The item number has its own rich, crackling history it’s not so much a subset of the cameo as a whole different thing. The idea of Mangeshkar interrupting her younger sister is amusing enough, but Zaheera’s fervour when she starts to sing and Bhosle’s startled expression-prolonged with a freeze frame-make this an inadvertently hilarious moment.Īishwarya Rai Bachchan in ‘Bunty Aur Babli’, 2005
Now it’s Jyoti singing the track, and Mangeshkar on playback. She spends the first half of the song weeping, before summoning up courage and cutting in just as Bhosle is about to start the next stanza. She is distraught when she realizes Bhosle is singing lead and she’s one of the backing vocalists. Jyoti (Zaheera) comes to the studio to record what she hopes will be her big break. ‘Taxi Taxie’ appears to take a sly dig at the fabled sibling rivalry between Asha Bhosle and Lata Mangeshkar. The most effective cameos are often those in which viewers are expected to bring their own knowledge of, and associations with, the celebrity to the viewing process. This sequence from ‘Kala Bazar’ would have worked simply as a celeb-spotting lollapalooza, but director Vijay Anand renders it stunningly dynamic, building from the muttered offers of the ticket-sellers to the arrivals of, and frenzied crowd reactions to, Guru Dutt, Lata Mangeshkar, Kishore Kumar, Kumkum, Sohrab Modi, Mohammad Rafi, Rajendra Kumar, Dillip Kumar, Nargis and others. Asked if he taught Sanskrit to Raj Kapoor, he replies, “I did teach it, but to Prithviraj (Raj’s father)."Įveryone at the film premiere in ‘Kala Bazar’, 1960Īs stars arrive one by one for the premiere of ‘Mother India’ at Liberty cinema in Bombay, touts offer desperate onlookers a chance to join them inside-at a special price, of course. He’s only there for a minute and a half, but he gets a great exit line, which drives home just how long he’s been on the scene. So it’s possible that audiences in 1977 would have recognized the silver-haired gent whom Asrani seeks out in ‘Chala Murari Hero Banne’. He also worked in films, playing Daduji in ‘Bawarchi’ and Barfi in ‘Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne’, and composing the famous ‘Rail Gaadi’ poem popularized by Ashok Kumar in ‘Aashirwad’. Harindranath Chattopadhyay, born in 1898, was a poet, a musician, a member of Parliament and a Padma Bhushan awardee. Harindranath Chattopadhyay in ‘Chala Murari Hero Banne’, 1977 What follows is a memorable bit of slapstick acting from Khan and Mange, whose large eyes convey his character’s confusion and growing panic. ‘PK’ comes across him and, assuming that he’s seeing God on earth, starts to pursue him. A standout sequence is his encounter with a stage performer (Anil Mange, painted blue) who is playing Shiva. The gods are usually invoked for satirical purposes now, as in Rajkumar Hirani’s ‘PK’, with Aamir Khan’s alien exposing the hollowness of organized religion. It’s as if the verbal savagery and spiritual anomie of the guests has taken physical form.Ī thriving genre in the early years of Indian cinema, the mythological is virtually extinct today. He walks in a daze towards the camera, his tongue cut out, looking like something out of a zombie movie. In the film’s last scene, Amrit finally appears as a nightmarish vision for two of the guests. News eventually arrives that he’s been attacked and killed. From then on, he’s a constant presence, his actions and motives dissected by guests at an arty get-together. In the first scene, we hear his voice as Sona (Deepa Sahi) reads a letter from him. Govind Nihalani’s caustic ‘Party’ is bookended by visions of Amrit (Naseeruddin Shah).
It’s a great example of casting against type, playing on audience expectations of what a Naval character would be like, and then turning them on their head. It’s only after precious moments have elapsed that Meera realizes Ammaji is Satbir’s mother, as ruthless and honour-obsessed as her son. Since it’s Deepti Naval-who usually plays level-headed, likeable characters-in the role, we in the audience let our guard down as well, even though ‘NH10’ has given us no reason to feel hopeful from the start. On the run from a group of homicidal men led by Satbir (Darshan Kumar), Meera (Anushka Sharma) is offered shelter by a village ‘sarpanch’, Ammaji.
0 kommentar(er)
