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PostPosted: Tue Dec 17, 2002 6:40 pm 
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http://www.rediff.com/entertai/2002/dec/17dinesh.htm

Hrishikesh Mukherjee's cinema could make you cry. You sniffle when Sharmila Tagore's emotionally withdrawn father surmounts his long-festering resentment towards his daughter and comes to the railway station to secretly rejoice in her eloping with her lover in Anupama or when Ashok Kumar opens his heart, overcomes his distaste and makes his daughter-in-law's son, the product of rape, light his son's pyre in Satyakam.

Mukherjee's movies could make you laugh. You chuckle in the Wodehousian comedy of inconsequentialities, Chupke Chupke when Amitabh, posing as a professor of botany, grapples with the word 'corolla' or in Golmaal when a truant moustache leads to many merry muddles.

Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Landmark Films
Year Film Cast
1959 Anari Raj Kapoor, Nutan
1960 Anuradha Balraj Sahni, Leela Naidu
1966 Anupama Dharmendra, Sharmila Tagore
1968 Aashirwad Ashok Kumar
1969 Satyakam Dharmendra, Sharmila Tagore
1970 Anand Rajesh Khanna, Amitabh Bachchan
1971 Guddi Jaya Bhaduri, Samit Bhanja
1973 Abhimaan Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bhaduri
1973 Namak Haram Rajesh Khanna, Amitabh Bachchan
1975 Chupke Chupke Dharmendra, Sharmila Tagore, Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bhaduri
1979 Golmaal Amol Palekar, Utpal Dutt, Bindiya Goswami
1980 Khubsoorat Rekha, Rakesh Roshan

Sometimes, his films could make you laugh even while you were blinking hard to part the film of tears covering your eyes. Like in Anand, where Rajesh Khanna greets even death with a well-turned bon mot. ....


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Arsh, I enjoy your posts. Not many people would bother these days to acknoweldge Hrishikesh, even though he is probably the best Indian director after Satyajit Ray. 'Anupama' is mind-blowing, I just ordered it from IndiaWeekly and will watch it tonight. Not many people speak about this film anymore but in my opinion it was Sharmila's best performance. My favorite song of all time 'Kuch Dil ne Kaha' is also from this movie.

And look at his amazing record - 'Guddi', 'Abhimaan', the list goes on. All of them were beautiful films with unforgettable soundtracks.


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PostPosted: Tue Dec 17, 2002 7:56 pm 
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thnx kabir!! give us, feed back, possibly screen shots from anupama? once u get it? did evp did it?


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Kabir wrote:
Arsh, I enjoy your posts. Not many people would bother these days to acknoweldge Hrishikesh, even though he is probably the best Indian director after Satyajit Ray. 'Anupama' is mind-blowing, I just ordered it from IndiaWeekly and will watch it tonight. Not many people speak about this film anymore but in my opinion it was Sharmila's best performance. My favorite song of all time 'Kuch Dil ne Kaha' is also from this movie.

And look at his amazing record - 'Guddi', 'Abhimaan', the list goes on. All of them were beautiful films with unforgettable soundtracks.

Anupama wasnt that a BABA DVD release ?.. I hope Kabir you meant the film was Mind-blowing and not the DVD :p


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PostPosted: Tue Dec 17, 2002 9:20 pm 
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Actually Dinesh Raheja says it the best in the article that Hrishida's movies were best identified with by everybody because the milieu was middle class and not the chest thumping sort but your educated and thinking sort.

As Raheja says in another article(on Bimal Roy on rediff) Hrishida, Gulzar, Basu Bhattacharya and others all belonged to the Bimal Roy school of cinema making. All took strong stories and converted them to tight screen plays and infused them with reality inducing dialogue.

So in fact it is to Bimal Roy that the accolades should go to for giving us such great shagird, no ?


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Actually I think Hrishikesh Mukherjee is closer in terms of film-making to Raj Kapoor (pre-1980s). They both have very similar ways of doing things though I must admit Hrishikesh is *deeper* in the sense that his ability to involve his audience in the movie is miles ahead of the consumer mentality Raj sometimes displayed.

By the way, this evening I have received 'Anupama' from IW. VERY nice cover, and I will check the DVD later tonight. Cannot wait for it. Judging from the cover this should be an amazing DVD but you can never tell, can you? Lets hope they dont butcher the print.

I always thought that Baba only ripped off other companies prints as their own? Is this true? Then 'Anupama' must have been ripped from some other company's release too, but after extensive webcrawling I have come to the conclusion that 'Anupama' was never released before on DVD. Can anyone confirm this? If so, the Baba version is the only 'official' version, and its a must-have Hrishikesh film so I don't regret buying it.

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Kabir wrote:
If so, the Baba version is the only 'official' version, and its a must-have Hrishikesh film so I don't regret buying it.

Kabir if you are relatively new here then you will find this archaic news and info...but

any DVDs released by BABA is $hit (as good as a Pirate) and their DVDs should be avoided like plague.... I am waiting to see your reaction once you get a glimpse of the DVD :D


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I am so desperate for this DVD along with one more DVD released by these Wa****s.. Rang Birangi (both Hrishikesh Mukherjee classics)...


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Arsh
Add Dillaghi and Mili in the list. Has some one seen Dillaghi and post his comments

Gautam


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This list is incomplete without 'Baawarchi' being included.


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yes, mili is fabulous, dillagi is my all time favourite, but DEI dvd was not on par...print used was terrible!

btw, list is not complete! kissi se na kehna, alaap...

chupke chupke dvd is marvellous, all evp prog stuff pheeka padta hai..highly recomended!

bawarchi is masterpiece! aur kiya boloun...

btw, dei ne namak halal kiya tha! namak haram kiss ne kiya?




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arsh wrote:
btw, dei ne namak halal kiya tha! namak haram kiss ne kiya?

WEG


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WEG?? shit?

Another two r BAIMISAL and JURMANA!!


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arsh wrote:
WEG?? shit?

Another two r BAIMISAL and JURMANA!!

Jurmana no idea.. by Bemisaal.. your Fav. $hit DVD... company called BABA DIGITAL :D


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jurmana along with sinyasi in forthcoming at indofilms/ ? who is the author?


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