Baton Baton Mein (1979)

Basu Chatterjee's Bombay Catholic comedy, and one of the gentlest films anybody made in 1979. Tony and Nancy meet on the Bandra to Churchgate local and keep meeting on it. Nancy's widowed mother wants her to marry money. Tony cannot bring himself to propose, and loses her over it, and the rest of the film is everybody else trying to put it right. Amol Palekar is Tony and Tina Munim is Nancy. David is Tom Uncle, Pearl Padamsee is Rosie Perreira, Ranjit Chowdhry is Sabby, Asrani is Francis Fernandes and Leela Mishra is Philomena Aunty. Chatterjee produced it himself. Rajesh Roshan wrote the music, to words by Yogesh and Amit Khanna, and three of the four songs outlived the film. Na Bole Tum Na Maine Kuchh Kaha is the one people hum; Uthe Sabke Kadam is the other.