What can I say!
To top it off, he appears in a suit in the party leading to the climax when all other drivers appear in their uniforms. Wow!
Why did this movie become a hit? 1. They added color stupid. 2. They put 3 heroes in the same picture. 3. The always successful "lost and found" formula in those days.
Sunit Datt is unarguably the saving grace of this movie. Now here is an actor, who is good looking, natural and quite talented. Now we got Shashi kapoor, who got the looks, but could indeed struggle to be a driver in the real life was he not one of the Kapoor Klan. I haven't seen an actor who is as close to being a stone as possible. Raj Kumar does try to get funny, but fails. Now he got no looks either...it's a mystery how he ever became a star and whatever people found in his many now-famous dialogues.
I like to watch most Bollywood movies for fun...this was fun indeed.
- An extremely poor Shashi Kapoor struggling to raise money for his eternally sick mom flaunts fashionable designer clothes. Impeccable hair cut, clean-shaven look, amazing branded sweaters and trousers...one can hardly imagine the plight of the young "driver" when he has such fancy clothes to wear.
To top it off, he appears in a suit in the party leading to the climax when all other drivers appear in their uniforms. Wow!
- Why do all family members have to get separated like that just defines my sense of logic. Let's say that you have a big family living in a big house, and earthquake strikes. Either you all get killed God-forbid, or some of you survive. Now would the survivors be separated light-years away from each other? You were in the same place, why would you wander off to a God forsaken place rather than sticking by for the authorities and make sure that your family is safe? I have to clap for the incredible stupidity of Bollywood film-makers.
- The way Raj Kumar is all over Sadhana making no secret of his love would make any sane girl know his true intentions. Sadhana is not shown as a flirtatious type; yet she is the last person to know of his motives?!?! Can you say Bollywood knows its subtlety. Let us imagine for the moment that Sadhana is indeed the statue of infinite innocence and has no idea that Raj Kumar pines for her. But then in a complete contradiction, she is scared when Raj Kumar asks her "his gift" for winning the race...clearly showing that she expects him to ask her hand. Can you say Bollywood has got it straight.
- The lesser said about the Court case, the better. For a Perry Mason enthusiast like me, Bollywood courts could not be farther from reality.
Why did this movie become a hit? 1. They added color stupid. 2. They put 3 heroes in the same picture. 3. The always successful "lost and found" formula in those days.
Sunit Datt is unarguably the saving grace of this movie. Now here is an actor, who is good looking, natural and quite talented. Now we got Shashi kapoor, who got the looks, but could indeed struggle to be a driver in the real life was he not one of the Kapoor Klan. I haven't seen an actor who is as close to being a stone as possible. Raj Kumar does try to get funny, but fails. Now he got no looks either...it's a mystery how he ever became a star and whatever people found in his many now-famous dialogues.
I like to watch most Bollywood movies for fun...this was fun indeed.