Film Barood
Raelene Heersink
Anup Saxena, a young eight-year-old boy lives in Bombay in a middle class society, with his father Durga Prasad Saxena, who is a Police Inspector in Bombay Police. He receives a medal for his dedication, honesty for his services, given to the force. Anup's life is suddenly goes dark, when he witnesses four notorious smugglers, Prem, Jagdish, Ratan and Bakshi, assault and kill his father, in broad daylight on Juhu Beach
He spends the rest of his childhood trying to make money and a sporting figure to avenge his father's death. Twelve years later, the boy is now a champion motor cyclist. He, with the help of his pet labrador Django, seeks revenge. In true Hollywood style, he begins to track down and eliminate the gang of smugglers.
His search leads him to various places like Las Vegas, New York, Geneva, Madrid, Paris, Barcelona, and the coastal areas of Spain. Where he finds his life threatened by his father's murderers. He kills them one by one in different countries like Prem in Geneva, Ratan in Las Vegas and Jagdish in New York. He leaves his dog at a kennel with Harry Ramani, a vet. He tries to woo Sapna, who is an assistant of Bakshi, in order to get his details and kill him. Bakshi is shot by him, but survives and Anup is already followed by a New York-based retired police detective Balraj Gupta, who is a friend of his late father and is determined to save him. He shadows his every move and will not hesitate to arrest him. Gupta and Bakshi, the Mafia Lord are hell bent to track him. Bakshi is into wine manufacturing and is operating out of Madrid and has a beautiful daughter Seema. Anup starts falling for her and then kidnaps her and takes her to an island and tells Bakshi to follow his instructions.
Bakshi's cronies give anup a wild car chase and finally Bakshi tries to follow him and dies in a car crash. Gupta arrests Anup and takes him to the police but in the middle of the trip he uncuffs and releases him. Seema wants to go with him. But he leaves her stranded in the middle and hands himself over to the police. After his release from the jail, Gupta comes to receive him and finally they end up together.
Despite its domestic failure an India, the film went on to become an overseas blockbuster in the Soviet Union, where it released in 1978 and topped the year's Soviet box office chart.[4] It drew a box office audience of 60 million Soviet viewers, the second highest for an Indian film in the 1970s (after the earlier Rishi Kapoor starrer Bobby) and the fifth highest for a foreign film that decade.[6] At the Soviet box office, it was the 13th biggest hit of the 1970s,[6][7] the fourth most successful Indian import of all time (after Awaara, Bobby and Disco Dancer), the ninth biggest foreign hit of all time,[7] and one of the top 30 biggest hits of all time.[6][7] It was among the highest-grossing films in the Soviet Union.[8]
The Rishi Kapoor-Shoma Anand pair was resurrected for Coolie. Only Desai was capable of this! To make it worse for most of the film Rishi and shoma Anand pine not for each other but for childhood versions of each other! Rishi Kapoor clutching a picture of a little girl throughout while Shoma Anand has the little boy wallpaper!
Rajen, I completely agree with you. Satyam analysis Hindi films in a different view altogether. Many a times his reviews/commentry make me to revisit the movie to catch some of his points ( like Delhi6, Great Gambler,Coolie etc). Hindi films would have achieved a much higher status in 70s, 80s if Satyam was getting these kind of reviews out then.
An original composed for a film in Bengali, titled, 'Barood'. Director of the film is Soumik Haldar. Lyrics and Music: Chandrasish RayVocals and Guitar recorded at Aural Workstation.Mixed and Mastered by: Anindit Ray and Adeep Singh Manki at Aural Workstation.
Soviet films depicted what was already familiar to Soviet viewers - everyday life, work relationships, familiar "scenery" and sights. Foreign films were like a breath of fresh air, introducing audiences in the USSR to new actors, unfamiliar landscapes, and a completely different lifestyle.
Far from all foreign films were allowed on Soviet screens, some had certain scenes cut from them, while others arrived in the USSR several years after their original release date. But none of this detracted from the pleasure with which they were received by Soviet viewers. Below is the list of highest-grossing foreign films released in the USSR.
Alexander Dumas' novel about the adventures of brave royal guardsmen, The Three Musketeers, was adored by generations of Soviet people and was published and distributed across the country. It is therefore not surprising that a French comedy adaptation of that favorite book was watched by some 56.6 million people in the USSR. Incidentally, the film reached Soviet screens with a delay of four years, only in 1978, the same year that a Soviet TV adaptation of The Three Musketeers was made, which acquired cult status in the USSR.
