Gumnaam The Mystery Mp3
Elijah Rakestraw
While Christie's British and American adaptations are well-known, her Indian adaptations, often uncredited, have received less recognition. Here are some notable Indian adaptations of Agatha Christie's work.
Before the movie comes out, though, let's explore Christie's adaptations in India. While her British and American adaptations are widely recognised, her Indian adaptations (mostly uncredited) have garnered comparatively less attention.
One notable early example is the 1960 Bengali murder mystery film, Chupi Chupi Aashey, which took its cues from Christie's stage play The Mousetrap. In this adaptation, the murder of a woman in a hotel sets the stage for a gripping mystery as guests with false identities become stranded due to sudden floods.
Following suit, Gumnaam in 1965 became the first Hindi film to draw from Christie's And Then There Were None, albeit without acknowledging its source. Starring acclaimed actors like Manoj Kumar, Nanda, Pran, Helen, and Mehmood, the adaptation featured seven guests instead of the original ten and introduced song and dance routines to cater to Indian audiences.
Nadu Iravil continued this trend with an adaptation of And Then There Were None, opting for a big house setting. However, for those familiar with Christie's original story, the film failed to make a remarkable impact.
Dhund, directed by BR Chopra, emerged as a standout Indian adaptation, drawing inspiration from Christie's 1958 play The Unexpected Guest. With a star-studded cast that included Sanjay Khan, Zeenat Aman, Danny Denzongpa, and others, the film revolved around a man's discovery of a dead husband and a woman claiming to have killed him in self-defence, leading to a tense and thrilling narrative.
The renowned Bengali filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh brought Christie to Indian screens with Shubho Mahurat, based on The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side. This adaptation, featuring Sharmila Tagore, Nandita Das, and Rakhi, expertly captured the essence of the original work in a lovingly shot and acted film.
In the Tamil and Kannada film industries, Aduthathu and Aatagaram respectively, both adapted And Then There Were None. These films underscored the enduring appeal of Christie's narratives, with Aatagaram even sparking debates over alleged plot similarities.
Mohanlal starred in the 012 Malayalam film, a loose adaptation of Christie's The A.B.C. Murders. The film retained the alphabetical order killings but shifted focus towards Mohanlal's star power, occasionally sidelining the mystery-solving aspect.
The latest Christie adaptation the Indian audiences have been treated to is Charlie Chopra & The Mystery Of Solang Valley, which is not, in fact, a movie. It is a Hindi-language mystery thriller TV series available on SonyLIV. Directed by Vishal Bhardwaj, the series adapted Christie's The Sittaford Mystery for the Indian context. Boasting a stellar ensemble cast, including Wamiqa Gabbi, Priyanshu Painyuli, Naseeruddin Shah, and others, the show's pilot episode premiered in June, with subsequent episodes slated for release starting on September 27.
If there is any writer who can match Arthur Conan Doyle in weaving stories of sinister murders, it is Dame Agatha Christie. While Doyle created the legendary fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie who was often called the Queen of crime writers, created the eccentric but highly efficient Hercule Poirot.
To mark her birthday today a film called A Haunting In Venice will be released in cinemas in Europe. The film is directed by Oscar award winner Kenneth Branagh. The story is a terrifying mystery set in Venice and the main character is the detective Hercule Poirot. When he visits an old palatial building, one of the guests is murdered and Poirot finds himself in the midst of a secret world of shadowy crime.
Agatha Christie was born in Torquay, UK. Her fans exist all over the world and have formed Agatha Christie fan clubs which celebrate her birthdays every year by enacting plays based on her famous novels. Many of her stories were made into films. According to The New Yorker, the most popular ones are Murder On The Orient Express, The Moving Finger, And Then There Were None and Witness For The Prosecution.
Among her numerous fans are filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, actor David Suchet and the late Queen Elizabeth II. The Queen bestowed on her the title of Dame in recognition of her contribution to popular literature.
The Hindi film Gumnaam released in 1965, starring Manoj Kumar, Nanda, Pran, Helen and comedian Mehmood was based on this Agatha Christie novel. It had a gripping plot and lilting music with songs sung by Mohammed Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhonsle and Sharada. It turned out to be a very popular film that year and the songs are still popular.
When she became an adult, she realised that she enjoyed writing and began writing more stories. Her first well known novel was The Mysterious Affair At Styles. In this story she introduced the detective Hercule Poirot who went on to become famous throughout the world just like Sherlock Holmes had done earlier.
