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| June, 1999 Volume 5, Number 6 HOME EDITORIAL COVER STORY SPECIALS IMMIGRATION EVENTS CLASSIFIEDS HEALTH ARCHIVES |
Specials
MOVIE REVIEW: Janam Samjha Karo
(Hindi) Starring: Salman Khan, Urmila, Monica Bedi, Shammi
Kapoor
Urmila is a club dancer with high moral values. She dances to keep her family going (that consists of one grandmother and three aunties with kids of their own). In spite of being high-profiled in a corrupt atmosphere she manages to maintain her virginity (which of course is very important and the director never lets you forget this fact throughout the film). Salman Khan, a rich spoiled flirtateous grandson of Shammi Kapoor, arrives from the spoiled soil of USA. He sees Urmila in his usual style and tries to patao her. She, in the beginning, dates him but realizing his ulterior motives leaves him. They meet again in London where Urmila is visiting as a show dancer. Under unavoidable circumstances(?) they'll get together and declare themselves married to Shammi Kapoor and all. Salman Khan however is not in love with her and never misses an opportunity of belittling Urmila. Inspite of all this Urmila truly falls in love with him with Shammi Kapoor's blessings. She tells the granddad the entire truth and he approves the relationship and suggests that she change Salman. Well, the end is anybody's guess. A hopeless and tiresome movie. Salman Khan's flippant action and mannerisms do little to help. Urmila is good and better than the rest. Music is okay. Most of the tunes are repetitive and Anu Malik seems to have lifted tunes from his own past/used songs. MOVIE REVIEW: Arundhati (Telugu) Starring: Soundarya, Srividya Kranti Kumar, an impressive director with hits like Jyothi, Amaradeepam in his record comes up with another tragedy in the name of Arundati. A sick, twisted and senseless story with senseless drama. The storyline is too twisted to narrate briefly. But I'll try. Arundati, daughter of Srividya, falls in love with the hero (a new one) after a couple of songs and sentimental convincing by her friend. (Her friend, by the way has another story of her own.) When the hero's parents, visit Srividya to settle the wedding, the hero's father (Thota Tharani) realizes that the mother is none other than the prostitute he used to visit regularly before marriage. Disgusted, he threatens them all and asks his son to forget about the wedding. Later Soundarya learns that she's not actually the daughter of Srividya but an abandonded child. She starts hating her father who left her and her now dead birth mother. When she actually meets her father, she plots a revengeful plan against him. Later, realizing his innocence she tries to mend it. She herself learns that she's dying with brain tumor and finally gets her step-sister marry her boyfriend. My God! How sick! I'm sorry if I've revealed the mystery to you all. I just could'nt resist. Nothing more to say about this movie. Soundarya's voice is not her own, so nothing can be said about her performance, though she screams well. Music is hardly memorable. I sincerely don't understand what the director is trying to say (as you expect a director of Kanti Kumar's calibre to) and what his intentions are. A waste of time! Did you like this article ?
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A bogus movie with fixed moral values and sentiments.
Maybe all Hindi movies reflect similar ideas, yet added to a boring story line and
screenplay Janam Samjha Karo is doubly irritating to say the least.