The Torture Series 4: Main Khilona Nahin
Warning: Post contains strong language & sexual content.
Alcohol. Perhaps it was the same destination of the 80s producers. And many many financiers of those darn 80s and 90s. On one hand, from a different point of view, I feel pity. These producers sold everything they had, borrowed as much as they could, pawned their wife’s jewelry (case in point: N.Chandra for Ankush), begged at the feet of the then stars… to give them the required dates before the dawn of utter ruin, beat every door they could… to achieve their goal… make a movie.
And yet, all this went into the belief that the films (which were a 100% purified trash) would find the success and give them a decent bank and black balance. Then you realize that making a film for all these (or most of these) people was nothing beyond playing a lottery. Their strife and pain to make a movie had nothing to do with art, their non-existent love for cinema and its quality. It was pure lust for making money.
The initial pity for these kind… vaporizes. DIE you mother fuckers! DIE!
And I’m not sure what shit did the producers of Main Khilona Nahin may have had to go through. Perhaps they didn’t. It was a pure attempt to make money. Nothing wrong with making money. Everyone or atleast most want to make money. But not everyone barges into a bank to rob and get rich.
The poster above should tell it all. What the intentions of the team of Main Khilona Nahin (MKN) were. The film starred Kajal Kiran who came with a bang, in Hum Kisise Kum Naheen, in 1977. My family and I were in the then Madras (it is called Chennai now). The train back to Bombay (it is called Mumbai now) left in the evening. With a whole day to kill we decided to entertain ourselves by going out and watching a movie (it is called surdard now). Two options. Dulhan Wohi Jo Piya Man Bhaye or Hum Kisise Kum Nahin. Since my family believes in a family, we went for DWJPMB inspite of my cries to watch HKKN. Cause I always went for movies that had dishum dishum. And even at the age of seven, I could bet my ass, that DWJPMB would not have anything close to a slap.
Anyways, back to Kajal Kiran who after HKKN, progressed steadily from A to B grade movies to C grade and finally disappeared. Ironically her last movie was called Aakhri Sanghursh (Hinglish: Last Struggle) directed by the late Narendra Bedi who made real good movies in his lifetime like Benaam, Rafoo Chakkar, Jawani Diwani.
The hero of the movie, Main Khilona Nahin, was Puneet Issar. Issar, like Kajal Kiran, started with a bang… which unfortunately resulted in Mr. Amitabh Bachchan landing in hospital fighting for his life. Issar’s miscued punch hurt Bachchan-saab so bad, that the whole nation prayed together, an event never seen since 1948…. Gandhi-jee’s assassination. Issar though managed to keep himself intact even when the entire nation went against him. He started doing B grade movies (well he had no choice, everything in those days was B Grade)… and found his glory, five years later when he played Duryodhan in B.R.Chopra’s tele-serial Mahabharat. He recently directed the Salman Khan starrer Garv : Pride and Honor in which he squeezed all that he had learned and experienced as an actor in C to Z grade movie filmography. Hence Garv was, what it was.
Which leads me to a minor momentary tangent. 20 years from now when we look back, perhaps, we will be saying the same things about Salman Khan. Except for a few Rajshri productions and of course “Maine Pyar Kiya” and “Andaz Apna Apna”… perhaps most of his movies will be listed by cine fans, 20 years from now, as B and C grade stuff… and that to me is a sad waste of talent… someone who started with so much potential, just got sick, bored and tired of the medium or perhaps got too caught up in stardom in his own way.
