Comments for Dustedoff http://dustedoff.wordpress.com Thu, 23 May 2013 20:06:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Bahurani (1963) by pacifist http://dustedoff.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/bahurani-1963/#comment-23861 Thu, 23 May 2013 20:06:01 +0000 http://dustedoff.wordpress.com/?p=10475#comment-23861 With Shilpi talking of Apradhi Kaun on her blog, Mala Sinha seems to be the Blog Girl of the moment. :-)

]]> Comment on Bahurani (1963) by pacifist http://dustedoff.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/bahurani-1963/#comment-23860 Thu, 23 May 2013 20:03:24 +0000 http://dustedoff.wordpress.com/?p=10475#comment-23860 Well, I like Mala!!! She was really beautiful.
But, if the colander didn’t remind you of Mala Sinha – what did? *very curious*
:-D

I liked her in Do Kaliyaan too, in addition to the films mentioned by you.
As for the film. I saw it some years ago, and thought it was good to see the ‘strong’
woman charactrer here.

>[in one of the cheesiest visual metaphors for the dawn of knowledge that I’ve seen],

The picture doesn’t explain much,, and I can’t seem to remember what. Was it light?? Entering his head?

Very entertaining review Madhu. Thanks so much. :-)

]]> Comment on Bahurani (1963) by pacifist http://dustedoff.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/bahurani-1963/#comment-23859 Thu, 23 May 2013 19:55:58 +0000 http://dustedoff.wordpress.com/?p=10475#comment-23859 LOL!!

]]> Comment on Bahurani (1963) by World of Cinema http://dustedoff.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/bahurani-1963/#comment-23857 Thu, 23 May 2013 18:15:13 +0000 http://dustedoff.wordpress.com/?p=10475#comment-23857 Well once again I am feeling a bit helpless because mum is no longer with me, I would have given you all the info regarding this film. Bahurani is itself a remake of a very old film Swayamsiddha. The word I think means self-reliant. I have seen the Mala Sinha version, but I cannot remember whom they have credited the story to. There was a very old Bengali film also called Swayamsiddha and I think it is based on a a Bengali novel of the same name. Mum would have been able to give me the details.There was Hindi version film it was made in 1949 and had Shanta Apte in the lead. Several versions of this film were made over the years. I think the makers of Bahurani were maybe trying to pass it off as their original version, that is if they have not credited the original Bengali writer. Shanta Apte was quite good in that version, I still remember her, acting, I had seen the film on Doordarshan. Inder Raj Anand definitely had lot of ‘insipiration’ to fall back on—- Shilpi

]]> Comment on Bahurani (1963) by thandapani http://dustedoff.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/bahurani-1963/#comment-23856 Thu, 23 May 2013 17:40:37 +0000 http://dustedoff.wordpress.com/?p=10475#comment-23856 The review is entertaining, but watching the movie. Not sure.

I don’t mind Mala, she is ok in many films.

Why did the opium not affect Guru Dutt physically? arrey hamari pacifist ka kya hota?

]]> Comment on Bahurani (1963) by harveypam http://dustedoff.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/bahurani-1963/#comment-23855 Thu, 23 May 2013 17:03:28 +0000 http://dustedoff.wordpress.com/?p=10475#comment-23855 For somebody like me who has contradictory feelings towards Mala Sinha, you make me want to watch this film! All the accompanying comments in italics had me laughing as well.
This was one of the favourite films for an aunt of mine, whose choices for Hindi cinema were as contradictory as my feelings towards Mala Sinha. So it might not be a bad film altogether! But more than that the couple of scenes you describe like the wedding scene and Lalita Pawar’s grey shades, make it sound really good!
Thanks for this highly entertaining review Madhu!

]]> Comment on Kalpana (1960) by muhsin http://dustedoff.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/kalpana-1960/#comment-23854 Thu, 23 May 2013 15:44:09 +0000 http://dustedoff.wordpress.com/?p=10452#comment-23854 Pyara pyara hai sama is a beautiful compostion of nayyar in the same movie. But i could not find this song in Kalpana.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbWFliqhH4Y

]]> Comment on Bahurani (1963) by Anu Warrier http://dustedoff.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/bahurani-1963/#comment-23853 Thu, 23 May 2013 15:37:49 +0000 http://dustedoff.wordpress.com/?p=10475#comment-23853 Like Bawa, I giggled at all your asides, and, being equally allergic to Mala Sinha, I will pass on watching this again. (I remember watching it on DD in the Jurassic Era.) I will never understand Hindi film heroines – here is one film where the father is telling her to not continue with the shaadi because he does not want his daughter’s life ruined, and she has to come up with that silly excuse. Especially since she cannot have thought of him as her husband at all – wasn’t she supposed to marry the younger brother? Aaaarrrgh!

Good review, though, Madhu. (And that has to be said? Why? [grin])

]]> Comment on Bahurani (1963) by coolone160 http://dustedoff.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/bahurani-1963/#comment-23852 Thu, 23 May 2013 14:35:08 +0000 http://dustedoff.wordpress.com/?p=10475#comment-23852 Feroz Khan in a villainous role?Quite intriguing;must see the movie.I like Mala Sinha despite her OTT and melodramatic roles :) .She is just superb as an erring wife in “Gumraah” .She also displays her humorous side and comic timing in “Himalay Ki God Main’……………….

]]> Comment on Bahurani (1963) by bawa http://dustedoff.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/bahurani-1963/#comment-23851 Thu, 23 May 2013 13:55:28 +0000 http://dustedoff.wordpress.com/?p=10475#comment-23851 Good review (every single aside in italics had me giggling)! I don’t think I have ever seen it, and maybe never will, due to a totally unwarranted allergic reaction to Mala Sinha.

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