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April 12, 2007

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maajhi

Carla, I think you should check out some of the Partition movies, simply because your website has thin coverage of movies based on that significant event. Pinjar, Hey Ram, Earth, Gadar are good to start with in that order.

carla

Maajhi ji, thanks for the recommendations.

*Earth* I have not only seen and reviewed, but it is one of my all-time favorite movies. (It's somewhat different in style from most of my reviews because it is older - it was one of the first Hindi films I saw: http://www.filmigeek.net/filmi_geek/2006/10/1947_earth.html )

I have *Pinjar*, which means I will watch it eventually. I'll take your mentions of *Hey Ram* and *Gadar* to heart.

Daddy's Girl

This one looks really interesting - thanks for the review. I really like Nutan's acting - I especially loved her performance in 'Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki'(you might want to check it out sometime if you haven't come across it yet). I'm glad to finally find out what 'jaggery' is - one of those things I've always wondered about but have never remembered to find out about.

maajhi

Yes, indeed. Your newer reviews are suffused with the affection of a fan of Hindi movies, while the earlier ones are more (though not entirely) in the colder "New York Times review" style of an outsider.

It's really great to have you as a fan of Hindi movies. Your blog is a shining contribution already, and I don't know what else is to come :).

The Buddha Smiled

Hi,

Am glad you found this movie to watch - it is really well done and incredibly subtle in the acting and narration. I remember seeing this movie many, many years ago, so my memory of it is somewhat rusty, but the sequence I do remember is the market scene after Moti has married Phoolbanu and the gud she makes is not half as good.

You've got a good spread of movies here, so I'm looking forward to many, many more thoughtful, affectionate and enjoyable reviews.

carla

Maajhi ji and The Buddha Smiled-ji - you have both made me smile with your kind comments! Thanks for reading.

As for what's coming next, well, I watched two more old movies this weekend - one from the 60s that wasn't very good, and one from the 70s that I loved - comments on them in the near future.

I do think this movie, *Saudagar*, is a gem and I am so glad that Naseem ji gave it to me because I don't know that I would have seen it otherwise.

Amrita

I love this movie more for Nutan than for AB. Although I agree that this was one of his better performances [but then I love the early AB more than any other kind] Nutan was the one who sold it for me. great post, filmigeek!

SS

Indeed, very good movie, If you want to see real Bachchan, this is it. This movie shows Bachchan as helpless person which we have rarely seen in Angry young man era, worth watching till the end.

SS

nasim khan

where this movie was shot?have they shown village of bangladesh?please send me the answers.

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shama

@nasim, From the credits and thanks, it appears it was shot in a fishing village near Kolkata

Yves

Hi Carla,
I was looking at Saudagar reviews, and chanced upon yours at Bollywhat (http://www.bollywhat-forum.com/index.php?topic=18323.0), but I was surprised to see that the same review appears at Imdb under another name: Anitavazirani (http://www.imdb.com/user/ur19918994/comments).
Just wanted to let you know, in case you were not aware. But perhaps you adopted that name on Imdb.
BTW, you did get to see more Nutan, didn't you?
cheers
yves

Yves

Carla, sorry for the links, I have included some parasitic brackets.
Here they are again:
http://www.bollywhat-forum.com/index.php?topic=18323.0
http://www.imdb.com/user/ur19918994/comments


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