Chhota Chetan

Chhota Chetan
Film poster
Directed by	Jijo
Produced by	Jose
Written by	Ikram Akhtar (dialogues)
Screenplay by	Raghunath Paleri
Music by	Anu Malik
Cinematography	Ashok Kumar
Edited by	T. R. Sekhar
Production company	Navodaya
Distributed by	Jhamu Sughand, Nitin Manmohan
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Chhota Chetan is a 1998 Hindi dubbed release of the 1984 Malayalam film My Dear Kuttichathan, which was India's first 3D film. Though a dubbed release, 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, a few additional scenes were shot with Hindi actors Urmila Matondkar, Satish Kaushik, Shakti Kapoor, Harish) and Ravi Baswani.

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 Sreekumar as a scientist who also tries to catch Chetan but gets destroyed.

Cast

• Urmila Matondkar – Miss Hawa Hawai
• Dalip Tahil – Laxmi's father
• Satish Kaushik – Professor Chashmish
• Shakti Kapoor – Baba Khondol
• Ravi Baswani – Raja
• Harish Kumar – Mr. Anthony Gonsalve

Soundtrack

Original 1984 version had soundtrack composed by Ilayaraja however this version had new set of songs composed by Anu Malik.

1. "Chhota Chetan" - K. S. Chitra
2. "Ek Jaadu Hone Wala Hai" - Shankar Mahadevan
3. "Jo Tum Kaho" - Anuradha Sriram, Srinivas
4. "Jo Tum Kaho (I)" - Aditya Narayan, Anmol Malik
5. "Ringa Ringa Ro" - Shankar Mahadevan

References

External links

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