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Love Story (1981)

Love Story (1981)

Cast: Kumar Gaurav, Vijayta Pandit, Rajendra Kumar, Danny Denzongpa, Vidya Sinha, Amjad Khan.

Director: Rahul Rawail

Producer: Rajendra Kumar

Singers: Amit Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle.

Music: Rahul Dev Burman 

Lyricist: Anand Bakshi 

Love Story (1981) is a romance, drama, action, comedy movie (yes this movie has it all). This movie like most films i review on here became a blockbuster at the Indian box office.

Vijay (Rajendra kumar) and Suman (Vidya Sinha) are lovers, One night they go to a Club called GayLord (with only straight couples apparently), while there Suman comes across an old friend Ram (Danny Denzongpa) who happens to be Vijay's enemy, as the two had clashed over Ram's refusal to accept Vijay's Bribery.

Ram asks Suman for a dance, Suman agrees contrary to Vijay's advice that she should ignore Ram. A jealous and angry Vijay then breaks up with Suman due to her failure to obey him, before she leaves him, a weepy Suman curses him out telling him that this love story will come back to haunt him.

Vijay remarries and his wife gives birth to a son, but she dies upon deliverance, meanwhile Suman and Ram also marry and they give birth to a daughter. When Vijay's son Bunty (Kumar Gaurav) grows up, he decides to be a pilot but his father wants him to be an engineer, due to their conflicting opinions he runs away from home

Ram and Suman's daughter Pinky (Vijeta Pandit) also comes of age as well and her father decides to marry her off , Suman isn't happy with her father's decision and she runs away from home.

Bunty and Pinky meet each other while on the run from home, however they're both unaware of their parents history.

Their parents became very worried and they order a warrant for their arrest should they be found.

Some little insignificant things kept me amused through this movie, i've listed them below.

Love Story like most other romance movies of its time is very cheesy but yet entertaining to watch, if you like cheesy romance stories served up with some masala action then you're bound to like this. Kumar Gaurav whose dad (Rajendra Kumar) both in the film and in real life directed the film, became a heart throb after the success of the movie, however none of his other movies matched the success of Love Story.

The music of Love Story scored by R.D. Burman is one of the best movie soundtracks of the 80's, Amit Kumar won his first filmfare award for the song Teri yaad aa rahi hai.

Aruna Irani also appears in an item number for the song 'Kya Gazab' (See Video below), its one of my favourites from the film.



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