One of the best comedies, taking a satirical look at small town India. Fabulous performances from Anil Kapoor and Amjad Khan.(3.5/5)
CHAMELI KI SHAADI (1986) - A COMIC LOVE STORY
Basu Chatterjee is known for his light hearted films and most of them were very good. Chemeli ki shaadi is his one of the lesser known films of his career but a film worth to watch.
Chameli ki shaadi is light hearted comic love story and is all about love of small town boy and girl, how they meet, how their love progresses and how their marriage happens.
Charandas is a small town young boy who is fond of Kasrat and pehalvani (exercise and body building). His guru Mastram (Om Prakash) takes promise from charandas that he would not fall in love and not marry till the age of 40, because he believes that woman is the gate of hell (aurat nark ka dwaar hai). But Charandas and Chameli fall in love with each other at first sight. Then the difficulties arise. The …
When a genius like Girish Karnad, the playwright, who wrote his most famous play, Tughlaq, at the age of 25 only and won Jnanapith award for writing plays in 1999, joins hands with another genius Shashi Kapoor, a film producer who dares to make different and sensible cinema and tries to carry cinema to new heights, then only a film like Utsav borns. Girish Karnad had made his foray in hindi cinema by directing Godhuli in 1977 and Shashi Kapoor as a producer had already made, Junoon and Kalyug with Shyam Benegal and Vijeta with Govind Nihalani and 36 Chaurangee Lane with Aparna Sen.
Going back in time was not new for Girish Karnad as his plays though dealt with the centuries old subjects or mythological and historical characters and yet they also brought modern sensibilities and social and psychological conflicts before the readers/audience. Girish Karnad?s plays go back to …
