Navrang (1959) :
Brief Review -
Lyrical Elaboration of a Poet's Fantasy World with Outdated Storytelling. Navrang was a 2nd Super Hit in a row for V. Shantam after Masterpiece 'Do Aankhen Baraah Haath' (1957) and it also begins with an emotional video message from the Director explaining how did he find the idea. His one eye was hurt during the climax of scene of 'Do Aankhen Barah Haath' and he thought everything was over but then he found colorful insights of Human Life and made Navrang. The film is about a Poet and Singer who sees his beautiful wife in fantasy world and creates gem after another but in real life his wife is unhappy with him. He loses his job and wife both and blames himself but then everything returns back to normal by the end. Navrang doesn't offer anything in the writing and storytelling and both are outdated by far. The storytelling trails almost 15-20 years behind when rest of the Bollywood was fairly upgraded by 1959. I couldn't bear the outdated melodramatic presentation where you see Scenes are cut inaccurately, interruptions in BGM and those milky faces looking up above the sky while delivering dialogues. Somehow these mistakes were covered by Lyrical elaboration of Poetic scenes and Soulful Music. I don't need to tell you how popular Navrang songs are since release till today. Mahipal does that melodramatic part in his outdated style and Sandhya impresses with her Mind blowing Dance moves. Cinematography and Visual effects have been used correctly and that's the only part where film actually looks like an updated film of late 50s. V. Shantaram has made a decent film and comparatively it's below par to his previous Classic Do Aankhen Barah Haath. The real motive of the film never comes to the limelight and ends on an incomplete note. Navrang is hardly a one time watch film and that too if you really want to enjoy the music and lyrical explanation of poet's fantasy world which is far far away from realistic life, otherwise you can easily Skip it and watch any Full Proof Classic from golden 50s decade.
RATING - 6/10*
By - #samthebestest
Lyrical Elaboration of a Poet's Fantasy World with Outdated Storytelling. Navrang was a 2nd Super Hit in a row for V. Shantam after Masterpiece 'Do Aankhen Baraah Haath' (1957) and it also begins with an emotional video message from the Director explaining how did he find the idea. His one eye was hurt during the climax of scene of 'Do Aankhen Barah Haath' and he thought everything was over but then he found colorful insights of Human Life and made Navrang. The film is about a Poet and Singer who sees his beautiful wife in fantasy world and creates gem after another but in real life his wife is unhappy with him. He loses his job and wife both and blames himself but then everything returns back to normal by the end. Navrang doesn't offer anything in the writing and storytelling and both are outdated by far. The storytelling trails almost 15-20 years behind when rest of the Bollywood was fairly upgraded by 1959. I couldn't bear the outdated melodramatic presentation where you see Scenes are cut inaccurately, interruptions in BGM and those milky faces looking up above the sky while delivering dialogues. Somehow these mistakes were covered by Lyrical elaboration of Poetic scenes and Soulful Music. I don't need to tell you how popular Navrang songs are since release till today. Mahipal does that melodramatic part in his outdated style and Sandhya impresses with her Mind blowing Dance moves. Cinematography and Visual effects have been used correctly and that's the only part where film actually looks like an updated film of late 50s. V. Shantaram has made a decent film and comparatively it's below par to his previous Classic Do Aankhen Barah Haath. The real motive of the film never comes to the limelight and ends on an incomplete note. Navrang is hardly a one time watch film and that too if you really want to enjoy the music and lyrical explanation of poet's fantasy world which is far far away from realistic life, otherwise you can easily Skip it and watch any Full Proof Classic from golden 50s decade.
RATING - 6/10*
By - #samthebestest