Do Raaste (1969) :
Brief Review -
A cliched family soap packaged well in Rajesh Khanna's peak era and with super-hit music. Rajesh Khanna was ruling the industry, and almost all his films had chartbuster music. Most importantly, he kept doing that family-friendly cinema, and luckily none of his films offended families or female audiences, which were the biggest pillars of footfall. Talking about the packaging, see how well Do Raaste is wrapped with an attractive cover. Kaka was a huge superstar among girls, so you give him the role of a college student who is hit by bad luck but still stands tall on his principles. The film begins with a typical college-time romance between Rajesh Khanna and Mumtaz. Let me tell you, they both look breathtaking. That typical flirting and small fights turn into love. The two feature in three super hit songs one after another: Yeh Reshmi Zulfe, Chup Gaye Saare Nazare, and Bindiya Chamkegi. Courtesy: Legendary Laxmikant-Pyarelal. This is where your money is well spent, and then you are taken into a family drama that is too soapy but watchable and pretty emotional too. A foreign-returned man marries a foreign-returned girl, and the girl destroys the unity and peace of the family. They separate themselves from this joint family, and then the elder brother, who has given blood and sweat to the family, loses his job. The younger brother is studying in college, so he cannot go for a full-time job, but he quits college in the middle and does a low grade job (for his educational qualifications and his foreign-returned brother's reputation). Rest, you can predict with blind eyes. I don't need to tell you more since I have already called it soap. The packaging in the first half makes it entertaining and crowd-pleasing. Overall, a decent movie by Raj Khosla, who had much bigger potential, and guess what, he knew it.
RATING - 6/10*
By - #samthebestest.