The Torture Series continues…
MAIN KHILONA NAHIN (1985)
MKN was produced by one Mohan T Gehani and directed by one Qamar Narvi, who have given us quite a few films, many of which/all of which – you may not have heard of, but it is quite important and essential to list the names of these movies that find their place in the books of Hindi Cinema history. The movies that came from either or both of these esteemed gentlemen are listed below. For the convenience of the present generation that may be unable to read a movie title if it doesn’t contain an “English slogan” below the title, I’ve made the necessary arrangements :
Badnaam Farishte a.k.a. Angels gone bad a.k.a. Infamous Angels
Meri Izzat Bachao a.k.a. Me Rape Save Me a.k.a. Save my Raping
Kasam Kali Ki a.k.a. Promise of Black Woman /or, maybe/ Promise of Goddess Kali
Rahemdil Jallad a.k.a. Evil Man Soft Heart
Adi-vasi Queen a.k.a. Half Smelly Queen
Raja Ranis Love In Jungle a.k.a. One King Many Queens doing chitti chitti bang bang in the Jungle
And then producer Gehani’s undoing love for the word Bijlee shows up in his produced -
Daku Bijlee a.k.a. Dacoit Bijlee (perhaps a social docu-drama on dacoits in India who are named ‘Bijlee’)
Bijlee Aur Toofan a.k.a. Lightening and Storm (perhaps a joint collaboration with National Geographic to study thunderstorms in India /or maybe/ a sequel to Daku Bijlee… Part 2)
Bijlee Aur Badal a.k.a. Lightening and Clouds (perhaps another joint collaboration with National Geographic to study Lightening and Clouds in India… /or perhaps/ a sequel to the sequel Daku Bijlee… Part 3)
For the above works and those not listed above, both Narvi and Gehani find their names permanently “itched” in the history books of Hindi Cinema. And so does the word Bijlee. To honor this portion of Cinematic history, I have humbly and with utmost respect tagged this post as… Bijlee.
I don’t remember much of the details of this movie. What I remember is this movie begins with a biker gang of women led by Kajal Kiran. Black leather jackets, steel buttons and of course the Indian touch. A long red tikka gracing their foreheads. The goal of this biker gang was to catch the bad people and literally slash their noses off. I swear I’m not making any of this up. That’s how their movie begins.
But there’s always a story behind the story. So it seems that Puneet Issar and Kajal Kiran were husband and wife. Then like it happens… Mr. Issar has to go out on a business trip. I think he sold kaccha banian in the movie, so am not sure what business trips do kachcha and banian selllers undertake. Anyway it’s not important.
What’s important to note is that, as soon as Issar leaves, the villains enter the scene and rape Kajal Kiran. The camera focusses on Kajal Kiran’s face during the rape scene and as a viewer it was difficult for me to make out if the humanly impossible stretching and contracting of Kajal Kiran’s face muscles meant whether she was performing the rape scene or whether she had diarrhea and was holding it real hard, so that the villains could finish their scene and she could run to the bathroom in the studio. Expressions those days were supposed to give the Indian audience a hardon. So every rape scene (which appeared in practically every movie in the 80s) had the close up shot of the female’s face shoulder up and she went through her diarrhea-tic face expressions. I tell ya. The Indian audience of the 80s was quite sick. They got turned on by looking at women suffering from diarrhea.
For those bloggers born post ‘85 and who scream and shout at every Yash Raj movie being the same while watching it from the comforts of their cushion seats in a full on A/C multiplex… here’s the kicker… EVERY movie was the same in the 80s that we watched from seats that were more like commodes in theaters. Theater which had fans running in slow motion. I never understood why they even bothered to switch on the fans. The damn fans would run so fucking slow they couldn’t even fan themselves!
Back to Kajal Kiran. After the rape is done and the villains leave, the 80s offered only two choices to raped heroines. (A) Suicide (B) Join a bikers gang
Wait.
If you choose (B), you still have to die in the end.
So practically speaking the heroines had no choice. They could die immediately or they could torture us audience for 3 hours and then die. FUCKING BITCH!!! So it comes as no surprise that Ms. Kajal Kiran decides to torture us. Muroongi magar torture karke muroongi
One of the villains in the movie was Raza Murad. And boy what a tragedy to see him in such crap. Actually he did a lot of such crap. Here was an actor with a gifted booming boombox voice, that matched and even at times aced over the booming voice of Amitabh Bachchan. The two were seen in Ek Nazar. Murad in that movie was full of confidence and his booming voice in top notch form. Bachchan had still not discovered or perhaps yet to master the voice modulation quality that he came to be known for. A few years later they both were seen in Namak Haram. By this time, Bachchan had the booming voice completely in his grip, while Murad’s, though still impressive, had it’s edges coming off. Discipline has been one of Bachchan’s forte. For even today in his mid sixties he retains that voice quality. Murad’s though eased off very shortly. There was still that spark of a boom, but it was a hit or a miss thing now.
Back to the story, Ms. Kajal Kiran leaves home and joins the bikers’ gang that slashes noses of rapists, thieves, the usual zulmis. So when Puneet Issar comes back from his chaddi baniyan business trip he is informed by the nosy neighbors about what happened and which results in Mr. Issar discarding Ms. Kiran (please don’t even think of asking Why? What? etc.).
