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Anaari
'Anari' means 'simpleton'
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big-screen-movie |
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social
drama |
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India - January 17, 1975 |
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| PRODUCTION |
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India |
| production |
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IK Films
(IEE Kay Films) |
| executive
producer |
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Satish
Bhalla, Inder Kapoor |
| screenplay |
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Nabendu
Ghosh, based on a story by Samaresh
Bose
Dialogue: Kader Khan |
| music |
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MUSIC:
duo Laxmikant Pyarelal (Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar/Pyarelal
Ramprasad Sharma)
LYRICS: Majrooh Sultanpuri
SINGERS: Asha Bhosle, Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, Mehmood, Mohammad Rafi
TITLES:
'Theek Hai Yaar Hum To Ek Anari' Kishore Kumar
or Mohammad Rafi and Mehmood
- cheerful young Raja sings a happy song to his friends,
together with the paan-walla (Mehmood). A lovely melody with lots
of accordeon.
'Hum To Jis Raah Pe Jaate Hai'
- Raja and Poonam, his neighbourhood sweetheart, meet up in the park
in a romantic mood. A slow love song.
'Thandi Pawan Hai Deewani' Asha Bhosle
- Sitting next to Raja in a taxi, Poonam daydreams being rich and having
lots of jewelry. Phantasy/dream sequence.
'Tere Bagair Jaane Jaana' Kishore Kumar or
Mohammad Rafi
- Raja sings a slow, sad love song for Lakshmi, the
rich man's
daughter sitting next to him on a boat called "Noah's
Ark" -
copious tears from both during the song.
'Humein Kiya Garaz Log Kya'
released: HMV Records |
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| set
design |
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Ajit
Banerjee (Art Director) |
| costume
design |
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Laxman
costumes: Burlingtons, Shalini Shah, Mani Rabadi, Super
Taylors
jewellery: Bharat Kala Jewellers |
| make-up |
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Shyam,
Vasant, C.N. Reddy, Sunderji |
| choreography |
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P.L.
Raj, Kamal, Oscar, Vijay |
| action
scenes |
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Mohammed
Ali, Veeru Devgan (action scenes)
Akbar, Johnny (stunts) |
| cinematography |
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Kamal
Bose, W.I.C.A. |
| distribution |
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| filming
location |
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India
Film studios: Mehboob, Roop Tara, Rajkamal, Shree Sound, Filmistan,
Natraj Mohan Studios |
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| DIRECTOR |
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Asit
Sen |
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| CAST |
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Jagdish
Bhalla
Birbal
Moushumi Chatterjee (Poonam)
Harindranath Chattopadhyaya
Deepak
Utpal Dutt
Anita Guha
Hercules
Jayshreet
Shashi Kapoor (Raja)
Kader Khan
Tahir Khan
Dev Kishan Ahuja
Manmauji
Mathur
Mushtaq Merchant
Prakash Mishra
Dina Pathak
Asit Sen
Shamim
Sharmila Tagore (Lakshmi, daughter of a rich man)
SPECIAL APPEARANCE
Anil Dhawan
Krishnakant
Paintal
Poornima
FRIENDLY APPEARANCE
Mehmood (tobacco/paan shop owner) |
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| SUMMARY |
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Young
Raja and his next-door flirt Poonam grow up happily in a Bombay
neighbourhood, surrounded by their friends.
But the indisputable
king of the streets is handsome but arrogant Vikram (Kabir
Bedi), who races around on his motorbike, smoking cigarettes
and pouring scorn on Raja and his mates.
Clearly, Vikram is
looking to go places, but his behaviour finds no favour with
the local paan-walla.
One evening, chivalrous Raja saves Poonam from a gang of thugs
who are threatening her. He meets up with her in the park and their
love blossoms. To their relief, Raja's elder brother, ruler
of the family roost, has no objections.
But Poonam is ambitious, dreaming of the big wide world and the
riches that it offers. Raje is more down to earth and none too
happy with the materialistic side of his girlfriend's character.
Then, their days of happiness are over.
Raja's elder brother dies,
leaving him to be responsible for the family's well-being,
and sunny Jim is forced to go find himself a job. When no one is
willing to taka Raja on, his mother suggests selling the family
jewels to keep the wolf from the door. This is unbearable to Raja,
who instead calls on Vikram to seek help...
Vikram now owns a night club, a pool of sin and carnal concupiscence
where the local businessmen take their well-earned R&R. He
shows Raja the true source of his income, an equally unsavoury
gambling den.
Upright young Raja has seen enough.
He politely declines
an offer of employment, deciding that the sale of his mother's
jewelry is distinctly the lesser of two evils.
Saved by the bell, Raja does find a job, but as a result he is
late for a rendez-vous on the beach with Poonam.
Guess who does
meet up with the lovely lass?
King Vikram the Motorised, with his
open black shirt, black trousers, silver-buckled belt, and his
trademark gold medallion and red scarf.
Vikram and Poonam hit it off rather well, and the unfortunate Raja
arrives just on time to see his true love swept away on Vikram's
bike to a new life in the Bombay clubbing scene.
Although she hates her new job as a dancer in Vikram's night
club, it does pay rather well. Raja, meanwhile, is still penniless
and has taken on a rather suspicious job - the mysterious Arjun
Malik has hired him to pose as the fiancee of Lakshmi, a lovely
young girl from a rich family.
