I enjoyed it as a musical - not only the songs, but also the background score. As the movie transitions from one scene to the next, the music takes you there smoothly.
It has many romantic songs.
Although the plot is a love triangle (almost a quadrangle) without bidirectionality, the romance that makes the movie is between Neena (Nargis) and Dileep (Dilip Kumar).
When he saves her from a deathly plunge in a horse-ride gone wild, she is very grateful and values his friendship very much, but he misinterprets her responses and thinks she is as much in love with him as he is with her. When Rajan (Raj Kapoor) returns from abroad, Dileep is bewildered, and feels misled.
Neena's friend, Sheela (Cuckoo) performs an excellent supporting role. Her dancing is superb.
As in many love triangle themes in Bollywood, one party ends dying. I think that part of the plot stretched my imagination (too contrived), leaving Sheela out of the picture (rather than using her as a consolation prize). The plot moves on to a court trial - also contrived to give the pulpit (this time to Raj Kapoor), as is in many Bollywood movies.
Overall for a 1949 technology production, it beats most modern Bollywood movies (in spite of all the technological gimmicks) in its appeal to me.
It has many romantic songs.
Although the plot is a love triangle (almost a quadrangle) without bidirectionality, the romance that makes the movie is between Neena (Nargis) and Dileep (Dilip Kumar).
When he saves her from a deathly plunge in a horse-ride gone wild, she is very grateful and values his friendship very much, but he misinterprets her responses and thinks she is as much in love with him as he is with her. When Rajan (Raj Kapoor) returns from abroad, Dileep is bewildered, and feels misled.
Neena's friend, Sheela (Cuckoo) performs an excellent supporting role. Her dancing is superb.
As in many love triangle themes in Bollywood, one party ends dying. I think that part of the plot stretched my imagination (too contrived), leaving Sheela out of the picture (rather than using her as a consolation prize). The plot moves on to a court trial - also contrived to give the pulpit (this time to Raj Kapoor), as is in many Bollywood movies.
Overall for a 1949 technology production, it beats most modern Bollywood movies (in spite of all the technological gimmicks) in its appeal to me.
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