10 questions after Basu Bhattacharya's Anubhav
- Wouldn’t it have been fun if Amitabh Bachchan had played
Shashi?
- Does Sanjeev Kumar begin to lose it at the end because he
realises he’s being out-acted by Tanuja?
- Why don't we come up with more screenplays like this, in which adults
get to act like adults?
- Don’t you just hate it when the only thing people can say
about a film they like is “Oh, it has great songs”?
- Did Nando Bhattacharya photograph anything else of note?
- Why is the sound sync so badly off?
- A homegrown reply to the new wave(s) of the 60s? (Read a related post by Jai
Arjun Singh here)
- Could anything possibly be less appetising than Hangal
giving Sanjeev Kumar a butt massage?
- “Mujhe Jaan Na Karo Meri Jaan” – best ever song shot on a
balcony? Followed by “Door Kahin Jab Din Dhal Jaaye”?
- Did Vittorio De Sica’s Sunflower actually play in
Bombay?
3 comments:
Could anything possibly be less appetising than Hangal giving Sanjeev Kumar a butt massage?
I can think of a few things. Hangal (as acting teacher/mentor) telling the young SK "Tum actor bano - Hero mat bano", thereby ensuring that Hari-bhai never became either thing.
Also Hangal adopting the "psycho-technique" and projecting himself back billions of years into the primal soup to prepare for his role as the blind maulvi in Sholay.
SK's acting is a bit of a primordial soup as well. His absolute worst moment here is when he's saying "My wife? MY wife? My WIFE? MY WIFE?" to Dinesh Thakhur.
I know! When that scene happened, my wife (who is normally quite sceptical about my thoughts on Sanjeev Kumar) spontaneously burst into a litany of "He's so bad! He's so, so bad!" And ironically, I was the one who was trying to find ways to defend his performance, because it seemed so over-the-top terrible I thought it had to be deliberate. Wondered if it was meant to be an explicitly detached, Brechtian moment (especially given that Brecht does come up in a conversation a little while before). But eventually I had to throw my hands up: he IS bad in that scene, period.
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