School For Scoundrels(1960) v. Chhoti Si Baat

Just watched it and loved it more than the Amol Palekar movie. The plot is almost exactly the same except nobody learns how to eat with chopsticks.

Anyway after I saw this great movie that Bollywood copied, I put in on my parents Netflix Instant Queue, and told them to watch it without telling them anything except, "Your gonna love this movie." Then my dad saw it and said, "Now I know why he didn't tell me anything about the movie". Then he called one of my uncles in India to tell him about this British movie.

Actually he liked this movie more than Chhoti Si Baat.

Here are all the similarities:


Henry Palfrey=Arun Pradeep
April Smith=Prabha Narayan
Raymond Delauney=Nargesh
S Potter=JNW Singh (both known by initials)
Following pointing fingers to school=following arrows to school
spilling wine on dress=dropping a lighted match on a sari
both couples met at a bus stop
both movies are set in cities that use double decker buses(London vs. Mumbai[Bombay], although Prabha and Arun usually commute on a single decker)
Terry Thomas has fancy TWO SEATER car=Nargesh's motor scooter that only accomadates two people (were yellow scooters common in the 1970s?)
getting conned into buy a sucky car=getting conned into buying sucky motorbike
keeping Terry waiting for tennis match=keeping Nargesh waiting for ping pong match (during the match both nemeses get flustered by the lover
Terry dominating at French restaurant=Nargesh dominating at a restaurant where they serve French food
Terry getting training at the end=Nargesh getting training at the end
Henry's subordinates don't take him seriously=Arun's subordinates don't take him seriously
In both cases, the subordinates are listening to sports radio
Henry and Arun both make changes in the account file so that they can deliberately carp on their subordinates and show their dominance
Potter doing psych analysis of Henry=Singh doing psych analysis of Arun

"We share the same biology regardless of ideology"-Sting, 1985