These are 16 Best Comedy Movies by Hrishikesh Mukherjee as director. Hrishikesh Mukherjee is regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of Indian cinema. His movies also feature in the list of highest rated classic movies. He was popularly known as Hrishi-da. He had directed a total of 42 films during his career spanning over four decades. Hrishikesh Mukherjee is named as the pioneer of the ‘middle cinema’ of India. Renowned for his social films that reflected the changing middle-class ethos, His comedy movies carry social message along with laughs.
These Comedy Movies by Hrishikesh Mukherjee are listed according to IMDB ratings:-
1. GolMaal (1979)
Movie Duration 144 min | Comedy, Romance
IMDB Rating- 8.5
A man’s simple lie to secure his job escalates into more complex lies when his orthodox boss gets suspicious. This is not only on the top of the list of best Comedy Movies by Hrishikesh Mukherjee but also on the topmost comedy movie of all time.
Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee | Stars: Amol Palekar, Bindiya Goswami, Deven Verma, Shobha Khote
Votes: 19,293
2. Chupke Chupke (1975)
Movie Duration 146 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
IMDB Rating – 8.3
Chupke Chupke ( transl. Quietly) is a 1975 Indian Hindi-language comedy film. A remake of the Bengali film Chhadmabeshi.
Sulekha is in awe of her brother-in-law Raghavendra for his intelligence. Parimal, her husband, decides to take up the challenge of fooling Raghavendra and goes to work for him as a driver.
Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee | Stars: Dharmendra, Sharmila Tagore, Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan
Votes: 12,699
3. Bawarchi (1972)
Movie Duration 130 min | Comedy, Musical, Drama
IMDB Rating – 8.1
Desperate for a cook, the disgruntled Sharmas are relieved when the multi-talented Raghu takes up the job. Just as all is bliss, the family jewels disappear and so does Raghu. Twists and turns of the movie make it one of the best Comedy Movies by Hrishikesh Mukherjee.
Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee | Stars: Rajesh Khanna, Jaya Bachchan, Usha Kiran, Harindranath Chattopadhyay
Votes: 4,121
4. Anari (1959)
Movie Duration 166 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
IMDB Rating – 7.6
A poor young man gets employed by a rich man admiring his honesty. But when he gets suspected in a lady’s murder case, he need to prove his innocence.
Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee | Stars: Raj Kapoor, Nutan, Lalita Pawar, Shobha Khote
Votes: 855
5. Khubsoorat (1980)
Movie Duration 126 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
IMDB Rating – 7.6
A strict matriarch’s regimented household is upended by the arrival of a spunky relative who challenges the rules.
Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee | Stars: Ashok Kumar, Rekha, Rakesh Roshan, Shashikala Jawalkar
Votes: 1,772
6. Mem-Didi (1961)
Movie Duration 137 min | Comedy, Drama
IMDB Rating – 7.5
Mrs Roy, an old lady, befriends her new neighbours Bahadur and Sher Khan, after which, they help her by taking up the disguise of wealthy men to impress Mrs Roy’s daughter’s would-be-groom.
Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee | Stars: Lalita Pawar, David Abraham, Tanuja Samarth, Jayant
Votes: 42
7. Naram Garam (1981)
Movie Duration 122 min | Comedy, Drama
IMDB Rating – 7.4
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An impoverished employee tries to prevent his superiors and employers from marrying his sweetheart. His efforts in this regard makes it on of the best Comedy Movies by Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee | Stars: Amol Palekar, Swaroop Sampat, Utpal Dutt, A.K. Hangal
Votes: 1,080
8. Kissise Na Kehna (1983)
Movie Duration 140 min | Comedy, Romance
IMDB Rating – 7.3
Kailashnath feels that his son has come of age, and must get married. He is disappointed find that they are too modern, speak English, and listen to foreign music. He feels that Ramesh will be better off marrying a non-English speaking lady, preferably from a small village. But the predicament of Ramesh is that he is already in love with Ramola, a very well qualified, English speaking Doctor, and he knows fully well that she will not be approved by his dad. So Ramesh, Ramola and Lalaji concoct a plot, making Ramola masquerade as a naive, non-English speaking village belle, with hilarious and unpredictable results.
Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee | Stars: Farooq Shaikh, Deepti Naval, Utpal Dutt, Saeed Jaffrey
Votes: 686
9. Guddi (1971)
Movie Duration 121 min | Drama, Comedy, Family
IMDB Rating – 7.2
A teenage girl will not accept her family’s attempt to arrange a marriage for her, as her heart is currently too full of love for the movies and heartthrob actor “Dharmendra.”
Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee | Stars: Dharmendra, Jaya Bachchan, Sumita Sanyal, Utpal Dutt
Votes: 1,107
10. Rang Birangi (1983)
Movie Duration 180 min | Comedy
IMDB Rating – 7.2
Nirmala feels the spark has gone out of her marriage with her husband, Ajay. Her brother concocts tales of an affair to help rekindle the spark in Nirmala’s marriage.
Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee | Stars: Amol Palekar, Parveen Babi, Farooq Shaikh, Deepti Naval
Votes: 573
11. Biwi Aur Makan (1966)
Movie Duration 126 min | Comedy
IMDB Rating – 7.1
When four young men relocate to a city, they try to find accommodation for themselves. However, unable to find suitable living quarters, they are forced to seek desperate measures.
Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee | Stars: Biswajeet Chatterjee, Mehmood, Shabnam, Badri Prasad
Votes: 63
12. Naukri (1978)
Movie Duration Comedy, Fantasy
IMDB Rating – 7.0
Ranjit was a badminton player and his family once lived a good life.Ranjit now cant feed his family as he has turned handicapped and feels of attempting suicide. One morning Ranjit tires to commit suicide by jumping in front of a train from a bridge.Next he is seen walking without a stick and meets a man called captain who tells him that he has died and is now a ghost and ask’s him why did he commit suicide.
Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee | Stars: Rajesh Khanna, Zaheera, Raj Kapoor, Nadira
Votes: 91
13. Jhoothi (1985)
Movie Duration 136 min | Comedy
IMDB Rating 6.6
Kalpana pranks on everyone by lying even after getting frequent warnings from her brother Inspector Kamal who has warned her that someday she might land in trouble.Kalpana plays vital part in getting Kamal and her neighbor Seema close who love each other Alpana’s marriage gets fixed with Seema’s brother Dr Anil but Alpana is in love with Rasik.Kalpana lies to her mother that Anil is not of good character and breaks the marriage but ends up falling in love with him.
Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee | Stars: Rekha, Raj Babbar, Amol Palekar, Supriya Pathak
Votes: 151
14. Sabse Bada Sukh (1972)
Comedy, Drama
IMDB Rating – 6.1
Village born Lalloo re-locates to Bombay, and returns a wealthy man. He goes to meet his friend, Shankar alias Bhompu, and together they meet and share tales, mostly about women, sex, and playboy magazines’ pictures. A Bollywood movie director is shooting a film nearby, and they go and meet him and his beautiful actress, Urvashi. After meeting Urvashi, Shankar feigns a racking cough, and tells his family that he must go to Bombay, and seek medical treatment. Together he and Lalloo take the next train to Bombay to see if they can find the biggest happiness in life.
Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee | Stars: Vijay Arora, Govardhan Asrani, Rajni Bala, Kumud Damle
Votes: 20
15. Pyar Ka Sapna (1969)
Movie Duration 147 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
IMDB Rating – 6.1
Ramesh marries a village girl, Sudha (who doesn’t know English) at the behest of his parents so that he can go abroad to Great Britain for furthering his studies. In short, he does not love her nor ever want to see her again. Sudha is heartbroken and devastated and tries to kill herself. Shankernath rescues her from an accident with his car, and brings her to his house. There he learns her tragic story. He coaches her etiquette, and also teaches her English, so that she can go abroad and try to win her husband back. Shankernath’s plan pays off, and shortly after in Britain, Sudha does win the heart of her husband. Shankernath’s scheme undergoes a change in plan, when Shankernath finds out that his own granddaughter, Jenny is in love with Ramesh.
Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee | Stars: Ashok Kumar, Biswajeet Chatterjee, Mala Sinha, Johnny Walker
Votes: 27
16. Jhooth Bole Kauwa Kaate (1998)
Movie Duration 148 min | Comedy, Romance
IMDB Rating – 5.7
Abhyankar rules his family in an orthodox manner. Fearing his wrath, his daughter concocts a scheme whereby her father would approve of her lover. This leads to hilarious situations for one and all.
Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee | Stars: Anil Kapoor, Juhi Chawla, Amrish Puri, Anupam Kher
Votes: 833
