Enter your email address to subscribe and receive notifications of new posts by email. One good thing about old movies was, however bad and insuffereably they were, their music was likely to be topnotch. To die for beautiful, both of them. As they edge closer to each other, Jagad Babu drops a bombshell on Rajesh (that the rest of us had seen coming a mile away): he wants Rajesh to marry Rekha. User Ratings Incidentally, I am quite confused by some of the titles of 1960s and 70s. But it was clearly the “dancing girl” angle that people objected to. Lots and lots of movies have been made on them and their lives – Pakeezah being possibly one of the most famous. All in all, I think Sharafat is a wonderful watch – it has many things going for it. :-) An important thing to notice is that the dialogues were written by Krishan Chander a genius. We were supposed to lip-sync these songs, so, after listening to them a zillion times, we learnt them by heart.

The story begins, as I said above, with a woman of insufficient means and no family connections being “persuaded” by a wealthy man into giving up her claim on his son. Her unsubtly seductive advances towards him are met with disapproval and rejected. For Independence Day (15th Aug) they came up with a theme of a collage of Indian history. While working in a hostel, the boy get to know about a female escort, he started visiting him daily on the pretext of teaching her. This reminds me of an anecdote from my younger days. If only they had been given the screen time wasted on the Comic Side Plot!

:), I’m glad you found the Dharmendra love here :) How could anyone not get it?!

Her heart broken and dreams dashed, she has decided to give way to fate. I am so glad you love this movie. Can he ever go against the man who has treated him as his own son? But beyond that, it has a good, nicely-paced script (punctuated though it is with a completely superfluous and tiresome CSP) which culminates in a satisfyingly emotional way (in other words, I cried); although I must confess to some ambivalence about the overall message (more on that towards the end).

Anyway, the whole show became a huge hit. Guest Post: Indurani, a star of the 1930s, (I am not out of my mind, I am a) Rajput (1982). List of tracks : This article is about the 2002 film. Oh Hindi cinema, how you confuse me sometimes. He raised him well in the hope that he will marry his daughter. Finally convinced that Rajesh means to actually try and teach her, Chanda shows him her true self—the unhappy girl he had met on the hillside, not the cynical tawaif. I haven’t seen Blackmail although i have heard/seen the songs. | Nobility has gone away for a long time) is a 2015 Indian Hindi comedy thriller film directed by Gurmmeet Singh and produced by Devinder Jain and Akhilesh Jain. But, I just can’t help myself. Indeed… and then again there is Dharmendra! When it ends, Jagad Babu strikes up a conversation with Chanda, not knowing that she is his daughter. And as intrusive as the CSP is, at least eventually it includes the Goodness of Tun Tun (although the constant fat-ugly jokes at her expense also cause me moral confusion): Posted on May 21, 2009 at 9:57 am in Hindi movies   |  RSS feed I’m quite fond of Sonia Sahni and the few scenes she had with the bumbling Roopesh Kumar were a lot of fun. Dharmendra looks so fab in your first screen cap! He’s just beautiful in this film. About the mixed messages in the movie – Sigh ! 12 July 2002 () Running time. Plus: absolutely lovely songs by Laxmikant Pyarelal and lots of dancing from Hema! | The story, script, direction and screenplay are all a class to watch.

Post was not sent - check your email addresses! I’m 23 years old and none of my friends have ever been able to understand Dharmendra’s appeal for me. And Dina Phatak and A. K. Hangal make lovely parents. Sharafat is a Hindi movie and the story of an orphan boy. It’s okay, my taste is often quite suspect :) I hope to see Chitchor one day soon! Right from the very early days (I remember there was a Shakuntala-Dushyant piece) through to Ashoka to Harishchandra to a lot more (I don’t remember now) to Mughal times to British times, it went all the way to Nehru’s speech of independence. Some are popular even to this day. There was Emperor Akbar with his various ministers sitting and supposedly enjoying a dance to this song playing in the background. Does Chanda have any hope of a respectable life? But instead my legs are in vortex, so if you stay with me, you sure will drown with me.