Bollywood was incredibly popular in the USSR, and many Indian films were big box-office hits. Films from friendly India were ideologically neutral and safe, so there were many of them released to movie screens in the USSR.
The action movie Barood tanked at the Indian box office, but became a real hit in the USSR. It was released there in 1978 and was seen by 60 million people. The actor Rishi Kapoor, who starred in the film, was already familiar to Soviet viewers from the romance Bobby (1973), and in the 1980s he was invited to star in a Soviet-Indian co-production, the action adventure film Ajooba.
This Indian musical romance and drama about a street singer was released in the Soviet Union in 1984 and became an instant hit. It was watched by 60.9 million people, with many viewers returning for repeat viewings. The ingredients of its success were dancing, singing, exotic landscapes and outfits and, of course, a plot that viewers could empathize with. That said, in the version of the film released in the USSR, some dance sequences were edited.
Many Soviet people knew the song Jimmy Jimmy Aaja almost by heart, while the actor Mithun Chakraborty, who played the title role, became a household name (and later paid numerous visits to the USSR and then Russia).
No other Egyptian film ever made it even into the top 50 highest-grossing films in the USSR. However, this story of an Egyptian Cinderella captivated Soviet viewers. The plot of this romance tells the story of a poor sales girl and a millionaire's son, who get married in secret since they know that the groom's rich father would never give his blessing to their union. Soviet censors must have concluded that the film's class sensibilities were in the right place: indeed, the rich are the source of all problems.
The film was released in the USSR in 1976 and was watched by 61 million viewers. The White Gown even bettered the box office of another Indian hit, Seeta Aur Geeta, which was released the same year (and which ended up among the top 20 highest-grossing films in the USSR).
This film introduced Soviet audiences to the actor Rishi Kapoor (see Barood above). It is an Indian version of the timeless Romeo and Juliet story. The young couple's parents belong to different castes: she is the daughter of wealthy people, he is the son of a fisherman. Furthermore, they belong to different religions. The film's moving love story and class struggles appealed to viewers in the USSR. The film was released in the Soviet Union in 1975 and was watched by 62.6 million people.
The gladiator Spartacus, a leader of a slave uprising, was one of Soviet people's most favorite characters. The eponymous novel by Raffaello Giovagnoli enjoyed huge print runs in the USSR. In 1956, Aram Khachaturian's ballet Spartacus, based on Giovagnoli's book, premiered at the Kirov Opera and Ballet Theater (now known as the Mariinsky Theatre) with great success. Furthermore, a popular Moscow football club and a sports society borrowed their name, Spartak, from that hero too.
The American history drama Spartacus was released in the USSR seven years after it first hit U.S. screens, only in 1967, and was watched by 63 million people. It was very rare for a Hollywood film to reach Soviet screens at all, but in this case an exception was made since the movie was about the class struggle of oppressed slaves. Incidentally, the director Stanley Kubrick said that while working on the film he had drawn inspiration from Sergei Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky.
American Westerns were largely frowned upon in the USSR, so during the Cold War Soviet film-makers came up with their own version of the genre, red 'Easterns'. In some ways, they were similar to their western precursors, except that instead of the deserts of the Wild West, they featured Central Asia. And yet, set in the canyons of the U.S. southern states, with a gripping adventure plot and a love story (which was usually missing in 'Easterns'), Mackenna's Gold became a hit with Soviet audiences. The film was released in the USSR in 1974 and was watched by 63 million people.
In 1973, a Soviet Western was released to the country's movie screens, a film adaptation of Mayne Reid's novel The Headless Horseman, which was very popular in the USSR. Its action is set in Texas, but was filmed in the south of Russia and in Crimea. However, film critics did not like it that Soviet actors in it looked like "perfect Americans".
The film tells the touching story of Raj, who was born in a slum and had to become a thief. In his heart, he is not a criminal and his conscience torments him (besides, he has a rich father). In the end, Raj is sent to prison, and his beloved promises to wait for him, just like Sonechka Marmeladova in Crime and Punishment. In other words, she does something that Soviet viewers were sure to approve of.
Released in the USSR in 1954, Awaara(The Vagabond) became one of the first Indian movies to captivate Soviet audiences. It was watched by 63.7 million people and earned its director and star Raj Kapoor the nickname "Comrade Vagabond". Incidentally, it was he who would later make another Indian hit, the film Bobby, starring his son Rishi Kapoor.
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