Anupama (1966) :
Brief Review -
Hrishikesh Mukherjee's attempt to make "Bimal Roy Cinema" as a tribute. Anupama, widely known as Hrishikesh Mukherjee's one of the Greatest Achievement is sort of Bimal Roy Cinema and to confirm it there is tagline at the beginning, "Dedicated to Bimal da". Anupama has soul connected to a Woman's strained life just like Bimal Roy films had but Hrishi da makes it more of a love story than a social topic. In Anuradha he gives tribute to all Women who have sacrificed their everything to make men successful and so it became universal concept but that's not the case here for Anupama. The film is about a girl whose mother immediately after her birth so the Father blames her for this loss and even the girl starts believing it as her own fault. Then finally sunshine called Love comes into her life and encourages her to Live incomparably. Anupama has many emotional moments where you can't hold your tears, one is when you realise her pain, another one when Dharmendra sings painful poem. In climax it feels like film misses something, don't know what exactly, may be Father-daughter final face off or acknowledgement or maybe social message. Otherwise it is a very good emotional drama keeping all qualities upto the mark. Sharmila Tagore is fantastic in this shy yet full of life role, Dharmendra shines as a poet and a man with principles, Shashikala is in top form in her favourite zone of chatterbox and free minded girl. Dialogues writing is are pure class, i don't see nothing wrong about it rather many dialogues are overwhelming and ahead of time. Hrishikesh Mukherjee's direction is nice, he covered all elements with his intelligence. The shortcomings are unacceptable though. Anupama should have had more appealing social issue and then it would have left stronger impact.
RATING - 7/10*
By - #samthebestest
Hrishikesh Mukherjee's attempt to make "Bimal Roy Cinema" as a tribute. Anupama, widely known as Hrishikesh Mukherjee's one of the Greatest Achievement is sort of Bimal Roy Cinema and to confirm it there is tagline at the beginning, "Dedicated to Bimal da". Anupama has soul connected to a Woman's strained life just like Bimal Roy films had but Hrishi da makes it more of a love story than a social topic. In Anuradha he gives tribute to all Women who have sacrificed their everything to make men successful and so it became universal concept but that's not the case here for Anupama. The film is about a girl whose mother immediately after her birth so the Father blames her for this loss and even the girl starts believing it as her own fault. Then finally sunshine called Love comes into her life and encourages her to Live incomparably. Anupama has many emotional moments where you can't hold your tears, one is when you realise her pain, another one when Dharmendra sings painful poem. In climax it feels like film misses something, don't know what exactly, may be Father-daughter final face off or acknowledgement or maybe social message. Otherwise it is a very good emotional drama keeping all qualities upto the mark. Sharmila Tagore is fantastic in this shy yet full of life role, Dharmendra shines as a poet and a man with principles, Shashikala is in top form in her favourite zone of chatterbox and free minded girl. Dialogues writing is are pure class, i don't see nothing wrong about it rather many dialogues are overwhelming and ahead of time. Hrishikesh Mukherjee's direction is nice, he covered all elements with his intelligence. The shortcomings are unacceptable though. Anupama should have had more appealing social issue and then it would have left stronger impact.
RATING - 7/10*
By - #samthebestest