So Issar discards Kajal Kiran and then discards his kachcha chaddi baniyan lay lo business. And becomes an official alcoholic who sings in his drunk stupor while looking at Ms. Kalpana Iyer who’s sitting on a roof top and decorated enough by the director to make sure she looks like a prostitute. One would have to be real dumb not to realize that Ms. Iyer going “Aja Aja” to Mr. Issar is a prostitute, with or without her carrying 10kgs of powder and lipstick makeup and a plunging neckline exposing one third of her left breast and one third of her right breast.
Anything above one third of breast exposure, in those days, was censored by the respectable Censor Board of India. I imagine, there was one person with a measuring tape in the censor board office measuring the exposed lemons or water melons that came in each and every movie in those days. I’m pretty sure this Censor Board Measuring tape official is the guy who at nights wrote 32 page novels like Mohalle mein Chudai, Rani key Lay Lee and a thousand such titles under the penname of Mast-Ram… and then had these stupid but horny novels, sold to us poor school and college students. Talk about corrupting the Indian youth. It started probably right at the Censor Board’s door step!
But then I guess, anyone who’s job is to carry a measuring tape and measure the entire breasts and then measure the exposed part of the breasts and then use an almost broken down Casio calculator to measure if the exposed breast part is one third or less of the whole breast, must be a very sexually frustrated person.
Strangely enough it was the late Raj Kapoor who broke the one third rule with Mandakini in Ram Teri Ganga Maili which… surprise surprise release the same year of MKN… 1985. Only Raj Kapoor could beat the Censor Board at their own game and I have no clue how he did it.
Anyways, back to Main Khilona Nahin (MKN)… since the whole point of the esteemed director and producer of MKN was to provide sexual release a.k.a. cheap titillation we are bombarded with sexual comic scenes and a few songs.
I would certainly like to see the look on the music director (Anwar Usman) and the singers’s (Chandrani Mukherjee and Mohammed Aziz) faces when they composed and sang this song for the movie:
Saabun bina gora badan kaise hoyi
If this song was supposed to be sexy I would like to know what the hell was the heroine doing – holding a big ass Lifebouy soap in the shower while singing a song on sex?
In addition, the song reveals the mystery to having white skin. Use Soap. And I had no clue until this point, that Lifebouy had moved from their Tandurusti business to Gora Badan business.
But on a serious note, to me that bathing with a big soap scene meant that the director was trying to impress on some point. Perhaps he was trying to say, that all non-white people on mother earth, do not use soap for a bath. I was aghast, went home and cried in front on Ma in Dharmendra-paaji’s tone “Ma… tune mujhe pundhra saal bewakoof banaya. Mujhe kaha, yeh saabun hain… but it is something else… tu nahin chahti thi ke main gora banoon” The real in life scene ended with Ma’s tight slap on my left cheek and the saabun doubt immediately evaporated from my peanut sized brains.
Back to the movie, which continued on it’s various stupidities and reaches the climax where the male villains along with the female villain hold a bunch of kids at gun point and Ms. Kajal Kiran and Mr. Puneet Issar are at the other end. Yes the movie also had a female villain. Long time Gujarati theater actress Nayan Bhatt, for whatever unknown reason ended up playing the villainess who gets, naturally, her nose slashed midway through the movie.
Husband and wife fight the villains, destroy them, Ms. Kiran follows Rule (B) dies in the end.
Such was the state of the movie, that even during the worst period of Bollywood, this movie could manage only a morning show release. Even substandard distributors had their standards, and this one, it seems was way below their existing low standards.
So if the new age bloggers are banging their heads over Bachna Ae Haseeno or any recent Bollywood release… RELAX!!! We Gen X have suffered a lot worse. We’ve been to hell and back. And hell continues… very soon…
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As usual a good one. In fact, there are a few ppl in office who claim to know Hindi movies, and your selection, almost inevitably beats them.
Though if someone in the know could throw some light on how Raj Kapoor beat the censor board (for Ram Teri..) at that time, it would be a fun read.
“He recently directed the Salman Khan starrer Garv : Pride and Honor in which he squeezed all that he had learned and experienced as an actor in C to Z grade movie filmography. Hence Garv was it was.”
