Our story begins appropriately enough on a dark and foggy night, as a car careens along a road. It soon crashes into a tree, and the reckless driver (not a Kapoor! but Navin Nischol) makes his way by torchlight to a nearby house. Nobody answers his knock, but he goes in anyway.
Did Suresh kill Ranjit? Was Rani lying? Or did she honestly kill her husband by accident? What will Suresh do if he is arrested and tried for murder? Will Shekhar confess that he lied? With so many people having good reason to kill Ranjit Singh, have the police gotten the right person? (Nana Palsikar will be the judge of that! and Ashok Kumar makes an appearance as the impish prosecutor.)
This movie was actually being telecast in one of the movie channels a few days back. I watched it a bit and I do not remember why I did not watch the rest. perhaps I was looking for some other channel or my mind was elsewhere or I was feeling sleepy Like a tipsy Deven Verma I too do not recall the details. :)
Danny indeed received tremendous critical acclaim for his role in this movie. Though I have never watched this movie in full, I associate this movie with Danny, that is the kind of rave reviews I remember reading about him.
Police usually behaved well in the ciinema of the time. You would rarely come across a corrupt cop in seventies. Corrupt cops were an eighties phenomena, starting with the Jeetendra megahit Meri Awaz Suno, which was also banned because it portrayed government officials and cops in bad light.
I shouldn`t write this,
but I have to write this for the things , those two ruthless men done to zeenatji.
GOD had punished both Sanjay and Mazhar Khan,in his own ways, I think. But the punishment was not enough for the deeds done by them, I feel.
Anyway, one has to carry on in life with these things and Zeenat has done it bravely, she even walked the ramp the other day for a well known designer. Brave lass, May God give her all the happiness in the days to come.
Well it is a completely awful incident which reflects very badly on him (not to mention his treatment of Zarine in the whole thing). Leaves a very bad taste, which comes back whenever I watch his films, partly why I rarely do see a Sanjay Khan film.
I did manage to see this again and I agree that it is well made and follows a logical progression, avoiding too many sideshows. I did find the end to be a bit contrived but that could be because the filmmakers wanted to stay true to the original. I have read somewhere that to pick the perpetrator of a crime, novelists (and films) of yore had a limited choice between the hero, his sidekick, the heroine, the villain, the butler, the maid or a tramp :)
Do you have a mail where one can talk in more detail? (Just to clarfiy, I am an aspiring script writer/actor, and needed some inspiration, since you watch so many movies I think I could ask you for some things).
I love watching movies, reading about movies, discussing movies, and once upon a time in the dark ages, I used to be a journalist (not a film one, though) in Bombay. It feels good to find a community that is so passionate about films.
Dharam and Yash are both brothers of BR Chopra.Dharam was a good cinematographer.
If I remember correctly, all three worked together for the first time on Dhool ka Phool. Sort of like Taxi Driver in which three Anand Brothers (Chetan, Dev and Vijay) worked together.
i too love mysterious and being a great reader of all agatha christie books they are great i decided to watch dhund since it was based on one of her books and i really enjoyed this movie. bollywood does not do many movies along the lines of this genre, but dhund was a great watch all the way and all the actors were very good.
Not only Chori Chori though, Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahin was also inspired by this Frank Capra classic. If you look closely, you will notice the theme present in other well loved movies like Jab We Met and Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge as well!
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