Golmaal (1979)

In this Hrishikesh Mukherjee classic, Ram Prasad (Amol Palekar) is the earnest employee of Bhavani Shankar (Utpal Dutt) and sports a moustache as Shankar believes that a man’s pride lies in his soup-strainer. He falls afoul of Shankar when he gets caught skipping work and going for a football match. To escape punishment, he then invents an identical good-for-nothing twin brother Laxman. The fun lies in Ram trying to keep Shankar from realising the truth while teaching him that there’s more to a man than his mouche. A story which carries the moustache theme further while commenting on the misplaced sense of masculinity in today’s society would be a worthy sequel. “If a director is intelligent enough, he should be given the chance,” says actor Neil Nitin Mukesh. “This is a great film and has the legendary Palekar in it.”

Aankhen (1993)

In David Dhawan’s comic caper, two mischievous brothers get mistakenly dragged into a political conspiracy when one of their pranks goes horribly wrong. With three pairs of look-alikes involved, there is much mindless mayhem. Govinda and Chunky Pandey are still capable of carrying off a comic caper, especially with Dhawan at the helm. “The director is very important for the sequel. I would like to see how David Dhawan would handle it,” says actor Irrfan Khan.

Chupke Chupke (1975)

Hrishikesh Mukherjee once again scores with a comedy-cum-social drama. Two friends Parimal and Sukumar decide to swap identities to teach a lesson to Parimal’s brother-in-law. Things go out of hand when a single Sukumar, pretending to be a married Parimal, falls in love. Everything’s sorted out and all’s well that ends well. With the primary star cast having aged 30 years, and Om Prakash no longer alive, the sequel would probably work better with a fresh principal cast. Also, Sukumar and Vasudha’s story had just begun. It would be interesting to see how their marriage evolves. “This is one of my all-time favourites,” says actor Sudhanshu Pandey. “I think this is Dharamji’s best performance and I’d like to see him in the sequel too; he’s still so handsome.”

Chashme Buddoor (1981)

One of the best of that rare breed in Hindi cinema—women directors, Sai Paranjape weaves a sweet tale on love and friendship. Love is in the air for Siddharth and Neha but sadly, so is envy. His two roommates Omi (Rakesh Bedi) and Jai (Ravi Baswani) decide to break his budding romance in the hope that she will then choose one of them instead. They attempt many comic ideas and accidentally get into deep trouble. The laugh-riot has immense possibilities. Farooque Sheikh says the film was a timely comment on the young post-graduate crowd and their ups and downs. “It has relevance even today as students are still ambitious and have similar problems,” the actor-anchor adds.

Chhoti Si Baat (1975)