ROFL….. Garv was hilarious and now I know from where the hilarity came ;)
“Saabun bina gora badan kaise hoyi”…. hehehe…. I fell of my chair.
Long live Torture Series!!!!
:-) :-)…And so it continues….The first time you came up with this I gave some gyan bhari comment. I now realize what you mean by the “torture films” of the 80’s..Thanks Oz for this. You really bring alive these films here thru your writing even though these films are like WMDs.
Geez, even for a confirmed B-Movie fan like me, some one who sits up all night watching these B & C movies on Star Gold or Zee, i must say i never even heard of this movie at all. A Female Biker Gang, wow looks like a first for Bollywood. Kaajal Kiran, did make a great debut in HKKN, but her very next movie Saboot was a total B movie.
Apart from the movies, two other instruments of torture in the 80’s were Mohd.Aziz and Shabbir Kumar,and to think they claimed themselves as the succesors to a legend like Rafi.
BTW Oz, could you post one on our desi Prince of Thieves, Pankaj Parashar’s Rajkumar, with Anil Kapoor doing a Kevin Costner. It was one of the few movies where i took tickets in advance booking to see it, and boy that was a decision i regretted 3 hours later.
“The camera focusses on Kajal Kiran’s face during the rape scene and as a viewer it was difficult for me to make out if the humanly impossible stretching and contracting of Kajal Kiran’s face muscles meant whether she was performing the rape scene or whether she had diarrhea and was holding it real hard, so that the villains could finish their scene and she could run to the bathroom in the studio.” – i simply laughed my ass out reading this sentence……..and also the one about the censor board!!
WOW !!!
quote – Their strife and pain to make a movie had nothing to do with art, their non-existent love for cinema and its quality. It was pure lust for making money. – unquote
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who is reponsible for this heartbreak
did the producers ever claimed that they are making movies for the art’s sake
it was business
it is business, everybody is churning crap
and thank god
at least somebody is there who is taking care of our need of entertainment
thank god
i can enter in cinema hall and i don’t have to carry dictionary with me
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the most frustrated experience in cinema hall for me happens when
seeti maarne ka ek bhi mauka nahien milta
jo film mujhe seeti maarne ka mauka na de
usse ghatiya aur koi film nahien ho sakti
quote – badnam farishte, meri izzat bachao, kasam kali ki, rahemdil jallad, adivasi queen, raja rani’s love in jungle – unquote
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the most difficult problem Shakespeare faced, was to give a suitable title for his drama.
it should not be considered an easy job to give a title that do justice to the content
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now look at the titles mentioned above
badnam farishte – you just read the title and whole story is crystal clear.
adivasi queen – marvelous
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just two words, and representing the story so authentically, amazing
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gagar main sagar bhar diya
bijjali
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javed akther talked in some length about the importance of phonetics in the book by nasrin munni kabir. why ‘teja’ ‘dabar’ fits and suits for a villain’s name.
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now think how does it feel, if you replace ‘nirmala’ for ‘bijjali’
saari jaan hi chali jaayegi
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bijjali was a phonetical master stroke
quote – The camera focusses on Kajal Kiran’s face during the rape scene and as a viewer it was difficult for me to make out if the humanly impossible stretching and contracting of Kajal Kiran’s face muscles – unqoute
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heroin can not show that she is enjoying
otherwise movie will turn horror
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question remains, how competently kajal kiran acted the pain
well
every great actor has there down moments
don’t you think al pacino hammed all the way from beginning to end in donnie brasco
oh my gooooood
i have never imagined that THIS name will ever be used without any prefix
aaah, blasphemy, blasphemy
the most revered, most loved, most well known, most hidden, most talked about, most hushed up, most traded, most used, most abused, the one and only
Mastram
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if ever a man with the name of his highness stand up in any election in india. you will get the definition of landslide victory
Oz bhai…the slasher biker gang had this fetish for belts in their hand, and the dialogues went like, “Iska beta ab yaad rakkhega, iske baap ke saath kya hua tha!”grunt”..”grunt”..
Puneet Issar also did an unimaginable flying kick in this movie that was patented later in his southern sojourns. By the way, the joke in 80s went..why was Kajal Kiran’s feet so small, coz the shadow of her bust never allowed her feet to grow up in size..huh?!
