I simply had to watch this one..too many praises from the family..Times 100 list of movies to watch..bollywood's all time 25 great movies...Pheww...Last sem of MBA and not much to do..I looked for this movie everywhere..Then one day Anuj veer comes up with the CD..Thanks for that..
Time-less classic...The movie captures the contemporary socio-economic scenario of 1957 era...the average indian citizen's infatuation with new found freedom and the great indian democracy was fast coming to an end, Nehru's govt. had failed them on all fronts..Idealists seldom make good leaders...Guru dutt plays a jobless poet who is shunned by all..a prostitute whom he falls in love with gets his poems published while the ppl think he is dead..But when he shows up alive ppl close to him refuse to identify him...disillusioned by the rampant hypocrisy all around he leaves everything to start a new life...
The thing that really startles one is the fact that the movie made in 1957 seemed even more relevant in 2008, a widenend gap between "have" and "have-nots"...The two india's , the rich and the poor, potrayed in the movie seemed to have become even more obscenely pronounced today..Have we really changed between the gulf of two periods?...I have no answers..and any review would be incomplete without a tribute to "Sahir Ludhianvi's" lyrics...poetry at its best..Poetry was lyrics sometime back !! ..looks unbelievable today....seeing the recent terror attacks i remembered the famed lines "Jineh Naaz Hai Hind Par Woh Kahaan Hain" from the movie.."Yeh duniya agar mil bhi jaye to kya hai" ridicules the epidemic of mad rush we see all around thesedays..
P.S. : For all those quasi-socialists like me who have germs of socialism resting somewhere in their blood are advised not to watch...the movie's theme coupled with sahir ludhianvi's lyrics ( he was a staunch socialist) tends to activate them to levels unacceptable to ur Jobs..."Caution" is the word here ..The movie will give u a hang-over the kind u would have got had u read Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man"...for all others a moser-Baer CD for 30 bucks is not a bad buy at all...
Sunday, November 30, 2008
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hmmm
I just enjoy listening too..
jaane woh keese log the jinke pyar ko pyaar mila.......
It's brillance of this team,that make me feel at odds....forgot abt technology superiority or literal awareness...
Its 1957,,,,,and ppl were thinking what we are not in even in these dayz...
MAn this is becoming a forefront for all we had passion for....
May be it can be our na na AYN's world
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