Vikram finds out and secretly photographs the two lovebirds during
their song scene on a boat called "Noah's Ark".
With his pictures and a tape recording, Vikram tries to blackmail
Malik,
who wants Lakshmi killed.
When Vikram arrives to take his cash in return for the pictures
and the tape, the transfer is seen by Poonam, who manages to steal
the evidence of a murder plot. She escapes on a motorbike, while
Vikram discovers Arjun Malik has fobbed him off with fake paper
money.
Enraged, Vikram sets off in pursuit of Poonam and Arjun Malik,
followed in turn by Raja.
The big showdown follows in a deserted quarry.
Poonam
crashes her bike and dies in Raja's arms.
Vikram attacks
Malik who is arrested by the police who arrive on the scene
just in time.
The criminal faces justice, and Raja, a sadder and a wiser man,
returns to his loving bride Lakshmi. |
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| KABIR
BEDI DETAILS |
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| Kabir's
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Kabir stars
in a major role in this movie as Vikram, night club owner and
- blackmailer. |
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| Kabir's
showstopper |
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Kabir is
listed as fourth star when the movie starts, together with Utpal
Dutt.
Kabir has about
13 scenes in Anari, right up until the very end.
He is about 25 years old when the movie is filmed.
His first screen appearance is in the 5th minute of the film,
with a pretty spectacular entrance!
A motorbike suddenly roars around the corners.
On it is Kabir, dressed
in black trousers, red turtleneck, sleeves rolled back, huge sunglasses
and a grandiose 1970s hairdo.
His chest is adorned with a large gold
medallion, which is to stay with him for many years in the film.
Understated
like a peacock in a chicken run, Kabir steers
his bike first to a paan-walla and then to Raja and his friends.
Sneering
at Raja (Shashi Kapoor), Kabir describes
him as the "village idiot". Kabir is
slightly older than Raja and his mates, and his manner and appearance
set him apart
as the head honcho of the
neighbourhood, setting the tone for the further development of his
character.
- Download #1 "Bad
Boy on a Bike"
- Download #2 "Two-Stroke
Tango"
- Download #3 "The
Beach Bum"
- Download #4 "The
Red Phone" |
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| Andrea's
review |
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This
film is unmistakably 'seventies in flavour, and looks very
dated to present-day viewers. But that really is part of the
fun - along with all the usual Bollywood ingredients of love,
truth, redemption, and bad boys on motorbikes. |
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| YUM! |
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+ Night
club owner Kabir in
lots of rather comical outfits, not always intentionally so.
His sartorial masterpiece is a shiny suit with
wide stripes in three colours, this tasteful polyester ensemble
being complemented by a white turtleneck pullover. Would Kabir/Raja
wear this to have tea with the in-laws?
+ In other scenes, Kabir wears loud, colourful shirts that could
have been copied off a sweets package.
+ Take a good look at Kabir's hair, which is a little like
King Arthur having made excessive use of the blow-drier.
+ Kabir in swimming costume, lying on a sunbed.
+ The collar of Kabir's black
shirt, protruding dramatically from under his white suit, is so
pointed it could easily be used
to stab a flea through the heart.
+ The funny scene in the park between lovers Raja and Poonam.
+ As always, Kabir clearing
his throat and wielding a red telephone.
+ Raja's (Shashi
Kapoor's) meaner-than-mean necktie,
in the song scene in the park. Wide enough to accommodate two passing
vehicles, this item is tastefully executed in a late flower power
baroque style to accompany a shirt in equally understated and sun-bleached
orange. It's just as well the man's suit is a pale
mustard colour. Do not see this movie in black-and-white!
+ Comedian Mehmood as a paan-walla who comments on the proceedings
like a one-man Greek chorus.
+ Shashi Kapoor, the likeable hero, a sunny Jim who could light
up a candle just with his smile. |
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| EEK! |
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The actors have often been filmed from the "fish-eye" perspective,
which doesn't make them, or the film, any more attractive.
- Raja's (Shashi Kapoor) chest hair at the beginning of
the film looks like it's really a badly fitted toupet, or
he has left a hot iron sitting on it.
- The storyline and the acting are feeble. |
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Never
trust a man with a red telephone!
This delightful mishmash
of 'seventies paraphernalia, garish colours and men in dark
glasses is a not-to-be-missed item in any collection of Kabir
Bedi movies. |
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| not
to be confused with |
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Mukherjee's
Anari (1959), a black&white movie starring Raj Kapoor and
Nutan - or Anari (1993), starring Karisma Kapoor. |
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| INFORMATION -
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| • (Kabir's) Anari was
never released in Britain. |
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| INFORMATION -
GENERAL INFORMATION |
• A nice detail for
movie fans: Kabir's bike scene at the beginning
includes an encounter with comic actor Mehmood as a paan-walla
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but on a wall left of the paan shop, there is a poster
of Mehmood as himself!
• In this more than three decades old film (1975), Kabir already
wears his trademark red silk scarf - last seen in the Italian
soap VIVERE (2006). |
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| INFORMATION -
PEOPLE |
• Kabir
starred also 1972 in director Asit
Sen's social drama ANOKHA
DAAN.
• Director/actor Asit Sen was born in
1922 in East-Bengal (Bangladesh).
• Anari director Asit Sen also has a small part in the
movie, carrying the comic scenes together with the great comedian
Mehmood. |
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