Awaara (1951)
3/10
Just a sad story
17 September 2017
I watched this a few times when I was a teenager, in the '60s. It was in my home country, Romania, where it was a Huge Success, actually, Huge Success is less said, it was more than that, it was like a cult film and even more than that. It ran many years in a row and everybody knew the songs, at least the title song was heard by trams, buses, trolleybuses and other public places. It was some sort of RajKapoormania, much bigger than the Beatlesmania. Maybe I was crying then, being just a naive little kid, I do not remember exactly whether I was crying or not. I've reviewed it now in 2017. It did not impress me at all, you need a lot of love for film and patience to watch it all. It's still well done - it's a Bollywood classic - but the actors' play, especially Jagga (K.N. Singh) and Justice Raghunath(Prithviraj Kapoor) is too exaggerated. Exactly like the whole plot.
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