MKN, also I did see and I was doing my 12th then..now you know..kya pareekshayein di hongi maine????
Hey Oz, remember Puneet Issar’s “Superman”(1987)? Imagine: Dharam Paji as Jor El, Ashok Kumar/Dadamoni as Jonathan Kent, and Shakti Kapoor as Lex Luthor!! Man of Steel fans out there who hated “superman Returns”, watch this!
Oz, well you really did some research on this one.I had watched a lot of B and C grade movies of the 80’s but never heard of this.Actually we have watched more of B grade movies with A grade stars like Shatrughan Sinha,Shashi Kapoor,Jeetendra,Rekha,Sridevi,Reena Roy.But this a B movie with C grade stars.ha ha.Nice one.Please continue.
Bagla bhagat, mitti aur sona, aag se khelenge,
sher-dil, jungle love, daku haseena and lady tarzan (staring Salma Agha.. yes its true…Salma Agha.. SAd but true)…….. filmen abhi baaki hain!!!
yes 80s was “abhishaap” period for bollywood.. no good singers left, (huge gap after Rafi, kishore, and we had to jhelo Aziz and Shabbir.. both of whom used to shout than sing)no good music directors,(old ones stopped working or disappeared..still a mystery)and same for actors and directors….
No ‘achhe ghar ki ladkiyan’ would dare to enter bollwood during this period and also interesting to note not many star-beta, beti choosing their parents profession!!
Why?? Guess above mentioned movies say it all….
Oz,
That was truly hilarious! I am a big fan of the Torture Series. I am looking forward to some superhit trash films of the 80s and 90s in this series: Tezaab, Karma, Ram Lakhan, Saudaagar, Raja etc. – most of these were made by masala trash king Subhash Ghai.
Oz,
Also Tridev – biggest crap hit ever
Garv is playing on some channel today!!! 9 pm Sony Max or Zee Cinema or something.
@ 18) Tezaab?? Trash?? hope u not talking about one by N chandra.
If yes then I guess you have got the idea of Torture series complete wrong!!
Agree it was not your ‘intel’ cinema but it was never meant to be. It was a complete commercial, masala film and the high point was its presentation… absolutely DIVINE!!
Am also sure not many readers here would agree with you (At least not those who have grown on the diet of Hindi cinema since childhood).
What say Guys??
Also dont judge and compare those movies with todays.. you will obviously find a lot of ‘Crap’in them… audience has changed, media has changed, thinking has changed, content has changed, taste has changed…. Times have Changed!!!
Am damn sure the generation watching RDB 20 years from now would call it ‘Crap’
:-)
OZ: Where did you dig out this one from? I thought I was a walking encyclopaedia of 80s films, but never heard of this one. I’m depressed !!
OZ bhai!!
Kyon picchhhe pade ho? please baksh do yaar!!! :D
Thanks! tottttal entertainer!
i today call RDB crap
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ek dost ki maut ho gayi
to ladke krantikaari ho gaye
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jajba ya to hota hai
ya nahien hota
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jajba paida nahien kiya ja sakta
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haan agar ho, aur daba ho to ubhara ja sakta hai
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per jinme jajba daba ho, woh phir bhi doosre hi hote hain, dj jaise nahien.
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siddharth ka character
kaun beta apne baap se isliye naaraz hai kyonki baap amir hai
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kahte hain ki bada asar pada tha
fashion
aaj kahan hai mombattiyan
abhi do sal bhi poore nahien huye
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huh
tum tanha duniya se ladoge
bachchon si baatein karte ho
mast hai beedu!
nice one!
Oz, Is this going to be a weekly?
Pl schedule a day of the week for this so that we can look forward to the day of our weekly torture fix !
Naren@20,21 : 100% in agreement ( No 2. I am going to count the number of times I agree with your posts/comments )
Yaar Oz ye 1/3rd ka funda bahot achcha laga – especially the “almost broken down Casio calculator” part. ROTFL !!
@17 : Movies you have mentioned are mostly from 90s and are atleast half-decent compared to the torture series…infact i would rate most of them as good commercial cinema by the standard of 80s
oz – u r actually doing a service to the current generation by redefining its-so-bad-its-actually-good movies….and i am amazed by the research u hv done…keep this going plssss……i’m lovin’ it
super funny…….:-)
Your last installment “Bhavani Junction” reminded me another GEM “Ramkali” in which Hema Malini was in double role if not wrong.