But considering this is a Bollywood adaptation of an Agatha Christie novel, there's still a whole lot of fun to be had - but a good amount of this also feels unbearably stretched too. The musical numbers (especially the aforementioned one) can be very fun, the comedy relief doesn't always work - at times also coming off as an annoyance, and the tonal shifts are often highly jarring too. Nevertheless, Gumnaam can feel very tense - which makes it a lot of fun to watch, but that's what one could really want from an adaptation of an Agatha Christie story.
Ignoring the dull murder mystery plot which cheats the ending, this is so fun. Every single one of the musical numbers is amazing. The dance sequence that opens the film is iconic, just watching the dancer is enough to give you a headache. The repeated siren song, a riff on Mancinini's theme for Charade is suitably haunting. Love the walking transition to that song too, really feels like they're entering into another world.
Everybody knows this film now thanks to the insane musical number, Jaan Pehechaan Ho featured in Ghost World, but what they probably don't realize is that the rest of the movie is an instant cure for insomnia. Ostensibly a murder mystery, the plot moves at a glacial pace in between the occasional upbeat dance number. The comedy relief, Mehmood, looks like the love child of Hitler and Moe Howard, and is about as entertaining. My advice is to watch Ted Lyon and His Cubs on YouTube, and skip the rest of this snoozefest.
reasons to watch this movie:
- campy fun mystery with predictable story elements and unpredictable everything else
- the "gumnaam" siren song haunting every other scene
- manoj kumar in a bucket hat (peak divvij kak energy)
- helen being cool and beautiful and unbothered by the serial killer hunting them down one by one (her job is beach!)
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ending with the plane was anti-climatic and there were too many unnecessary songs to pad the runtime, but i had a lot of fun!
Hands down the most bonkers film I've seen all year. It's got that 60s Bond aesthetic going on - it is essentially a thriller based on an Agatha Christie novel, but it's also packed full of exciting musical numbers and extravagant sets in classic Bollywood style. The opening number which famously Enid is watching at the beginning of Ghost World is delightful. The rest of the film never quite lives up to it, but it does have a guy carrying a bottle labelled poison and a drunk and debaucherous party where they sing about alcohol tasting better than human blood. So like, you should probably watch this.
A fantastic Bollywood version of And Then There Were None. The characters are all great fun and the music is most groovy. There are many worse places to start if you're looking to explore Indian cinema.
Following dinner, Anand takes a torch and goes searching for Kishan. Asha accompanies him through the ruins scattered across the island. So there are two of them when they stumble onto Kishan, stabbed to death.
Oh, and the mysterious woman who sings Gumnaam hai koi? Another let-down. I expected this, the first time I watched Gumnaam, to end up being something along the lines of Woh Kaun Thi or Yeh Raat Phir Na Aayegi. But the explanation is, again, unfulfilling.
i love everywhere here, no complains. gumnaam never bores for a second. multi starer. whenever i see es duniya main jina ho toh i think they deserve death even if people are dying around them, they can also die but no they all are singing es duniya main jina ho toh. my anger immediately starts increasing.
while watching i realised when manoj kumar moral policing started he scolds nanda for drinking and says to helen that esko bhi zeher pila diya ?? in the climax we can see tarun bose saying goli ek hai aur aadmi do . similar dialogue in sholay.
Was Chaudhvin ka chaand ho ya aaftaab ho originally in colour? I recall watching the film (and seeing the song countless times) when I was a kid, and remember it in B/W, even though we had a colour TV. Could it have been coloured later? Or are there two versions floating around?
Whenever I saw photos of a group of white birds flying in the blue sky over a large water body with snowclad mountains in the background, I felt like flying to the spot instantly and immerse in the heavenly surroundings. Yet I was not there, may be because the urge was not strong enough even though the place was not very far away from where I live.
I have been close though, crossed Pong Dam many times while driving to Himachal Pradesh and beyond. The vastness and beauty of Maharana Partap Sagar always seemed to hide in its fold many mysteries and secrets, as the vast area was once throbbing with life before hundreds of villages and life along with it got buried in water samadhi in 1975 when a large man made reservoir was created.
A friend of mine Mr Harsh Khullar had once mentioned an island in Pond Dam Lake, called Rancer. For the matter of fact, the islands and mysteries surrounding them have always fascinated me. It was playing on my mind ever since and I tried to know more about it from the internet but with very little success.
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