ► Anuradha Shivshankar Panikar
5. Om Puri ► Kharak Singh
6. Gulshan Grover ► Kabira
7. Kulbhushan Kharbanda ► Devi Prasad
8. Mukesh Khanna ► Police Inspector, Prakash
9. Asrani ► Bank Manager
10. Sulabha Arya ► Raju's mom
11. Dinesh Hingoo ► Chaman Jhinga
12. Mushtaq Khan ► Devi Prasad's servant
13. Kashmira Shah ► Kabira's Sidekick

Story: Shyam comes to Mumbai to apply for a job. But there is another applicant for the same job - Anuradha Panikkar. Shyam decides to fight for his job and starts residing as a paying guest with Baburao Apte, a garage owner. Raju is Baburao's other paying guest who disapproves of Shyam right from the start. These are four people in dire need of money and only a miracle can save the situation. The miracle occurs in the form of a wrong number phone call. Kabira, a goon, has kidnapped the granddaughter of Devi Prasad, a rich businessman and is calling on Baburao's phone number by mistake and demanding ransom. Raju hatches a daring plan - to talk with Kabira posing as Devi Prasad, and to talk with Devi Prasad posing as Kabira, ask him for double the amount of ransom money which Kabira had originally demanded, save the girl and keep the money as a reward.

Chameli Ki Shaadi (1986) Director: Basu Chatterjee Cast:

1. Anil Kapoor ► Charandas
2. Amrita Singh ► Chameli
3. Om Prakash ► Ustad Mastram Pehalwan
4. Amjad Khan ► Advocate Harish
5. Pankaj Kapur ► Kallumal "Koylawala" (as Pankaj Kapoor)
6. Annu Kapoor ► Chaganlal
7. Bharati Achrekar ► Champa
8. Satyendra Kapoor ► Bhajandas (as Satyen Kappu)
9. Ram P. Sethi ► Nathilal (as Ram Sethi)
10. Tabassum ► Bhajanda's wife
11. Nandita Thakur ► Nirmala
12. Jayshree T. ► Gulabo
13. Ghanshyam Rohera ► Fatchat (as Ghanshyam)
14. Komal Mahuvakar ► Anita
15. Shail Chaturvedi ► Lachuram Khapanchi

Story: Charandas lives a poor lifestyle in a small town in India along with his older brother, Bhajandas, and Bhabhi. He is unemployed and commits himself to be a wrestler with Ustad Mastram Pahelwan, who gets him to promise to be celibate until he is 40 years of age. But when Charandas meets with a school student, Chameli, the daughter of a low-caste Coal merchant, both fall head-over-heels in love with each other, go on dates, exchange love letters, much to the chagrin of Chameli's dad, Kallumal, who has plans to be the next Municipal Chairman, and mom, Champa, who decide to enlist the help of Champa's brother, Chaganlal, as well as arrange Chameli's marriage with Advocate Makhan, the son of Lachuram, who is of their caste. As events hilarious spiral out of control, Charandas must now decide whether he prefers to be known as the semi-senile lover, Majnu, or as Prithviraj Chauhan, who dared to abduct his future wife, amidst stiff all-round opposition.

Chupke Chupke (1975) Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee Cast:

1. Dharmendra Dr.Parimal Tripathi
2. Sharmila Tagore ► Sulekha Chaturvedi
3. Amitabh Bachchan ► Professor Sukumar Sinha
4. Jaya Bhaduri ► Vasudha Kumar
5. David Abraham ► Haripath Chaturvedi (as David)
6. Usha Kiran ► Sumitra Sharma
7. Lily Chakravarty ► Lata Kumar Srivastav (as Lily Chakraborty)
8. Keshto Mukherjee ► James D'Costa (Driver) (as Kesto Mukherjee)
9. Dev Kishan
10. Om Prakash ► Raghavendra Sharma (Raghav)
11. Lalita Kumari (as Lalita Sinha)
12. Naina Apte
13. Chaitali
14. Aarti
15. Amol Sen

Story: Raghav brags that he can smell a rat or an impersonator automatically, and Dr. Parimal Tripathi decides to take him on - result: funny family slapstick comedy, with a dose of pure Hindi and Urdu thrown in, especially the dialogue delivery by Om Prakash, Dharmendra, and Amitabh Bachchan. Notable songs are :Sare ga ma, ma sa re ga ma...."; "Ab ke sajan sawan me, aag lagegi badan mein, ghata barshegi, magar tarsegi nazar, mil na sakenghe do mahn ek hi aagan mein..."; "Chupke chupke chal di purvaiya, basuri bajaike raas rachaye daiya re daiya, chupke...".

