Revisiting - Gupt

What does one look for while choosing to watch a movie? For me the first is genre, followed by music and then the cast. In the case of Gupt, its a murder mystery with chartbusters from Viju Shah and Bobby Deol as the leading man accompanied by Kajol and Manisha Koirala. For me it was a win-win combination. Gupt was the 4th biggest hit of 1997. It does feel weird to mention movies that I have grown up watching in this column, shows me that I am getting older :)

Film: Gupt
Cast: Bobby Deol, Kajol, Manisha Koirala, Paresh Rawal, Raj Babbar, Om Puri, Priya Tendulkar etc.
Music: Viju Shah
Director: Rajiv Rai

** Spoiler Alert** Plot revealed after jump.

Revisiting - Rajinigandha

I love watching old movies. There is no jarring humor, unnecessary fights, no item songs and the stories are so simple yet different. My favorite movies are usually comedy, mystery/thriller/adventure. When you ask people their favorite comedy movies of all times, 6/10 people will mention Basu Chatterjee & Hrishikesh Mukherjee. Rajinigandha is Basu da's movie. It is the first movie for both Vidya Sinha & Amol Palekar(who went on to do more films with him). The movie is based on a short story called Yahi Sach Hain by Manu Bhandari.

Film: Rajinigandha
Cast: Amol Palekar, Vidya Sinha, Dinesh Thakur
Music: Salili Choudary
Director: Basu Chatterjee

**Spoiler Alert** Plot revealed after jump.

Revisiting - Shalimar

This post has been sitting in my drafts page since the last 5 days. A busy weekend and a busier social scene deprived me of my blogging time. Nonetheless, the post.Watching Khamosh yesterday reminded me how much I enjoy old movies. Especially movies that are not pucca commercial masala movies. I was reminiscing the good old days when my parents would sit together on a Sunday afternoon, drinking their coffee and having animated discussions about movies and songs. I vividly remember, I was 12-13 years old when we watched Shalimar together. The movie was stuck in my head for many days, especially the title song. I have been looking for the movie from the past 3 years and I finally found it. I wasted no time in watching it and 2 hours later I had a big satisfied grin on my face!

Film: Shalimar

Cast: Dharmendra, Zeenat Aman, Rex Harrinson, Shammi Kapoor & Others.

Music: R.D. Burman
Director: Krishna Shah


*Spoiler Alert* Plot revealed after Jump.

Revisiting - Khamosh

I came across an interview of Vidhu Vinod Chopra recently and being me; I had to google him up. I landed on his wikipedia page and laid my eyes upon Khamosh. This movie was made in 1985 and boasted of a huge star cast. I remembered watching this whodunit when i was a kid. I knew I would not be at peace till I see the movie so I happily gave up working out in favor of watching Khamosh. I must say I am not the least disappointed. This is a mystery so if you are planning to watch the movie please don't read further as I will be revealing the plot. Do watch the movie and come back to read this as it is definitely worth watching.

Film: Khamosh
Cast: Amol Palekar, Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Pankaj Kapoor, Soni Razdan, Deepak Qazir & Others.
Music: Vanraj Bhatia
Director: Vidhu Vinod Chopra


*Spoiler Alert* Story Revealed after Jump.