Love Story 1942 – bak to da future???
Past, present & future… some random musings of a filmi. It was long back, while I was in high skool, in a small town, very shy, silent & introvert. Not any more, but what the heck. Tax Free, for us, then was a huge incentive for watching films in a cinema hall. 1942 A Love Story was exempted from taxes & that allowed us (my & my kuzins) the liberty to watch the film at a cinema hall (now CineMandir).
Kompletely virgin, as far as cinema was koncerned, we kids (almost)queued up & got in. For the first time ever, as the movie unwrapped, I felt detached from the group & melted into the silver skreen. The love story of Naren & Rajjo moved me… my heart melted at the sheer madness of Naren’s love & was getting angry at Rajjo akting diffikult. Well, it was then that a hopeless romantik was born. I fell in love with being in love. Pardon the emosanal atyachaar.
The music stayed with me for a long time, after the movie had lived its life. I was very konfused at that time, about the musik kredits of this film. R D Burman & Anu Malik (now Aennu Maaleikk or something like that). I still am. Who has komposed – Kuchh na kaho? Who is the genius behind – Rooth na jaana? Who thought of – ye safar? Got goosebumps as I wrote the last few lines… Javed saab’s awesome poetry & the musikal genius won me my first singing kontest at skool. The shy guy had tasted blood. But that’s another story altogether.
Kut to the merciless & ruthless age of cell fones & laptops. Where everyone kan konnekt with everyone. Where geography ceases to exist, where Pancham da’s eternally pristine musik kontinues to live in iPods. Some konsolation this. Love Story 2050 hit the skreen. Then it vanished. Thank god. And yes, Anennu Maeleiik was the musik direktor of that doomed film. So I made a mental note, that 1942 A.L.S. was Pancham da’s genius. Period.
Peace prevailed for a while & then I read about Anurag Kashyap’s Gulaal. For some inexplikable reason, the poster took me back to 1942 A.L.S. One film based in the past, other in the future. Didn’t understand why, but may be it has the rebellion / revolution / love / politix as the kommon thread, so… may be. In Love Story 2050, I squirmed at Priyanka’s red wig & in the Gulaal poster, though based in future, as I had read at PFC, the karekters still eek of the era gone by. I ask why?
May be I missed something there, if so, I seek apology. This question arose, as most of my skooling was with hardkore Rajput guys, who were princes of some unpronouncable province, in MP / Rajasthan. Despite being the ‘Bana Saa’ (prince) they were as normal (walking, talking, dressing et al) as all others in the klass. So that’s the reason I am kurious to know… So many questions in my filmi khopdi ki jhopdi & so many deadlines waiting to be met…
Then in the middle of all this kaos, we have the X-Rated Emosanal Atyachaar playing havok. Who the hell did it & how the hell did they do it? The lyrix seems as though it was originally written by the same team & then a politikally korrekt version was released… damn, this was the last thing I needed to get into… Bets have been placed… arguments are flying thick & thin, the DNA of the track is being analyzed… all this, while we all know, the outkome is – Mundu!
Mere sawaalon ke jawab mil bhi jaayein to kya hai,
Ye duniya agar mil bhi jaaye to kya hai…
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
could relate to some of ur sentiments… nice post.
@ Yogi: thanx bro.
And I was falling in love with lady who played Rajjo and till this date I love her.
But What’s the link u r trying to establish b/w 1942 ALS and LS 2050?
X-Rated version comes from the people involved with Dev.D itself. Period.
@ Oxy: dunno yaar… just typed out what I felt… past-future ka chakkar hai! I guess u r right abt X-Rated Emosans!
shouldnt tax be taks?
@magik
i was converted to a hopeless romantic after watching ’serendipity’. i love that movie yaar.
kitni bhi buri movie ho agar usmein half decent romantic track bhi chal raha hota hai to i think the movie becomes bearable.
bachpan mein i was an action movie fan, bas dhishoom dhishoom hona chahiye movie mein. then in teens i became a ‘love story’ guy. and now in my 20’s after being exposed to some brilliant cinema from india as well as other countries, i have become a ’story’ wala guy. entertaining story is a must, be it an action movie, ya romance ya horror, ya aur jo bhi genre ho.
@ Gopi: u r readng too deep into the text. mere emosans pe paani pher diya kathor!
@ Amit: i relate to ur journey, almost till the end. Bas horror nahi dekh paata main. Just imagine, despite the fact that I love Kangana sooooooo very much, I am not gonna watch Raaz TMC. I just don’t have that appetitie for horror…
@magik
raaz to main bhi nahin dekh raha. saving money for dev d. there is another reason of it being so heavily inspired from heroes (the tv series). i somehow feel ki its gonna be bad.
@Oxy …rajjo was manisha Koirala who did extremely well with bombay, 1942, dil se, agnisomething, lajja , Akele hum akele tum with Aamir and Khamoshi ….She was touted as the next Madhuri and played her parts quite well till recently…..
abhi to uske bure haal hain…or maybe she will resurface …
it also did not hurt the Anil Kapoor fan in me…
1942 came on the screen in 1994 summer……
the music was a REFRESHING CHANGE to say the least. the classical feeling to each song was well appreciated by the audience !!!
the “ye safar bahut hai kathin magar” brought back Hemant da from the dead for me… was Jackie the perfect gentleman or what !!! did quite well I thought.
I saw it in Pune and it rains quite a bit in the summer there….But the romantic in me sure hummed the “bajta hai taltarang “song throught the summer and we even had a “teen ki chhuth”(not the expletive) in our house…..
to this day those songs transport me to my 1994 pune summer…….awwwww
meri baath ka tu yakeeen kar…..mere humsafar..
being in love also helped :-)
@Magik, you reminded me my school days..I think I was in 9th std. Watched with some friends at Sangam theater in Mysore. I loved the movie that time & also Manisha..she looked so fresh. Songs were amazing..and a nice post, reminded me of one the cities I spent my good ol’ days..
@ Vick: Glad u kud konnekt wid da sentiments…
u kno, aftr watchin the mov, i was shouting ‘vande mataram’ loudly in the hall, without the slightest care for the peopl around. THAT was the effect of the mov on me (errr, btw, i ws in the 3rd std, hehe). ofcourse that movie stayed with me as i always remembrd it as a GOOD movie…, until recently, when i watchd it again on tv.
it was so disappointing to be actually able to find faults in the mov, technical or othrwise. somthng similar happnd wen i watchd ddlj last time. ddlj was to me wot 1942 LS was to sm of u guys.
i wondr if that happens only to me. ‘wot could be the reason?’ i ask myself. could it be the exposure to betr films today?? dunno.
i am actually scared of watchng my old favourites now!! like its so difficult to see ur heroes fall :(
@ the ANIMATAUR: bro, u aint alone… the goddamn smart ass within us doesnt let us enjoy movies or anything for that sake, with the same innocense any more… BINGO! u have arrived, u r corrupted by world cinema and the zaalim duniya, in general, around you. Just for that sake, i wud like to die as a child! Duniya ki samajhdaari ek taraf aur masoomiyat ki khoobsoorti ek taraf… gimme the latter any day!
@magik…& ANIMATAUR
kya baat keh di ..
besides its the best feeling when you see things for the first time..
we need to leave the analysing brain outside somtime and enjoy a movie.
@ d&d: true. so true.