Please keep “Ramkali” in your list if you’ve watched and remember it.
BTW, nice writeup and hilarious as usual.
Oz-Bhai… I’ve seen far too many supercrappy, horrible, brain-damaging films from the 80’s, to the point that I KNOW that I have permanent psychological “lochas” as a result… they’ve mentally fucked me over to the point that when I saw films like the ones mention in cmnts 17/18, I would “Finally some fucking good movies!”… LOL… hehehe… has kyun rahe ho? Pata nahin.. hehehe..oh-hoo…haa.. Hut I hadn’t even heard of this film.. its not even B-Grade…its definately D-grade salvaged partially by its C-grade stars (yeah, that’s right)…
I think a few out there haven’t fully got there head around this “Public Ko Torture Karo” club concept… there are films like “Karma” and “Tezaab”, which at least showed some attempts (appreciated or otherwise) from the maker to present at least passable entertainment… those films at least had “something” going for it… not these ones… no way… these films were INTENTED to torture us… mentally… in Oz’s case physically as well (by way of the theatres he had to watch them in)… Tezaab doesn’t qualify… Aag Hi Aag, on the other hand, despite having a decent starcast (Dharmendra, Shatrugan Sinha, Chunkey Pandey) does… holy shit…
God, I havent read something more hilarious than this. Kudos to bring this movie and this bijlee series explanation.
I can add some more movies to the list especially “Guru”, “Commando”, “Dance Dance”,”Ganga Jamuna Saraswati”, “Pratigya” and many many more…
Since the guys would go out for business, and the villains would rape the women, many people didnt migrate that time unlike now(Hmmm that explains many things……..).
Naren Shekhawat,
I too grew up on a diet of Hindi films (used to love movies like Karma, Ram Lakhan, Vidhaata in my school days)…but the movies mentioned in my earlier posts 17 & 18 are definitely crap..Tezaab was unbearable torture for me even then…the movie was some four hours long, Anil Kapoor at his hammiest best (supported by other ham-masters …only Kiran Kumar comes to my mind now)ugh!…what is worse, the audience used to enjoy such masala…now tastes have refined, quite surprising that you still call this trash ‘Divine’!
Amazing! I have a membership with a local DVD chain called BigFlicks. They have this big ass Hindi section which is filled with movies from 80s including many well known ones like “Paap ko jalakar rakh kar doonga”. I really get a kick out of pulling out each DVD, looking at their covers and reminiscing the memories associated with most of them! I have been there oz! Seen most of the 80s movies … but then, even I didnt know of Main Khilona Nahin! So you are better off than me ;-)
“Ma… tune mujhe pundhra saal bewakoof banaya. Mujhe kaha, yeh saabun hain… but it is something else… tu nahin chahti thi ke main gora banoon” The real in life scene ended with Ma’s tight slap…….Tussi gr8 ho:-)…..
Apka Prem agan (Fardeen Khan’s first film) ke bare me kya vichar hai….agla post please isi ke upar likhe….:P..:D
@36 Raj, I dont think Tezaab falls in the “torture” category.By any standards(80’s or todays) Tezaab was a well made film.I agree it is not a masterpiece(it has its share of flaws) but even then it is thoroughly enjoyable.
dude. You spent more energy and brain to write this article than the director of MKN.
TMN @ 33. I think you have a point when you say “Finally….”
:-) Could be the case with most of us !!
@28 kcp… :-)… kahin hum pichle janam mein kumbh ke mele mein bichadd to nahin gaye they?? :-))
@ 36 – Raj – There could possibly be three reasons that make you call Tezaab, trash.
