Shoukheeen
1981 film by Basu Chatterjee
Shoukheeen (Bengali pronunciation: [ʃou̯.kʰeen]; transl. Enthusiast) is a 1982 Indian comedy film, shot simultaneously in Bengali and Hindi, co-written and directed by Basu Chatterjee. Produced by Devika Mitar under the banner of Senmit Movie Visuals, the film is based on Samaresh Basu's story Ram Nam Kewalam, and also draws inspirations from the 1962 American film Boys' Night Out. It stars Ashok Kumar, Utpal Dutt, A. K. Hangal, Mithun Chakraborty and Rati Agnihotri. It plots three lecherous, aging friends' spicing up their lives by vacationing in Goa, where they woo a young woman to be comically outsmarted by their driver, as well as her secret lover.
Basu Chaterjee loved the song "Nitol Paye Rinik Jhinik" sung and composed by S. D. Burman since childhood and requested S. D.'s son R. D. Burman to compose song Jab Bhi Koi using same tune in the film.
Plot
Shaukeen has 3 lecherous old men, played by Ashok Kumar, Utpal Dutt and A.K. Hangal. And all the three old men had one weakness i.e. Women. One day they meet up at Ashok kumar's place for drinks and decide to go away for a while on a vacation and enjoy the last years of their life before becoming completely senile.
They hire a driver Ravi (Mithun Chakraborty), a friend of the son of Choudhuri (Ashok Kumar), who takes the name Sakharam.
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