Indrani Sinha (Raakhee) is the eldest child in the Sinha household, consisting of her elderly and ill father, Chandranath (A.K. Hangal); two younger sisters and a younger brother. She loves Dr. Sagar Varma (Parikshat Sahni), who looks after her ailing dad, and hopes to marry him soon. His mother approves of Indu, but would like her to leave everthing behind, and look after her son and the household, which is not acceptable to Indu. Misfortune visits the Sinha household and Chandranath passes away, leaving the entire responsiblity of the household on Indu's shoulders. She decides to open a school for children, and her siblings help her. She refuses Sagar's offer of living at his house. Sagar and Indu decide to marry after the children grow up and are well settled. Years pass by, the children have all grown up, her younger brother, Vinod (Asrani) is a graduate, and finds a job with an organization, the owner (Om Shivpuri) of which wants him to marry his only daughter, Pinky (Manju Bansal), and he must leave his family behind and live at Pinky's house. Vinod's decides to do so, and leaves Indu once again to shoulder the entire responsiblity of getting her two sisters married and looking after the household, he does not even invite them to his marriage. How long will life permit Indu and Sagar to wait? Will the younger sisters assist Indu or will they also turn up like Vinod?
A couple has twins who are so much alike that even the mother is not able to make out who is who. To add to it, the father (a cameo by Utpal Dutt) has named both of them Ashok. The logic is “Naming them with different names will not make it any easier for anyone to differentiate between them.” On a trip, which involves a journey by ship also, he comes across another set of twins who have been abandoned by on the stairs of a temple. He graciously takes them in his fold (egged on by his tanga driver) and starts on his ship voyage.
The ship meets with a mishap and the husband and wife are seperated, each taking the other for dead, and each having one kid each from the 2 pairs.
Years later, one of them is happily married with a nagging wife and a cute sister in law. He is one of the well known business in his town and his servant also is married happily.
The trouble starts when one day, the other pair also comes to the same town with some business reated work and is surprised to see that so many people in the town seem to know them. Add to that the fact that the master in this pair has fed on detective novels for a long time and you can very well imagine his reaction to these things.
They are in the town for a couple of days and how these 2 pairs wreck havoc in each other’s lives; without ever realising what actually is going on. The happenings of these 2 days is something you have got to see. No amount of praises that I put here can do justice to what has been portrayed :)
Sanjeev Kumar is excellent as always as Ashok (the master), especially the Ashok who has come from out of town. Since the native Ashok does not too many chances to get shocked (he gets more chances to get angry at people) you wouldn’t really feel he is the one making you laugh. But the other Ashok is brilliant to say the least. His reaction when Sudha (the nagging wife of the native Ashok, played ably by Mousumi Chatterjee) asks him to undress is priceless. I cannot help but think of what all Sanjeev Kumar would have achieved had he not died a premature death. Hats off to the man.
Deven Verma is one of the best comedians of Hindi cinema…and he is also the one who has never been given his due. Very rarely did I see him in roles which resorted to cheap gimmicks in the name of comedy (there were some in the 90s but I guess they had more to do with him earning his bread). He was as good as usual in this movie also. If you see the good and clean comedies of 70s and early 80s, Deven Verma has invariably been a part of it. This movie is no exception. He is calm and subdued as the native Bahadur, and witty and confused as the other one. The loyalty towards the respective Ashoks is common to both of them.
Mousumi Chatterjee,Deepti Naval and Aruna Irani are adequate. The supporting cast has all done justice to their roles, no one seems out of place.
It is when you see movies like these that you realize what people mean when they say that scripts are the real heroes of movies. There could have been so many places where the director could have messed up this movie. The happenings are pretty simple, nothing extravagant or out of this world. It is within these simple premises that the director makes us laugh and enjoy.
Personally I think that with the times Gulzaar’s work has somewhat deteriorated. He used to make movies that were enjoyed by everyone and pretty simple. Now-a-days sometimes I am not able to make sense of some of his lyrics also. But he still keeps coming with lyrical gems also…the man is a contradiction. I would love to see a contemporary comedy from him.
राग नंद
थाट - कल्याण
जाती - षाड़व - संपूर्णा
वादी स्वर - सा
संवादी स्वर - प
समय - आधी रात
आरोह - सा ग म प ध नी प ध मे प सां
अवरो - सां नी ध प मे प, ग म रे सा
Moti - Amitabh Bachchan sells jaggery at the village market. He collects the raw material and takes them to an older woman, Mahjubi - Nutan, who makes jaggery of a high quality. Moti is in love with a village girl - Padma Khanna, but cannot afford to pay for the 'meher' (a compulsory amount of money given to the bride's family by the groom's family). So, he decides to marry Mahjubi and proposes to her. She accepts his proposal and they marry.
Moti extracts a lot of work from Mahjubi so that he can save enough money to pay for the 'meher' for his real love. Shortly after he saves enough money, he decides to divorce Mahjubi, accusing her of infidelity. He soon marries the village girl and goes back to his business of selling jaggery. But with Mahjubi's skills taken away, will Moti be able to survive on his own? Will his new wife be able to offer him the support and skills in order to enable him to survive in his trade?
अँखियों के झरोखों से - १९७७
निदेशक - हिरेन नाग
गीतकार - रवींद्रा जैन
स्वर - हेमलता, शैलेंद्रा सिंग, रविंदर जैन, जसपाल सिंग
They met in classroom for the first time. Arun - Sachin, the only son of a Barrister father, stood second in the exams to Lily Fernandes, a shy, simple, modest girl - Ranjeeta - the daughter of an ordinary nurse in a private nursing home. The shock of the defeat was too much for Arun, and he took up a challenge - even nursed a personal vendetta - to bring down the growing popularity of Lily in the college. Lily, however, bore no malice against him. She even tolerated all the sarcasm and nasty pranks of the close chums of Arun. As time went by, Arun and Lily started admiring each other's qualities. One day, Arun's father walked in to the Fernandes house with a proposal for marriage between Arun and Lily. The happiness of the young lovers knew no bounds. But when everything was nicely set up for a happy ending, suddenly, Lily falls ill. Blood culture test proves the case to be Leukemia. No effort is spared to arrest the disease, and save the poor girl. But will Lily survive? What happens next?
अँखियों के झरोखों से मैने देखा जो सांवरे
तुम डोर नज़र आए बड़ी डोर नज़र आए
बंद करके झरोखों को ज़रा बैठी जो सोचने
मान में तुम्ही मुस्काये मान में तुम्ही मुस्काये
अँखियों के झरोखों से
एक मान था मेरे पास वो अब खोने लगा है
पाकर तुझे है मुझे कुच्छ होने लगा है
एक तेरे भरोसे पे सब बैठी हून भूल के
यून ही उमर गुज़र जाए तेरे साथ गुज़र जाए
अँखियों के झरोखों से...
जीती हून तुझे देख के मारती हून तुम्ही पे
तुम हो जहाँ साजन मेरी दुनिया है वहीं पे
दिन रात दुआ माँगे मेरा मान तेरे वास्ते
कभी अपनी उम्मीदों का कहीं फूल ना मुरझाए
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माएईन जब से तेरे प्यार के रंगों में रंगी हून
जागते हुए सोई नहीं नींदों में जागी हून
मेरे प्यार भरे सपने कहीं कोई ना छ्चीन ले
मान सोच के घबराए यही सोच के घबराए
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