1) you have grown too big for your intellect
2) you have lost your cinema-sense
3) you dont remember anything of it
tezaab had one of Anil kapoor’s best performances, this movie gave us Madhuri and her dances, the comedy scenes were brilliant, this was the movie which started the trend of ‘realistic-sounding’ dialogues, aam janta lingo,(which is a kind of fad now and every other movie has them), eventhough it was long but the pace was perfect, it had quiet a few brilliant songs…
A Total entertainer….. and as I siad earlier not many would agree with your POV on this… comments 28 and 39 say it all…
@naren/43 – the first time i saw tezaab, i thought it was really trash. but i saw it again later and have seen it 2-3 more times since then. that movie had angst and it was really well depicted and it sort of grew on me. Anil is absolutely fabulous in the movie.
in the 80s we used to have some real good drama movies. kabza, thikaana, shakti, meri jung, duniya, many more … movies which had a good gritty dramatic theme behind it and you could watch many times due to the performances. i have seen shakti so many times and to date it remains my most favorite bollywood flick.
that genre has gone completely missing in bollywood off late. all you get is candy floss like bachna ae haseeno etc. or excessive melodrama like the bhansali movies. no gritty dramas anymore!
Naren,
Seems like you still have 80s/90s taste for over-the-top Hindi melodramas..where the actors scream their dialogues, at the top of their voices, looking into the camera…the ones made by Subhash Ghai etc…Anyway, concept of entertainment is subjective. Tezaab was not a ‘total entertainer’ for me, even then! It was boring, over-the-top, melodrmatic, masala crap. (Recently saw the ‘Ek,do,teen number on TV…very tacky)Something like Dil Chahta Hai or Jab We Met is a total entertainer for me.
One hilarious trait of the 80s and early 90s popular Hindi cinema was the practice of actors delivering their loud dialogues looking into the camera (i.e., facing the audience)..especially the villains. Glad that atleast that has changed now.
Like/dislike for films can be very subjective(specially in India).Its not necessary that a particular film will be liked by everyone.That’s because the culture,values and most important the environment in which we are brought up is very different from one region to another.For example the way Mumbaikars connect to local trains,Delhiites do not.So even though a lot of crap movies was made in the 80’s it does not hold good for ALL the films.Sure there were a lot of good films too.
Tezaab being called a crap?
Couldn’t disagree more. It was one of the films that redeemed the whole decade. The structure was far superior than the norm, the story and dialogues showed that an effort has gone into the writing, music was superb, songs weren’t inane and neither Anil Kapoor or Kiran Kumar hammed.
Anil Kapoor’s hamming touched bottom in Rakhwala and Benaam Badshah.
Raj,
The cine janta has given their verdict. Do I need to anything more?
Naren,
Tezaab was a blockbuster in the 80s because of the cine janta. It is the same public that have made Hey Baby, Welcome, Singh is King etc. blockbusters. Can you trust the verdict of this junta? Do I need to say anything more? I stand by my views.
This one strangely reminds me of the daku ramkali series of Z grade films which had the same one page story –
lady gets raped, lady lifts a gun, lady finds some exploited men to form a daku group, gets chased by imaandar studly inspector, romances him in a waterfall, sets up showdown with villain where her right hand man is killed, kills villain and lands up in jail voluntarily.
Raj,
Again I would disagree that this is the same janta….
I am not part of the public who have made Hey Baby, Welcome, Singh is King hits… I dont even like to talk or think about such movies leave alone watching them or even reading about their reviews.. I consider that a sheer waste of time.
Ans am sure most of the readers here are also not part of the janta you are talking about.
But still we all disagree with you on this one. so you have to decide… or else am afraid you will be left standing…. standing on the wrong side of realisation!!
alos I would be moving on to other important stuff to talk about so consider this as my last comment on this write up.
Naren,
I do not like the 80s/90s hit movies (atleast most of them), because of the exaggerated performances, loud dialogues, loud song and dance sequences, lack of subtlety…even if these movies were better than the Z grade stuff like Main Khilona Nahin. The movies that redeemed the 80s for me are Parinda, Masoom, Hip Hip Hurray (i’ve not seen Ardh Satya). Never liked Tezaab, will never like it.
I think even OSO or SIK is a torture..if its minus music…all made to be same old masala bollywood crap!! and we Indians bowed to these….OSO was directly lifted from 80’s idea of ‘punar janam’ etc….WHO THE HECK would beleive it now….that too in the days we are watching movies like MMJ, AWednesday, Subramaniapuram..etc….everyone would agree….but, all have seen OSO in the same vien and made it a HIT…and we shouldn’t deny by saying we are toooo inclined to ‘Reality’ based movies…coz we are the ones who do not watch Reality movies!! its vice-versa….”Indian cinema would take ages to come of age”….but the light/hope is seen in movies like MMJ or AWed or Subra…etc…lets hope we get to see more movies like them…