REVIEWS OF AWARA &
TRISHUL
After a long time, yesterday i saw two back to back Hindi movies on TV. The first one is a more than 60 years old AWARA (1951) and the other one more than 30 years old TRISHUL (1978).
AWARA is a very absorbing and at its time a path breaking
movie. Both Raj Kapoor and Prithvi Raj
Kapoor (the forefather of the blossoming Kapoor khandaan) were at their best. Apart from the towering performance of
these two, all others too were at their best viz., the magical Nargis-Raj
Kapoor chemistry (how i wish our Emraan Hasmi and young crop of actors see this
movie and learn how to emote romance on the silver screen without jumping
violently on the heroin and smooching at drop of the hat), Shankar Jaikishan’s
magical music – songs fantastically rendered by Mukesh and Lata (the all
time hits like Awaara hoon, ek bewafase pyaar kiya, Hum tujse mohabat karke
sanam, ghar aya mera pardesi, ab raat guzar ne wali hai)and background music (famous for using 80 pieces live orchestra for
the spell binding dream sequence), the great camera work (don’t know who it was)
using dim lights, shadows and close ups of Prithvi and Raj Kapoors and
extensive use of smoking in clubs and dens to depict the evil side with the great
results). Normally when father and
son duo act, it is the father who dominates and hand holds the son who must be
very shaky (like Amitabh-Abisek, NTR-Balakrishna, ANR-Nagarjuna, Shivaji
Ganesan-Prabhu), but it was to the credit of Raj Kapoor that he held fort, not
only stood against Prithvi Rajkapoor, but also stole thunder in many
confrontation scenes. Added to his acting, Raj kapoor, at a very young age, produced and directed the movie. The
Central theme of movie is so powerful that it has been repeated many times in
movies like Dharam karam, Paravarish, Zameer etc.
Each song was a classic and is popular even today. Apart from being big hit and a cult movie,
it has been huge success in USSR and for many years the song `Awara hoon’ was
like anthem and Raj Kapoor was the only popular Indian known to them. When we talk of villain, K N Singh (whom
most of the youngster may not be knowing) did a great job, though he could not
sustain much after this movie.
The other film which I saw one
more time and enjoyed (after a very long gap) was Amitabh-Sanjeev Kumar starrer
Tirshul. Amitabh was at his peak and
on a roll and it is one of his biggest blockbusters and he along with Sanjeev
Kumar really spelt magic. Whereas in
Awara, Raj kapoor was a vagabond in
Trushul Amitabh was orphan and both have issues with their respective
fathers. Trishul has a powerful storyline and
scorching dialogues by the then undivided Salim-javed Jodi. The famous confrontations and dialogue baji
for which Hindi movies are famous were in full view in Trishul. Both Amitabh and Sanjeev Kumar were at
their best and not giving an inch to the other. Their performance was unmatched till Shakti was
released in which too the magic was re-created between Amitabh and Dilip Kumar
(in which both powerful dialogues as well as silence was also used in scenes
like when Amitabh comes to meet Dilip kumar after his mother gets killed – the
entire scenes was essayed without a dialogue).
Then ofcourse after a long gap it was followed by Mohabatein this time
it was a dual between Amitabh and Sharukh Khan. When Shakti was released Amitabh was
praised to skies for being able to stand before towering Dilip Kumar and match
dialogue for dialogue and expression for expression. And in Mohabatein, Sharukh too held his
fort admirably especially in the scene where he ends the conversation saying
`from where I am seeing you, I find a defeated father standing below the potrate of his dead daughter)
Coming back to Trishul, the story
writers have cleverly shown the hero taking revenge on his father by destroying
his business empire through unethical mans and making him pauper since father ditches
his mother to become rich. Amitabh,
who was already a `angry young man’ brand at that time, has spilled venom right
through in a very polished way and Sanjeev Kumar, as usual, given another
sterling performance, graying his hair, closely following Sholay. Others like Rakhi, Hema Malini, Sacin and
Poonam Dhillon are just ornamental.
Prem Chopra, as he has done in every movie, has a punch dialogue at the
end, `lijiye sahib yeh raha bandook, woh raha apka vijay, bus aap ko nishana
laga ke trigger dabaneka takleef uthani padegi (service at the best as he was
engaged to kill Vijay/Amitabh). With such masala ingredients, as can be
expected, it was a huge hit, and one of the land mark movies of Amitabh
following Zanjeer, Dweear, Sholay.
It has that famour song GAPUCHI
GAPUCHI GUM GUM ……..which I recently sang with my wife in a family get-together.
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