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Dhund (1973)
One of the best suspense thrillers in Bollywood
A gripping plot especially for a old movie, the plot leverages on the characteristics of Danny's role in order to justify the reasons behind his killing. Danny's acting is stupendous and over-whelming, so as to generate enough hatred by the audience for his role and at the same time develop awe for his acting. The dialogues spoken by Danny are so powerful that literally create a shaken and threatening feeling. The cool as cucumber and always helpful and cordial Navin Nischal cushions the plot very well. Deven Verma's very little cameo also adds a tinge of humour to the overall serious movie. The episode of killing is described very intriguingly with crafty usage of collectivism of the environmental noises, shooting noise and the regular habit of Danny to shoot at birds. The movie mentions of suspicions of killing towards many salient roles, by convincingly justifying the supposed reasons behind the killing by every suspect. The highlighting theme was the constant anger and wrath of the daunting Danny, which is nicely spread throughout the movie, with his physical disabilities in no way alleviating his nature even slightly.
The title song is wonderful and helps in building up on the suspense plot, but my special appreciation for the synergy between how the movie starts and how the movie ends. And special mention of the fact that the movie's plot is highly intelligent, which forms the foundation for this to be a good movie.
Shakti (1982)
A movie through its plot depicting immense professional loyalty despite various opposing forces
The movie starts and ends with strong emotions, where a mother though over-whelmed with the decision of her son is still proud of the high- morality and high-dignity path which her son decided to take, despite listening to a story associated with his very close & dear ones, and which tests the moral principles of a man who compromised just too much in his personal life so that he could hold his head high and contribute towards a large cause by abiding to his professional duties.
high commendations to great Dilip Kumar who played in an impacting manner the character of a duty and principle-bound police cop who in situations of dilemma between profession and personal life, always consistently is loyal to his profession and who advocates equality of treatment to any criminal, be it a stranger or a direct relation, but at the same time does not bear undue grudge against his son for not following a correct path and who always makes an attempt to remind and persuade his son to leave the world that he has got into.
a respect to his character, who expresses a tremendous degree of happiness after his daughter-in-law informs him of her marriage with his son, it just reflects the open-mindedness of the character, who welcomes her so graciously even though there are ongoing clashes between the father and the son. really admire the writer for creating such a character who is loyal to profession, but also caring, thoughtful, and who always wishes for the well-being of his son. in fact admire the writer for elegantly creating characters with starkingly varying traits, such as an highly emotional and sensitive mother, who constantly is battling out to resolve the differences between the father-son and who manages to exhibit a feeling of respect & awe towards her husband and concurrently exhibiting a feeling of love and affection towards her son, despite knowing the weaknesses and drawbacks of both these people. and of the character of Smita Patil, who does not discourage her son from becoming a police officer. Though she loves her husband, she is appreciative and cognizant of the dilemmas of her father-in-law and very well understands the reasons of her father-in-law's behaviour and outlook towards her husband.
The character of Amrish Puri though having a smaller role comparatively, is important in the script for indirectly straining the relations between the father and son. But more indirectly responsible is Dilip Kumar's decision to remain excessively loyal and disciplined to his profession, which with hugely meritorious on one hand, triggers the abduction. The degree of unethical consistency in Amrish Puri's character is remarkable, who at all points of his professional journey, always seeks to eliminate the obstacles and even does not hesitate to cross the line and impact personal lives of people who come in his way, be those any rivals or be those any law-enforcers.
The lyrics of the song 'Are Jane Kaise Kab Kahan Iqrar' is powerful and the background music of this song is effective enough for it to become a part of one's collection of regular humming. Smita Patil's role in this movie is relatively small, but still the actress' command and effect never falls short, and with every additional movie that one watches her in, the respect always increases. Though the character of Amitabh Bacchan is shown to compromise on morality, and possess a feeling of animosity towards his father's principles, the acting is worth applause. The winning of filmfare best actor award of Dilip Kumar says everything about his performance. A truly deserved one considering his talent of acting in various departments, dialogue delivery, being happy, being a pedantic father, being a loving and entertaining husband, and many other facets.
would have liked to see artist like Satish Shah been given more of the villain role by somehow linking with Amrish Puri, besides the train episode. the movie at times gives nostalgia of movie Deewar, in aspects such as strained relations between two protagonists and similarly, Nirupa Roy just like Rakhi is forced to support one of the two, with both the women in both the cases deciding to support the morally correct police officer. Though in this case, the cast opposite Amitabh is shown to be more controlled, with the counter in Deewar being very expressive and involved in the chores of Amitabh. Also the name Vijay used for Amitabh typifies the personality of angry young man who is bitter of childhood experiences and opposes the conventional right practices of the society. both the movies stress more on the clashes between two directly related people, and in both the cases Amitabh shown to tilt on the con side of things.
it is skeptical at times as to why Amitabh keeps referring to himself as Yateem, when in fact he is shown to be very fond of his mother, but the term Yateem perhaps was just used in a tautological sense to emphasize the seriousness of the clashes between him and his father, typical to bollywood movies.
A great watch which would take you to the old days of stardom of young angry maverick Amitabh Bacchan
Kaksparsh (2012)
Positively disturbing and over-whelming movie
This is a very tough love story, where there is no conventional explicit exhibition of love and romance, but a feeling of love which is excessively controlled, endured and sacrificed for a vital promise. It portrays a woman who lives most portion of her life, facing the typical difficulties which a widow has to face in orthodoxies and on the other hand, to aggravate her life, is perplexed at the mysterious and taciturn behaviour of a man whom she loves. What a wrath of feelings she would have undergone to control her emotions, and to be restless towards the never-to-end silence and towards the absence of justification of various actions which her brother-in-law carries out. The brother-in-law, the other central character takes an oath for a split second, but endures the ramifications of it for several years, with a conscious guilt of not expressing his feelings towards a woman, and also exhibiting sheer toughness and protection, which is difficult to be perceived and interpreted by the community. Sheer genius of how Sachin Khedekar's character Hari perceives the death of the woman Uma in those final delicate moments, only so that the oath is not broken. The supposed modernist who turns out to be deceptively orthodox and superstitious and selfless at the more larger and better causes of virtues and rituals. A movie, which keeps one disturbed after its ending.