Haqeeqat Movie
Yes, despite all that melodrama etc, it’s worth a watch. Somehow I never got around to seeing it on Doordarshan either (strange; I seem to have seen just about every film that was screened way back then, simply because there was nothing else to see!). Thankfully, it’s fairly easily available. No, Ruby Myers did act a lot, but I’ve always only seen her in very small roles.
According to imdb, her last film was Dostana in 1980. The film in which I remember her as having a somewhat substantial role was Mere Humdum Mere Dost. She was often credited as Sulochana, by the way.
The songs were lovely and parts of it were beautiful too (like Rachna, Kar chale hum fida jaan-o-tan always has me fighting a loosing battle with tears, too) – the major fly in the ointment was Priya. Watching her “act” and “speak” is very painful! Your review reminds me of several things that I have forgotten – Sanjay Khan for one and the other is Vijay Anand (he looks incredibly stiff and camera-conscious in the song you’ve linked to). I’d heard nothing but praise for this one from my father (who rarely admits to liking Bollywood films!) for years before I saw it, and was inevitably disappointed. Guess its time to re-watch, but this time with lower expectations! Wasnt Ketan Anand? How on earth is he out and about, colorising films?!!
Ava: Ah, yes. Zara si aahat hoti hai is another lovely song.
What I liked about Haqeeqat was that the songs blended in well (and there weren’t too many of them). Bollyviewer: I agree with your father, this is a very good film – though could’ve been improved with some more editing. It’s still a little too long and complicated on the battle scenes. Sanjay Khan, though his role is small, is excellent, but Vijay Anand is wasted!
And Priya Rajvansh: well, I’ve recently seen Hanste Zakhm and Hindustan ki Kasam and all I can say is that she’s more emotive in Haqeeqat than in either of those! And she’d graduated from the Royal School of Drama in London wonder how. I’m not surprised the only films she ever got were those of Chetan Anand. Yes, I did wonder how that interview happened, because by all accounts Ketan Anand and bro should be chakki-peesoing right now.
Bollywooddeewana: I really have no idea when the colour version will be released – as bollyviewer remarks, Ketan Anand ought to be in jail right now (he’d been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Priya Rajvansh), so I doubt if anything’s really happening on the colourisation front. I’d suggest you see the rented version first (if they send it to you), and then if you like it you can see the coloured version whenever it’s released! Pacifist: No, Priya’s voice isn’t masculine, it’s just very flat and toneless. There’s no emotion in it. Such a pity, because she was very pretty.
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Have a look at: I think she’s lovely! Yes, as I mentioned in my reply to Rachna’s comment, I have seen Border, but I thought it was awful.
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Partly, I think, because I am not a fan of Sunil Shetty (though I don’t mind him in later comic roles like in Hera Pheri), and I don’t like Sunny Deol either and Akshay Khanna’s character died!! Seriously, though, I thought it wasn’t as well made as Haqeeqat, which is much more sensitively portrayed. I haven’t seen LOC Kargil, but I did like the war portion in Lakshya – maybe I’m just a Ladakh fan!
I’m glad you enjoyed the post – and yes, you must look out for this film; it’s not to be missed. As for where you can get this: that depends on where you live.
If you’re in India, and in one of the metros, you could subscribe to a rental service such as Seventymm. Or, I think in the US, you could try Nehaflix.
Or, of course, you could order it online on – they deliver both within India and overseas, and are extremely professional. You’ll have to buy the DVD/VCD (rather than rent it) from them, though. I got my copy from induna. SRK can never, ever, ever match up to Shammi’s standard.
(And Dev’s, but that goes without saying!) They did make an awesome pair in movies, a lot of awesome movies, I should add. SRK can’t even dance, darn it. And those nicknames are really, really, cute!:D Asha also said once when they were filming Jab Pyar Kisi Se Hota Hai, you know, the song, “Yeh Aankhen Uff Yun Maa”, Dev just took off his gloves and started hitting her with them for fun. She said she didn’t know what to do, but then she started hitting him back and they were laughing and all that. All I will say is, way to ruin a shot!:D. I’ve also found myself wishing more and more for an old Filmfare magazine, and my grandma says they used to buy a LOT of those.
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It was every two weeks, right? But she threw them all away, GAH.
I came across some covers on Google, like this: This: And this: (He’s almost pointing to one book. I am getting that book now.) Up till then I didn’t know what the old Filmfare magazines looked like. So I ask my grandma, “Did you go for the first day, first show of ?” And the magazines and all that stuff! I really need a time machine. I need a time machine! -throws a fit- Must’ve been one hell of a job.:DDDDDD Oh, it was just them runinng all around Egypt (And Dev in a terrible Arab disguise, WTH?), and the second half of the movie was damn predictable. I was about to die laughing, though.
This, this is why you don’t cast Dev in these kinda films. Give him some better romantic role and watch him shine. Although, I liked the S-J numbers.
He also had his puff sometimes, sometimes not (oh, come on, Dev, make up your mind!), but one thing – you do not have princes with berets and scarves and coats. And puffs.:D Seriously, though. And when he called himself a GUIDE (Yes, AGAIN WITH GUIDE!), I fell off my chair. Oh, but I think it was all worth it cause seeing Dev as a prince with a puff and a red jacket in color was just amazing. I also love this song: Been humming it all day. Trust Dev to annoy the heck out of a heroine.:D By the way, have you seen any old Filmfare Awards? I really want to see the 1959 awards (because Dev won his first award there), and I’m just curious.
Pretty sure they didn’t have obscene performances. Can you post me some links?
-dying-:D I really really wonder what they did last time. Couldn’t just be an open-and-shut case of announcing the awards and that’s it, could it? I just realized one thing and laughed. Madhumati could’ve been the first film to win Best Actor, Director, Film, and Actress, but it didn’t cause Dev won the Best Actor award for Kala Pani. I laughed cause later in 1967, Dev and Goldie and Waheeda won those awards.:D Oh, and my grandma got me the movie Kala Pani just now!
I’m going to watch it.:DDD. I wanted to get it a long time ago, but I skipped it over in favor of Dev’s sixties movies. Well, I’m trying to fix that now.
(Honestly, I’ve known this film since June last year.) I just realized the big connection with the Filmfare stuff! But IT’S NOT WORKING! AKFJFGHTGHTNT N DAMN SHEMAROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Was so angry that I screamed into my pillow and cried. I hate Shemaroo. Their DVDs almost never work. (Trust me, my DVD player doesn’t like Shemaroo DVDs).
On a lighter note, I found some Filmfare videos. THEY GOT THE SINGERS TO ACTUALLY PERFORM. That is true, but film producers and distributors typically aren’t poor people. If one had the finances to make films, one could certainly afford to preserve them.
It wasn’t as if film reels were available to all and sundry (like books are, in which case one could say that the neglect of the object was the responsibility of whoever bought it). Part of the problem, from what I’ve heard, was that the film used back then was particularly susceptible to fire, so a lot of reels actually caught fire very easily. That’s how Alam Ara too has vanished, and Pakistan may be our only hope for perhaps finding a copy of it still around. Not sure I’d look at it the same way. For those early filmmakers, the movies ceased to have any importance once the theatrical run was over.
Even in the USA, which has been a pretty prosperous society ever since cinema appeared, its estimated that about 50% of all films made before 1950 are lost forever. Given the number of upheavals India has experienced: the Bengal famine, partition, independence, etc, its a miracle that even a handful of movies from the pre-independence have survived. God willing, we may someday locate some more lost movies.