[Aaj Ki Taaqat Love Full Movie 1080p
Christel Malden
There is no power on earth that could stop me from watching a movie which begins like this. Raakhee as a vengeful dacoit?! Removing her bangles?! It just has to be awesome. I have a severe weakness for daku-dramas as it is, but toss in a girl gone bad (especially if it is Raakhee!) and I am even happier. Plus there are subtitles, although they are unreadable about fifty percent of the time. Female kickassery, a strong moral center and plenty of plot twists enable me to say that this film basically delivers on its promise.
Pran plays Bhavani Singh, a notorious dacoit who is finally caught by a police sting with the help of the local thakur Shakti Singh (Vinod Khanna). Bhavani is not helped any by his own hungry horse, which settles down to graze while Pran and Vinod fight it out.
But he is about to fall in love on his own, with the lovely Devi (Raakhee), whom he hears singing and follows in the forest near one of his hunting lodges. Shakti is smitten on sight, although she flees when she sees him watching her.
Devi is an orphan who has been brought up by the caretaker of the lodge. She grumbles as she prepares lunch about the awful Thakur who kills defenseless animals (I love her now too!). Not knowing that Shakti is the Thakur she stops him that afternoon as he takes aim at three sweet little white bunnies (not too manipulative, filmmakers!); seeing how upset she is, he swears to give up hunting.
I felt very let down by the same-old, same-old double standard, forcing the female characters to represent either goddess or whore with no middle ground. This film could have been so much more powerful had it stayed true to what it was otherwise saying throughout, but in the end the filmmakers (or maybe censors) compromised with what they probably believed audiences would rather see. Too bad!*
Memsaab, though I am not fond of dacoit movies, specially ones in color, I think I may like this movie, for a young Rakhee and Hunterwali (Nadira) as a saucy-saas. What happened to Nadira in the end? Did she too die in the fire? That picture of her with the appalled expression is priceless. What did Rakhee do in that scene?
Were you watching from an old DVD/VCD? Because the picture quality was not up to the mark, as in your other reviews, and the subtitling in dirty-yellow, I wonder how you managed to read that.
Woh jinke paas taaqat hai
Woh Jo chahe keh bhi dete hain
Woh Jo chahe kar bhi dete hain
Taqaat ka nasha taari hai
Madhoshi manand e janoon taari hai
Is nashe ke nashe main kaat daalte hain Rond dalte hain
Woh behre hain behre hain behre hain
Warna hamari cheekhon se kaan ke parde phat jaate
Chalo Woh to sunta hai
Jo Samiy hai Baseer hai
Kabhi to suune ga
Main apni zakham khurda aana ko liye
Muntazir hun Muntazir hun Muntazir hun!!
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