Kumar Gaurav - Love Story (1981)

Directed by: Rahul Rawail, Rajendra Kumar 

Written by: Humayun Mirza, Mahrukh Mirza, Shahrukh Mirza 

Rajendra Kumar production 

RD Burman songs 

Cinematography: Radhu Karmakar 

Suresh Bhatt choreographer 

Cast: Kumar Gaurav, Vijayata Pandit Rajendra Kumar, Danny Denzongpa, 

Vidya Sinha, Amjad Khan, Aruna Irani, Bharat Kapoor, Dev Kumar, Prem Kalra 

Length: 155 min

STORY 

The contractor Vijay Mehra (Rajendra Kumar) tried the building inspector Ram Dogra (Danny Denzongpa) bribe. Since the integrity officer forwards this to his superiors, Vijay must apologize. The therefore called germinated enmity between the two men is greater than they are interested in both for the same woman: Suman (Vidya Sinha). She's Rams school friend and future wife Vijay. In his anger Vijay wants to force them into marriage, which drives them into Rams Arms: You get married. Vijay chooses another woman who dies in childbirth of his son. Years later, a handsome young man named Bunty (Kumar Gaurav) happened to Vijay's son. The 19-year-old spends his time rather with fly and motorcycling, as with the planning of the future. One day he gets on a road at Pinky (Vijayata Pandit), which he has previously angered several times and stealing his motorcycle, because they ran away from home. Her father is none other than Ram Dogra. He orders her arrest on, but the bumbling cop Sher Singh (Amjad Khan) fails here several times and brings instead Bunty and Pinky ever closer together.

REVIEW 

Most Bollywood analysts, including myself see in Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak one of the most important turning points of Bollywood cinema. In fact, the movie ended the Action-oriented 80s with a romantic finale and initiated together with the subsequent Maine Pyar Kya into the great love classics of the 90s on, which are still often perceived at international today as the sole representatives of Indian cinema. But Qayamat not originated also from nowhere. Rather, it forms a trio with two other films, the romantic lantern held particularly high in the action emphasized 70s and 80s. Romantic movies in Bollywood there anyway, but it was Bobby, "Love Story (1981)" and give Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, the enthusiastic masses with similar designs, the spirit of light-footed Shammi held -Romanzen the 60s alive and the great love epics of the 90 piece by piece prepared. Best described can be the three with "Love on the Run".Among them is "Love Story" of the least known - unfortunately. Because he holds a large extent with the other two. It is a wonderful love story, played at the right moments and cheesy appealing underlaid with pleasing music by RD Burman. The driving force behind the work was Rajendra Kumar, the "Jubilee Kumar" of the early 60s, the "Love Story" funded. He acted as producer, Supporting Actor and depending on the source location as a director - on the DVD cover is Rahul Rawail (Anjaam called), the bias is only "a film by Rajendra Kumar" without specific director designation. Anyway, this is Kumar's project and he used it as a springboard for his son Kumar Gaurav. The youth completed a wonderful debut alongside the also debuting Vijayata Pandit, although both play a little bumpy, but fit perfectly with each other. Too bad both made ​​later in their careers wrong decisions and went under quickly. "Love Story" is therefore her breakthrough and their zenith in one. And it is a beautiful film.

He begins with a history that should play the late 50's, which you can calculate the basis of the reverse counting of recent years, and it also provides that in the cinema Tumsa Nahin Dekha runs. The makers have unfortunately not large sheared it, the viewer vorzugaukeln this era, neither in hairstyles, still in fashion or cars. But this is not a hindrance, because the love triangle between Danny Denzongpa, Rajendra Kumar and Vidya Sinha works that way. In full swing, the film is, however, only when the offspring of the two rivals come into play and run away from home. Kumar Gaurav played Bunty only as rigged informer and hatched first natural to at Vijayata Pandit. Only chained together by a pair of handcuffs, which they Sholay invests -Bösewicht Amjad Khan in a sympathetic (!) Role, awaken their hearts for each other. Smallest shortcoming this: Especially in the scene in which to make it click, he slaps her. The works in this dramatic sequence, but leaves a stale after-taste, as is anyway too often slapped in Bollywood.

Afterwards they are finally a couple. You can watch how he pees (by hand, with which he subsequently water from a mountain stream draws), they whisper sweet nothings through the juiciest meadows of Kashmir and to build a top-house from scratch from - here that has never graduated architectural studies of Bunty So but its shadow thrown. These scenes are soaked idyll and kitsch, but precisely because they work. It is set up a dream world, away from the parents, away from the big city, in which the two lovers can indulge their romance - inclusive a long Knutsch scene in the bathroom. Do not worry: He retains the pants, in Bollywood one bathes but not naked. Nothing corrupts the romantic-innocent character of this love.

If there is something that is disturbing, it's not the little "mistakes" as the weak 50's-decoration at the beginning, Buntys constantly changing hairstyle, the abrupt change of clothes in the mountains or the dream house straightway built - but rather the dramatic culmination towards the end for which once again have to serve a few villains. Why a finale not easy to generate by parents and children enough voltage, do not go into the head. No, must always come to something external, as in this case, totally unmotivated interwoven Gangster plus belonging silly brawls. "Love Story (1981)" is it always at their best when he uses the title and a love story. Everything else is more ballast.

Who does not gives away his heart to the romantic scenes, still gets enough chances to get off his to entertain. For instance there is a wonderfully witty song with Item Princess Aruna Irani, in which she seduces a prostitute and wants to eat the unwilling Bunty before the eyes of hidden Pinky. Since the very liquid section of the later comedy director David Dhawan, who always keeps the 155 minutes entertaining. And there is the not spectacular, but conspicuous fact that Danny Denzongpa begins the film as a sympathetic figure, but this role is in the film progresses the previously grumpy Rajendra Kumar. "Love Story (1981)" puts definitely full of wit, romance and remarkable scenes. A film that showed in the action-heavy '80s that you can get to the top of chart with lots of love. Aamir Khan should have remembered when he and his cousin Mansoor Khan Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak staged. And all fans of that film, it should treat yourself to also include "Love Story (1981)" in their repertoire.

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