Post by odadune on Apr 7, 2015 22:53:00 GMT
This is the story of an honest policeman (Shammi Kapoor, looking kind of like Dom DeLuise) who takes in the son of a bandit (Amjad Khan) whom he arrested. The adopted son grows up to be Amitabh Bachchan, an honest if sarcastic policeman in love with Neetu Singh, one half of a pair of pickpocketing sisters out for revenge on the man who killed their father (who becomes Amjad's boss when the latter gets out of jail). Meanwhile, Shammi's biological son grows up convinced that he is the bandit's son, and becomes Vinod Khanna, a smuggler using a school for the blind as a cover for his work, who falls for Shabana Azmi, the other half of the pickpocketing sister pair.
This is my favorite of the four or so films I've seen that were directed by Manmohan Desai. The dramatic bits have just enough heart to make you care and not enough to make you cry, the characters are fun and colorful, Neetu is hilarious in the funny bits and hilariously bad in the serious bits while Shabana is kind of the reverse, the villains have an awesome secret lair, a getaway submarine apparently played by a motorized toy in a bathtub, and the craziest clothes this side of 90s Bollywood. Basically it's like the "good parts version" of Amar Akbar Anthony. I used this film to re-introduce the More Casual Fan to Bollywood after Sholay had driven the MCF away; MCF liked it so much that we've been watching Indian films on and off together ever since.
Some reviews by other people:
Beth Loves Bollywood (note, she is a big fan of Vinod Khanna's son Akshaye Khanna, and name-checks him w/o his surname in the review): bethlovesbollywood.blogspot.com/2006/11/family-thanksgiving-get-together-this.html
So They Dance (a big Vinod Khanna fan who has written about the film multiple times): sotheydance.blogspot.com/2008/01/something-new-something-old-khoya-khoya.html and sotheydance.blogspot.com/2010/02/70s-week-lost-and-found-maa-ka-pyaar.html and sotheydance.blogspot.com/2010/02/70s-week-fashion-decorations-are-wah.html and sotheydance.blogspot.com/2010/02/70s-week-romance-and-awesome-heroines.html and sotheydance.blogspot.com/2010/02/70s-week-music-and-song-picturizations.html and sotheydance.blogspot.com/2010/02/70s-week-villains-action-general.html and sotheydance.blogspot.com/2010/02/70s-week-fangirl-pause.html
Carla the Filmi Geek: www.filmigeek.com/2007/04/parvarish_1977.html
This is my favorite of the four or so films I've seen that were directed by Manmohan Desai. The dramatic bits have just enough heart to make you care and not enough to make you cry, the characters are fun and colorful, Neetu is hilarious in the funny bits and hilariously bad in the serious bits while Shabana is kind of the reverse, the villains have an awesome secret lair, a getaway submarine apparently played by a motorized toy in a bathtub, and the craziest clothes this side of 90s Bollywood. Basically it's like the "good parts version" of Amar Akbar Anthony. I used this film to re-introduce the More Casual Fan to Bollywood after Sholay had driven the MCF away; MCF liked it so much that we've been watching Indian films on and off together ever since.
Some reviews by other people:
Beth Loves Bollywood (note, she is a big fan of Vinod Khanna's son Akshaye Khanna, and name-checks him w/o his surname in the review): bethlovesbollywood.blogspot.com/2006/11/family-thanksgiving-get-together-this.html
So They Dance (a big Vinod Khanna fan who has written about the film multiple times): sotheydance.blogspot.com/2008/01/something-new-something-old-khoya-khoya.html and sotheydance.blogspot.com/2010/02/70s-week-lost-and-found-maa-ka-pyaar.html and sotheydance.blogspot.com/2010/02/70s-week-fashion-decorations-are-wah.html and sotheydance.blogspot.com/2010/02/70s-week-romance-and-awesome-heroines.html and sotheydance.blogspot.com/2010/02/70s-week-music-and-song-picturizations.html and sotheydance.blogspot.com/2010/02/70s-week-villains-action-general.html and sotheydance.blogspot.com/2010/02/70s-week-fangirl-pause.html
Carla the Filmi Geek: www.filmigeek.com/2007/04/parvarish_1977.html