Garam Masala (2005) Director: Priyadarshan Cast:

1. Akshay Kumar ► Mac
2. John Abraham ► Shyam "Sam"
3. Paresh Rawal ► Mambo
4. Rimi Sen ► Anjali
5. Neetu Chandra ► Sweety, an airhostess
6. Nargis Bagheri ► Puja, an airhostess
7. Daisy Bopanna ► Deepti, an airhostess
8. Rajpal Yadav ► Babban
9. Asrani ► Mac's Maternal Uncle
10. Lakshmi Pandit ► Model
11. Neha Dhupia ► Maggi, Special Appearance
12. Manoj Joshi ► Nageshwar

Story: Shyam and Makarand work as photographers in a commercial advertising agency. Both of them like to fool around with women, even though Makarand is engaged to be married to a doctor named Anjali. In order to outsmart each other, they two get into a competition of shooting a photograph, and Sam wins it, goes on a trip to the United States of America. Upon his return, he finds that Makarand is living a very enviable lifestyle with three of the most beautiful girls, who also work as air-hostesses. Sam meets them all, and finds out that the trio are unaware of each other, falls in love with Pooja; and begins several moves to upset Makarand lifestyle, and possibly get promoted as a Supervisor.

Bawarchi (1972) Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee Cast:

1. Rajesh Khanna ► Raghu (Bawarchi)
2. Jaya Bhaduri ► Krishna S. Sharna
3. Usha Kiran ► Shobha R. Sharma
4. Harindranath Chattopadhyay ► Shivnath Sharma
5. A.K. Hangal ► Ramnath S. Sharma
6. Durga Khote ► Seeta S. Sharma
7. Asrani ► Vishwanath R. Sharma - Babbu
8. Kali Bannerjee ► Meeta R. Sharma
9. Paintal ► Guruji
10. Raju Shrestha ► Pintoo Baba (Child Artist)
11. Amitabh Bachchan ► Commentator (voice)
12. Manisha
13. Suraj

Story: Squabbling Sharma family has a dubious reputation of not having any cook last there for more than a few months. Word spreads out about this family to such an extent that no person wants to be employed as a cook in this household, ironically named Shanti Nivas. Then one day a young man named Raghu offers to work as a cook, and he is hired. Raghu quickly gets a grip on his job and on each of the family members, and soon the squabbles and arguments come to an end. And then the Sharmas find the family jewels and Raghu missing.

Baton Baton Mein (1979) Director: Basu Chatterjee Cast:

1. Amol Palekar ► Tony Braganza
2. Tina Munim ► Nancy Perreira
3. Asrani ► Francis Fernandes
4. David Abraham ► Uncle Tom (as David)
5. Leela Mishra ► Philomena Aunty
6. Pearl Padamsee ► Rosie Perreira (Nancy's mom)
7. Tun Tun ► Imaginary Nancy's mom
8. Arvind Deshpande ► Mr. Braganza
9. Piloo J. Wadia ► Mrs. Braganza
10. Shobhini Singh ► Maria (Tom's wife)
11. Mazhar Khan ► Henry
12. Ranjit Chowdhry ► Sabhi Perreira

Story: Rosie Perreira is an overly anxious widow, living with her guitar-obsessed son, Sabhi, and a lovely daughter, Nancy, who she would like to get married to a wealthy young man. Her helpful neighbor, Tom, introduces a young eligible Tony Braganza to Nancy in the 9:10 AM Western Railway local train from Bandra to Churchgate. Tom also asks Nancy to introduce Tony to Rosie, which she does. Rosie is initially apprehensive about him as he only drawing a mere Rs.300/ compared to Nancy's Rs.700/-, but soon changes her mind when she finds out that after his probationary period he will draw a monthly pay of Rs.1000/-. Nancy and Tom are permitted to meet and both eventually fall in love. While Nancy wants to follow her mother's directions and get married, Tony is hesitant, and this is what costs him Nancy's love, as she starts to feel that he will not come through with the marriage. And soon Rosie starts looking elsewhere for a son-in-law, while Tony is still reluctant to make any commitments.

Mujhse Shaadi Karogi (2004) Director: David Dhawan Cast:

1. Salman Khan ► Sameer Malhotra
2. Akshay Kumar ► Sunny
3. Priyanka Chopra ► Rani Singh
4. Amrish Puri ► Colonel Dugraj Singh
5. Satish Shah ► Surya Prakash
6. Rajpal Yadav ► Raj Purohit / Paul
7. Amrita Arora ► Romi (cameo)
8. Dinyar Contractor ► School Principal
9. Parth Dave ► Sameer Malhotra as Kid
10. Kurush Deboo ► Rustom Dogs Seller
11. Kapil Dev ► Himself
12. Supriya Karnik ► Rama Dugraj Singh
13. Kader Khan ► Mr. Duggal
14. Mushtaq Khan ► Chutki Baba
15. Shashikala ► Grandma Malhotra
16. Upasna Singh ► Mrs. Surya Prakash

Story: Sameer is a hot-headed youngsters with a knack of getting into brawls. When his girlfriend dumps him, he is heartbroken and relocates to Goa to work as a lifeguard. He falls for his next-door neighbour Rani, but Rani dislikes him because Sameer had slapped her father by mistake. On top of it, Sameer's new roommate Sunny is a lecherous playboy who has the hots for Rani. This results into a zany battle of wits between Sameer and Sunny over who will win Rani's heart.
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