Thursday, March 11, 2004
The magic of Ramesh sippy's "Saagar"
Very few times has a Hindi movie provided attained excellent quality like the movie "Saagar". The film stars kamalHaasan, Rishi Kapoor and Dimple Kapadia and is excellent entertainment for over 2 hours. The great thing about it is although its a simple love story the concept of which has been repeated umpteen times in Indian cinema, its one of those few times when most of the situations and flow of the story mirrors real-life.
Kamalhaasan gives an excellent performance, as expected, as the hard-working fisherman secretly longing for the pretty barmaid Dimple. Dimple, not very applaudable in the acting department, provides good eye-candy without resorting to any vulgar dresses or dancing. The surprise of the movie is the brilliant performance of Rishi kapoor, who given a very simple role as the rich boy desiring a poor girl, makes the best of it.
Last but not least, the film waltzes on the magnificent music of R.D.Burman, who had notched up another flawless score. Besided the lilting songs, the background music at certain places is just mind-boggling. Its a pity that the casettes or CDs for this movie dont carry that music and this is the sad case for many of R.D.Burman's scores.
Bottomline is while I was watching that movie, I did experience a joyful feeling many times. Its a feeling thats different - you can feel it in your heart and you want to feel that way more often and look for more sources that give you the feeling. I happily found out that "Saagar" was one source.
Very few times has a Hindi movie provided attained excellent quality like the movie "Saagar". The film stars kamalHaasan, Rishi Kapoor and Dimple Kapadia and is excellent entertainment for over 2 hours. The great thing about it is although its a simple love story the concept of which has been repeated umpteen times in Indian cinema, its one of those few times when most of the situations and flow of the story mirrors real-life.
Kamalhaasan gives an excellent performance, as expected, as the hard-working fisherman secretly longing for the pretty barmaid Dimple. Dimple, not very applaudable in the acting department, provides good eye-candy without resorting to any vulgar dresses or dancing. The surprise of the movie is the brilliant performance of Rishi kapoor, who given a very simple role as the rich boy desiring a poor girl, makes the best of it.
Last but not least, the film waltzes on the magnificent music of R.D.Burman, who had notched up another flawless score. Besided the lilting songs, the background music at certain places is just mind-boggling. Its a pity that the casettes or CDs for this movie dont carry that music and this is the sad case for many of R.D.Burman's scores.
Bottomline is while I was watching that movie, I did experience a joyful feeling many times. Its a feeling thats different - you can feel it in your heart and you want to feel that way more often and look for more sources that give you the feeling. I happily found out that "Saagar" was one source.
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