80s
Here are some good movies which released in the 80s. (The era of smugglers, revenge stories with lower technicalities. The signing stars were Mithun, Jeetendra, Reena Roy, Anita Raaj, Vinod Khanna……)
These are not great movies but entertains you for 3 hours surely. Not having Mahel type homes, designer sarees and kurtas, disco theques…. but containing good dialogues, greeping scripts and overall good performances. These all are family dramas describing love, sacrifice, moral values, envy, hate, generation gap and small and big middle class problems.
Sansaar (1987):
Rekha, Raj Babbar, Anupam Kher Dir: T. Rama Rao
Remake of some south Indian film Story deals with the “Takraav” of father and son, less time and space for husband and wife to make love, comparison between sons, management of money etc. Highly dramatical situations with an unusual climax.
Saheeb (1985)
Anil Kapoor, Utpal Dutt, Rakhee Gulzar, Amrita Singh
Dir: Anil Gangooly
The story of sacrifice. Utpal Dutt in his patented role. Glimpses of Hrishida’s story telling. Had superb disco song ”Pyaar bina chain kahan re”
Sanjog (1985)
Jeetendra, Jaya prada, Vinod Mehra
Dir: K. Vishwanath
Story with lots of twists and family drama with good music. Remember “zoo zoo” the famous song. Jaya Prada’s natural beauty.
Woh 7 Din (1983)
Naseeruddin Shah, Anil Kapoor, Padmini Kolhapure
Dir: Bapu
The original Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam with middle class background. Anil Kapoor’s one of the earliest films. Hilarious scenes between Anil and Padmini.
So,Karan Johars, Ekta Kapoors please see these movies to take lessons how to make a believable and dramatic family dramas.
Some more in next session….
Tags: saheeb, sanjog, sansaar, woh saat din
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D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
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Shilpa Shukla
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Yaar Shailesh, I’m glad you mentioned these 2 films. For its time “Woh 7 Din” is a much better film than HDDCS which I found to be incredibly pretentious and just not very “real”. In comparison W7D was handled with a great deal of compassion. A very well made film with some excellent performances from Naseerudin Shah, Padmini Kohlapuri and of course Anil Kapoor as “Prem Pratap Patialawala”. Watch out for the “samosa incident”… hilarious…
I’m got a soft spot for Saheb, as I’ve grown up watching it. I still remember when the video store guy told my Dad “Its a new film with Anil Kapoor as a soccer star”. Really?! When I watched it and I realized that Anil could not play soccer anymore I was legit pissed off. WTF? The guy’s got superstar written all over him… this sucks… The family dramatics (especially the bhaabi’s and brothers) went a little over the top, but the core storyline between father and son is very touching.
Yes sir,
I also liked Woh 7 din more than HDDCS (over rated and larger than life) close to reality.
Saheb is known by song”pyar bina chain kah re” but it had more than just a song.
W7D & Saheb will beat off any movie like HDDCS anyday, anytime.
What Karan Johar / YRF makes today is balooney compared to these two movies, especially W7D
woh saat din is a remake of a popular tamil movie…by bagya raj…
the title too is a copy…complete copy….nevertheless a gr8 one.
“Woh Saat Din” is an acknowledged REMAKE of “Antha Ezhu Naatkal”, not a copy. The story/screenplay of WSD was by K. Bhagyaraja himself, as reflected on the credits.
Rather than WSD, “Hum Dil de Chuke Sanam” was more a copy of Maitreyi Devi’s Bengali novel “Na Hanyate” which was a response to Mircea Eliade’s Romanian novel “Maitreyi/La Nuit Bengali”. One of the scenes copied straight from the book is that of Salman and the chillies.
Sample this: In the 1930’s, Mircea Eliade, a Romanian philosopher, visits Bengal to study philosophy under Surendranath Dasgupta, a renowned scholar of those times, and falls in love with his daughter Maitreyi Devi. As soon as the affair is discovered, Mircea is asked to leave the Dasgupta household. Mircea leaves. He goes back to Romania and writes a rather erotic account of their affair entitled “Maitreyi/La Nuit Bengali”. Maitreyi Devi who was in Calcutta and had got married, discovered the book after forty long years and travelled halfway across the globe to confront Mircea and ask him as to why he had come up with the book (all this while, she was accompanied by her husband who was aware of everything). She was promised by Mircea that an English translation would not come out in their lifetimes. Maitreyi Devi, after she came back, wrote this entire story in “Na Hanyate” (It does not Die)….HDDC or what?
There were many family dramas in 80’s. Most of them succesful films. Most of them were writen by Mr. Kader Khan. Raj Kiran was also seen in most of those ghar ki kahanis. Some of my favorite family drama films of that period are Jaisi Karni Waisi Bharni, Ghar Ghar Ki Kahani, Dariya Dil, Sindoor, Swarg,etc. Suprisingly all the films name I mentioned had Govinda in it.
Amir Khan’s Jawani Zindabad was a good family-social-melodramtic film.
nice trivia on HDDCS amborish!!
gud one amborish…