movie
Movie
movie
A magnificent film - entertainment (singing dancing, sweet, sweet pathos) and excitement - who can forget the crazy Heaven/Hell sequence. The film is marred only by Raj's occasional violence to the character played by Nargi
Raj Kapoor'dan Avare şarkısının filminden capsli klibi...ayhanyavuz2000@yahoo.com(Captured by Ayhan)
A magnificent film - entertainment (singing dancing, sweet, sweet pathos) and excitement - who can forget the crazy Heaven/Hell sequence. The film is marred only by Raj's occasional violence to the character played by Nargi
Suno Ji Kalkata Hai.................................. Performers: Om Prakash, Ashok Kumar..... Singer: Mohammad Rafi.......................... Music: OP Nayyar.................................... Lyrics: Qamar Jalalabadi.......................... Film: Howrah Bridge, 1958....................... Starring: Ashok Kumar, Madhubala, K.N. Singh, Om Prakash, Madan Puri, Dumal, Kammo, Sunder......... ............................................................... A nice clip-clop tonga song extolling the virtues of Calcutta as we get a tour of the city as it was over 50 years ago. It's cool to see the people running along behind the tonga in some of the scenes, staring from the sidewalks, or waving at the camera, because of the filming going on. This is also a warning song letting Ashok Kumar, in Arab disguise inside the cab, know that the front seat passenger, a member of K.N.Singh and Madan Puri's gang, means him harm.
Golden Rain! It was 60 years ago, that Raj Kapoor could establish R.K. studio on the success of this movie. Very skinny, very young - Raj Kapoor, Prem Nath & Nargis.
Dastaan is a masterpiece of Raj Kapoor. For me, the most interesting thing about this movie was that the lead actress, Suraiya, is also credited as a playback singer. This is the first time in my (admittedly limited) viewing of Bollywood films that I've encountered a star doing her or his own singing. However, checking her other film credits, she did so fairly often. She did hardly any dancing in this film, though, and sang a couple of numbers seated at a piano. I also seemed to detect a Latin influence in the music, particularly in the rhythms. (I'm reminded of an even more pronounced influence of Latin music, i.e. the nightclub scene in Shree 420.) All three of her suitors in this film are good guys, but I won't spoil the ending by divulging who does or doesn't get the girl. However both my viewing companion and myself were disappointed by the ending of the film -- which is not to say it was inappropriate for the time and melodramatic moral tone of the film.
SAILAAB1990
Comments